ENG 280 Exam Questions and Answers Already Passed Latest Update 2025-2026
What's mise-en-scene? - Answers Everything that is stuck in front of the camera to film.
What's a shot? - Answers Start the camera and then stop the camera, consecutive.
What's a scene? - Answers Different shots put together but still consecutive
What's the effect of a closer shot, relatively speaking? - Answers Connotation can be of intimacy,
of having access to the mind or thought processes (including the subconscious) of the
character. These shots can be used to stress the importance of a particular character at a
particular moment in a film or place her or him as central to the narrative by singling out the
character in CU at the beginning of the film.
What's the effect of a long shot? - Answers Lasts a long time
Eye-level - Answers An eyelevel angle is the one in which the camera is placed at the subject's
height, so if the actor is looking at the lens, he wouldn't have to look up or down.
low-angle - Answers A shot taken from below a subject, creating a sense of "looking up to"
whatever is photographed
high-angle - Answers A shot taken from above a subject, creating a sense of "looking down"
upon whatever is photographed.
bird's eye - Answers The scene is shown from directly above. This is a completely different and
somewhat unnatural point of view which can be used for dramatic effect or for showing a
different spatial perspective.
dutch-tilt/canted - Answers Tilted camera
two-shot - Answers A shot of two people, usually from the waist up.
three-shot - Answers A shot of three people
master shot - Answers You can see the entire scene, establishing shot
What's the usual effect of a low-angle shot? - Answers powerful, impressive, big conventional
Sikov offers a "philosophical point" about time in films, something only film, of all art forms,
does. What is that? - Answers Actual time passing in front of us
What does frame mean in films? - Answers The way the picture is composed
Six types of off screen space: what are they? - Answers In front, below, on top, behind, to the left,
and to the right.
What's mobile framing? - Answers What goes on while the picture is moving
, There are two types of camera movement from a stationary camera. What are they? - Answers
pan and tilt
The entire camera can move in different ways, resulting in these shots: moving, tracking, crane.
What are these? - Answers Camera Movements
moving- results from the camera shooting from a moving object. (a shot taken out of a train
window as the train speeds along
tracking- a mobile framing shot in which the camera moves forward, backward, or latterly, also
called a dolly shot.
crane- the camera moves up and down through space.
There's a difference between motivated and unmotivated camera movement? What is it? -
Answers Motivated- follows the action OR character
Unmotivated-the director takes it
What's a long take? - Answers is an uninterrupted shot in a film which lasts much longer than
the conventional editing pace either of the film itself or of films in general, usually lasting
several minutes.
What's a sequence shot? - Answers A structural unit of a film using time, location, or some
pattern to link together a number of scenes.
There are two types of off-screen space: diegetic and non-diegetic. What do they mean? -
Answers Diegetic-within the world of the film, what they can hear
non-dialectic-what the people in the movie cannot hear
What is aspect ratio? - Answers How tall and how wide
Why is it an offense to watch a movie in an aspect ratio other than the one it is made in? -
Answers
How was TV responsible for changing the typical aspect ratio of feature films? - Answers
Change aspect ratio to watch movies on TV
Scenes are typically shot in three-point lighting, What does that mean? - Answers Consisting of
three main lighting sources
What are the three-points for a shot in three-point lighting? - Answers a key light, a fill light, and a
blacklight.
What's the difference between high-key and low-key lighting? - Answers High-Key - light
brilliantly illuminates a set;
What's mise-en-scene? - Answers Everything that is stuck in front of the camera to film.
What's a shot? - Answers Start the camera and then stop the camera, consecutive.
What's a scene? - Answers Different shots put together but still consecutive
What's the effect of a closer shot, relatively speaking? - Answers Connotation can be of intimacy,
of having access to the mind or thought processes (including the subconscious) of the
character. These shots can be used to stress the importance of a particular character at a
particular moment in a film or place her or him as central to the narrative by singling out the
character in CU at the beginning of the film.
What's the effect of a long shot? - Answers Lasts a long time
Eye-level - Answers An eyelevel angle is the one in which the camera is placed at the subject's
height, so if the actor is looking at the lens, he wouldn't have to look up or down.
low-angle - Answers A shot taken from below a subject, creating a sense of "looking up to"
whatever is photographed
high-angle - Answers A shot taken from above a subject, creating a sense of "looking down"
upon whatever is photographed.
bird's eye - Answers The scene is shown from directly above. This is a completely different and
somewhat unnatural point of view which can be used for dramatic effect or for showing a
different spatial perspective.
dutch-tilt/canted - Answers Tilted camera
two-shot - Answers A shot of two people, usually from the waist up.
three-shot - Answers A shot of three people
master shot - Answers You can see the entire scene, establishing shot
What's the usual effect of a low-angle shot? - Answers powerful, impressive, big conventional
Sikov offers a "philosophical point" about time in films, something only film, of all art forms,
does. What is that? - Answers Actual time passing in front of us
What does frame mean in films? - Answers The way the picture is composed
Six types of off screen space: what are they? - Answers In front, below, on top, behind, to the left,
and to the right.
What's mobile framing? - Answers What goes on while the picture is moving
, There are two types of camera movement from a stationary camera. What are they? - Answers
pan and tilt
The entire camera can move in different ways, resulting in these shots: moving, tracking, crane.
What are these? - Answers Camera Movements
moving- results from the camera shooting from a moving object. (a shot taken out of a train
window as the train speeds along
tracking- a mobile framing shot in which the camera moves forward, backward, or latterly, also
called a dolly shot.
crane- the camera moves up and down through space.
There's a difference between motivated and unmotivated camera movement? What is it? -
Answers Motivated- follows the action OR character
Unmotivated-the director takes it
What's a long take? - Answers is an uninterrupted shot in a film which lasts much longer than
the conventional editing pace either of the film itself or of films in general, usually lasting
several minutes.
What's a sequence shot? - Answers A structural unit of a film using time, location, or some
pattern to link together a number of scenes.
There are two types of off-screen space: diegetic and non-diegetic. What do they mean? -
Answers Diegetic-within the world of the film, what they can hear
non-dialectic-what the people in the movie cannot hear
What is aspect ratio? - Answers How tall and how wide
Why is it an offense to watch a movie in an aspect ratio other than the one it is made in? -
Answers
How was TV responsible for changing the typical aspect ratio of feature films? - Answers
Change aspect ratio to watch movies on TV
Scenes are typically shot in three-point lighting, What does that mean? - Answers Consisting of
three main lighting sources
What are the three-points for a shot in three-point lighting? - Answers a key light, a fill light, and a
blacklight.
What's the difference between high-key and low-key lighting? - Answers High-Key - light
brilliantly illuminates a set;
