Mise en scene

Movies have no proscenium so where does the mise en scene happen in films

Movies before 1956 use to be filmed in the 1.33.1 ratio. What is the modern ratio

Why do movies look strange on TV

Why is widescreen used

How does the frame help the scene

How is a subject perceived when it's in the center

How is a subject perceived with a low angle and subject shown on top of screen

How is a subject perceived from a high angle and at the bottom of the screen

How is a subject perceived when they are alone and are featured in a extreme wide shot

How would an army be perceived in a extreme wide shot

Why does a wide shot help a director and what is this called

Why do we call it a two shot

How does a close up help an actor

What is included a director's palette of cinematic tools

What are two styles of mise en scene

What is mise en scene used for on viewers

What does movement towards the camera do to the perception of movement

How is movement sped up

1. Pans
2. Tilts
3. Crane Shots

1. Dolly Shots
2. Zoom Shots
3. Hand held shots

Film Editing

What is the basic filmaking unit

What were early films recording

Who perfected classical cutting

What is Basic Film editing

Do studios prefer Master shots

How can editing change time

What did Slavko Vorkapich do?

Cross Cutting/ Parallel Editing

Flashbacks

What are fantasy subjective

How did the Russian Communist use film

Kuleshov did what?

What did Pudovkin write

Hitchcock was influenced by who

Bazin

Bazin liked what type of mise en scene

Birth of a Nation firsts?

Who produced and directed The Birth of a Nation

What was the Birth of a Nation

Who played major African American roles in Birth of a Nation and why ?

After BoN what group had a resurgence

What was so important in BoN

Who plays the Chinese in Charlie Chan

Bill Robinson plays who in The Littlest Rebel.

Race Movies

What time were Race movies shown at

Herbert Jeffery

Jefferies movies were made for who and how were the actors depicted

How long were native americans portrayed as other, or savages

The Battle of Elderbush Gulch

Oscar Micheaux

In 1919 what did Oscar Micheaux do

Oscar MIscheaux did what with WIthin our Gates

Camera Obscura

Photography was invented by who?

Eaweard J. Muybridge was an English Photographer that did what to the cinema game

George Eastman

Dickson; Edison's entrepreneur did what

Lumiere Brothers

The Director of Photography's job is what

Many directors know what they want visually T or F

High Key Lighting

Low Key Lighting

Herbert Kalmus

How does Eastman single strip Technicolor work

In the 1970's what stock was introduced

Are most movies digital or on celluloid

Super Wide Angle Lenses (Fish Eye)

Wide Angle Lenses

Normal Lenses

Long or telephoto lenses

8 mm for amateur use 16 mm for docus and low budget films 35 mm is what is used today and the standard 65+70mm are used for 3-D or Cinemascope

The Plainsmen was created by who

What group from the U.S. has had a huge influence on the country

How did America view immigrants in the mid 19th century

How wealthy was D.W. Griffith as a child.

Who are Expressionist

Birds Eye Shot

Oblique Angle

What type of light source do realist perfer

How important is a Director

The top of the frame is heavier than what