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| Question | Answer |
| Mise en scene | It speaks to the importance of arranging the position and movement of the cast and the props, scenery etc. in a play |
| Movies have no proscenium so where does the mise en scene happen in films | It happens within the frame |
| Movies before 1956 use to be filmed in the 1.33.1 ratio. What is the modern ratio | The modern ration is 1.85.1 |
| Why do movies look strange on TV | The tv ratio is 1.33.1 so you need to pan and scan to make them fit. (protected) |
| Why is widescreen used | So you can see the grandeur of the landscape |
| How does the frame help the scene | It gives tone and additional visual meaning to a scene |
| How is a subject perceived when it's in the center | It is seen as neutral |
| How is a subject perceived with a low angle and subject shown on top of screen | They're seen as Dominant, powerful |
| How is a subject perceived from a high angle and at the bottom of the screen | They will appear vulnerable |
| How is a subject perceived when they are alone and are featured in a extreme wide shot | They will be seen as lonely, lost, and vulnerable |
| How would an army be perceived in a extreme wide shot | The army would be seen as powerful and dreaded |
| Why does a wide shot help a director and what is this called | This is called a "master" shot because the director will use the additional coverage from a wide shot to enhance aspects of a scene |
| Why do we call it a two shot | Because there are two people or actors in the shot and is used usually for a played out scene with minimal cutting |
| How does a close up help an actor | It intensifies their emotions and their performance |
| What is included a director's palette of cinematic tools | Lights, color, movement, placement of characters and objects |
| What are two styles of mise en scene | Formalism and Realism |
| What is mise en scene used for on viewers | To get their attention and move their emotions |
| What does movement towards the camera do to the perception of movement | Movement towards the camera slows down movement |
| How is movement sped up | A movement across the camera speeds movement up (NASCAR) |
| 1. Pans 2. Tilts 3. Crane Shots | 1. Side to side 2. Up and down 2. Elevated dolly shots |
| 1. Dolly Shots 2. Zoom Shots 3. Hand held shots | 1. A controlled smooth motion shot 2. Enlarged shot 3. Shots that were shot by hand |
| Film Editing | The process by where raw filmed footage is taken and put together to achieve the director's purpose |
| What is the basic filmaking unit | The basic unit is the SHOT |
| What were early films recording | They were usually documentations of daily life |
| Who perfected classical cutting | D.W. Griffith |
| What is Basic Film editing | It is continuity editing and a sequence is put together that shows a scene or action in several shots from several points of view |
| Do studios prefer Master shots | Yes they do because it gets extra coverage and gives them space to work |
| How can editing change time | It can elongate it or shorten it |
| What did Slavko Vorkapich do? | He created montages that show long processes with a sequence of a few shots |
| Cross Cutting/ Parallel Editing | Show two processes happening at the same time |
| Flashbacks | They manipulate time |
| What are fantasy subjective | They are moments that allow viewers to look into a characters inner life and emotions |
| How did the Russian Communist use film | As propaganda and educational propaganda |
| Kuleshov did what? | He experimented with montage and would montage a face and objects and would show emotional attachment |
| What did Pudovkin write | He wrote the first theoretical book on montage. Reality is created by editing images together |
| Hitchcock was influenced by who | Pudovkin influenced Hitchcock and he was one of the best practitioners |
| Bazin | A French critic who worked for Cahiers du Cinema |
| Bazin liked what type of mise en scene | He liked Realist films (Longer takes and less cutting produce a greater sense of reality) |
| Birth of a Nation firsts? | First american full feature film and first written score for a motion picture |
| Who produced and directed The Birth of a Nation | D.W. Griffith in 1914 |
| What was the Birth of a Nation | It was a anti african american film that visualized and defined negative stereotypes |
| Who played major African American roles in Birth of a Nation and why ? | They were played by whites so that women would be far from the proximity of african americans |
| After BoN what group had a resurgence | The KKK |
| What was so important in BoN | The innovative story telling techniques and editing |
| Who plays the Chinese in Charlie Chan | Warner Oland who is a Swedish Actor. Irish and Italians were also caracterized |
| Bill Robinson plays who in The Littlest Rebel. | He plays a benign slave named Uncle Billy in a movie that portrays slavery as benign |
| Race Movies | Movies made for the African American audiences |
| What time were Race movies shown at | They were shown at midnight for blacks only |
| Herbert Jeffery | Created the black singing cowboy character that was famous in Harlem rides the Range |
| Jefferies movies were made for who and how were the actors depicted | His films were the african american viewer and african americans were portrayed as fully dimensional characters |
| How long were native americans portrayed as other, or savages | Till the 1970's |
| The Battle of Elderbush Gulch | It features a depiction of the screaming trope that was established by Buffalo Bill Cody's Wild West Show |
| Oscar Micheaux | Was a prolific indie filmmaker that made films for an african american public |
| In 1919 what did Oscar Micheaux do | He was the first AfricanAmerican to make a film called the Homesteader which starred Evelyn Preer |
| Oscar MIscheaux did what with WIthin our Gates | He fought the racism of BoN and he moved away from negro sterotypes |
| Camera Obscura | It was invented by Persian Scientist Abu and in a dark room a pinhole in the wall would allow light to the other wall and an image would appear upside down |
| Photography was invented by who? | Joseph Nicephore and made first positive photograph in 1826 |
| Eaweard J. Muybridge was an English Photographer that did what to the cinema game | He would use multiple cameras to capture motion and had a zoopraxiscope that would project the motion |
| George Eastman | Found the Eastman Kodak Company and invented first roll of film and brought photography to the mainstream |
| Dickson; Edison's entrepreneur did what | He created the kinetograph (Camera) and the kinetescope (Projector) in 1889 |
| Lumiere Brothers | They created the cinematograph that was easier and more portable than the kinetiscope in 1894 |
| The Director of Photography's job is what | It's their responsibility to light the scene appropriately |
| Many directors know what they want visually T or F | False. Most have a general sense of what they want but sometimes they can be downright vague |
| High Key Lighting | Very bright, no shadows, well lit, and lit evenly |
| Low Key Lighting | Dark, Shadows, Mysterious, Atmospheric |
| Herbert Kalmus | Developed two strip Technicolor which was used in silent films and then created 3 strip technicolor in the 30's |
| How does Eastman single strip Technicolor work | Dyes were embedded in three color layers which then stuck together to become one |
| In the 1970's what stock was introduced | Fast Stock was introduced |
| Are most movies digital or on celluloid | Most movies are digital because it is cheaper and you can do more with it. |
| Super Wide Angle Lenses (Fish Eye) | These lenses elongate objects put very close to them. Images recede at a rapid rate when backed away |
| Wide Angle Lenses | Objects look more rounded and appear to approach and recede rapidly. Less distortion than fish-eye |
| Normal Lenses | Objects appear similar to the way your eyes see them |
| Long or telephoto lenses | The longer the lens the more compressed images are. Objects appear to be slower and good for closeups and are very good for facial planes |
| 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 | Cecil |
| What group from the U.S. has had a huge influence on the country | White Protestants |
| How did America view immigrants in the mid 19th century | They looked at immigrants as inferiors because they were not like them |
| How wealthy was D.W. Griffith as a child. | He was very poor |
| Who are Expressionist | Formalist |
| Birds Eye Shot | Shot from above and viewers feel like all powerful gods and objects are weak |
| Oblique Angle | A tilt of the camera that skews horizon and makes character look like there falling off the edge or for POVs and could imitate a drunk POV (Inception) |
| What type of light source do realist perfer | Lamps, Windows and such things that seem natural |
| How important is a Director | They are usually seen as the dominant artist for a film |
| The top of the frame is heavier than what | The bottom of the frame is lighter |
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