RTF 305 Exam 2 Questions and Answers (100% Pass)
Long Shot - Answer️️ -Orientational Shot.
Medium Shot - Answer️️ -Information
Close Up Shot - Answer️️ -Important detail
Basic Shot Progression - Answer️️ -General to specific. Mirrors how we
look at something in real life. Shows...
Basic Shot Progression - Answer✔️✔️-General to specific. Mirrors how we
look at something in real life. Shows where in the world you are. Long shot
to medium shot to close up .
Denotative meanings of shots - Answer✔️✔️-LS: Orientation or master shot
MS: Info shot where you get most info from visually and in terms of
dialogue. When characters are talking. Relationships.
CU: Important detail of object that you are filming. The important detail is
the face.
ECU: extreme close-up. Reading very detailed things. Like notes.
Connotative meaning of shots - Answer✔️✔️-LS: sadness, loneliness,
isolation
Smaller is less important or able to make a difference.
MS: relationship information. How does this character relate to another?
CU: feelings, emotions. Close enough so that you can read the entire face
The function of eye level shots - Answer✔️✔️-Eye-level= power neutral=
identification shot → makes audience relate to them, you see how the actor
sees the work (math genius)
We are on the same level
Power neutral
Identification shot
In beautiful mind-try to show how he thinks to make him relatable, take
you inside his point view
Function of low angle shots - Answer✔️✔️-Low angle = give power to
subject
Power shot
Judge on a bench, used for politicians, sometimes teachers on a patio
In beautiful mind- teacher looking down on students
Function of high angle shots - Answer✔️✔️-High angle = take power away
Character has lost control, authority, lost power
Makes you look small, weak
Continuity Editing - Answer✔️✔️-In US cinema, continuity editing becomes
norm. Point of view, the ideal view. Should never call attention to it. Make
editing invisible. It should just appear there.
Dialectical Montage - Answer✔️✔️-Shot A and Shot B combine to create a
shot C in the viewers head. Russian movie of shot of Russian civilians shot
down followed by shot of pigs to create idea that the civilians were like
pigs in a slaughterhouse
Sergei Eisenstein - Answer✔️✔️-Making cinema part of revolution.
Filmmaker, theorist.
One Eisenstein influence: Japanese calligraphy- series of pictographs,
would add one to the other to create words. How they developed their
vocabulary.
e.g. bird+mouth=sing
Relational editing - Answer✔️✔️-Common elements from shot to shot
Common color, light, direction
Works well with continuity editing
French New Wave - Answer✔️✔️-Young filmmakers reaction against
commercial studio system
Jump Cuts - Answer✔️✔️-Abrupt transition between shots
Disorienting of continuity of space and time
Hollywood's Three Act Structure - Answer✔️✔️-Shifts climax near the end
instead of middle INTRO (30 MINS) MIDDLE (30-60) END(30MINS)
Introduction: setting up world and question
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