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TFM 160 UPDATED Exam Questions and CORRECT Answers Which of the following sentences BEST describes cinematic language? - Ans the techniques (effects) and tools (editing/camera work/etc) filmmakers use to connect viewers to a film (T/F)Movies are similar to stage plays since they generally provide the viewer with a single, uninterrupted, wide-angle view of on-screen action? - Ans False In movies, meaning is often absorbed intuitively. Some techniques that contribute to a movie having t...

uteur Criticism - Answer Used to assess the work of important filmmakers Principle Theme in a Charlie Chaplin Film - Answer Outsider vs. Society Mise-en-scene Criticism - Answer Analyzes how images in film are used to convey information (setting, costumes, props, lighting, actor behavior, etc.) Visual Motif - Answer Image that is repeated to form a narrative theme

TFM 160Which of the following sentences BEST describes cinematic language? - correct answer the techniques (effects) and tools (editing/camera work/etc) filmmakers use to connect viewers to a film (T/F)Movies are similar to stage plays since they generally provide the viewer with a single, uninterrupted, wide-angle view of on-screen action? - correct answer False In movies, meaning is often absorbed intuitively. Some techniques that contribute to a movie having the "invisible meaning" in...

HK Cinema: The Classical Period correct answers -Entertainment-oriented w/ US & Japanese influences. -The majority of both Mandarin and Cantonese film production in Hong Kong is studio-based -Immigration of filmmakers from Shanghai & rise of new Mandarin film industry; still majorly Cantonese. -Despite the rise of a new Mandarin cinema, the majority of the immigrant population arriving in Hong Kong during the postwar period came from southern China, 80% of whom spoke Cantonese -Studio s...

The New Hollywood - correct answer A new wave of film school graduates turned directors flooded into the studio system in the late 1960s and early 1970s. They were cocky, young, and ambitious, ready to reinvigorate an artistic medium that in their minds had become stale. These films were many things (Political, reflexive, raunchy, bloody), but they were also innovative from a narrative standpoint. The French New Wave - correct answer French cinema 1940s/early 1950s ...

three-point lighting - perhaps the best-known lighting convention in feature filmmaking, a system that used three sources of light-key light, fill light, and backlight-each aimed from a different direction and position in relation to the subject; it allows filmmakers to control the ratio between illumination and shadow; also known as three point system key light - the primary source of illumination in a shot; positioned to one side of the camera, it creates deep shadows, which are modif...

According to the film, Edwin S. Porter discovered that cutting separate shots together could create a story - According to the film, this is TRUE. According to history, this is FALSE. According to the film, Edwin S. Porter was the first to use intercutting in his film Life of the American Fireman - According to the film, this is TRUE. According to history, this is FALSE. According to the film, D.W. Griffith established the tenants of classical film editing - According to the film, this is T...

Implicit Meaning - correct answer under the surface, hidden meaning Explicit Meaning - correct answer obvious, surface meaning/story Form - correct answer the means by which a subject is expressed. the form for poetry, it's words; for drama, it's speech and action; for movies it's pictures and sound Content - correct answer the subject, what it is about Formal Analysis - correct answer how a scene uses: narrative, cinematography, editing, sound, etc. to convey the story/mood/meani...

FIL 2552 Editing I Final Exam Questions and Answers According to the film, Edwin S. Porter discovered that cutting separate shots together could create a story. - Answer-True According to the film, Edwin S. Porter was the first to use intercutting in his film Life of the American Fireman. - Answer-True According to the film, D.W. Griffith established the tenants of classical film editing. - Answer-True According to the film, Russian filmmakers in the 20's edited in a different way t...

Film Chapter 12 Questions and Answers Already Graded A 1. People today have difficulty understanding older films most often because those films A. operate according to different conventions. B. are not as visually well-crafted as modern movies. C. involve romantic plots that do not appeal to contemporary sensibilities. D. lack action sequences and are very slow paced. A. operate according to different conventions. 2. Which of the following was NOT among the earliest early pioneers of film? ...