Film and Media Studies 46 - Final Review Jeopardy

Film and Media Studies 46 - Final Review Jeopardy Structure and Meaning Mise-en-Scene and Cinematography Sound and Editing Genre and Authorship Documentary and Animation Q $100 Q $100 Q $100 Q $100 Q $100 Q $200 Q $200 Q $200 Q $200 Q $200 Q $300 Q $300 Q $300 Q $300 Q $300 Q $400 Q $400 Q $400 Q $400 Q $400 Q $500 Q $500 Q $500 Q $500 Q $500 Final Jeopardy

$100 Question from Structure and Meaning Define “plot”

$100 Answer from Structure and Meaning Everything visibly and audibly present in the film, including nondiegetic material

$200 Question from Structure and Meaning What are four (out of five) principles of film form?

$200 Answer from Structure and Meaning Function Similarity and Repetition Difference and Variation Development Unity/Disunity

$300 Question from Structure and Meaning What is the range of narration in Sherlock Jr.?

$300 Answer from Structure and Meaning Fairly restricted: there are only two or three scenes where we do not see what Sherlock Jr. sees.

$400 Question from Structure and Meaning What is an implicit meaning in Cabaret?

$400 Answer from Structure and Meaning In pre-war Nazi Germany, people were living in an illusion, thinking that the horrors that would happen were so far away. The cabaret is the best metaphor for this state, but it is not necessarily a harmful one. The movie pitches an ultimately dark view of human reality where illusion is the best thing possible in the real world.

$500 Question from Structure and Meaning What is a symptomatic meaning of Rashomon?

$500 Answer from Structure and Meaning In the wake of World War II in Japan, this film talks about the inability to ever know what truly happened and the inability to reconcile different perceptions, and thus might be read as symptomatic of their society’s post-traumatic state and the impossibility of accurately representing the war’s destruction.

$100 Question from Mise-en-Scene and Cinematography Identify the lens used and the depth of field in this image

$100 Answer from Mise-en-Scene and Cinematography Telephoto lens (long focal length) Selective/shallow focus

$200 Question from Mise-en-Scene and Cinematography Name the lighting design used in this image/film The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (1919)

$200 Answer from Mise-en-Scene and Cinematography Low key lighting

$300 Question from Mise-en-Scene and Cinematography Describe the compositional strategy used in this shot

$300 Answer from Mise-en-Scene and Cinematography Deep space composition

$400 Question from Mise-en-Scene and Cinematography Describe the lighting quality of this shot Judy Garland

$400 Answer from Mise-en-Scene and Cinematography Soft lighting

$500 Question from Mise-en-Scene and Cinematography What are five characteristics of Orson Welles and Gregg Toland’s photographic approach?

$500 Answer from Mise-en-Scene and Cinematography -deep-focus cinematography; -long takes; -avoidance of intercutting through devices such as multi-plane compositions and camera movement; elaborate camera choreography; -lighting that produces a high contrast tonality; -low-angle camera set-ups, made possible by muslin ceilings on the sets; -an array of striking visual devices such as composite dissolves and shooting directly into lights. -motif of forward penetrating movements

$100 Question from Editing and Sound The editing system/ style used in this film:

$100 Answer from Editing and Sound Continuity editing

$200 Question from Editing and Sound Situated at the beginning of Rashomon, what type of shot is this?

$200 Answer from Editing and Sound An establishing shot

$300 Question from Editing and Sound This sequence, from Dziga Vertov’s Man With a Movie Camera is an example of:

$300 Answer from Editing and Sound Intellectual montage

$400 Question from Editing and Sound In this scene from Duck Amuck the sound design lacks what?

$400 Answer from Editing and Sound Fidelity

$500 Question from Editing and Sound What is internal diegetic sound?

$500 Answer from Editing and Sound Subjective sound that comes from within the mind of the character, that other characters can’t hear

$100 Question from Genre and Authorship What is Auteur Theory?

$100 Answer from Genre and Authorship A theory developed in France in the 1950’s and developed in America by Andrew Sarris in the 1960’s which positioned one individual (typically the director) as the “author” of the film. In this theory the film is understood as a realization of the author’s vision.

$200 Question from Genre and Authorship What is the “Film Generation?”

$200 Answer from Genre and Authorship Also known as the “movie brats,” this group of young directors (who were educated in film schools) rose to success in the 1970’s by appealing to the youth market.

$300 Question from Genre and Authorship How can we identify genres? (5/9 ways)

$300 Answer from Genre and Authorship Subject matter Themes Manner of presentation Plot pattern Effects on audience Setting Iconography Characters Cultural conflict

$400 Question from Genre and Authorship The art cinema motivates its narratives by two principles:

$400 Answer from Genre and Authorship Realism and Authorial Expressivity

$500 Question from Genre and Authorship What are the three distinct levels of inquiry on which we should address genre production?

$500 Answer from Genre and Authorship -those characteristics shared by virtually all genre films (and thus by all genres) -those characteristics shared by all films within an individual genre -those characteristics that set one genre off from all other films

$100 Question from Documentary and Animation What are the four categories of documentary film?

$100 Answer from Documentary and Animation Observational Analysis Persuasive Aesthetic

$200 Question from Documentary and Animation What is self-reflexivity?

$200 Answer from Documentary and Animation Self-reflexivity describes the process by which a film or television program draws attention to itself, reminding the spectator of its textuality and status as a media construct.

$300 Question from Documentary and Animation What are the two functions of cinema that Sobchack and Sobchack distinguish between at the outset of their article on experimental and animated film?

$300 Answer from Documentary and Animation -the recording function of cinema -the creative or expressive function of cinema

$400 Question from Documentary and Animation What distinguishes Direct Cinema from Cinema Verité ?

$400 Answer from Documentary and Animation While the practice of direct cinema is dedicated to observational techniques and non-interference with the subjects, the function of cinema verite is analytic and its filmmakers see themselves as participants and catalysts.

$500 Question from Documentary and Animation What are three (out of four) aspects of film do you need to look at when analyzing historical practices such as documentary and animation?

Film and Media Studies 46 - Final Review Jeopardy