Crowdly
Add to Chrome
Questions Bank (1553497 total)
In order to provide the editor more freedom to select the best possible viewpoint for each dramatic moment, the best directors and cinematographers capture multiple angles and shot types covering the same action, which are known as
intercutting.
❌
crosscutting.
❌
coverage.
✅
fragmentation.
❌
split screen.
❌
View this question
How does the 180-degree system influence screen direction?
It prevents screen direction from being coherent to the viewer.
❌
It isolates screen direction and foregrounds it for the viewer.
❌
It disrupts screen direction and substitutes for its discontinuity.
❌
It makes screen direction haphazard across and between cuts.
❌
It ensures consistent screen direction when shots are edited together.
✅
View this question
How does shot/reverse shot fool viewers in order to achieve continuity?
by giving more screen time to characters who don't play major roles in the film
❌
by suggesting narrative events that cannot have possibly occurred
❌
by linking together shots on-screen that could have been recorded at completely different moments
✅
by making it appear as if two characters are talking together when they are not
❌
by placing shots in an order that is chronologically out of order
❌
View this question
How does an editor control the rhythm of a film?
by making sure edited shots match each other in terms of continuity
❌
by following each shot with a counter-shot that reverses the field of the previous one
❌
by forcing shots to be part of the same montage sequence even if they don't make logical sense when placed together
❌
by varying the duration of the shots in relation to one another and thus controlling their speed and accents
✅
by timing sound track music correctly to edited shots
❌
View this question
How does a film editor typically fulfill his or her responsibilities for the spatial relationships between shots?
by placing shots together so that the sense of the overall space suggested on-screen shifts and expands
✅
by using only establishing shots
❌
by using only close-up shots
❌
by disregarding how audiences understand the space inhabited by the characters on-screen
❌
by adhering to violations of the 180-degree rule
❌
View this question
How does a dissolve differ from a fade?
A dissolve's transition occurs simultaneously on the screen, whereas a black screen separates the two parts of a fade.
✅
A dissolve can be used to mark a connection between two shots, whereas a fade cannot.
❌
A dissolve emphasizes the image, whereas a fade does not.
❌
A dissolve can be used to mark the passing of time, whereas a fade cannot.
❌
A dissolve is a transitional cut, whereas a fade is not.
❌
View this question
How do some film editors work during and before, and not just after, the shooting of movies?
by consulting with other editors about how to properly engage with the movie
❌
by making suggestions to the director and cinematographer concerning composition, lighting, and so on
✅
by refusing to work on any film material until the director has a clear plan for what he or she is doing
❌
by conferring with the producers about a movie's casting
❌
by putting together all the elements completed in the course of shooting
❌
View this question
How are freeze-frames created by an editor?
by making the subject stay perfectly still in front of the camera
❌
by placing the film in cold-temperature storage
❌
by stopping the projector on a single image of the movie
❌
by holding the camera still on a subject
❌
by repeating the same frame for whatever length of time is required for the desired effect
✅
View this question
Graphic matches often repeat ________ and provide a strong ________.
odd associations; visual sense of fragmentation and disorientation
❌
similar shapes; direct link between the events and content presented in the two different shots
✅
spatial impossibilities; temporal sense of nothingness
❌
cinematic convention; spatial sense of wholeness
❌
actors; visual sense of a connection between them
❌
View this question
Documentary films often have ________ shooting ratios than commercial narrative films since their stories are largely discovered during postproduction.
lower
❌
rawer
❌
smoother
❌
higher
✅
the same
❌
View this question
Previous
1
More pages
3927
3928
3929
3930
3931
More pages
155350
Next
Telegram
Instagram
TikTok
Question Bank
Terms of Use
Contact Us
Add to Chrome