FREE AND STUDY GAMES ABOUT READING FILM CH. 5

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FREE AND STUDY GAMES ABOUT READING FILM CH. 5

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-Guarantee passing score -53 Questions and Answers -format set of multiple-choice -Expert-Verified Explanation Question 1: Advanced by playwright Bertold Brecht, formal techniques used to create a critical distance between a work of art and the social world it depicts are examples of:

Answer:

distantiation

Question 2: continuity editing

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the institutionalized system of Hollywood editing that uses cuts and other transitions to establish verisimilitude to construct a coherent time and space, and to tell stories clearly and efficiently Question 3: A transition where a shot seems to be pushed off the screen as it is replaced by

another shot is called:

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a wipe

Question 4: segmentation

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the process of dividing a film into large narrative units for the purposes of analysis

Question 5: Which of the following devices does NOT aid in establishing spatial continuity?

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jump cut (establishing a shot, insert, and 180-degree rule DO) Question 6: The brief superimposition of one image over another where the first image fades out

and the second image fades in is called:

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a dissolve Question 7: What is editing that shifts back and forth between two or more lines of action called?

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parallel editing

Question 8: sequence

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any number of shots or scenes that are unified as a coherent action in an identifiable motif, regardless of changes in space and time

Question 9: fade out

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optical effect in which an image gradually darkens to black, often ending a scene

Question 10: reestablishing shot

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a shot during an edited sequence that returns to an establishing shot to restore a seemingly "objective" view to the spectator

Question 11: cut

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in the editing process, the join or splice between two separate shots or scenes achieved without optical effects

Question 12: modernism

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artistic movement in painting, music, design, architecture, and literature of the 1920's that rendered a fragmented vision of human subjectivity through strategies such as the foregrounding of style, experiments with space and time, and open-ended narrati Question 13: Practices that structure editing through oppositional relationships or formal

constructions based on principles other than natural human vision are called:

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disjunctive editing

Question 14: What is also called parallel editing?

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crosscutting

Question 15: overlapping editing

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an edited sequence that presents two shots of the same action; because this technique violates continuity it is rarely used Question 16: Th editing system that uses cuts and other transitions to establish a sense of verisimilitude and most efficiently tells a story is known as

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continuity editing

Question 17: What is sometimes called invisible editing?

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continuity editing

Question 18: nondiegetic insert

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an insert that depicts an action, object, or title originating outside of the space and time of the narrative world

Question 19: chronology

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the order according to which shots or scenes convey the temporal sequence of the story's events Question 20: What often uses progressively tighter framings that maintain consistent spatial relations?

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analytical editing

Question 21: 30-degree rule

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cinematography and editing rule that specifies that a shot should only be followed by another shot taken from a position greater than 30 degrees from that of the first Question 22: Part of the 180-degree rule, the imaginary line that bisects the space of the scene and indicates on which side of the actors the camera should be placed is called the:

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axis of action

Question 23: intercutting

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interposing shots of two or more actions, locations, or content

Question 24: crosscutting

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an editing technique that cuts back and forth between actions in separate spaces, often implying simultaneity

Question 25: two shot

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a shot depicted two characters

Question 26: graphic editing

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a style of editing creating formal patterns of shapes, masses, colors, lines, and lighting patterns though links between shots