1COM 221, Introduction to Film: Sample Midterm Exam #1Dr. Kim Neuendorf PRINT NAME:_____________________________SIGNATURE:______________________________Worth 70 points (35% of ID#:____________________________________your course grade)NOTE: Including your signature above indicates that you agree to have your test score posted online, non-alphabetically,by the last digits of your ID#. If you don't sign, your score won't be posted. Posting will be on our class website. Thereis a total of 70 items. For each, indicate one letter on your opscan/scantron form.Multiple Choice/T-F1. Which of the following films uses cross-cutting (as part of parallel editing) in its closing sequence?a. Strangers on a Trainb. Visions of Lightc. Andalusian Dogd. Citizen Kane2. Assuming one follows the classical editing style, a shot that is:a. high in centripetal decay should be held on-screen for a relatively long period of timeb. highly legible should be cut away from fairly quicklyc. lit in chiaroscuro should be held on-screen for a relatively long period of timed. not very legible should be cut away from fairly quickly3. In a classic sequence from Citizen Kane, the camera begins on the boy Charles playing in the snow, dollies backthrough an open window into the house, follows Mrs. Kane as she walks to a table and sits down, and, withoutcutting, frames up on both the parents and the lawyer in the foreground and Charles in the distance through thewindow (all in focus). This is an example of:a. an ECU of Charlesb. an MS with shallow depth of fieldc. thematic or "pure" montaged. a long take with deep-focus4. Music videos are often categorized as either "performance" (mostly showing the musicians performing) or"concept" videos. Concept videos usually juxtapose related images in surprising and inventive ways, as a way ofshowing the deep meaning of the music, rather than telling a coherent story. Also, image manipulation, via slow-motion, color filters, and other special effects, is common. As described, concept videos tend to exemplify:a. thematic montage editingb. parallel editingc. the narrow definition of realismd. all of the above5. Viewing check: What is the Andalusian Dog?a. a hooded figure with a mirror for a faceb. a talking dalmatianc. the name Fatty Arbuckle used after his scandald. whatever you think it might be, Bunuel would tell us2For 6-9, match the film or sequence with the auteur who would be likely to have created it. No auteur should be used morethan once.a. Orson Wellesb. Salvador Dalic. Georges Meliesd. Alfred Hitchcocke. Buster Keatonf. Stan Brakhageg. the Lumiere brothersh. Maya Dereni. Peter Jackson6. In LS, an unsmiling comic character grabs onto a tree, and is swept up in the air with it as gale-force winds hurl thetree into the river. The actor performs his own stunts, without benefit of visual special effects. As usual, he has astrong influence on the substance of the film overall. Which auteur? 7. The 1958 film, Touch of Evil, was one of the films directed by this auteur in order to raise funds for his ownindependent films (e.g., Othello, Chimes at Midnight--both Shakespearean projects). To earn more money, he alsoco-starred in Touch of Evil, as a murderous, overweight sheriff. This auteur had alienated the Hollywoodcommunity when his first film, released when he was 25 years old, offended publishing magnate WilliamRandolph Hearst; the auteur never again enjoyed same level of artistic control that RKO gave him in 1941. Whichauteur? 8. The 1992 New Zealand release, Dead Alive, presaged the graphic violence of some of this director’s later work,and also displayed his quirky wit and his fascination with the fantasy form, as seen in his more recent epic fantasyfilms. Which auteur? 9. The short, independently made film Meditation on Violence (1948) features Chinese boxers moving in slowmotion, as if in dance. The auteur noted that in her film, "the emphasis is upon life as an ongoing metamorphosis,a continuous alternation between negative and positive." There are no words spoken in this film, with thecinematography creating a type of visual poetry. Which auteur?10. Who put together “gags” in his films, and told us that our various individual interpretations of “art” films were all valid?a. Stanislavskyb. Louis Daguerrec. Luis Bunueld. Andy Warhol11. What happened to the two real-life girls portrayed in Heavenly Creatures?a. They were murdered by the famed killer Orson Welles.b. They were sentenced to life in prison.c. One became a successful murder mystery writer.d. They were married in Massachusetts last year.e. None of the above–they were never found.12. The issue brought to the fore in the Clean Flicks short film is:a. originality–there is little that is “new” in film todayb. cultural imperialism–sex in American films has angered other cultures around the worldc. the growth of the indies–this short film is one of the most popular to dated. “ownership” of film–do others have the right to edit and otherwise change an auteur’s work?313. You wish to construct a highly subjective camera sequence. Which of the following would you be likely to use?a. a canted shot rather than a hand-held shotb. an orientation cut rather than a wipec. a high-angle shot rather than a low-angle shotd. a dolly shot rather than one with an unchanging, constant mise-en-scene 14. Surrealism most closely resembles:a. the contents of the gutterb. the theatrical conventions of lighting and the 180-degree systemc. the image you get by using a very long lensd. a dream15. Which of the following films is the most expressionistic in the narrow sense?a. Visions of Lightb. The Last Angel of Historyc. Strangers on a Traind. none of the above meet the narrow definition of expressionism16. The Last Angel of History is a “non-linear and incomplete” treatment (according to our reading) that emulates thehyperlinking of web surfing. . . Viewing check–In this film, links are made between:a. William Randolph Hearst’s mistress, Marion Davies, and Charles Foster Kane’s wife, Susan Alexander Kaneb. African-American involvement in science fiction and real space explorationc. the music of tenor Mario Lanza and homicidal tendencies in adolescentsd. none of the above17. The unusual director John Waters has directed a small number of memorable films parodying suburban middle-class life, ranging from the big-budget comedy Serial Mom and Pecker, back to his early disgusting work