COMM 3000 Spring 2015Exam #1 Study GuideReading a FilmFrom the Lecture1. What is the name for any significant repeated element in a film?2. Symbols with multiple meanings are referred to as ___________________.3. What are references, within a film, to other films or works of art called?4. What is the name for a reference to an existing work of art that is meant as a sign of respect or admiration?5. An implicit or underlying meaning is referred to as ______________________.6. What is another name for a film’s unifying central concern?7. What is a descriptive claim?8. What is an interpretive claim?9. What is an evaluative claim?10. What is the name of the belief that authorial intent is irrelevant to understanding an artistic work?11. What is surrealism?12. What are some of the characteristics of surrealism?From the Reading13. What is cinematic language?14. What is formal analysis?Production DesignFrom the Lecture15. What are the elements of production design?16. What is the French phrase meaning “staging a scene” that is often applied to production design?17. In movies, the edge of the picture is referred to as the film _____________.18. Who is regarded as the first production designer?19. Before the “production designer” title was popularized, the position was originally referred to by what name? 20. The place where the film’s action unfolds is the ____________________.21. What are the two types of settings? How are they both defined?22. Who developed makeup specifically for film actors?23. What is three-dimensional makeup applied to an actor’s face or body called?24. An object used by a character is a __________________.25. What is the name for the range of colors used by a production designer?From the Reading26. According to Barsam and Monahan, what are the two elements of mise-en-scène?27. What is a soundstage?28. What is chiaroscuro lighting?29. What is a small but significant role, often played by a famous actor called?30.What are the responsibilities of the script supervisor? 31. What is the difference between an open and closed frame?32. What is blocking?CinematographyFrom the Lecture33. Who is the individual responsible for the cinematography?34. What is the definition of a shot?35. What are the names of the seven main shot types that are determined by the distance between the camera and the subject?36. What is the difference between a high-angle and low-angle shot?37. What is the name of the shot in which the camera is titled so that the framing is not level?38. What is the name of the shot that simulates a character’s field of vision?39. What is the difference between a pan and a tilt?40. What is a dolly shot?41. What is the difference between a dolly-in and a dolly-out?42. What is the name of a shot that is accomplished from a camera mounted on an elevating arm?43. What is a Steadicam?44. A shot that continues for an unusually long period of time is called a _____________.45. What is the difference between high-key and low-key lighting?46. What are the three sources of lighting employed in three-point lighting system?47. What are the differences between wide-angle, telephone, and zoom lenses?48. The distance in front of the camera that will appear in sharp focus is the ________.49. Images are composed of what three planes?50. What is the name of the technique pioneered by Gregg Toland in which figures are placed in all three planes?51. What is the name of the compositional rule that helps artists produce aesthetically pleasing images?52. What is the difference between asymmetrical and symmetrical compositions? From the Reading53. What are the two sources of light?54. What is the name for the amount and quality of the human and physical resources devoted to the image called?55. What is the name for a change of focus from one subject to another?56. ______________________ is the process by which the cinematographer determines what will appear within the border of the image during a shot.57. What is CGI?EditingFrom the Lecture58. What is the Kuleshov effect?59. What is the name for the style of editing that strives to depict cinematic space consistently and coherently?60. As this editing style attempts to go unnoticed, it is also known as ______________ editing.61. What four techniques are used to achieve narrative continuity? You should be familiar with each of these four techniques.62. The 180-degree line is also known as the _______________________. How is the 180-degree line used by filmmakers?63. What is a graphic match?64. What is a jump cut?65. What was the name of the Soviet film movement that relied heavily on editing? 66. What is the name for the editing technique in which the filmmakers cut back and forth between two (or more) events occurring in different places? From the Reading67. what is the name for a sequence of shots that shows a condensed series of events?68. What is the content curve?69. What is the name for the style of editing that breaks the rules of continuity editing? 70. What is a fade-in? What is a fade-out?71. What is a dissolve?72. What is a wipe?73. What is an iris shot? What is the difference between an iris-in and an