Review Sheet for Final Exam

This is not a comprehensive exam. It will cover materials from Feb. 6(the cinematography information)to March 6. The test will be in two sections: objective answers (Scantron) and short answers.

Date: March 13Time: 5:45 - 7:15 p.m.

Test takes place in our regular classroom.

Topics:

1. Cinematography:

a. Shot framing: angle, level, height, distances (Be able to explain all distances)

b. camera movements: Know common types-pan, tilt, track, zoom, steadicam, crane, handheld

c. functions of framing and camera movement. Review the general list of framing/movement functions in the text.

e.Use of camera framing in Mildred Pierce: class discussion and screening sheet.

2. Editing

a. transitions - cut, dissolve, wipe, fade-out/in

b. graphic continuity and graphic contrast

c. continuity editing and control of space onscreen: establishing shot, 180 degree line, shot/reverse shot, eyeline match, re-establishing shot

Dr. Strangelove: as example of continuity, and an exercise of film form:use of black and white stock, use of plot elements like sex, nuclear weapons, and war.

d. intensified continuity editing techniques

e. Use of intensified continuity in L.A. Confidential - scene analysis from class.

f. Breathless - non-continuity techniques

g. Soviet cinema as example of non-continuity editing techniques. Eisenstein & Battleship Potemkin

3. Sound

a. perceptual qualities: pitch, volume, timbre

b. categories of film sound: dialogue, effects, music

c. sound use in cinema: complete "realism" of scene, provide narrative information, tie images together, establishing mood, establishing time & place of narrative, commenting on action

d. sound mix: dense or sparse

e. sound techniques: sound bridge, subjective sound

f. sound functions in M*A*S*H

4. Documentary

Modes

Social Actors

Ethical Issues

Expository and Observational Modes: know characteristics

Lipstick and Dynamite as example of Interactive Mode