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Film Editing
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Subjects
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performing-arts
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film
Instructions:
Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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Match each statement with the correct term.
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1. Direction of an action is edited to a shot depicting the continuation of that action
match on action
cutaway
rhythmic editing
180-degree rule
2. Style emphasizing the breaks and contrasts between images joined by a cut
modernism
montage
overlapping editing
graphic editing
3. Periodic return to an initial establishing view
sequence shot
reestablishing shot
graphic match
crosscutting
4. Depicts a character's response to something the viewers have just been shown
shot/reverse-shot
two-shot
structural film
reaction shot
5. Screen darkens
chronology
movement editing
pace
fade-out
6. Another name for continuity editing
modernism
sequence shot
invisible editing
long takes
7. The direction and pace of actions - gestures - and other movements are linked with corresponding or contrasting movements in one or more other shots
movement editing
eyeline match
graphic match
cutaway
8. Dividing up the narrative into large units
pace
segmentation
nondiegetic insert
long takes
9. A variety of alternative practices that call attention to the cut through spatial tension - temporal jumps - or rhythmic or graphic pattern so as to affect viscerally - disorient - or intellectually engage the viewer.
verisimilitude
long takes
disjunctive editing
180-degree rule
10. Join two images by moving a line across one image to replace it with the next
wipes
cutaway
disjunctive editing
duration
11. Distance the viewer from material
graphic match
alienation effects
shot/reverse-shot
nondiegetic insert
12. Insert that breaks continuity
30-degree rule
nondiegetic insert
segmentation
analytical editing
13. One or more shots that describe a continuous space - time - and action
scene
overlapping editing
sequence shot
graphic match
14. Depicts a character's response to something the viewers have just been shown
establishing shot
chronology
reaction shot
intercut
15. Temporal relation of shots and scenes to the amount of time that passes in the story
dissolve
analytical editing
duration
continuity editing
16. Alternating between two or more strands of simultaneous action
dissolve
verisimilitude
sequence
crosscutting
17. Any number of shots that are unified as a coherent action - regardless of space and time
reaction shot
sequence
shot/reverse-shot
axis of action
18. Follows a predetermined structure
30-degree rule
axis of action
structural film
reestablishing shot
19. Brief shot filmed separately from a scene and inserted during editing...points out details significant to the action
insert
overlapping editing
shot/reverse-shot
verisimilitude
20. And edit through which a dominant shape or line in one shot provides a visual transition to a similar shape or line in the next shot
graphic match
long takes
analytical editing
montage
21. Screen lightens
continuity editing
fade-in
visible editing
cutaway
22. Superimposes one shot over the next
structural film
dissolve
fade-out
segmentation
23. Alternating between two or more strands of simultaneous action
match on action
duration
pace
crosscutting
24. Screen lightens
montage
jump cut
fade-in
cutaway
25. Temporal relation of shots and scenes to the amount of time that passes in the story
eyeline match
fade-out
180-degree rule
duration
26. Join two images by moving a line across one image to replace it with the next
wipes
long takes
axis of action
insert
27. Periodic return to an initial establishing view
sequence
segmentation
reestablishing shot
dissolve
28. Film interrupts the action to 'cut away' to another image or action
cutaway
reaction shot
modernism
montage
29. Direction of an action is edited to a shot depicting the continuation of that action
invisible editing
continuity editing
match on action
continuity editing
30. Appearance of truth
verisimilitude
fade-out
establishing shot
reestablishing shot
31. Begins with the shot of one character taken from an angle at one of the axis of action - continues with a shot of the second character from the reverse angle at the other end of the axis - and proceeds back and forth.
shot/reverse-shot
jump cut
verisimilitude
continuity editing
32. Shown through a character's eyes
Point-of-view shot
crosscutting
chronology
reestablishing shot
33. Continuity editing that establishes spatial and temporal clarity by breaking down a scene - often using progressively tighter framings that remain consistent spatial relations
montage
crosscutting
Point-of-view shot
analytical editing
34. Imaginary line bisecting a scene corresponding to the 180-degree rule
visible editing
crosscutting
fade-in
axis of action
35. Organization of editing according to different paces or tempos determined by how quickly cuts are made
segmentation
dissolve
rhythmic editing
cutaway
36. Insert that breaks continuity
structural film
fade-in
nondiegetic insert
alienation effects
37. A relatively close shot of two characters
two-shot
segmentation
jump cut
crosscutting
38. Style emphasizing the breaks and contrasts between images joined by a cut
scene
montage
graphic match
analytical editing
39. Edits that intentionally create gaps in action
jump cut
graphic match
graphic editing
reestablishing shot
40. Initial long shot that establishes setting and orients the viewer in space to a clear view of the action
long takes
establishing shot
structural film
shot/reverse-shot
41. Interspersed
long takes
intercut
graphic match
fade-out
42. Entire scene in one take
sequence shot
intercut
shot/reverse-shot
fade-out
43. Dividing up the narrative into large units
duration
fade-out
segmentation
overlapping editing
44. If a character looks offscreen - the next shot will likely show the character or object that the character is looking at in a screen position that matches the gaze
intercut
sequence
eyeline match
alienation effects
45. Style of editing creating formal patterns of shapes - masses - colors - lines - and lighting patterns through links between shots
Point-of-view shot
graphic match
nondiegetic insert
graphic editing
46. Multiple shots of the same action; disrupts continuity
reestablishing shot
continuity editing
reaction shot
overlapping editing
47. Film interrupts the action to 'cut away' to another image or action
visible editing
cutaway
graphic match
graphic editing
48. Shown through a character's eyes
Point-of-view shot
verisimilitude
movement editing
two-shot
49. Initial long shot that establishes setting and orients the viewer in space to a clear view of the action
nondiegetic insert
reestablishing shot
duration
establishing shot
50. A variety of alternative practices that call attention to the cut through spatial tension - temporal jumps - or rhythmic or graphic pattern so as to affect viscerally - disorient - or intellectually engage the viewer.
eyeline match
graphic editing
reestablishing shot
disjunctive editing