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Film Techniques
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Study First
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.
Don't refresh. All questions and answers are randomly picked and ordered every time you load a test.
This is a study tool. The 3 wrong answers for each question are randomly chosen from answers to other questions. So, you might find at times the answers obvious, but you will see it re-enforces your understanding as you take the test each time.
1. Sound that cannot be heard by the characters but is designed for audience reaction only
Non Diegetic
Shot Reverse Shot
Close Up
Establishing Shot
2. A new image wipes off the previous image
Wipe
Cross Cutting
Low Key
Medium Shot
3. The camera is above the subject
High Key
High Angle
Shot
Pan
4. Soft lighting on the actor's face or from behind
Front or Back Lighting
Flashback
High Angle
Eye Level
5. Most common editing technique
Diegetic
Cut
Fade
Shot
6. The most common shot
Medium Shot
Eye Line Match
Flashback
Low Angle
7. The image being shot as part of a whole
Medium Shot
Extreme Close Up
Cross Cutting
Zoom
8. A single piece of film uninterrupted by cuts
Cut
Shot
High Key
Fade
9. A stationary camera moves from side to side on a horizontal axis
Pan
Low Key
Medium Shot
Bottom or Side Lighting
10. Can be to or from black or white
Front or Back Lighting
Fade
Extreme Close Up
Medium Shot
11. The camera is on a crane over the action
Flashback
Shot
Long Shot
Boom/Crane
12. Most common editing technique
Pan
Cut
Low Key
Tilt
13. The scene is flooded with shadows and darkness - creating suspense or suspicion
Fade
Pan
Extreme Close Up
Low Key
14. Cut or dissolve to action that happened in the past
Dissolve
Tilt
Medium Shot
Flashback
15. Often a long shot or a series of shots that sets the scene
Cross Cutting
Close Up
Establishing Shot
Medium Shot
16. Sound that cannot be heard by the characters but is designed for audience reaction only
Dissolve
Non Diegetic
Long Shot
Cut
17. A scene between two people shot exclusively from an angle that includes both characters more or less equally
Shot Reverse Shot
Two Shot
Tilt
Dissolve
18. A kind of fade in which one image is slowly replaced by another
Dissolve
Two Shot
Cut
Long Shot
19. A stationary camera moves from side to side on a horizontal axis
Extreme Close Up
Boom/Crane
Diegetic
Pan
20. The scene is flooded with light - creating a bright and open looking scene
High Key
Low Angle
Long Shot
Fade
21. A shot taken from a normal height or at the character's eye level
Pan
Two Shot
Extreme Close Up
Eye Level
22. A shot of one subject - then another - then back to the first
Medium Shot
Eye Level
Shot Reverse Shot
Diegetic
23. A stationary camera where the lens moves to make an object seem to move closer to or further away from the camera
Shot
Low Angle
Low Angle
Zoom
24. The camera is on a track that allows it to move with the action
Dolly/Tracking
Medium Shot
Wipe
Two Shot
25. Cut to an object - then to a person
Dissolve
Flashback
Bottom or Side Lighting
Eye Line Match
26. A new image wipes off the previous image
Wipe
Non Diegetic
Zoom
Establishing Shot
27. A kind of fade in which one image is slowly replaced by another
High Key
Dissolve
Low Angle
Eye Line Match
28. A shot taken from a normal height or at the character's eye level
Pan
Eye Level
Eye Line Match
Close Up
29. The camera films subjects from below
Diegetic
Low Angle
Tilt
Wipe
30. The image being shot as part of a whole
Extreme Close Up
Bottom or Side Lighting
Wipe
High Key
31. Sound that could logically be heard by the characters in the film
Diegetic
Long Shot
High Key
Long Shot
32. Often a long shot or a series of shots that sets the scene
Shot
Cut
Establishing Shot
Fade
33. Can be to or from black or white
Fade
Flashback
Dissolve
Cut
34. Direct lighting from below or the side
Bottom or Side Lighting
High Angle
Fade
Dolly/Tracking
35. A shot from some distance
Two Shot
Shot Reverse Shot
Long Shot
Boom/Crane
36. The scene is flooded with light - creating a bright and open looking scene
Medium Shot
Bottom or Side Lighting
High Angle
High Key
37. Cut to an object - then to a person
Shot
High Key
Fade
Eye Line Match
38. Sound that could logically be heard by the characters in the film
Non Diegetic
Diegetic
Low Key
Fade
39. The image takes up at least 80 percent of the frame
Close Up
Shot Reverse Shot
Cross Cutting
Pan
40. A single piece of film uninterrupted by cuts
High Key
Two Shot
Close Up
Shot
41. The most common shot
Bottom or Side Lighting
Medium Shot
Boom/Crane
Zoom
42. The camera is above the subject
Pan
Low Angle
Bottom or Side Lighting
High Angle
43. Direct lighting from below or the side
Flashback
Boom/Crane
Low Key
Bottom or Side Lighting
44. Soft lighting on the actor's face or from behind
Flashback
Low Key
Establishing Shot
Front or Back Lighting
45. A stationary camera where the lens moves to make an object seem to move closer to or further away from the camera
Two Shot
Flashback
Diegetic
Zoom
46. The image takes up at least 80 percent of the frame
Dolly/Tracking
Fade
Pan
Close Up
47. Cut into action that is happening simultaneously
Cross Cutting
Pan
Dissolve
Eye Line Match
48. A stationary camera moves up or down along a vertical axis
Tilt
Shot Reverse Shot
High Key
Low Angle
49. A scene between two people shot exclusively from an angle that includes both characters more or less equally
Diegetic
Flashback
Low Key
Two Shot
50. Cut or dissolve to action that happened in the past
Low Key
Shot
Dolly/Tracking
Flashback