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