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