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