Ch 1-2 - Intro to cinema

What was Muybridge trying to accomplish with his sequences of still frames?

• To use serial photography to create the first motion picture

• all of these

• To use serial photography to create "actualities"

• To answer whether horses lift all four feet of the ground when galloping

• To replicate Henry Ford's assembly line system with images

What was the first movie with an all African American cast to win an Oscar for Best Picture?

• Guess Who's Coming to Dinner

• Black Panther

• Malcolm X

• Moonlight

• Glory

According to Pramaggiore, which of the following affects a viewer's ability to make meaning?

• Formal training

• preferences

• cultural experiences

• knowledge

• all of the above

A film composed entirely of footage from other films is called a:

• parallel film

• compliation film

• diegesis film

• intertextual reference

• composition film/collage film

The arrangement of visual elements in a frame is called

• avant garde

• motif

• composition

• closure

• genre

 A narrative, visual, or sound element that refers views to other films or works of art is called:

• metaphor

• motif

• diegesis

• parallel

• intertextual reference

 This style of narrative fiction film is focused primarily on a particular abstract idea and uses usual visual techniques to call attention to the fact that this is a film.

• Realist

• Classical

• Facist

• Formalist

• Documentary

A ___________arises when two characters, events, or locations are compared through the use of a narrative element, visual or a sound device.

• catharsis

• metaphor

• closure

• parallel

• intertextual reference

A characteristic of conventional narrative form, where the conclusion wraps up loose ends in the form of a resolution

• mood

• closure

• motif

• composition

• avant garde

The 3 stylistic categories of narrative film are:

• Conventional, realist, and aesthetic

• Conventional, realistic, and aesthetic

• Classical, realist, and formalist

• Classical, realistic, formal