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Film Studies - UNIT 1 & 2

Total questions: 56

Worksheet time: 56mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

Who were the inventors of the cinématographe?

a)

Thomas Edison and William Dickson

b)

Auguste and Louis Lumière

c)

C. Francis Jenkins and Thomas Armat

d)

Oskar Messter and Woodville Latham

2.

What was the name of the first projected film by the Lumière Brothers?

a)

The Train Arrives at La Ciotat Station

b)

Two Babies Fighting Over Lunch

c)

Workers Leaving a Factory

d)

Sherpas Climbing the Himalayas

3.

What was the name of the device invented by the Lumière Brothers?

a)

Kinetograph

b)

Kinetoscope

c)

Cinématographe

d)

Vitascope

4.

What type of films did the Lumière Brothers primarily produce?

a)

Silent black-and-white films

b)

Animated films

c)

Documentary films

d)

Feature-length films

5.

What did the Lumière Brothers do after leaving the movie business?

a)

They continued inventing new film technologies

b)

They started a new business in Lyon

c)

They retired and lived a quiet life

d)

They became actors in their own films

6.

What did the Lumière Brothers' films primarily depict?

a)

Stage performances and skits

b)

Everyday life scenes

c)

Historical events

d)

Fictional stories

7.

What was the main contribution of the Lumière Brothers to film history?

a)

Inventing the first motion picture camera

b)

Creating the first color films

c)

Developing the first sound synchronization system

d)

Introducing the concept of collective movie-going experiences

8.

Soviet directors, Sergei Eisenstein and Dziga Vertov, were the first to use this type of editing.

a)

montage

b)

stop motion

c)

POV

d)

continuity

9.

Who was the first to project films for a viewing audience?

a)

Thomas Edison

b)

The Lumiere Brothers

c)

Edwin S. Porter

d)

D.W. Griffith

10.

Which successful film was credited with being the first Western?

a)

The Great Train Robbery

b)

True Grit

c)

An Arrival of a Train at a Station

d)

The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly

11.

This mid-twentieth century animated film pioneer's accomplishments included the first talking cartoon, the first world famous cartoon character, and the fist full-length animated movie.

a)

Lumiere Brothers

b)

W.K.L. Dickson

c)

Walt Disney

d)

George Eastman

e)

Thomas Edison

12.

This American inventor is credited with the kinetogpraph and kinetophone. One of the first moving film cameras and motion picture projectors.

a)

Lumiere

b)

Hollingshead

c)

Edison

d)

Eastman

e)

Le Prince

13.

This French magician became known for creating some of the first on-screen illusions.

a)

Wertheimer

b)

Muybridge

c)

Lumiere

d)

Melies

e)

Le Prince

14.

When did the history of cinema begin?

a)

In the early 18th

b)

In the early 19th

c)

In the early 20th

15.

When was sound introduced?

a)

At the end of the 1920s

b)

At the end of the 1921s

c)

At the end of the 1922s

16.

The Kinetoscopes’ film strips were common sideshow entertainment, examples could be...

a)

Wrestling matches

b)

Boxing cats

c)

Trapeze acts

d)

All of The Above

17.

The Cinematographe was invented by the Lumiere Brothers from?

a)

Italy

b)

France

c)

Germany

d)

Switzerland

18.

During Silent films there was either piano playing, musicians, dialogue delivered by actors or full-scale orchestras?

a)

False

b)

True

19.

American filmmaker, D.W. Griffith, created a 12-reel film during the American Civil War titled The Birth of a Nation, in 1915.

a)

True

b)

False

20.

What technique did Soviet Montage filmmakers believe was the most foundational element of film technique?

a)

Editing

b)

Acting

c)

Cinematography

d)

Screenwriting

21.

What is the name of the effect discovered by Lev Kuleshov that suggests viewers draw more meaning from two shots cut together?

a)

Tonal Montage

b)

Kuleshov Effect

c)

Soviet Montage

d)

Intellectual Montage

22.

Which photographer devoted his career to capturing motion through photography by inventing the zoopraxiscope?

a)

Louis Daguerre

b)

Eadweard Muybridge

c)

Alhazen

d)

Joseph Nicephore Niepce

23.

The process of running the film negative twice through the camera, resulting in showing two pictures, is known as:

a)

double exposure

b)

double indemnity

c)

crosscutting

d)

cross dissolve

24.

The term used to describe an entertainment company that has grown large enough to have its own offices, sound stages, props/costumes, and editing rooms.

a)

a corporation

b)

a studio

c)

a conglomerate

d)

a production

25.

Government and politics don't influence cinema.

a)

true

b)

false

26.

Meeting with client to discuss budget

a)

Pre-production

b)

Production

c)

Post production

27.

Adding music to video timeline

a)

Pre-production

b)

Production

c)

Post production

28.

Adding sound effects to recorded audio

a)

Pre-production

b)

Production

c)

Post production

29.

Adding special effects to video timeline

a)

Pre-production

b)

Production

c)

Post production

30.

Adding titles and graphics to video

a)

Pre-production

b)

Production

c)

Post production

31.

Deciding timeline for media completion

a)

Pre-production

b)

Production

c)

Post production

32.

Arranging video footage in correct sequence

a)

Pre-production

b)

Production

c)

Post production

33.

Preparing equipment for recording

a)

Pre-production

b)

Production

c)

Post production

34.

Construct a set for filming

a)

Pre-production

b)

Production

c)

Post production

35.

Editing soundtracks

a)

Pre-production

b)

Production

c)

Post production

36.

Writing the script

a)

Pre-production

b)

Production

c)

Post production

37.

Editing video footage

a)

Pre-production

b)

Production

c)

Post production

38.

Location planning and scouting

a)

Pre-production

b)

Production

c)

Post production

39.

Exporting final product to desired format

a)

Pre-production

b)

Production

c)

Post production

40.

Prepare production scheduling

a)

Pre-production

b)

Production

c)

Post production

41.

Adjusting audio levels

a)

Pre-production

b)

Production

c)

Post production

42.

Recording video footage

a)

Pre-production

b)

Production

c)

Post production

43.

Storyboarding

a)

Pre-production

b)

Production

c)

Post production

44.

The earliest films were just continuous scenes and weren't edited.

a)

True

b)

False

45.

Kuleshov discovered that

a)

editing brings continuity to a film.

b)

editing can add emotion when scenes are placed together.

c)

discontinuous editing makes people lose interest in a film.

46.

What is a storyboard?

a)

Drawings of what the movie will look like

b)

A book written on wooden boards

c)

A piece of wood that tells a story

d)

A board game where you make a story

47.

What is a screen play?

a)

The story of the film

b)

A play made behind a screen

c)

A screen that actors play with

d)

A movie played on a screen

48.

What is the role of the director

a)

The boss of the film

b)

The boss of traffic

c)

The boss of the program

d)

The boss of the studio

49.

The person who decides on the locations to use for each scene before filming. They spend a lot of time traveling.

a)

Camera operator

b)

Casting director

c)

Location scout

d)

Props master

50.

This person may work in any department. This is an entry level job and is great, for example, a film student.

a)

Production assistant

b)

Special effects coordinator

c)

Stunt coordinator

d)

Executive producer

51.

This person secures the financing for a film production, either through a studio or by financing it themselves.

a)

Makeup artist

b)

Set decorator

c)

Director of photography

d)

Executive producer

52.

This person is responsible for piecing the footage together on the computer, one of the last steps to making a movie.

a)

Writer

b)

Producer

c)

Craft service

d)

Editor

53.

This person is responsible for filming and setting up the camera shots for each scene.

a)

Camera operator

b)

Costume designer

c)

Director

d)

Producer

54.

The person who writes the story and script for filming. They are really involved at the start of the filmmaking process.

a)

Editor

b)

Writer

c)

Craft service

d)

Actors

55.

An audiovisual medium that records images on transparent plastic strips by

means of photosensitive chemicals.

a)

analog

b)

film

c)

digital

d)

glass plate

56.

It involves shaping the creative aspects of the program and interacting with the entire staff and cast to realize the visualizations of the production.

a)

Directing

b)

Lighting

c)

Producing

d)

Scriptwriting