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WorksheetsFilm Studies - UNIT 1 & 2
Total questions: 56
Worksheet time: 56mins
Who were the inventors of the cinématographe?
Thomas Edison and William Dickson
Auguste and Louis Lumière
C. Francis Jenkins and Thomas Armat
Oskar Messter and Woodville Latham
What was the name of the first projected film by the Lumière Brothers?
The Train Arrives at La Ciotat Station
Two Babies Fighting Over Lunch
Workers Leaving a Factory
Sherpas Climbing the Himalayas
What was the name of the device invented by the Lumière Brothers?
Kinetograph
Kinetoscope
Cinématographe
Vitascope
What type of films did the Lumière Brothers primarily produce?
Silent black-and-white films
Animated films
Documentary films
Feature-length films
What did the Lumière Brothers do after leaving the movie business?
They continued inventing new film technologies
They started a new business in Lyon
They retired and lived a quiet life
They became actors in their own films
What did the Lumière Brothers' films primarily depict?
Stage performances and skits
Everyday life scenes
Historical events
Fictional stories
What was the main contribution of the Lumière Brothers to film history?
Inventing the first motion picture camera
Creating the first color films
Developing the first sound synchronization system
Introducing the concept of collective movie-going experiences
Soviet directors, Sergei Eisenstein and Dziga Vertov, were the first to use this type of editing.
montage
stop motion
POV
continuity
Who was the first to project films for a viewing audience?
Thomas Edison
The Lumiere Brothers
Edwin S. Porter
D.W. Griffith
Which successful film was credited with being the first Western?
The Great Train Robbery
True Grit
An Arrival of a Train at a Station
The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly
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.
Lumiere Brothers
W.K.L. Dickson
Walt Disney
George Eastman
Thomas Edison
This American inventor is credited with the kinetogpraph and kinetophone. One of the first moving film cameras and motion picture projectors.
Lumiere
Hollingshead
Edison
Eastman
Le Prince
This French magician became known for creating some of the first on-screen illusions.
Wertheimer
Muybridge
Lumiere
Melies
Le Prince
When did the history of cinema begin?
In the early 18th
In the early 19th
In the early 20th
When was sound introduced?
At the end of the 1920s
At the end of the 1921s
At the end of the 1922s
The Kinetoscopes’ film strips were common sideshow entertainment, examples could be...
Wrestling matches
Boxing cats
Trapeze acts
All of The Above
The Cinematographe was invented by the Lumiere Brothers from?
Italy
France
Germany
Switzerland
During Silent films there was either piano playing, musicians, dialogue delivered by actors or full-scale orchestras?
False
True
American filmmaker, D.W. Griffith, created a 12-reel film during the American Civil War titled The Birth of a Nation, in 1915.
True
False
What technique did Soviet Montage filmmakers believe was the most foundational element of film technique?
Editing
Acting
Cinematography
Screenwriting
What is the name of the effect discovered by Lev Kuleshov that suggests viewers draw more meaning from two shots cut together?
Tonal Montage
Kuleshov Effect
Soviet Montage
Intellectual Montage
Which photographer devoted his career to capturing motion through photography by inventing the zoopraxiscope?
Louis Daguerre
Eadweard Muybridge
Alhazen
Joseph Nicephore Niepce
The process of running the film negative twice through the camera, resulting in showing two pictures, is known as:
double exposure
double indemnity
crosscutting
cross dissolve
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 corporation
a studio
a conglomerate
a production
Government and politics don't influence cinema.
true
false
Meeting with client to discuss budget
Pre-production
Production
Post production
Adding music to video timeline
Pre-production
Production
Post production
Adding sound effects to recorded audio
Pre-production
Production
Post production
Adding special effects to video timeline
Pre-production
Production
Post production
Adding titles and graphics to video
Pre-production
Production
Post production
Deciding timeline for media completion
Pre-production
Production
Post production
Arranging video footage in correct sequence
Pre-production
Production
Post production
Preparing equipment for recording
Pre-production
Production
Post production
Construct a set for filming
Pre-production
Production
Post production
Editing soundtracks
Pre-production
Production
Post production
Writing the script
Pre-production
Production
Post production
Editing video footage
Pre-production
Production
Post production
Location planning and scouting
Pre-production
Production
Post production
Exporting final product to desired format
Pre-production
Production
Post production
Prepare production scheduling
Pre-production
Production
Post production
Adjusting audio levels
Pre-production
Production
Post production
Recording video footage
Pre-production
Production
Post production
Storyboarding
Pre-production
Production
Post production
The earliest films were just continuous scenes and weren't edited.
True
False
Kuleshov discovered that
editing brings continuity to a film.
editing can add emotion when scenes are placed together.
discontinuous editing makes people lose interest in a film.
What is a storyboard?
Drawings of what the movie will look like
A book written on wooden boards
A piece of wood that tells a story
A board game where you make a story
What is a screen play?
The story of the film
A play made behind a screen
A screen that actors play with
A movie played on a screen
What is the role of the director
The boss of the film
The boss of traffic
The boss of the program
The boss of the studio
The person who decides on the locations to use for each scene before filming. They spend a lot of time traveling.
Camera operator
Casting director
Location scout
Props master
This person may work in any department. This is an entry level job and is great, for example, a film student.
Production assistant
Special effects coordinator
Stunt coordinator
Executive producer
This person secures the financing for a film production, either through a studio or by financing it themselves.
Makeup artist
Set decorator
Director of photography
Executive producer
This person is responsible for piecing the footage together on the computer, one of the last steps to making a movie.
Writer
Producer
Craft service
Editor
This person is responsible for filming and setting up the camera shots for each scene.
Camera operator
Costume designer
Director
Producer
The person who writes the story and script for filming. They are really involved at the start of the filmmaking process.
Editor
Writer
Craft service
Actors
An audiovisual medium that records images on transparent plastic strips by
means of photosensitive chemicals.
analog
film
digital
glass plate
It involves shaping the creative aspects of the program and interacting with the entire staff and cast to realize the visualizations of the production.
Directing
Lighting
Producing
Scriptwriting
