COMM 150 Exam 1 100% Correct Answers Verified Latest 2024 Version
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Week 1
Framing Questions:
- How do artistry, technology, industry, and culture work to create the cinema? What is one of these
concepts at work in Hugo?
- What do you think Martin Scorsese means by "The Language of Cinema"?
- What's your connection to Hugo? What are the first questions you'd a...
COMM 150 Exam 1 | 100% Correct Answers |
Verified | Latest 2024 Version
Week 1
Framing Questions:
- How do artistry, technology, industry, and culture work to create the cinema? What is one of these
concepts at work in Hugo?
- What do you think Martin Scorsese means by "The Language of Cinema"?
- What's your connection to Hugo? What are the first questions you'd ask of the film, or observations
you'd make?
- What are two ways- direct and indirect- you feel that Hugo is "about" the movies?
Intro: cinema is both an art form and a mass communications medium. defining cinema needs a large
screen0 it is both a worldly and a private experience, an experience that knits the past and present of
the medium and the society that watches that medium. We'll look at cinema this semester in four ways
that summarize this complex experience: - ✔✔industry, technology, artistry, culture
SEQ: Of the following, which did Hagopian use as a visual example of each/all of the "four cinemas" in
Hugo during lecture? - ✔✔A picture of Martin Scorsese in the film Hugo
what movie did we watch this week? Why? - ✔✔Hugo
technology
industry
artistry
culture
the name for a collection of philosophical, historical, artistic, and political conversations about the
cinema - ✔✔cinema studies
,______ are the most influential artistic and communications medium of the modern age- to know the
_______ is to begin to know modern culture - ✔✔movies; cinema
what are the two parts of a movies' split personality? - ✔✔both art and mass communications medium
what is the setting of Hugo? - ✔✔between WWI and WWII
what does timing in a movie fall under? - ✔✔artistry
all film has what context? - ✔✔industrial
what is cinematography? - ✔✔how the film is photographed
what is the most artistic attribute to a film? give a definition - ✔✔editing, the way individual shots are
put together
what are promotion and distribution included in? - ✔✔industry
how was technology in Hugo? - ✔✔based in railroad station, Hugo had dream of train crashing through
station (was based on a real picture)
how was culture in Hugo? - ✔✔physical and emotional marks on the characters- especially the station
inspector
the sum total of the influences, experiences and creative output of filmmakers, working through
technical, industrial, and artistic means to bring a vision of the world, real or abstract, true or invented,
to a cinematic screen. It is also the sum total of the cultural experiences of audiences, past and present,
in watching and making conscious or unconscious use of the cinematic image - ✔✔film
all film- commercial narrative, indie, student film, docs, experimental, DIY, personal - has a(n) ________
context - ✔✔industrial
, film is inherently a ________ medium, at whatever level of complexity - ✔✔technology
the organization of several arts into one complex statement about the world (ex. screenwriting, mise-en-
scene, cinematography, editing, sound) - ✔✔artistry
film communicates as well as expresses. it means something and we bring meaning to the film. Film
never exists in a historical or cultural vacuum - ✔✔
clip screened in class: 2001: A Space Odyssey - ✔✔illustrates how the concepts of description and
invention are often mingled in the cinema
Outro: The cinema is a set of intertwining experiences in technology, industry, artistry, and culture. The
movie may stay the same- but the experience always changes. - ✔✔
the name we give for the presence of the audience at/in the film - ✔✔culture
clip screened in class: For All Mankind - ✔✔illustrates how the concepts of "description" and "invention"
are often mingled in the cinema.
Week 2 - ✔✔
Framing Questions:
- Who were George Melies and Auguste and Louis Lumiere, and why were they important?
- What were the major types of films that characterized the early cinema?
- What does author Tom Gunning mean by "The Cinema of Attractions"? What is "an attraction" in the
early cinema?
- What echoes do you see in the movies or media today of the Lumieres and Melies? - ✔✔
Intro: The early cinema (1894-1905) witnessed the origin, not of the cinema, but of several cinemas. The
cinema underwent many changes afterward, in artistry, technology, and industry, and in its relation to
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