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Preproduction - correct answers Script, casting, visualization,
set/costume design, location selection, storyboards, acting rehearsal
come from this stage of movie making
Production - correct answers Shooting and sound recording
Postproduction - correct answers Stage of editing of sound and image,
musical scoring, Foley, ADR, digital effects, color timing (digital or lab),
exhibition copies (either film prints or digital video)
ADR - correct answers Is a postproduction practice in which actors re-
record lines of dialogue or add new ones not present at the point of
filming. Computer software enables proper Syncing of these lines with
the performer's lip movements as recorded on film.
Foley - correct answers The creation of sound effects by live
performance in a sound recording studio. These artists perform sound
effects in sync with a scene's action.
,Producer - correct answers A production administrator who hires a
director and supervises a film's production to ensure that it comes in
under budget and on schedule. While directors work under them, in
practice they generally allow directors considerable creative freedom.
Director - correct answers The member of the production crew who
works closely with the cinematographer, editor, production designer,
and sound designer to determine a film's organizing, creative structure.
They are generally the key member of the production team controlling
and synthesizing the contributions of other team members. On
budgetary issues, however, they answer to the producer who has the
highest administrative authority on a production.
Cinematographer - correct answers A director of photography
(sometimes shortened to DP or DOP) is the chief over the camera crews
working on a film, television production or other live action piece and is
responsible for achieving artistic and technical decisions related to the
image.
Production Designer - correct answers The planning and creation of
sets, costumes, mattes, and miniatures according to an overall concept
articulated by (this person) in collaboration with the director.
Auteur - correct answers A director whose work is characterized by a
distinctive audiovisual design and recurring set of thematic issues.
,Auteurism is a model of film theory and criticism that searches for film
authors or auteurs.
Run Time, Running Time - correct answers The amount of real time it
takes a viewer to watch a film from beginning to end. Most commercial
films run between 90 and 120 minutes.
Story Time - correct answers The amount of time covered by the
narrative. This may vary considerably from film to film. The narrative of
2001: A Space Odyssey begins during a period of primitive prehumen
ancestry and extends into the era of space travel, while the narrative of
High Noon spans, rough, 90 minutes, closely approximating that film's
running time.
Internal Structural Time (film's tempo, pace) - correct answers The
dynamic tempo of a film, established by its internal structure (camera
positions, editing, color and lighting design, soundtrack). Perceiving this
internal tempo, viewers label films as fast or slow moving, yet internal
structural time never unfolds at a constant rate. It is a dynamic rhythm.
Filmmakers vary the tempo of internal structural time to maintain
viewer interest.
Shot - correct answers The basic unit of film structure, corresponding to
the amount of footage exposed in the camera from the time it is turned
, on until it is turned off. They are visible on-screen as the intervals
between cuts, fades, or dissolves.
Sequence - correct answers In film it is a series of shots that form a
distinct narrative unit, which is usually connected either by unity of
location or unity of time.
Frame - correct answers The borders of a projected image or the
individual still photograph on a strip of film. Frame dimensions are
measured by aspect ratio.
Composition (Rule of Thirds) - correct answers The arrangement of
characters and objects within the frame. Through this filmmakers
arrange the visual space onscreen into an artistic design.
Rule of Thirds - correct answers This is applied by aligning a subject
with the guide lines and their intersection points, placing the horizon
on the top or bottom line, or allowing linear features in the image to
flow from section to section.
Long take - correct answers A shot of long duration, as distinct from a
long shot, which designates a camera position.
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