RTF 305 Final Exam Study Guide
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What was the key phrase that FCC Chairman Newton Minnow used to critique U.S.
television of the 1960s, which resulted in the move toward creating a public television
network? - Answer-"A vast wasteland"
According to Ramirez-Berg's lecture, what is the primary denotative function of the long
shot? - Answer-According to Ramirez-Berg's lecture, what is the primary denotative
function of the long shot?
According to Ramirez-Berg's lecture, what is the typical film language emotional or
connotative meaning of the long shot? - Answer-Isolation
According to Ramirez-Berg's lecture, what is one of the main elements of film
language? - Answer-shot progressions.
According to Ramirez-Berg's lecture on editing as part of film language, what is the
typical or dominant Hollywood style? - Answer-Continuity
According to Ramirez-Berg's lecture, what is the classic shot sequence at the beginning
of most Hollywood film? - Answer-long shot, medium shot, close up
According to the reading by Ramirez-Berg, "Taxonomy of Alternative Plots, Run Lola
Run is an example of which type of plot? - Answer-The repeated action plot
According to Ramirez-Berg's lecture on editing as part of film language, what was an
example of jump cut editing? - Answer-Breathless
According to the lecture, a five act structure is BEST suited for: - Answer-Tragedy
According to Ramirez-Berg ("A Taxonomy of Alternative Plots in Recent Films"), the
"Tarantino Effect" refers to: - Answer-the increasing number of films with alternative
narratives.
According to Ramirez-Berg's lecture on editing as part of film language, what was one
of the main international challenges to the typical or dominant Hollywood style of
editing? - Answer-French New Wave
,According to the reading, which of the following jobs "involves the creation of sounds to
match particular motions in a picture"? - Answer-Foley editor
According to the reading, before the advent of digital technology, during which part of
the film-making process were "uprights" and "flatbeds" used? - Answer-Post-production
In the lecture by Cindy McGreary, she stressed which the following as key for her in
script-writing? - Answer-the main character's goal
In the lecture by Tim Edwards, he noted that the basic RTF production course, RTF
318, stresses visual story telling by: - Answer-telling a story with still photos
In the lecture by Tim Edwards, he noted that the basic RTF production course, RTF
318, stresses learning to shoot a first exercise on film instead of ditigal. Why? - Answer-
Need to learn how to choose shots carefully
What TRUE of ARPANET? - Answer-was initially funded by the US Government.
According to the textbook, government intervention in the Internet is problematic
because it could - Answer-restrain users' civil liberties
According to the textbook, Moore's law states that computer processing speeds -
Answer-double every 18 months
According to the lecture, the notion of network neutrality involves the idea that: -
Answer-there should be no restrictions on the nature of online data one chooses to
carry
According to the textbook, fair use permits the use of: - Answer-copyrighted works for
academic and artistic purposes
TRUE OR FALSE. Google owns Facebook/ - Answer-FALSE. They own Nexus,
Chrome.
This social network was described as having a great deal of recent political impact. -
Answer-Twitter
The success of mobile apps, depends in part, on the contribution of _____________. -
Answer-thousands of independent developers
In professor Joseph's S. lecture, what genre of video-games was discussed and shown
in a video as the main example of video game impact? - Answer-first person shooters
According to the textbook, what was the main area of competition between game
makers Sony, Nintendo, and Microsoft? - Answer-video game console
, What did the Telecommunications Act of 1996 allow? - Answer-An increase in mergers
between telephone and cable companies
Obscenity - Answer-Material where the dominant theme, taken as a whole appeals to a
prurient interest
Fair use - Answer-the permitting of the usage of copyrighted work for academic usage
Policy - Answer-Reflects the government and public debates on how to structure and
regulate social or collective activities for the good of society.
What was a primary outcome of the Telecommunications Act of 1996? - Answer-It lifted
restrictions on the number of media outlets one company could buy
Cultural Imperialism - Answer-an unbalance between countries promoted by the media
economic interests of develop countries.
Why is music more localized than film? - Answer-Film is more expensive to produce
than music
What form of media does the United States of American continue to dominate
worldwide year after year? - Answer-Film
Cultural Proximity - Answer-the desire for cultural products as similar as possible to
one's own language, culture, history, and values.
A Chinese example of Ugly Betty is a sample of - Answer-Hybridization
Regionalization - Answer-regionalization, according to the book, links nations together
based on geographic, cultural, linguistic, and historical commonalities
Framing - Answer-Framing is a method that is used to tell people how to think about the
topics and information that are presented to them. Therefore writers and painters
"decide which tone, words, and facts to include" as well as how they interpret the
information when framing their work.
Gangster Films - Answer-Gangster films were characteristic of Hollywood in the 1930's.
Little Caesar was the prototype of these films. It showed the rise and fall of a crime
boss, which would become a common theme of gangster films. Public Enemy in 1931
established gangster films as the key formula for Warner Brothers. It addressed
prohibition, gangster control of cities, and the rise and fall of a crime boss.
Some studies have claimed that the elderly view themselves as more susceptible to
violent crime when they are statistically less likely to be victimized than other groups.
This is an example of what theory discussed in the textbook? - Answer-Cultivation
Theory
