CTVA 300 EXAM 1 & 2 UPDATED ACTUAL Questions and
CORRECT Answers
Matte widescreen, to create 1.85:1
anamorphic lens A camera lens that compresses the horizontal axis of an image or a projector lens
that "unsqueezes" such an image to produce a widescreen image.
Frame within a frame Using an object with a frame like a window or a door to create a framed image
What's the compositional difference between a close-up widescreen frame consists of 1.85:1 frame in a close up and 1.33:1 in a widescreen
in a 1.33:1 frame and a same sized close-up in a
widescreen frame?
What was the aspect ratio of your parents' standard non- 1.33:1
HD television?
What is the aspect ratio of the viewfinder in a 35mm 1.33:1
motion picture camera?
What is the aspect ratio of the 35mm film negative onto 1.33:1
which an anamorphic image is squeezed?
What are some of the functions of surface dividers? Of a Draw focus, change frame size, contrast shot to shot
frame within a frame?
composition the arrangement of objects, shapes, people, whatever in the frame
Geometric Center center of frame
centered composition subject in the center
, decentered composition subject off-center
Reframing moving the camera around to keep the subject in focus
Describe your reaction to the centered compositions pleasing to the eye, but unnatural
found in this unit
What are some of the functions of centered compositions To create organization and unify the film
in Rushmore?
What is the difference in dynamism between a centered More tension and energy is felt in a decentered image than in a centered one
and a decentered image?
How about an extremely decentered image? more tension
What are some of the effects of reframing on the visual to make it feel that the subject is still centered even though they are moving
dynamics of a moving image? around.
What difference would there be between a scene in the subject would feel decentered and make more tension.
which a character moved significantly in front of a static
camera versus that same movement shot with a reframing
camera?
balanced composition Balancened around a center, weight is equal on both sides
unbalanced composition strong weight to one side
Implied Balance no physical object in frame but we know something is there
Is a balanced image necessarily centered? Is a centered no and no, it depends on where the weight is
image necessarily balanced? Why? Or why not?
Why is the image of Diane Lane looking right (below) there is implied weight because of where she is looking
NOT a particularly good example of an unbalanced
composition?
What, according to the unit, is a movie? a movie is how it is made, not the story
What does Bresson's Au hazard Balthazar suggest about audiences import onto their characters the emotional lives they thought would be
the role of acting in an audience's engagement with a appropriate given the situations those characters find themselves in
film?
Describe Lev Kuleshov's editing experiments. What do the audience makes assumptions and connections based on juxtaposed images to
they suggest about the nature of filmmaking? make a story
What is the default orientation of line in The Outsiders? slight diagonal
How is orientation of line used to structure The create dynamism, tension, visual energy
Outsiders?
CORRECT Answers
Matte widescreen, to create 1.85:1
anamorphic lens A camera lens that compresses the horizontal axis of an image or a projector lens
that "unsqueezes" such an image to produce a widescreen image.
Frame within a frame Using an object with a frame like a window or a door to create a framed image
What's the compositional difference between a close-up widescreen frame consists of 1.85:1 frame in a close up and 1.33:1 in a widescreen
in a 1.33:1 frame and a same sized close-up in a
widescreen frame?
What was the aspect ratio of your parents' standard non- 1.33:1
HD television?
What is the aspect ratio of the viewfinder in a 35mm 1.33:1
motion picture camera?
What is the aspect ratio of the 35mm film negative onto 1.33:1
which an anamorphic image is squeezed?
What are some of the functions of surface dividers? Of a Draw focus, change frame size, contrast shot to shot
frame within a frame?
composition the arrangement of objects, shapes, people, whatever in the frame
Geometric Center center of frame
centered composition subject in the center
, decentered composition subject off-center
Reframing moving the camera around to keep the subject in focus
Describe your reaction to the centered compositions pleasing to the eye, but unnatural
found in this unit
What are some of the functions of centered compositions To create organization and unify the film
in Rushmore?
What is the difference in dynamism between a centered More tension and energy is felt in a decentered image than in a centered one
and a decentered image?
How about an extremely decentered image? more tension
What are some of the effects of reframing on the visual to make it feel that the subject is still centered even though they are moving
dynamics of a moving image? around.
What difference would there be between a scene in the subject would feel decentered and make more tension.
which a character moved significantly in front of a static
camera versus that same movement shot with a reframing
camera?
balanced composition Balancened around a center, weight is equal on both sides
unbalanced composition strong weight to one side
Implied Balance no physical object in frame but we know something is there
Is a balanced image necessarily centered? Is a centered no and no, it depends on where the weight is
image necessarily balanced? Why? Or why not?
Why is the image of Diane Lane looking right (below) there is implied weight because of where she is looking
NOT a particularly good example of an unbalanced
composition?
What, according to the unit, is a movie? a movie is how it is made, not the story
What does Bresson's Au hazard Balthazar suggest about audiences import onto their characters the emotional lives they thought would be
the role of acting in an audience's engagement with a appropriate given the situations those characters find themselves in
film?
Describe Lev Kuleshov's editing experiments. What do the audience makes assumptions and connections based on juxtaposed images to
they suggest about the nature of filmmaking? make a story
What is the default orientation of line in The Outsiders? slight diagonal
How is orientation of line used to structure The create dynamism, tension, visual energy
Outsiders?
