COMM 150 Exam 1 PSU | 100% Correct
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Define: mis-en-scene - ✔✔The directors choice of what to include within the frame
What are some challenges for photographers? - ✔✔Photography is static, both in terms of it freezing
movement and time. The great challenge for photographers was to find a way to capture and recreate
natural movement and, by extension, to recreate time
What is a narrative - ✔✔a story that has a beginning a middle and an end
Define: Angle of Framing - ✔✔the position of the camera with respect to the subject it shows also called
camera angle
Define: Crosscutting - ✔✔editing that alternates between two or more lines of action occurring in two or
more places. usually simultaneously
Define: Iris - ✔✔A round moving mask that can close down to end a scene, begin a scene or bring more
attention to a detail.
Define: Mask - ✔✔an opaque screen placed in the camera or printer that blocks part of a frame and
changed the shape of the photographed image.
What was Sergei Eisenstein known for? - ✔✔experimental montage
Define: Kuleshov effect - ✔✔images that were shown in succession were naturally synthesized in the
cognitive process, producing both spatial and mental relationships between images.
Who directed The Great Train Robbery, 1903 - ✔✔Edwin S Porter
, What type of film was The Great Train Robbery? - ✔✔a complex narrative film, with different spaces and
times
What did D.W. Griffith try to do with his films? - ✔✔Wanted to make filmed life look as natural as real
life, yet follow conventional narrative structures
What type of film shots did Griffith integrate into his films? What did Griffith do with these clips? -
✔✔medium shot, close shot, close-up, extreme close-up, long shot, extreme long shot, pan, traveling
(tracking) shots
Cut between these types of shots, through montage (editing) to create the whole scene or sequence
Pertaining to films, Griffith believed films could show what? - ✔✔Films could mirror physical activities
and mental processes
Cross-cutting between two disparate things creates association in mind
Films can focus attention on different objects (close-up); recall older things (flashbacks); tell audiences
how they should feel about both (reaction shot)
What movie did Griffith shoot that we watched in class? - ✔✔A Corner in the Wheat
What movie tried to show problems that arose from monopolistic capitalism? - ✔✔A Corner in the
Wheat
In A Corner in the Wheat, how does Griffith try to show the wealth gap between the growers and buyers
of wheat? - ✔✔He juxtaposes and contrasts the worlds of growers and buyers through parallel editing in
which he cross-cuts between the two
What is Griffith trying to show when the Wheat King gains his wealth? - ✔✔Griffith is trying to show how
capitalism is very darwinistic
What technique does Griffith use to show the impact of the Wheat King's higher prices on wheat? -
✔✔Griffith uses a static tableau vivant (with actors standing motionless) to represent the breadline and
emphasize the extent to which the world of the poor is frozen by the actions of the rich.
Answers | Verified | Latest 2024 Version
Define: mis-en-scene - ✔✔The directors choice of what to include within the frame
What are some challenges for photographers? - ✔✔Photography is static, both in terms of it freezing
movement and time. The great challenge for photographers was to find a way to capture and recreate
natural movement and, by extension, to recreate time
What is a narrative - ✔✔a story that has a beginning a middle and an end
Define: Angle of Framing - ✔✔the position of the camera with respect to the subject it shows also called
camera angle
Define: Crosscutting - ✔✔editing that alternates between two or more lines of action occurring in two or
more places. usually simultaneously
Define: Iris - ✔✔A round moving mask that can close down to end a scene, begin a scene or bring more
attention to a detail.
Define: Mask - ✔✔an opaque screen placed in the camera or printer that blocks part of a frame and
changed the shape of the photographed image.
What was Sergei Eisenstein known for? - ✔✔experimental montage
Define: Kuleshov effect - ✔✔images that were shown in succession were naturally synthesized in the
cognitive process, producing both spatial and mental relationships between images.
Who directed The Great Train Robbery, 1903 - ✔✔Edwin S Porter
, What type of film was The Great Train Robbery? - ✔✔a complex narrative film, with different spaces and
times
What did D.W. Griffith try to do with his films? - ✔✔Wanted to make filmed life look as natural as real
life, yet follow conventional narrative structures
What type of film shots did Griffith integrate into his films? What did Griffith do with these clips? -
✔✔medium shot, close shot, close-up, extreme close-up, long shot, extreme long shot, pan, traveling
(tracking) shots
Cut between these types of shots, through montage (editing) to create the whole scene or sequence
Pertaining to films, Griffith believed films could show what? - ✔✔Films could mirror physical activities
and mental processes
Cross-cutting between two disparate things creates association in mind
Films can focus attention on different objects (close-up); recall older things (flashbacks); tell audiences
how they should feel about both (reaction shot)
What movie did Griffith shoot that we watched in class? - ✔✔A Corner in the Wheat
What movie tried to show problems that arose from monopolistic capitalism? - ✔✔A Corner in the
Wheat
In A Corner in the Wheat, how does Griffith try to show the wealth gap between the growers and buyers
of wheat? - ✔✔He juxtaposes and contrasts the worlds of growers and buyers through parallel editing in
which he cross-cuts between the two
What is Griffith trying to show when the Wheat King gains his wealth? - ✔✔Griffith is trying to show how
capitalism is very darwinistic
What technique does Griffith use to show the impact of the Wheat King's higher prices on wheat? -
✔✔Griffith uses a static tableau vivant (with actors standing motionless) to represent the breadline and
emphasize the extent to which the world of the poor is frozen by the actions of the rich.
