Exam Questions and CORRECT Answers
According to the film, Edwin S. Porter discovered that cutting separate shots together could
create a story. - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- True
According to the film, Edwin S. Porter was the first to use intercutting in his film Life of the
American Fireman. - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- True
According to the film, D.W. Griffith established the tenants of classical film editing. -
CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- True
According to the film, Russian filmmakers in the 20's edited in a different way than America,
one that manipulated what the audiences felt. - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- True
According to the film, Jean-Luc Godard invented jump-cutting in 1960 with Breathless. -
CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- True
Which of these techniques is George Melies NOT said to have introduced into cinema: -
CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- Cut ins
In Stop Thief, the original screen direction creates a problem in the geography of the space.
What two statements are true regarding why this is? - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- The viewer
has to create a corner for the subjects to round between Shots 1 and 2.
The viewer has to assume a jump in time in Shots 2 and 3
Complete the statement with the most accurate terms:
If a scene starts wide in the...
And then goes closer to a(n)...
This breakdown of scene space would be an example of - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- Master
Insert
Analytical Editing
, An abrupt and purposefully jarring cut from one image to another with no transition, typically
used to startle the audience. - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- Smash Cut
The interruption of a continuous sequence by cutting in a view of something else, then
typically cutting back to the original sequence. - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- Flash Cut
The gradual fading transition from one image to another. - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-
Dissolve
A dissolve transition to or from a black image. - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- Fade In/Out
Intentional use of shots of the same subject in discontinuous motion. - CORRECT
ANSWER✔✔- Jump Cut
Which of these claims from D.W. Griffith is not accurate: - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-
Producer of all great Biograph successes
Founded the modern technique of the art
Introduced include the large or close-up figures
Introduced the switchback (cross-cutting)
Introduced sustained suspense
Introduced the fade out
Check all that apply to Montage Theory: - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- Agitprop
Based on communication to masses
One Shot + One Shot = New Idea
Developed in Russia
A mental phenomenon caused by the juxtaposition of two shots: - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-
The Kuleshov Effect
What are Sergei Eisenstein's Five Methods of Montage? - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- Metric