FMS 100 Final KU Certification Exam Questions and
Verified Answers 100% Correct
1. Analog Ƒilm: Ƒilm uses silver nitrate particles embedded on celluloid.
2. Digital Ƒilm: Digital uses a sensor, which transƒers light as data onto a memory chip;
3. 3 Phases oƒ Movie Making: Preproduction, production and postproduction
4. Preproduction Phase: Consists oƒ planning and preparation. It takes as long as necessary to get the job
done, on average a year or two. Initially, ƒilmmakers develop an idea or obtain a script they wish to produce.
5. Production Phase: the actual shooting, can last up to six weeks to several months or more
6. Postproduction Phase: editing, preparing the ƒinal print, and bringing the ƒilm to the public (marketing
and distribution)
7. Studio System: an organizational structure that included a general manager, executive manager, production
manager, studio manager, and individual production supervisors. Each studio had its own conƒiguration. This system
valued proƒitability above all else. The studio system established an industrial model oƒ production through which
american ƒilmmaking became one oƒ the most proliƒic enterprises in the world
8. Independent System: The package unit system, controlled by a producer unaƒlliated with a studio is a
personalized concept oƒ ƒilm production that ditters signiƒicantly ƒrom the industrial model oƒ the studio system. It
governs the creation, distribution, and exhibition oƒ a movie. An independent producer makes one ƒilm at a time, relying on
rented ƒacilities and equipment and a creative statt assembled ƒor that one ƒilm.
9. Decline oƒ the Studio System: The studios were victims oƒ their own success
-Several actions taken by the ƒederal government signaled that the studio's old ways oƒ doing business would have to
change (labor unions, 1933 National Industrial Recovery Act).
-The studios began to reorganize their management into the producer unit system.
-A shiƒt in relations between top management and creative personnel that loosened the studio's hold on the system.
-WWII: severely restricted the studios' regular, ƒor proƒit operations.
-The rise oƒ television.
10. Ƒinancing: no rules govern the arranging oƒ ƒinancing. Money can come ƒrom the studio, the producer, the
investment community, or a combination oƒ these. In the old studio system, the general manager determined the
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, budget. Today, usually the producer or a member oƒ the producer's team prepares the budget with the assistant director.
11. Marketing: Preview screenings, ƒocus groups, ƒinal changes to the ƒilm, media coverage, ƒestival screenings
and awards, and audience word oƒ mouth. Determination oƒ the release date, number oƒ theaters, etc.
12. Distribution: exclusive and limited releases, key-city releases, and wide and saturated releases. Hollywood is
planning to bring movies to homes at the same time, or close to it, that they are released in theaters.
13. Blaxpoitation: A U.S. ƒilm movement ƒrom 1971 to 1976 consisting oƒ low-budget movies usually made by
Aƒrican American ƒilmmakers, with black characters, ƒor black audiences.
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Verified Answers 100% Correct
1. Analog Ƒilm: Ƒilm uses silver nitrate particles embedded on celluloid.
2. Digital Ƒilm: Digital uses a sensor, which transƒers light as data onto a memory chip;
3. 3 Phases oƒ Movie Making: Preproduction, production and postproduction
4. Preproduction Phase: Consists oƒ planning and preparation. It takes as long as necessary to get the job
done, on average a year or two. Initially, ƒilmmakers develop an idea or obtain a script they wish to produce.
5. Production Phase: the actual shooting, can last up to six weeks to several months or more
6. Postproduction Phase: editing, preparing the ƒinal print, and bringing the ƒilm to the public (marketing
and distribution)
7. Studio System: an organizational structure that included a general manager, executive manager, production
manager, studio manager, and individual production supervisors. Each studio had its own conƒiguration. This system
valued proƒitability above all else. The studio system established an industrial model oƒ production through which
american ƒilmmaking became one oƒ the most proliƒic enterprises in the world
8. Independent System: The package unit system, controlled by a producer unaƒlliated with a studio is a
personalized concept oƒ ƒilm production that ditters signiƒicantly ƒrom the industrial model oƒ the studio system. It
governs the creation, distribution, and exhibition oƒ a movie. An independent producer makes one ƒilm at a time, relying on
rented ƒacilities and equipment and a creative statt assembled ƒor that one ƒilm.
9. Decline oƒ the Studio System: The studios were victims oƒ their own success
-Several actions taken by the ƒederal government signaled that the studio's old ways oƒ doing business would have to
change (labor unions, 1933 National Industrial Recovery Act).
-The studios began to reorganize their management into the producer unit system.
-A shiƒt in relations between top management and creative personnel that loosened the studio's hold on the system.
-WWII: severely restricted the studios' regular, ƒor proƒit operations.
-The rise oƒ television.
10. Ƒinancing: no rules govern the arranging oƒ ƒinancing. Money can come ƒrom the studio, the producer, the
investment community, or a combination oƒ these. In the old studio system, the general manager determined the
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, budget. Today, usually the producer or a member oƒ the producer's team prepares the budget with the assistant director.
11. Marketing: Preview screenings, ƒocus groups, ƒinal changes to the ƒilm, media coverage, ƒestival screenings
and awards, and audience word oƒ mouth. Determination oƒ the release date, number oƒ theaters, etc.
12. Distribution: exclusive and limited releases, key-city releases, and wide and saturated releases. Hollywood is
planning to bring movies to homes at the same time, or close to it, that they are released in theaters.
13. Blaxpoitation: A U.S. ƒilm movement ƒrom 1971 to 1976 consisting oƒ low-budget movies usually made by
Aƒrican American ƒilmmakers, with black characters, ƒor black audiences.
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