Which of the following is NOT one of the compositional elements of the visual arts that film employs:
A) form
B) volume
C) texture
D) dialog
E) line
2
The technological history of film can be viewed as:
A) making the director increasingly unnecessary.
B) a fascination with useless gadgets.
C) a continual evolution toward greater realism.
D) almost non-existent.
E) concerned solely with improvements in film stock.
3
A single viewing of a film:
A) results in an unbiased understanding of the film
B) is rarely enough.
C) is best done with friends.
D) should be done several months after its first run.
E) can serve no use in analyzing that film.
4
Technical language or jargon
A) is frequently necessary for analysis of a film.
B) is only of use to filmmakers.
C) is only used as a pretence to expertise.
D) has all but disappeared in the discussion of film.
E) is used in making films in Europe but not in America.
5
Usually a film begins with the work of a
A) cinematographer.
B) set designer.
C) director.
D) producer.
E) screenwriter.
6
Films should be approached
A) analytically.
B) intuitively.
C) analytically and intuitively.
D) condescendingly.
E) humbly.
7
Which of the following is NOT potentially used in film analysis:
A) discovering the nature of a film,
B) resisting the impulse to see a film as having parts,
C) determining the proportions of a film.
D) determining the interrelationships of the parts,
E) determining the function of the parts.
8
Film analysis
A) can open up new channels of awareness.
B) can lead to new depths of understanding.
C) a and b
D) should be left to professional critics.
E) destroys what we love in a film.
9
Obstacles to approaching film objectively can be
A) dismissing certain categories of film.
B) refusing to venture beyond the norm.
C) having inflexible preconceptions about what movies should be.
D) over-responding to individual elements.
E) all of the above.
10
A common disadvantage of watching a film in a theater is
A) the quality of the sound.
B) the size of the screen.
C) the comfort of the seating.
D) the sense of being part of a community.
E) patrons who distract us.