On Directing Film Quiz | Eight Week Quiz B

This set of Lesson Plans consists of approximately 135 pages of tests, essay questions, lessons, and other teaching materials.

On Directing Film Quiz | Eight Week Quiz B

This set of Lesson Plans consists of approximately 135 pages of tests, essay questions, lessons, and other teaching materials.
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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 2: Where Do You Put the Camera?.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The movie, more than what, is closer to simple storytelling?
(a) A memoir.
(b) A play.
(c) A television show.
(d) A novel.

2. Who said of American films that they were all "pictures of people talking"?
(a) Frank Capra.
(b) Herzog.
(c) Alfred Hitchcock.
(d) Eisenstein.

3. The second beat of the hypothetical scene in Chapter 2 was to what?
(a) To gain respect.
(b) To pay homage.
(c) To prepare.
(d) To arrive early.

4. According to Mamet, you always want to tell a story in what?
(a) Shots.
(b) Narration.
(c) Character.
(d) Cuts.

5. What was Hitchcock's phrase for the thing which the protagonist is chasing?
(a) Objective.
(b) MacGuffin.
(c) MacDufflin.
(d) MacGriffin.

Short Answer Questions

1. The smallest unit is the shot; the largest unit is what?

2. Screenwriting is a craft based on what?

3. The purpose of technique is to free the what?

4. Mamet cited Aristotle in saying there is no such thing as what?

5. Mamet says you should always do things in what way, in order to make the best movie?

(see the answer key)

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