Ch.7 Acting
1)The movie stars of today earn more money than stars in classical Hollywood because they can now negotiate their earnings with studios.
2)The golden age of Hollywood is characterized by the movie star. Studios want to enhance a star’s screen image to contribute to the overall experience of a movie.
3)Actors must focus on the communicative power of slight facial gestures while ignoring the expressive potential of their bodies when being filmed in a close-up.
4)Directors must play a more active role when actors improvise since they must work together to create character and dialogue and ultimately integrate these improvisations into the overall cinematic vision of the movie .
5)Blimp is a soundproof enclosure that prevents the sound of the camera from reaching the microphone.
6)Typecast
-actors tend to get cast in certain types of roles based on their looks.
7)The editor is capable of molding a performance with the greatest degree of control.
8)Bertolt Brecht is associated with nonnaturalistic performance.
9)Early screen-acting is characterized by exaggerated gestures and mouthed words.
10)The alienation effect or distancing effect seeks to draw attention to the artificiality of performance and limit the audience’s identification with the characters.
Ch. 8 Editing
1)An editor’s control of duration can determine the pace or rhythm of a movie.
2)Three aspects must the film editor manage
-spatial relationships between shots
-temporal relationships between shots
-rhythm
3)The effect of perceiving spatial continuity between two shots, even with two shots filmed at different times in different places is called the Kuleshov effect.
4)There are 180 degrees of space on the chosen side of the axis of action in which the camera may be placed to preserve screen direction.
5)The editing technique of joining together two shots is called cutting.
6)What is the difference between an iris-in and an iris-out?
-An iris-in begins with a small circle that expands
-while an iris-out gradually closes an image.
