Narrative Strategies in Film Practice Exam
Course Introduction
This course explores the diverse techniques filmmakers use to construct and convey stories on screen, emphasizing both classical and contemporary approaches to cinematic storytelling. Students will analyze narrative structures, character development, point of view, temporality, and visual symbolism through close readings of films from various genres and periods. By examining the relationship between narrative form and audience engagement, the course encourages critical thinking about the choices filmmakers make to shape plot, theme, and emotional impact. Through screenings, discussions, and written assignments, students will gain a deeper understanding of how narrative strategies contribute to the art and power of film.
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Film Art An Introduction 11th Edition by David
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Chapter 1: Film As Art
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Q1) "Critical flicker fusion" is
A)the final stage in the manufacture of raw film stock.
B)the flashing of film frames on a screen quickly enough to create an illusion of movement.
C)the ideal length of time each frame should be exposed during filming.
D)the moment when the exposed image appears on the film during the developing process.
Answer: B
Q2) Which of the following is an example of a "nontheatrical exhibition"?
A)A film festival
B)An Internet download to a personal computer
C)A screening at a commercial movie house
D)A screening at a museum
Answer: B
Q3) The French term auteur originally referred to Hollywood directors who had a distinctive approach to filmmaking while still working within the Hollywood studio system.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
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Chapter 2: The Significance of Film Form
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Q1) What kinds of emotions are most likely produced by expectations that are fulfilled?
A)Anxiety or sympathy
B)Puzzlement or increased interest
C)Sadness or joy
D)Satisfaction or relief
Answer: D
Q2) Comedy often depends on creating surprise or cheating spectators' expectations.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
Q3) Which of the following works is NOT structured around a journey?
A)The Wizard of Oz
B)Collateral
C)The Lord of the Rings
D)The Odyssey
Answer: B
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Chapter 3: Narrative Form
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Q1) The opening scene of North by Northwest contains no nondiegetic elements.
A)True
B)False
Answer: False
Q2) As defined by Film Art,a film's "plot" is
A)everything visually and audibly present in the film.
B)the most important action made by the protagonist.
C)the events as viewers mentally reconstruct them.
D)a brief summary of the film's action.
Answer: A
Q3) Alfred Hitchcock's approach to narration is to withhold as much information as possible from the spectator in order to create surprise.
A)True
B)False
Answer: False
Q4) Groundhog Day is an example of a film with a "what-if" plot.
A)True
B)False Answer: True
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Chapter 4: The Shot- Mise-EN-Scene
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Q1) A major example of a nonrealistic and expressionistic set design is A)Greed.
B)Intolerance.
C)The Spider's Stratagem.
D)The Cabinet of Dr.Caligari.
Q2) Films shot in the studio have mise-en-scene,whereas films made entirely on location do not.
A)True
B)False
Q3) "Edge" lighting is a type of backlighting used to make characters stand out against a background.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Movement is an important depth cue because it suggests
A)size diminution.
B)balance of composition.
C)aerial perspective.
D)both volumes and planes.
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Chapter 5: The Shot- Cinema-to-Graphy
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Q1) A medium shot frames the body
A)from the chest up.
B)from the knees up.
C)from the waist up.
D)from the neck up.
Q2) A low-contrast image displays a wide range of grays.
A)True
B)False
Q3) If a wide-angle lens and a telephoto lens photograph the same scene,the perspective relations in the images they capture will likely be the same.
A)True
B)False
Q4) "Perspective" refers to a set of spatial relations around a particular viewing point. A)True
B)False
Q5) Slow motion is achieved by decreasing the number of frames per second shot. A)True
B)False
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Chapter 6: The Relation of Shot to Shot- Editing
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Q1) Crosscutting typically
A)provides a greater degree of continuity than a shot/reverse shot does.
B)provides more knowledge of narrative events than other types of editing.
C)provides less knowledge of narrative events than other types of editing.
D)demands a great deal of matching on action for events to be clear.
Q2) Most films made since 1995 indicate the passage of time through fades and dissolves instead of direct cuts.
A)True
B)False
Q3) Overlapping editing expands story duration.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Contemporary filmmaking differs from that of classical Hollywood in all the following ways except
A)more frequent use of close-ups.
B)less crosscutting.
C)fewer establishing shots.
D)increased use of telephoto lens.
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Chapter 7: Sound in the Cinema
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Q1) Rhythm involves what aspects?
A)Beat or pulse
B)Tempo or pace
C)Accents with patterns of stronger and weaker beats
D)All of the answers are correct.
Q2) The pitch,or frequency,of a sound affects the
A)perceived color of the sound.
B)perceived loudness of the sound.
C)perceived texture of the sound.
D)perceived highness or lowness of the sound.
Q3) The angels in Wings of Desire violate the rule that one character cannot
A)hear the off-screen dialogue of another.
B)hear another's internal thoughts.
C)hear both on-screen and off-screen sound simultaneously.
D)speak while simultaneously listening.
Q4) Diegetic sound must come from an on-screen source.
A)True
B)False
Q5) How does on-screen and off-screen sound work with optical point-of-view cutting to illuminate character perspective in Quentin Tarantino's Jackie Brown?
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Chapter 8: Summary- Style and Film Form
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Q1) If a character speaks,the viewer expects to hear diegetic sound that is faithful to the source.
A)True
B)False
Q2) If a character begins to leave the frame in a scene,the viewer expects the camera to remain stationary.
A)True
B)False
Q3) Parallelism,an important feature in many great films,is surprisingly absent from Citizen Kane.
A)True
B)False
Q4) What are salient stylistic techniques?
A)Techniques that can be noted and named
B)A confusing choice a filmmaker made
C)The important techniques the film most relies on to create its style
D)Costume choices
Q5) Independent films have less opportunity to make extreme stylistic choices.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 9: Film Genres
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Q1) Filmmakers avoid mixing the conventions of more than one genre.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Beyond the competition,conflict,suspense,and surprise of sports films there is ideological commentary.Choose a relatively current sports film such as Niki Caro's McFarland,USA (2015)or Antoine Fuqua's Southpaw (2015)and investigate the ideological and cultural message of the film.
Q3) Many scholars believe that the cultural explanation of the emergence of the subgenre of family horror films in the 1970s indicated viewers'
A)concern about Watergate and Richard Nixon's crimes.
B)uncertainty about their fundamental beliefs about the world and their identity.
C)lessening interest in television.
D)anxiety about the increase in crime in New York City.
Q4) Based on the genre film(s)screened or discussed or both in class,indicate two conventions of character,plot,theme,or iconography that are distinctive of the genre.Then,for each convention you select,show how the film(s)you select exemplify the genre.As evidence,cite specific scenes that use the conventions.
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Chapter 10: Documentary, Experimental, and Animated Films
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Q1) In addition to narrative form,experimental or avant-garde films may use ______ or ______ form.
A)rhetorical; associational
B)abstract; categorical
C)rhetorical; categorical
D)abstract; associational
Q2) A significant example of rhetorical documentary form is
A)Godfrey Reggio's Koyaanisqatsi
B)Pare Lorentz's The River
C)Kenneth Anger's Scorpio Rising
D)Les Blank's Gap-Toothed Women
Q3) Which of the following is NOT typical of rhetorical form?
A)Arguments from indisputable scientific truth with no room for interpretation
B)Arguments from source,involving sources of information that are meant to be seen as reliable
C)Arguments including a clear presentation of an explicit persuasive opinion
D)Viewer-centered arguments,which usually tap into the viewer's emotions
Q4) Animated documentaries are usually instructional films.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 11: Historical Changes in Film Art
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Q1) Which of the following statements about the introduction of synchronized sound in the late 1920s is NOT correct?
A)Though The Jazz Singer (1927)is sometimes referred to as the first talkie,Don Juan (1926)had some prerecorded sound.
B)Fierce competition between film companies such as MGM and Warner Bros.delayed the industry-wide adoption of sound where the lawsuits were resolved.
C)At first,sound actually represented a setback from the silent era,with its rich visual storytelling.
D)Early in the sound era,cameras and microphones could not be moved easily,and this made for static scenes and staging.
Q2) From the beginning,the French film industry was hostile to the New Wave and eventually contributed to its decline through its censorship.
A)True
B)False
Q3) Bruce Lee was an American that moved to Hong Kong to make martial arts films.
A)True
B)False
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