Quiz name: Looking at Movies, 4e
Chapter Number: 05
Student’s name: Jesus Gonzalez
Student’s email: jesus.zalez18@gmail.com
Number of questions: 15
Percent correct: 100%
M/K TILs:
Chapter 13 – In this chapter, I learned about the famous, Italian film director Roberto Rossellini. His film, Open City, is considered the unofficial cornerstone of Neorealism. This new movement was known by its use of nonprofessional actors and ultimately focused on the struggles common folks endured on a daily basis. In fact, Rossellini and his cinematographer actually carried their camera all over the city, taking shots that they would eventually use for the film.
Reflections on Detour:
Detour proved to be an enjoyable and an intriguing movie. It is considered to be a film noir, and is centered on certain aspects that would define it as one such in that genre. There were things that I didn’t quite like from the film, but there were other aspects that I did appreciate. I did not find the ending of the movie very interesting. I think the filmmakers could have incorporated a more captivating ending that wasn’t as predictable as the one they chose to use, which was simply a police car picking Al from the side of the road. However, the fact that it was shot in only six days, clearly explains the dull ending scene. On the other hand, there were certain factors of the film that definitely stood out. One of these factors is the use of a flashback to tell the story and the voice-over narration by the main protagonist, Al. Another aspect I thought was great of the film was the menacing feel the movie carried throughout. During the whole movie, it felt as if Al was trapped or restrained by the women that were involved in his life. Also, it seemed that no matter what he did, he was always bombarded by another situation, finding himself hopeless and lost in life. This sense of hopelessness is a good technique used by the filmmakers to convey the overall message. Some of the Edits done were interesting as well. There was always a use of music in the background whenever a transition from scene to scene occurred and the close-up shot on Al’s face when he was narrating his story definitely helped set the tone of the film. In the end, considering the filmmaker’s low budget and little time, I think Detour is a pretty good movie.
Quiz name: Looking at Movies, 4e
Chapter Number: 05
Student’s name: Ervin Alcantara
Student’s email: alcantara.ervin2324@gmail.com
Number of questions: 15
Percent correct: 100%
Question: The two fundamental styles of design established in early motion pictures are the ___________ associated with the Lumière brothers and the ____________ associated with Georges Méliès.
Student answered: b) realistic; fantastic
Correct answer is: b) realistic; fantastic
Question: What is figure movement?
Student answered: a) the movement of something concrete within the frame
Correct answer is: a) the movement of something concrete within the frame
Question: What are the major elements of cinematic design?
Student answered: b) setting; decor; properties; lighting; costume; makeup; hairstyle
Correct answer is: b) setting; decor; properties; lighting; costume; makeup; hairstyle
Question: The planning of the positions and movements of the actors and camera is called
Student answered: c) blocking.
Correct answer is: c) blocking.
Question: An important movement in art direction that sought to articulate human feeling and emotion through design elements such as structure, color, and texture with grossly exaggerated film sets is known as expressionism. Which of the following stills represents expressionism:CabiriaMarie AntoinetteThe Cabinet of Dr. Caligari
Student answered: c) The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari
Correct answer is: c) The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari
Question: Which of the following statements about mise-en-scène is NOT true?
Student answered: d) Mise-en-scène has two visual components: lighting and movement.
Correct answer is: d) Mise-en-scène has two visual components: lighting and movement.
Question: Unlike a static painting or picture, a motion picture move and thus shift its point of view. Point of view is implied by
Student answered: d) the framing of a shot.
Correct answer is: d) the framing of a shot.
Question: Which of the following statements about the production designer is NOT true?
Student answered: c) The production designer is hired relatively late in the production process.
Correct answer is: c) The production designer is hired relatively late in the production process.
Question: This chapter’s analysis of Chinatown describes a shot in which no one is in the frame, then suddenly a puff of smoke enters the left side of the frame. This is an example of filmmakers using both on-screen and offscreen space. Which of the following clips also uses on-screen and offscreen space?The Hill : view clipBartholomew’s Song : view clipKleingeld : view clip
Student answered: c) Kleingeld
Correct answer is: c) Kleingeld
Question: Consider carefully the details of the mise-en-scène in the following clips. Based on the mise-en-scène, which do you think belongs to a dystopian futuristic narrative inhabited by mostly one-dimensional characters?Spam-ku : view clipBartholomew’s Song : view clipTwo Cars, One Night : view clip
Student answered: b) Bartholomew’s Song
Correct answer is: b) Bartholomew’s Song
Question: Composition is part of the process of planning the design of a movie. When visualizing and planning shots, filmmakers must make decisions about two elements of composition: what we see on screen and what moves on screen. What are these two elements commonly called?
Student answered: a) framing and kinesis
Correct answer is: a) framing and kinesis
Question: The organization, distribution, balance, movement, and general relationship of actors and objects within the space of a shot is called
Student answered: b) composition.
Correct answer is: b) composition.
Question: What are three elements that describe neorealism?
Student answered: b) nonprofessional actors; location sets; handheld camera
Correct answer is: b) nonprofessional actors; location sets; handheld camera
Question: An open frame is generally employed in _____________ films, while a closed frame is generally employed in ____________ films.
Student answered: b) realistic; antirealistic
Correct answer is: b) realistic; antirealistic
Question: Some of the departments the production designer supervises include carpentry, properties, and transportation.
Student answered: a) True
Correct answer is: a) True
Ch. 13 TILs
I learned that during Neorealism the European films searched for meaningful, life giving values in a world in which absolute values had crumbled. I also learned that the french film sprang from the filmmaker’s stylistic concern with the way a camera could capture reality.
Detour was definitely a darker movie compared to the previous ones we had seen in class like Duck Hunt or The Boy. The movie belongs to film noir which is characterized by a femme fatal which usually only causes problems for herself and others. Vera was a great femme fatal, through out the movie she was a ill humored character who was simply interested in money. The negative tone of film noir can be said to describe the nations overall feelings after the war which was overall lack of hope. Even though detour had been made rather quickly with mass produced shoots it was still very good in developing the plot and pulling the viewers attentions. I did find it disappointing however how the movie was ended. I believe that the movie could have ended in many other ways. Al could have met with his girlfriend and forgotten everything, or he could’ve been captured by the police and put on trial.
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1. Which of the following statements about mise-en-scène is NOT true?
Topic: n/a
a. Mise-en-scène literally means “staging or putting on an action or scene.”
b. Mise-en-scène refers to the overall look and feel of a movie.
c. Mise-en-scène is the sum of everything the audience sees, hears, and experiences when watching a movie.
d. Mise-en-scène has two visual components: lighting and movement.
Feedback/Reference: The two major visual components of mise-en-scène are design and composition (p. 172).
2. The organization, distribution, balance, movement, and general relationship of actors and objects within the space of a shot is called
Topic: n/a
a. design.
b. composition.
c. framing.
d. cinematography.
Feedback/Reference: This is the basic definition of composition (p. 172). Framing, while an aspect of composition, does not relate to what moves on screen. See also the “Composing the Frame” tutorial on the Looking at Movies DVD (Disc 1, Chapter 5: Mise-en-Scène).
3. Which of the following statements about the production designer is NOT true?
Topic: n/a
a. The production designer is an executive responsible for supervising the heads of various design departments.
b. The production designer is an artist responsible for designing the overall look of a movie.
c. The production designer is hired relatively late in the production process.
d. The production designer is one of the first collaborators a director hires.
Feedback/Reference: The production designer is both an artist and executive who is generally one of the first collaborators hired by the director (pp. 180–82).
4. Some of the departments the production designer supervises include carpentry, properties, and transportation.
Topic: n/a
a. True
b. False
Feedback/Reference: The production designer oversees all of the many design related departments which include carpentry, properties, transportation, and many others (p. 182). For example, in this clip from The Hill, the production designer would be responsible for helping choose the make/model of the car, the house in which the party took place, the color of the walls, the drinks the partygoers have, the CDs on the shelf, the glasses in the cupboard, etc.
The Hill | view clip
5. What are the major elements of cinematic design?
Topic: n/a
a. lighting; framing; movement; setting; costume; makeup; hairstyle
b. setting; decor; properties; lighting; costume; makeup; hairstyle
c. setting; location; sets; properties; lighting; framing; cinematography
d. cinematography; decor; costume; makeup; setting; movement
Feedback/Reference: These are the major elements of cinematic design (pp. 183–94).
6. The two fundamental styles of design established in early motion pictures are the ___________ associated with the Lumière brothers and the ____________ associated with Georges Méliès.
Topic: n/a
a. realistic; surreal
b. realistic; fantastic
c. surreal; realistic
d. fantastic; realistic
Feedback/Reference: See p. 194.
7. An important movement in art direction that sought to articulate human feeling and emotion through design elements such as structure, color, and texture with grossly exaggerated film sets is known as expressionism. Which of the following stills represents expressionism:
image
Cabiria
image
Marie Antoinette
image
The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari
Topic: n/a
a. Cabiria
b. Marie Antoinette
c. The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari
Feedback/Reference: The still from The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari represents the basic qualities associated with expressionism (pp. 194–96). While the other examples have ornate or complex production designs, they do not illustrate the gross exaggeration and emotion of expressionism. See also the “Setting and Expressionism” tutorial on the Looking at Movies DVD (Disc 1, Chapter 5: Mise-en-Scène).
8. What are three elements that describe neorealism?
Topic: n/a
a. nonprofessional actors; constructed sets; fixed camera
b. nonprofessional actors; location sets; handheld camera
c. professional actors; location sets; handheld camera
d. professional actors; constructed sets; fixed camera
Feedback/Reference: These are three major elements associated with neorealism (pp. 200–201).
9. Composition is part of the process of planning the design of a movie. When visualizing and planning shots, filmmakers must make decisions about two elements of composition: what we see on screen and what moves on screen. What are these two elements commonly called?
Topic: n/a
a. framing and kinesis
b. mise-en-scène and action
c. staging and kinesis
d. placement and action
Feedback/Reference: While production design is concerned with everything the audience sees within the frame, composition more specifically determines how we will see this material and how it will move. See p. 202.
10. Unlike a static painting or picture, a motion picture move and thus shift its point of view. Point of view is implied by
Topic: n/a
a. the director’s personal beliefs.
b. a character’s hair, makeup, and wardrobe.
c. the production design.
d. the framing of a shot.
Feedback/Reference: Framing implies point of view and in motion pictures point of view may change as a result of a moving frame or reframing (p. 202). See also the “Point of View” tutorial on the Looking at Movies DVD (Disc 1, Chapter 6: Cinematography).
11. This chapter’s analysis of Chinatown describes a shot in which no one is in the frame, then suddenly a puff of smoke enters the left side of the frame. This is an example of filmmakers using both on-screen and offscreen space. Which of the following clips also uses on-screen and offscreen space?
The Hill : view clip
Bartholomew’s Song : view clip
Kleingeld : view clip
Topic: n/a
a. The Hill
b. Bartholomew’s Song
c. Kleingeld
Feedback/Reference: This shot from Kleingeld relies on the interaction between on-screen space and offscreen space. The ringing phone occurs in offscreen space, and the man reacts to the ringing phone in on-screen space.
12. An open frame is generally employed in _____________ films, while a closed frame is generally employed in ____________ films.
Topic: n/a
a. antirealistic; realistic
b. realistic; antirealistic
c. expressionist; fantastic
d. fantastic; expressionist
Feedback/Reference: This is a common distinction between the open frame and the closed frame (pp. 204–08).
13. What is figure movement?
Topic: n/a
a. the movement of something concrete within the frame
b. the movement of something concrete from foreground to background
c. the movement of something concrete across the frame
d. the movement of the frame itself
Feedback/Reference: A figure is anything concrete that moves within the frame. A figure may move in many ways and is not limited to movement from foreground to background or movement across the frame (pp. 209–10).
14. The planning of the positions and movements of the actors and camera is called
Topic: n/a
a. framing.
b. staging.
c. blocking.
d. preproduction.
Feedback/Reference: This is the basic definition of blocking (p. 209).
15. Consider carefully the details of the mise-en-scène in the following clips. Based on the mise-en-scène, which do you think belongs to a dystopian futuristic narrative inhabited by mostly one-dimensional characters?
Spam-ku : view clip
Bartholomew’s Song : view clip
Two Cars, One Night : view clip
Topic: n/a
a. Spam-ku
b. Bartholomew’s Song
c. Two Cars, One Night
The movie Detour was very disappointing because the main protagonist Al never got to be reunited with his girlfriend Sue. Classical Hollywood in the 1940s made films through mass production, distribution, and circulation to cinema regardless of how good or bad the quality of the film was. This movie was very negative in it’s portrayal of women because it reinforced the inaccurate femme fatale stereotype that Women use there own sexuality to exploit men for their own personal gain. None of this is true because in actuality the sexes of men and women are relatively equal in equality to each other regardless of social status or socioeconomic status. Film editing and sound composition was very accurate for the time and the piano symphony scene was amazing along with the narrative of how money corrupts innocent everyday hard working people. If I was the director of this movie I would have made a happy ending where Al got to be reunited with his girlfriend Sue and the antagonist hitchhiker Vera would have been arrested and sent to jail for trying to frame Al for a crime he did not commit.
Today I learned in chapter 13 that Italian neorealism forced filmmakers to rethink the social values and realism of photography in filmmaking. The films often used camera, soundtrack, and mise en-scene to depict Postwar Europe in the aftermath and recovery from World War 2. Europeans revolutionized filmmaking during this era because they brought back a new wave mainstream interest in modernism with absurd drama, atonal music, structured themselves around a sociological problem instead of a story narrative.
Cinema Ch. 5
Chapter Number: 05
Student’s name: Andrew Modrich
Number of questions: 15
Percent correct: 100%
TIL:
M/K Ch. 13- After the war film critics began to become filmmakers, and their films went back to the way films were made in the 1930s- spontaneity.
B/M Ch. 5- I wasn’t aware of all the roles the production designer has, and how close they work with the director.
Reflection on Detour:
The genre of film noir is marked by the pessimistic mood, and in the movie Detour in addition to the pessimistic mood there was femme fatal. That is characterized by an attractive woman, Vera, who ultimately brings disaster to a man, Al, who becomes involved with her. Throughout the film Al has horrible luck with the guy, Haskell, who he’s driving with dies. Al believes the only way to get out of it is to take Haskell’s identity. When Vera comes into the picture she looks fairly disheveled, and as the film progresses Vera become more assertive. As Vera becomes more assertive her appearance becomes more put together and is visually showing herself progress as a character. After Vera dies Al leaves LA hitchhiking, and ends up getting picked up by the police. The ending was rather odd, so I looked into the production of the film, and found that Hollywood Production Code did not allow a murderer to get away with the crime. The way that Edgar Ulmer got around the censorship was by ending it with Al being picked up, and by doing so foreshadowed what would eventually become of Al.
Quiz name: Looking at Movies, 4e
Chapter Number: 05
Student’s name: Justin Michael Hines
Student’s email: jhines12@students.solano.edu
Number of questions: 15
Percent correct: 100%
M/K TILs
Chapter:
13. In “Neorealism, the New Wave, and What Followed,” I learned that the two most important movements of the the sound era were the Italian Neorealism and the French New Wave. Italian Neorealism was a national film movement characterized by stories set about the poor and the working class, filmed on location, while using non-professional actors. The French New Wave was a group of directors trying to revolutionize cinematic conventions by marrying the rapid cuts of Hollywood with philosophical trends in the late 1950s.
Reflections on Detour:
The film Detour was the first black and white noir film and it was interesting because of the turning point of the film. In the beginning the film was already in dark-scary mood because of the sound of the music and the tone of Al Roberts. There’s scene in the diner where there was a close up shot of Al where the frame could only see the eyes and part of the head while everything is darkened. In this scene, I interpreted it as if he was guilty as something because it seem his eyes were different than a person who would be acting normally and he was sweating. When the scene darkened that’s when his voice-over came and I thought it as a transition to his flashback.The title “Detour” is a symbol because a detour is a different route to avoid something while in the film it shows how he avoided the fact he wasn’t Charles Haskell and kept going with it until he got arrested. The turning point of the film was when the storm occurred and Haskell died and Al had to bring his body into a different location and hide it then he had to continue with his journey to see his girlfriend, Sue. I liked the editing of the fog when Al and Sue walked out of the bar/restaurant because the fog got thicker and thicker which indicate that something bad is going to happen, which it did, Sue had to go to LA, California, which means she had to leave him behind in New York. The character development was good because I saw journey of Al and Vera how they acted in the beginning of their appearance to their ending appearance. I know that this was a fordist noir film, but I would change the ending and prolonged it by Al meeting Sue and then getting arrested. I recommend this movie because I believe that “Detour” was one of the interesting noir films that was created in the 1940s.
Chapter 13 TIL: In chapter 13, it talked about Italian neorealism and it became known. Neorealism started as WWII ended. The movement led way to a cultural change in Italy. The film style focused on contemporary stories and ideas and were often shot on the streets with non-professional actors.
Reflections on Detour:
Okay, for a black and white noir film this was actually really good. As a person who enjoys crime dramas , I really enjoyed the story of this film. I tried to figure out what was about to happen before it did but each time I was thrown for a loop. My only nitpick is the ending, it was lack luster. I would have Al reunite Sue and the police figure out that Vera was the one committed all those crimes and assumed that she killed her by accident in her drunken stooper.(I know it sounds crazy but it can happen). But I guess instead of a happy ending the writers wanted to take a “Detour” with the ending.
Quiz name: Looking at Movies, 4e
Chapter Number: 05
Student’s name: Kendall Carnell
Student’s email: Kenny2jay@gmail.com
Number of questions: 10
Percent correct: 80%
Chapter Number: 5
Student’s Name: Nathaniel Wil Clarke
Number of questions: 15
Percent Correct: 100%
M/K TILs
Chapter 13- I learned about Robert Rossellini who had a hard time making the film Open City because of the lack of money and resources which was an example of Neorealism because he the cameraman was using a handheld camera. In the early 1960’s the French became obsessed with films in which they would also critique the movies rather than only watching them. Another influential filmmaker named Francois Truffaut who created his films around the idea of freedom in humans and filming techniques.
Reflections On Detour- This noir film was a pretty interesting watch in which we were able to see how the main character known as Al Roberts spends the entire movie trying to get to Hollywood to reunite with his girlfriend. His journey takes a turn for the worst when the man who picked up off the streets dies in the car and he has to hide the body to avoid being accused of murder. This movie created a feeling of suspense because it made you wonder how he was going to make it out the situation. There were certain close up frames during the film towards All that gave you a sense that he was feeling very guilty of what had happened. The title of this film fits the story exactly because on his way to reunite with his girlfriend, Al would end up in a situation to would cause him to go places he didn’t expect to go. The shots of Vera in the car when she first gets in a realizes what had happened give you the sense that she is the aggressor and Al doesn’t know how to handle what is going on. As the movie progresses Vera and Al try to go to a car dealer to sell the car so Al can not be attached to the Charles Haskell identity he is using. For being the first black and white noir film in the 1940s this movie is very successful and I would recommend people who are interested in noir films to watch this.
Quiz name: Looking at Movies, 4e
Chapter Number: 05
Student’s name: Aidan McAninch
Student’s email: aidan.mcaninch@gmail.com
Number of questions: 15
Percent correct: 93%
Reflection on Detour: I saw Detour as a very relatable film which made it very enjoyable. The main protagonist had many flaws which really humanized him. The entire film revolves around his mistakes which is what a lot of people think about themselves. All the mistakes they have made. I really enjoyed the lesson in the film as well. It’s the classic case of doing the wrong thing for the right reasons. Al thinks his response to taking a dead man’s money, car, and clothes was alright because nobody would find out. Unfortunately he gets immediate karma and gets blackmailed by a girl named Vera he picks up on the road. I only have one problem with the movie and that would be the ending. It’s not that I didn’t like it…it just left me confused. For example after Al accidently killed Vera in the hotel room and thinks he’s gonna get in trouble he doesn’t. That’s because the police think the man that accidentally died in the first place or Charles Haskell was guilty and were on a search for him. When in reality he’s hidden away in the middle of the desert behind some bushes. Then soon after Al explains how the police are looking for the wrong guy he get’s picked up by the cops without any explanation. I would have been ok with him getting arrested because it would be a getting your comeuppance kind of moment. Instead I was just left confused if they figured it out or if they think he’s just some slob walking the streets after curfew (if they even had that back then).
TIL: The New Wave is time named by the French when really interesting or thought provoking movies started being produced and by new directors.
Quiz name: Looking at Movies, 4e
Chapter Number: 05
Student’s name:
Student’s email:
Number of questions: 15
Percent correct: 100%
Question: What is figure movement?
Student answered: a) the movement of something concrete within the frame
Correct answer is: a) the movement of something concrete within the frame
Question: An important movement in art direction that sought to articulate human feeling and emotion through design elements such as structure, color, and texture with grossly exaggerated film sets is known as expressionism. Which of the following stills represents expressionism:CabiriaMarie AntoinetteThe Cabinet of Dr. Caligari
Student answered: c) The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari
Correct answer is: c) The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari
Question: Which of the following statements about mise-en-scène is NOT true?
Student answered: d) Mise-en-scène has two visual components: lighting and movement.
Correct answer is: d) Mise-en-scène has two visual components: lighting and movement.
Question: Unlike a static painting or picture, a motion picture move and thus shift its point of view. Point of view is implied by
Student answered: d) the framing of a shot.
Correct answer is: d) the framing of a shot.
Question: Composition is part of the process of planning the design of a movie. When visualizing and planning shots, filmmakers must make decisions about two elements of composition: what we see on screen and what moves on screen. What are these two elements commonly called?
Student answered: a) framing and kinesis
Correct answer is: a) framing and kinesis
Question: An open frame is generally employed in _____________ films, while a closed frame is generally employed in ____________ films.
Student answered: b) realistic; antirealistic
Correct answer is: b) realistic; antirealistic
Question: The planning of the positions and movements of the actors and camera is called
Student answered: c) blocking.
Correct answer is: c) blocking.
Question: Consider carefully the details of the mise-en-scène in the following clips. Based on the mise-en-scène, which do you think belongs to a dystopian futuristic narrative inhabited by mostly one-dimensional characters?Spam-ku : view clipBartholomew’s Song : view clipTwo Cars, One Night : view clip
Student answered: b) Bartholomew’s Song
Correct answer is: b) Bartholomew’s Song
Question: Which of the following statements about the production designer is NOT true?
Student answered: c) The production designer is hired relatively late in the production process.
Correct answer is: c) The production designer is hired relatively late in the production process.
Question: What are three elements that describe neorealism?
Student answered: b) nonprofessional actors; location sets; handheld camera
Correct answer is: b) nonprofessional actors; location sets; handheld camera
Question: The two fundamental styles of design established in early motion pictures are the ___________ associated with the Lumière brothers and the ____________ associated with Georges Méliès.
Student answered: b) realistic; fantastic
Correct answer is: b) realistic; fantastic
Question: Some of the departments the production designer supervises include carpentry, properties, and transportation.
Student answered: a) True
Correct answer is: a) True
Question: This chapter’s analysis of Chinatown describes a shot in which no one is in the frame, then suddenly a puff of smoke enters the left side of the frame. This is an example of filmmakers using both on-screen and offscreen space. Which of the following clips also uses on-screen and offscreen space?The Hill : view clipBartholomew’s Song : view clipKleingeld : view clip
Student answered: c) Kleingeld
Correct answer is: c) Kleingeld
Question: The organization, distribution, balance, movement, and general relationship of actors and objects within the space of a shot is called
Student answered: b) composition.
Correct answer is: b) composition.
Question: What are the major elements of cinematic design?
Student answered: b) setting; decor; properties; lighting; costume; makeup; hairstyle
Correct answer is: b) setting; decor; properties; lighting; costume; makeup; hairstyle
Ch. 13 TILs
The conflict that drove neorealist films was the conflict between common person and the immense social, economic and political forces that were factors in their existence. Because of these World War II and it’s effects were well documented in these films.
Thoughts on “Detour”
Detours use of an unreliable narrator was a beneficial aspect of the film. He talks about his ‘wonderful’ romance with Sue, but they are clearly on different temperaments. When he debates on whether to inform the police of Haskell’s death, he doubts they’ll believe the truth. However, he doesn’t even check on the man’s medication or health. Al Roberts doesn’t narrate the story we see, he narrates the one he’d prefer we believe. It’s like he’s not there to tell a story but to make an alibi for himself as if the audience is the police. The low production value of the film adds to the gritty dark tone, making us feel uneasy as an audience and that something may not be quite right.
In the movie Noir we immediately saw the use of lighting and the way the ouch was only in his eyes for us to focuse there. We also saw the camera zooming into the recorder and then we appear into a differ seven if the women singing. Vera the women actress we see was at first seen as arguemental and has to always be right and towards the end we see her change to a drunk who is all over the place. She is going crazy over money and seems to be an alcoholic. He at the being saw his life behind great then a tragic incidents happened that made his head spin and loose all control of what was first a “small” problem to him. The use of the light represented a memory and he was having. I later see why the The lighting was on his eyes, because we saw into his story and the tragic things that put him to that unhappy state of his life. Over all a good movie wished i would have seen if he reunited at all with his girlfriend or what ended up happening with them. Also I wanted to know if he got accused for murdering them. But yet again this seemed like a mystery movie and we make up our own ending.
Number of questions: 15
Percent correct: 93%
Question: An open frame is generally employed in _____________ films, while a closed frame is generally employed in ____________ films.
Student answered: b) realistic; antirealistic
Correct answer is: b) realistic; antirealistic
Question: What are the major elements of cinematic design?
Student answered: b) setting; decor; properties; lighting; costume; makeup; hairstyle
Correct answer is: b) setting; decor; properties; lighting; costume; makeup; hairstyle
Question: Composition is part of the process of planning the design of a movie. When visualizing and planning shots, filmmakers must make decisions about two elements of composition: what we see on screen and what moves on screen. What are these two elements commonly called?
Student answered: a) framing and kinesis
Correct answer is: a) framing and kinesis
Question: Unlike a static painting or picture, a motion picture move and thus shift its point of view. Point of view is implied by
Student answered: d) the framing of a shot.
Correct answer is: d) the framing of a shot.
Question: Consider carefully the details of the mise-en-scène in the following clips. Based on the mise-en-scène, which do you think belongs to a dystopian futuristic narrative inhabited by mostly one-dimensional characters?Spam-ku : view clipBartholomew’s Song : view clipTwo Cars, One Night : view clip
Student answered: b) Bartholomew’s Song
Correct answer is: b) Bartholomew’s Song
Question: The organization, distribution, balance, movement, and general relationship of actors and objects within the space of a shot is called
Student answered: b) composition.
Correct answer is: b) composition.
Question: The planning of the positions and movements of the actors and camera is called
Student answered: c) blocking.
Correct answer is: c) blocking.
Question: Some of the departments the production designer supervises include carpentry, properties, and transportation.
Student answered: a) True
Correct answer is: a) True
Question: What are three elements that describe neorealism?
Student answered: b) nonprofessional actors; location sets; handheld camera
Correct answer is: b) nonprofessional actors; location sets; handheld camera
Question: The two fundamental styles of design established in early motion pictures are the ___________ associated with the Lumière brothers and the ____________ associated with Georges Méliès.
Student answered: b) realistic; fantastic
Correct answer is: b) realistic; fantastic
Question: An important movement in art direction that sought to articulate human feeling and emotion through design elements such as structure, color, and texture with grossly exaggerated film sets is known as expressionism. Which of the following stills represents expressionism:CabiriaMarie AntoinetteThe Cabinet of Dr. Caligari
Student answered: c) The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari
Correct answer is: c) The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari
Question: Which of the following statements about mise-en-scène is NOT true?
Student answered: d) Mise-en-scène has two visual components: lighting and movement.
Correct answer is: d) Mise-en-scène has two visual components: lighting and movement.
Question: What is figure movement?
Student answered: a) the movement of something concrete within the frame
Correct answer is: a) the movement of something concrete within the frame
Question: Which of the following statements about the production designer is NOT true?
Student answered: b) The production designer is an artist responsible for designing the overall look of a movie.
Correct answer is: c) The production designer is hired relatively late in the production process.
Question: This chapter’s analysis of Chinatown describes a shot in which no one is in the frame, then suddenly a puff of smoke enters the left side of the frame. This is an example of filmmakers using both on-screen and offscreen space. Which of the following clips also uses on-screen and offscreen space?The Hill : view clipBartholomew’s Song : view clipKleingeld : view clip
Student answered: c) Kleingeld
Correct answer is: c) Kleingeld
TILs
Ch.13 In this chapter we learn about the French and how they produced movies. We also learned how they mostly were talk about the movie and the hints that was wrong with it rather than acts illy watching it. Yet can be good they can learn from the things they didn’t like. Also learned about neorealism a cinematic movement that happened in the 40’s
In the movie Noir: Detour we immediately saw the use of lighting and the way the ouch was only in his eyes for us to focuse there. We also saw the camera zooming into the recorder and then we appear into a differ seven if the women singing. Vera the women actress we see was at first seen as arguemental and has to always be right and towards the end we see her change to a drunk who is all over the place. She is going crazy over money and seems to be an alcoholic. He at the being saw his life behind great then a tragic incidents happened that made his head spin and loose all control of what was first a “small” problem to him. The use of the light represented a memory and he was having. I later see why the The lighting was on his eyes, because we saw into his story and the tragic things that put him to that unhappy state of his life. Over all a good movie wished i would have seen if he reunited at all with his girlfriend or what ended up happening with them. Also I wanted to know if he got accused for murdering them. But yet again this seemed like a mystery movie and we make up our own ending.
Number of questions: 15
Percent correct: 93%
Question: An open frame is generally employed in _____________ films, while a closed frame is generally employed in ____________ films.
Student answered: b) realistic; antirealistic
Correct answer is: b) realistic; antirealistic
Question: What are the major elements of cinematic design?
Student answered: b) setting; decor; properties; lighting; costume; makeup; hairstyle
Correct answer is: b) setting; decor; properties; lighting; costume; makeup; hairstyle
Question: Composition is part of the process of planning the design of a movie. When visualizing and planning shots, filmmakers must make decisions about two elements of composition: what we see on screen and what moves on screen. What are these two elements commonly called?
Student answered: a) framing and kinesis
Correct answer is: a) framing and kinesis
Question: Unlike a static painting or picture, a motion picture move and thus shift its point of view. Point of view is implied by
Student answered: d) the framing of a shot.
Correct answer is: d) the framing of a shot.
Question: Consider carefully the details of the mise-en-scène in the following clips. Based on the mise-en-scène, which do you think belongs to a dystopian futuristic narrative inhabited by mostly one-dimensional characters?Spam-ku : view clipBartholomew’s Song : view clipTwo Cars, One Night : view clip
Student answered: b) Bartholomew’s Song
Correct answer is: b) Bartholomew’s Song
Question: The organization, distribution, balance, movement, and general relationship of actors and objects within the space of a shot is called
Student answered: b) composition.
Correct answer is: b) composition.
Question: The planning of the positions and movements of the actors and camera is called
Student answered: c) blocking.
Correct answer is: c) blocking.
Question: Some of the departments the production designer supervises include carpentry, properties, and transportation.
Student answered: a) True
Correct answer is: a) True
Question: What are three elements that describe neorealism?
Student answered: b) nonprofessional actors; location sets; handheld camera
Correct answer is: b) nonprofessional actors; location sets; handheld camera
Question: The two fundamental styles of design established in early motion pictures are the ___________ associated with the Lumière brothers and the ____________ associated with Georges Méliès.
Student answered: b) realistic; fantastic
Correct answer is: b) realistic; fantastic
Question: An important movement in art direction that sought to articulate human feeling and emotion through design elements such as structure, color, and texture with grossly exaggerated film sets is known as expressionism. Which of the following stills represents expressionism:CabiriaMarie AntoinetteThe Cabinet of Dr. Caligari
Student answered: c) The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari
Correct answer is: c) The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari
Question: Which of the following statements about mise-en-scène is NOT true?
Student answered: d) Mise-en-scène has two visual components: lighting and movement.
Correct answer is: d) Mise-en-scène has two visual components: lighting and movement.
Question: What is figure movement?
Student answered: a) the movement of something concrete within the frame
Correct answer is: a) the movement of something concrete within the frame
Question: Which of the following statements about the production designer is NOT true?
Student answered: b) The production designer is an artist responsible for designing the overall look of a movie.
Correct answer is: c) The production designer is hired relatively late in the production process.
Question: This chapter’s analysis of Chinatown describes a shot in which no one is in the frame, then suddenly a puff of smoke enters the left side of the frame. This is an example of filmmakers using both on-screen and offscreen space. Which of the following clips also uses on-screen and offscreen space?The Hill : view clipBartholomew’s Song : view clipKleingeld : view clip
Student answered: c) Kleingeld
Correct answer is: c) Kleingeld
TILs
Ch.13 In this chapter we see how the French and how they produced movies. We also learned how they mostly were talk about the movie and the hints that was wrong with it rather than acts illy watching it. Yet can be good they can learn from the things they didn’t like.
Quiz name: Looking at Movies, 4e
Chapter Number: 05
Student’s name: Tony Rivera
Student’s email: rivera7o7@yahoo.com
Number of questions: 10
Percent correct: 100%
M/K TILs
Roberto Rossellini, who was an Italian film director and screenwriter, had faced some adversity while creating a name for himself in the industry. He was one of the Directors of the Italian neorealist cinema. Italian Neorealism along with the French New Wave were some of the most significant to the sound era. Regular viewers of films were becoming critics who then became Directors themselves, and new types of filming techniques were being implemented into the industry during this post-war modernism era.
Reflections on Detour:
In this black & white film noir pianist Al Roberts and girlfriend Sue Harvey have a hopeless romantic story where Sue actually leaves Al to pursue her dreams in Hollywood. A twisted story line if you ask me, a murder story mixed with a female antagonist and a failed pursuit of long. Al Roberts attempts to hitchhike all the way to LA and be with Sue but comes across a twisted man by the name of Charles Haskell who he actually murders and pretends to be in order to make it to LA in peace and be with his woman. Another twisted encounter gets him into more than he can handle and eventually kills a woman to make a long story short and makes it to jail before he can make it to Sue Harvey.
Quiz name: Looking at Movies, 4e
Chapter Number: 05
Student’s name: Iman Ereiqat
Student’s email: imanereiqat0@gmail.com
Number of questions: 15
Percent correct: 100%
Ch 13 TIL: Italian Neorealism was an important movement that contributed to the progression of film.
Detour was a movie that I thought was pretty… cute. Cute is how I feel about it for some reason. It was a cool plot line & I really liked the story. It was a string of strange events that happened to Al, all while he was trying to see his girlfriend in LA. I found the ending to be incredibly underwhelming. Throughout the movie, I found myself feeling very hopeful and wanting Al to at least see his girlfriend. He finally made it to LA but didn’t go to see her before he got taken away. I also think it was kind of dumb for him to take Charles’ car in the first place, but I guess we wouldn’t have the movie if he just did what he should’ve done (which is just call the police and explain to them what happened).
Quiz name: Looking at Movies, 4e
Chapter Number: 05
Student’s name: Jose Bernal
Number of questions: 10
Percent correct: 90%
Question: The planning of the positions and movements of the actors and camera is called
Student answered: c) blocking.
Correct answer is: c) blocking.
Question: What are three elements that describe neorealism?
Student answered: b) nonprofessional actors; location sets; handheld camera
Correct answer is: b) nonprofessional actors; location sets; handheld camera
Question: The two fundamental styles of design established in early motion pictures are the ___________ associated with the Lumière brothers and the ____________ associated with Georges Méliès.
Student answered: b) realistic; fantastic
Correct answer is: b) realistic; fantastic
Question: Some of the departments the production designer supervises include carpentry, properties, and transportation.
Student answered: a) True
Correct answer is: a) True
Question: What is figure movement?
Student answered: a) the movement of something concrete within the frame
Correct answer is: a) the movement of something concrete within the frame
Question: Composition is part of the process of planning the design of a movie. When visualizing and planning shots, filmmakers must make decisions about two elements of composition: what we see on screen and what moves on screen. What are these two elements commonly called?
Student answered: a) framing and kinesis
Correct answer is: a) framing and kinesis
Question: Which of the following statements about mise-en-scène is NOT true?
Student answered: d) Mise-en-scène has two visual components: lighting and movement.
Correct answer is: d) Mise-en-scène has two visual components: lighting and movement.
Question: Unlike a static painting or picture, a motion picture move and thus shift its point of view. Point of view is implied by
Student answered: d) the framing of a shot.
Correct answer is: d) the framing of a shot.
Question: What are the major elements of cinematic design?
Student answered: b) setting; decor; properties; lighting; costume; makeup; hairstyle
Correct answer is: b) setting; decor; properties; lighting; costume; makeup; hairstyle
Question: The organization, distribution, balance, movement, and general relationship of actors and objects within the space of a shot is called
Student answered: c) framing.
Correct answer is: b) composition.
Detour Review:
Edgar G. Ulmer’s “Detour” was an enjoyable Film Noir but it was very confusing at first and had a weak ending in my opinion. One of Detour’s strong points though was it’s use of lighting to create suspense, the lighting, or rather the absence of it, in certain scenes with Tom Neal’s character really helped to create a sense of interpersonal struggle that his character was going through. Ann Savage was also very entertaining and really captured the Femme Fatale aspect many actresses at the time were sought after for. Though Detour is considered iconic and has been praised since it’s release in 1945, I felt like it had a really weak story and was very confusing up until the death of Edmund Macdonald’s character. The ending could also have been better, I didn’t actually realize Neal’s character being taken away by the Highway Patrol was just in his imagination until reading some more about the film afterwards. If I had to rate this movie out of 10 I would give it a 7 since it was made in a different era of film and was popular at it’s time.
Today I learned about Italian Neorealism and the aspects that went into it such as film techniques like handheld cameras and filming on location rather than sets
TIL
MK
Chapter 13 – Jean-Luc Godard was a French filmmaker whose films are “consistent in their inconsistency, their eclecticism, and their mixing of different kinds of ideas and cinematic principles”. He was a part of the New Wave movement that was split into two primary parts: the Cahiers (critics turned directors) and the Left Bank (those who had gone directly into filmmaking). Godard found the human experience to be irrational and inexplicable.
Quiz name: Looking at Movies, 4e
Chapter Number: 05
Student’s name: Kimi Garcia
Student’s email: kimigarcia123@gmail.com
Number of questions: 15
Percent correct: 100%
M/K TIL:
Chapter 13-Chapter thirteen discusses how Frances style of filming after the war had changed but some things still remained the same, French directors and camera men wanted to catch the harsh reality that is the world everyone lives in now before, during and after war. But, the style and form of the films they produced would remain the same since the French were so strong with experimenting in style and form to make their point in films.
Reflection on Detour:
I thought the film was great because it didn’t have a typical happy ending, it hit with an unexpected ending which is better in my opinion. Anytime I see a flashback in a diner I automatically think of “Back to the Future” directed by Robert Zemeckis except the flashback in “Detour” was way less hilarious and a lot more dark and depressed. The scene where Al Roberts and Sue Harvey are having a discussion about why Sue must leave to California to pursue her career and as they’re walking and talking the fog is built up. I believe the fog was built up for them to walk through together because their relationship then becomes foggy, who know’s if they will still remain in contact after she goes off to pursue her career? We don’t know until he actually calls her and we as the audience see and hear his responses to what she is saying, that things are not going well for her but that is the only time we hear from her again until Al calls her again from the hotel. Now while Sue Harvey is out of the picture for him he runs into Vera, if it isn’t one women causing him to go through so much lengths then it becomes another. It just begs the question, if Al Roberts had not been a gentlemen and given that innocent looking women on the side of the road a ride to her destination, would he still have been in all this trouble? The film kind of makes it seem that maybe by thinking you’re doing the so called ‘right’ thing you are actually doing the exact opposite. Ironic right, because when you do something good then you get good karma and when you do something bad you get bad karma.
Quiz name: Looking at Movies, 4e
Chapter Number: 05
Student’s name: Fidel Moralez
Student’s email: fmorale9@students.solano.edu
Number of questions: 15
Percent correct: 100%
TIL CH13
I learned about how Italian Neorealism was a film movement to emphasize social values using nonprofessional actors telling the stories of the poor as well as the working class. Also learned about the French and their unique style of critiquing and filming during and after war.
This was a great noir type film because of the drama and crimes. There were dark mysterious parts of the film like when Al was in the diner and the lighting was just on his eyes as the rest of the room was dark and he would explain the story, it gave a cool effect and I’m sure in that time it was very well liked. Basically the whole time Al ran into a snowball effect of issues while he was trying to cross the country to see his girlfriend. When he was left with the dead body I thought it was bad enough but then when he picked up Vera hitchhiking I was like “man he really messed up” I mean it was dumb of him to even get involved with someone when he was dealing with that situation of driving a stolen car with a fake identity in the first place. Overall I just felt sorry for the guy because he really wasn’t a bad guy he just got in some unfortunate situations and made some bad decisions. one part that kind of stood out that was funny to me was when he was narrating and mentioned in the hotel room how “this should be the part where Vera and I just run away together and fall in love and start a new life together” or something along those lines. It did make sense considering the mess they got into. The movie just completely fell off at the end making us think he got away with it then showing him get arrested. It was just so sudden and I feel the director could have at least put a little more effort but instead it seemed like an almost lazy ending. Overall though I would say it was a good movie and I really did enjoy it.
TIL:
Chapter 13 I learned about what happened with the French and Italians postwar how the content and style that began in Italy and culminated in France affected and influenced.
Quiz name: Looking at Movies
Chapter Number: 05
Student’s name: Cheyenne Ford
Student’s email: cford20@students.solano.edu
Number of questions: 15
Percent correct: 80%
Reflection:
Detours ending was horrible I just had to say that before I started going into my other thoughts about the movie. The movie was kind of sad in a way due to the unfortunate events that occurred to the main character. It was pretty good for a black and white movie, the lighting was interesting to see done in such a way. Black and white movies add more shadows and the lighting or white patches are either dulled in such a way that they can highlight that particular spot. I find black and white movies to be retro in I wish they did more of them today. The contrast throughout the movie is good. A really good part was when they are in the motel together and while he was pulling the telephone cord all I was thinking like why would you pull it when you know it was suck on something and he just keep pulling the cord, like that was going to make a difference. That part and the ending are the only things that bugged me the most about the movie. But other than those parts I believe that it was a well shot and directed movie.
M/K TIL
Chapter 13 – “The New Wave” is a French movement that consisted of two parts: 1) the Cahiers group, former critics turned directors 2) Left Bank, went directly into film making. They have been credited with being more serious and professional filmmakers. The New Wave filmmakers each decided to create their films in their own way and perspective. What i didn’t really know was that this Wave was structured around the filmmakers and their contributions rather than the films they actually made.
B/M TIL
Chapter 5 – Staging has an incredibly huge role in setting the scene and every little piece has a reason for being there. Whether it’s symbolism or scene building each part is carefully considered. This i assumed was headed by the director and had the crew set up each scene but i didn’t realize that this has its own lead, the production designer. They work extremely close with the director and the director of photography in order to have everything necessary to stage the scene.
Detour
After watching Detour I didn’t get much from the story but I felt invested in the characters. It felt more like a character driven movie in which Al hit a string of strange luck and his responses. Everything from the score to the camera angles of him interacting with the police at the check point gave a sense of tension. I think the most telling part were the shots in the diner. As the story progressed and the more that happened the light became shallower from his body, to his face, to finally his eyes; as if the more that happened the more of himself he lost, from his identity, to even his humanity after killing Vera.
1. Which of the following statements about mise-en-scène is NOT true?
Topic: n/a
a. Mise-en-scène literally means “staging or putting on an action or scene.”
b. Mise-en-scène refers to the overall look and feel of a movie.
c. Mise-en-scène is the sum of everything the audience sees, hears, and experiences when watching a movie.
d. Mise-en-scène has two visual components: lighting and movement.
Feedback/Reference: The two major visual components of mise-en-scène are design and composition (p. 172).
2. The organization, distribution, balance, movement, and general relationship of actors and objects within the space of a shot is called
Topic: n/a
a. design.
b. composition.
c. framing.
d. cinematography.
Feedback/Reference: This is the basic definition of composition (p. 172). Framing, while an aspect of composition, does not relate to what moves on screen. See also the “Composing the Frame” tutorial on the Looking at Movies DVD (Disc 1, Chapter 5: Mise-en-Scène).
3. Which of the following statements about the production designer is NOT true?
Topic: n/a
a. The production designer is an executive responsible for supervising the heads of various design departments.
b. The production designer is an artist responsible for designing the overall look of a movie.
c. The production designer is hired relatively late in the production process.
d. The production designer is one of the first collaborators a director hires.
Feedback/Reference: The production designer is both an artist and executive who is generally one of the first collaborators hired by the director (pp. 180–82).
4. Some of the departments the production designer supervises include carpentry, properties, and transportation.
Topic: n/a
a. True
b. False
Feedback/Reference: The production designer oversees all of the many design related departments which include carpentry, properties, transportation, and many others (p. 182). For example, in this clip from The Hill, the production designer would be responsible for helping choose the make/model of the car, the house in which the party took place, the color of the walls, the drinks the partygoers have, the CDs on the shelf, the glasses in the cupboard, etc.
The Hill | view clip
5. What are the major elements of cinematic design?
Topic: n/a
a. lighting; framing; movement; setting; costume; makeup; hairstyle
b. setting; decor; properties; lighting; costume; makeup; hairstyle
c. setting; location; sets; properties; lighting; framing; cinematography
d. cinematography; decor; costume; makeup; setting; movement
Feedback/Reference: These are the major elements of cinematic design (pp. 183–94).
6. The two fundamental styles of design established in early motion pictures are the ___________ associated with the Lumière brothers and the ____________ associated with Georges Méliès.
Topic: n/a
a. realistic; surreal
b. realistic; fantastic
c. surreal; realistic
d. fantastic; realistic
Feedback/Reference: See p. 194.
7. An important movement in art direction that sought to articulate human feeling and emotion through design elements such as structure, color, and texture with grossly exaggerated film sets is known as expressionism. Which of the following stills represents expressionism:
image
Cabiria
image
Marie Antoinette
image
The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari
Topic: n/a
a. Cabiria
b. Marie Antoinette
c. The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari
Feedback/Reference: The still from The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari represents the basic qualities associated with expressionism (pp. 194–96). While the other examples have ornate or complex production designs, they do not illustrate the gross exaggeration and emotion of expressionism. See also the “Setting and Expressionism” tutorial on the Looking at Movies DVD (Disc 1, Chapter 5: Mise-en-Scène).
8. What are three elements that describe neorealism?
Topic: n/a
a. nonprofessional actors; constructed sets; fixed camera
b. nonprofessional actors; location sets; handheld camera
c. professional actors; location sets; handheld camera
d. professional actors; constructed sets; fixed camera
Feedback/Reference: These are three major elements associated with neorealism (pp. 200–201).
9. Composition is part of the process of planning the design of a movie. When visualizing and planning shots, filmmakers must make decisions about two elements of composition: what we see on screen and what moves on screen. What are these two elements commonly called?
Topic: n/a
a. framing and kinesis
b. mise-en-scène and action
c. staging and kinesis
d. placement and action
Feedback/Reference: While production design is concerned with everything the audience sees within the frame, composition more specifically determines how we will see this material and how it will move. See p. 202.
10. Unlike a static painting or picture, a motion picture move and thus shift its point of view. Point of view is implied by
Topic: n/a
a. the director’s personal beliefs.
b. a character’s hair, makeup, and wardrobe.
c. the production design.
d. the framing of a shot.
Feedback/Reference: Framing implies point of view and in motion pictures point of view may change as a result of a moving frame or reframing (p. 202). See also the “Point of View” tutorial on the Looking at Movies DVD (Disc 1, Chapter 6: Cinematography).
11. This chapter’s analysis of Chinatown describes a shot in which no one is in the frame, then suddenly a puff of smoke enters the left side of the frame. This is an example of filmmakers using both on-screen and offscreen space. Which of the following clips also uses on-screen and offscreen space?
The Hill : view clip
Bartholomew’s Song : view clip
Kleingeld : view clip
Topic: n/a
a. The Hill
b. Bartholomew’s Song
c. Kleingeld
Feedback/Reference: This shot from Kleingeld relies on the interaction between on-screen space and offscreen space. The ringing phone occurs in offscreen space, and the man reacts to the ringing phone in on-screen space.
12. An open frame is generally employed in _____________ films, while a closed frame is generally employed in ____________ films.
Topic: n/a
a. antirealistic; realistic
b. realistic; antirealistic
c. expressionist; fantastic
d. fantastic; expressionist
Feedback/Reference: This is a common distinction between the open frame and the closed frame (pp. 204–08).
13. What is figure movement?
Topic: n/a
a. the movement of something concrete within the frame
b. the movement of something concrete from foreground to background
c. the movement of something concrete across the frame
d. the movement of the frame itself
Feedback/Reference: A figure is anything concrete that moves within the frame. A figure may move in many ways and is not limited to movement from foreground to background or movement across the frame (pp. 209–10).
14. The planning of the positions and movements of the actors and camera is called
Topic: n/a
a. framing.
b. staging.
c. blocking.
d. preproduction.
Feedback/Reference: This is the basic definition of blocking (p. 209).
15. Consider carefully the details of the mise-en-scène in the following clips. Based on the mise-en-scène, which do you think belongs to a dystopian futuristic narrative inhabited by mostly one-dimensional characters?
Spam-ku : view clip
Bartholomew’s Song : view clip
Two Cars, One Night : view clip
Topic: n/a
a. Spam-ku
b. Bartholomew’s Song
c. Two Cars, One Night
Detour:
In this movie the background is constantly moving most of the time while the actors or whatever is in focus is directly in front of the camera and doesn’t appear to move. At the time I didn’t think green screens existed because of how old the film appeared. Then it turns out they did have the technology, but it was called a blue screen at the time. I saw a lot that was done to really set the tone for the story. During the opening the main character is talking to the audience and sets a slightly scary mood as he’s about to tell his story. Then later when it shows him again towards the end of the film, the lighting is darker everywhere else besides the main character’s eyes. I think this was done to show how serious and creepy things have gotten in this point of the story.
TIL
Chapter 13:
In this chapter I learned that a major movement in film making happened in Italy after the war called neorealism. Which were movies shot with non-professional actors and looked at meaningful life-giving values during a time that it seemed lost to the world.
Quiz name: Looking at Movies, 4e
Chapter Number: 05
Student’s name: Roberto Cortez
Student’s email: rcorte12@students.solano.edu
Number of questions: 15
Percent correct: 100%
Question: The organization, distribution, balance, movement, and general relationship of actors and objects within the space of a shot is called
Student answered: b) composition.
Correct answer is: b) composition.
Question: This chapter’s analysis of Chinatown describes a shot in which no one is in the frame, then suddenly a puff of smoke enters the left side of the frame. This is an example of filmmakers using both on-screen and offscreen space. Which of the following clips also uses on-screen and offscreen space?The Hill : view clipBartholomew’s Song : view clipKleingeld : view clip
Student answered: c) Kleingeld
Correct answer is: c) Kleingeld
Question: Which of the following statements about the production designer is NOT true?
Student answered: c) The production designer is hired relatively late in the production process.
Correct answer is: c) The production designer is hired relatively late in the production process.
Question: Composition is part of the process of planning the design of a movie. When visualizing and planning shots, filmmakers must make decisions about two elements of composition: what we see on screen and what moves on screen. What are these two elements commonly called?
Student answered: a) framing and kinesis
Correct answer is: a) framing and kinesis
Question: The two fundamental styles of design established in early motion pictures are the ___________ associated with the Lumière brothers and the ____________ associated with Georges Méliès.
Student answered: b) realistic; fantastic
Correct answer is: b) realistic; fantastic
Question: What is figure movement?
Student answered: a) the movement of something concrete within the frame
Correct answer is: a) the movement of something concrete within the frame
Question: An important movement in art direction that sought to articulate human feeling and emotion through design elements such as structure, color, and texture with grossly exaggerated film sets is known as expressionism. Which of the following stills represents expressionism:CabiriaMarie AntoinetteThe Cabinet of Dr. Caligari
Student answered: c) The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari
Correct answer is: c) The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari
Question: Which of the following statements about mise-en-scène is NOT true?
Student answered: d) Mise-en-scène has two visual components: lighting and movement.
Correct answer is: d) Mise-en-scène has two visual components: lighting and movement.
Question: What are three elements that describe neorealism?
Student answered: b) nonprofessional actors; location sets; handheld camera
Correct answer is: b) nonprofessional actors; location sets; handheld camera
Question: What are the major elements of cinematic design?
Student answered: b) setting; decor; properties; lighting; costume; makeup; hairstyle
Correct answer is: b) setting; decor; properties; lighting; costume; makeup; hairstyle
Question: Unlike a static painting or picture, a motion picture move and thus shift its point of view. Point of view is implied by
Student answered: d) the framing of a shot.
Correct answer is: d) the framing of a shot.
Question: The planning of the positions and movements of the actors and camera is called
Student answered: c) blocking.
Correct answer is: c) blocking.
Question: An open frame is generally employed in _____________ films, while a closed frame is generally employed in ____________ films.
Student answered: b) realistic; antirealistic
Correct answer is: b) realistic; antirealistic
Question: Consider carefully the details of the mise-en-scène in the following clips. Based on the mise-en-scène, which do you think belongs to a dystopian futuristic narrative inhabited by mostly one-dimensional characters?Spam-ku : view clipBartholomew’s Song : view clipTwo Cars, One Night : view clip
Student answered: b) Bartholomew’s Song
Correct answer is: b) Bartholomew’s Song
Question: Some of the departments the production designer supervises include carpentry, properties, and transportation.
Student answered: a) True
Correct answer is: a) True
TILs Chapter 13: I learned that Bernardo Bertolucci combined the sensuous and the political by showing that political and sexual commitments weave together in complex and mysterious ways.
Quiz name: Looking at Movies, 4e
Chapter Number: 05
Student’s name: Marina Moran
Student’s email: marinamoran44@yahoo.com
Number of questions: 15
Percent correct: 93%
Question: The organization, distribution, balance, movement, and general relationship of actors and objects within the space of a shot is called
Student answered: b) composition.
Correct answer is: b) composition.
Question: An important movement in art direction that sought to articulate human feeling and emotion through design elements such as structure, color, and texture with grossly exaggerated film sets is known as expressionism. Which of the following stills represents expressionism:CabiriaMarie AntoinetteThe Cabinet of Dr. Caligari
Student answered: c) The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari
Correct answer is: c) The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari
Question: The planning of the positions and movements of the actors and camera is called
Student answered: c) blocking.
Correct answer is: c) blocking.
Question: Which of the following statements about mise-en-scène is NOT true?
Student answered: d) Mise-en-scène has two visual components: lighting and movement.
Correct answer is: d) Mise-en-scène has two visual components: lighting and movement.
Question: This chapter’s analysis of Chinatown describes a shot in which no one is in the frame, then suddenly a puff of smoke enters the left side of the frame. This is an example of filmmakers using both on-screen and offscreen space. Which of the following clips also uses on-screen and offscreen space?The Hill : view clipBartholomew’s Song : view clipKleingeld : view clip
Student answered: c) Kleingeld
Correct answer is: c) Kleingeld
Question: Some of the departments the production designer supervises include carpentry, properties, and transportation.
Student answered: a) True
Correct answer is: a) True
Question: What are the major elements of cinematic design?
Student answered: b) setting; decor; properties; lighting; costume; makeup; hairstyle
Correct answer is: b) setting; decor; properties; lighting; costume; makeup; hairstyle
Question: What are three elements that describe neorealism?
Student answered: b) nonprofessional actors; location sets; handheld camera
Correct answer is: b) nonprofessional actors; location sets; handheld camera
Question: What is figure movement?
Student answered: a) the movement of something concrete within the frame
Correct answer is: a) the movement of something concrete within the frame
Question: Unlike a static painting or picture, a motion picture move and thus shift its point of view. Point of view is implied by
Student answered: d) the framing of a shot.
Correct answer is: d) the framing of a shot.
Question: Which of the following statements about the production designer is NOT true?
Student answered: c) The production designer is hired relatively late in the production process.
Correct answer is: c) The production designer is hired relatively late in the production process.
Question: Composition is part of the process of planning the design of a movie. When visualizing and planning shots, filmmakers must make decisions about two elements of composition: what we see on screen and what moves on screen. What are these two elements commonly called?
Student answered: a) framing and kinesis
Correct answer is: a) framing and kinesis
Question: An open frame is generally employed in _____________ films, while a closed frame is generally employed in ____________ films.
Student answered: b) realistic; antirealistic
Correct answer is: b) realistic; antirealistic
Question: The two fundamental styles of design established in early motion pictures are the ___________ associated with the Lumière brothers and the ____________ associated with Georges Méliès.
Student answered: b) realistic; fantastic
Correct answer is: b) realistic; fantastic
Question: Consider carefully the details of the mise-en-scène in the following clips. Based on the mise-en-scène, which do you think belongs to a dystopian futuristic narrative inhabited by mostly one-dimensional characters?Spam-ku : view clipBartholomew’s Song : view clipTwo Cars, One Night : view clip
Student answered: c) Two Cars, One Night
Correct answer is: b) Bartholomew’s Song
`detour was almost like one of those present day flashback movies that we see today. or should is say how the movies we see today relate to detour. in my opinion flashback movies are not my fancy, i like to experience the movie at the same as the actor and not be told a story from the actors future POV. though this movie is not in my tasted, in a way in kind of reflected the same relationship as the one seen in mad max. over time, it seems like the characters began to develop a liking towards one another. the overall was meh, especially the anti-climatic ending of the main character simply walking off as if nothing had happened. this leave the viewer in a place of disbelief, not showing what has happened after both the murder incidents, or even if he got to see his girlfriend at the end.
Quiz name: Looking at Movies, 4e
Chapter Number: 05
Student’s name: marcus bravo
Student’s email: jbravo91697@gmail.com
Number of questions: 10
Percent correct: 100%
TIL Ch 13: Roberto Rossellini, an Italian director, whose film, “Open City,” is said to be the cornerstone of neorealism…not officially though. Neorealism began after WWII ended.
Detour:
I really enjoyed the way the director started this film. The scene with Al Roberts in a diner, being aggressive and mysterious really got the viewer invested in the film. The director without actually giving us any information, let us know that something bad had already taken place, leading up to Al’s current state. I think their was great character development for both Al and Vera. When the flashbacks began, you see Al in love with his girlfriend, and throughout the movie as a viewer you know that everything he is doing is to be with her. Also as a viewer, you start understanding, before Al does, that he probably will never get to be with his girlfriend in California. Vera, also had great character development. When we first see her she looks, “frumpy,” and very unassuming. Within a few scenes, you can see that her personality is actually very domineering, and their seems to be a sense of foreboding around her. As a viewer, and for Al, it is apparent pretty quickly that their is more to Vera than what originally was seen. Her physical appearance changed throughout the movie. By her final scenes she had more makeup on, her clothes were nicer, and she generally looked sexier; you could tell she was taking on a darker role. Their were lots of green screen shots, or blue screens, as we learned in class. Numerous scenes where the scenery was changing around the characters…especially while Al and Vera were riding in the car. I think that really added to those scenes…it helped to show that time was passing.
Quiz name: Looking at Movies, 4e
Chapter Number: 05
Student’s name: Reyna Castaneda
Student’s email: rcastaneda1520@yahoo.com
Number of questions: 15
Percent correct: 93%
M/K TIL
Chapter 13
Roberto Rossellini is famous for his influential movie “Rome, Open City”, which was filmed in a documentary-like style that became the cornerstone for neo-realism. It focused on casting “real” people, in “real” locations, going through “real” scenarios and struggles
Detour was my first actual experience watching a classic noir film. It felt kind of funny to see all of the cliches done without irony, like the dramatic lighting, sentimental nightclub music,regretful narration, etc. Overall, I could say I enjoyed it, and at first I felt that it was probably a film that got attention and had some care put into it, only to find out that it was among the many movies that were produced in a short amount of time before it was sent down the factory line. It’s both scary and impressive how production teams were able to pump movies out like no big deal. Honestly, the movie was really frustrating to me. As much as I knew from the beginning that Al was in a hopeless place, I was still hoping that by the end he would get to be with his girlfriend. I found myself incredibly frustrated and annoyed at Vera because of her role as an obstacle. I was pretty surprised to hear that Vera was classified as a femme fatale character, since she wasn’t what I usually pictured when I thought of the term, but the fact that she was seducing (or at least, kind of trying to be, as much as her flirting didn’t seem to work on Al) and that she was Al’s downfall, I can see why.
In chapter 13 I learned that many of the films that were considered to be the best came from Europe. I always thought that America would be superior in film due to our advanced technology etc and was surprised to find that Europe was actually considered to have produced the best films. Films from Europe were considered to be superior because they captured several traits that opposed American films . For example, European films showed extraordinary sincerity and insight which was shown to be artistic control
I also learned what “neorealism’ is and became very intrigued by the idea of it and what it displayed. Neorealism was a movement that captured the everyday struggles of real people. Rather than using actors and plots, everyday people and circumstances were utilized to exhibit an emphasis on the reality of the world and the struggles that people encounter.
The Detour movie was one of my favorite films that we have viewed so far. When it first began I thought it was going to be a love story between Roberts and the girlfriend that he was hitchhiking to go see. When he entered the small diner, I thought he was going to end up with the woman who was married to the “fat man.” Once again I was tricked! I was very intrigued by this film. When Roberts ended up with the man Haskell I thought that we were back on track for him traveling to Hollywood to meet his love in Hollywood, but once again there was a significant plot twist and he ended up with an interesting woman named Vera. I was almost positive that Roberts was going to have an affair with Vera and leave his girlfriend in Hollywood for her. It came as a surprise to me when he accidently killed her. This movie held a lot of suspense and kept me invested and wondering what would happen next. Although Roberts was projected to be a good guy, after thinking about he let two people die and did not notify anyone!!!
Your Score: 100 % (15 out of 15)
Wrong Answer is highlighted in Red.
Correct Answer is highlighted in green.
1. Which of the following statements about mise-en-scène is NOT true?
Topic: n/a
a. Mise-en-scène literally means “staging or putting on an action or scene.”
b. Mise-en-scène refers to the overall look and feel of a movie.
c. Mise-en-scène is the sum of everything the audience sees, hears, and experiences when watching a movie.
d. Mise-en-scène has two visual components: lighting and movement.
Feedback/Reference: The two major visual components of mise-en-scène are design and composition (p. 172).
2. The organization, distribution, balance, movement, and general relationship of actors and objects within the space of a shot is called
Topic: n/a
a. design.
b. composition.
c. framing.
d. cinematography.
Feedback/Reference: This is the basic definition of composition (p. 172). Framing, while an aspect of composition, does not relate to what moves on screen. See also the “Composing the Frame” tutorial on the Looking at Movies DVD (Disc 1, Chapter 5: Mise-en-Scène).
3. Which of the following statements about the production designer is NOT true?
Topic: n/a
a. The production designer is an executive responsible for supervising the heads of various design departments.
b. The production designer is an artist responsible for designing the overall look of a movie.
c. The production designer is hired relatively late in the production process.
d. The production designer is one of the first collaborators a director hires.
Feedback/Reference: The production designer is both an artist and executive who is generally one of the first collaborators hired by the director (pp. 180–82).
4. Some of the departments the production designer supervises include carpentry, properties, and transportation.
Topic: n/a
a. True
b. False
Feedback/Reference: The production designer oversees all of the many design related departments which include carpentry, properties, transportation, and many others (p. 182). For example, in this clip from The Hill, the production designer would be responsible for helping choose the make/model of the car, the house in which the party took place, the color of the walls, the drinks the partygoers have, the CDs on the shelf, the glasses in the cupboard, etc.
The Hill | view clip
5. What are the major elements of cinematic design?
Topic: n/a
a. lighting; framing; movement; setting; costume; makeup; hairstyle
b. setting; decor; properties; lighting; costume; makeup; hairstyle
c. setting; location; sets; properties; lighting; framing; cinematography
d. cinematography; decor; costume; makeup; setting; movement
Feedback/Reference: These are the major elements of cinematic design (pp. 183–94).
6. The two fundamental styles of design established in early motion pictures are the ___________ associated with the Lumière brothers and the ____________ associated with Georges Méliès.
Topic: n/a
a. realistic; surreal
b. realistic; fantastic
c. surreal; realistic
d. fantastic; realistic
Feedback/Reference: See p. 194.
7. An important movement in art direction that sought to articulate human feeling and emotion through design elements such as structure, color, and texture with grossly exaggerated film sets is known as expressionism. Which of the following stills represents expressionism:
Cabiria
Marie Antoinette
The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari
Topic: n/a
a. Cabiria
b. Marie Antoinette
c. The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari
Feedback/Reference: The still from The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari represents the basic qualities associated with expressionism (pp. 194–96). While the other examples have ornate or complex production designs, they do not illustrate the gross exaggeration and emotion of expressionism. See also the “Setting and Expressionism” tutorial on the Looking at Movies DVD (Disc 1, Chapter 5: Mise-en-Scène).
8. What are three elements that describe neorealism?
Topic: n/a
a. nonprofessional actors; constructed sets; fixed camera
b. nonprofessional actors; location sets; handheld camera
c. professional actors; location sets; handheld camera
d. professional actors; constructed sets; fixed camera
Feedback/Reference: These are three major elements associated with neorealism (pp. 200–201).
9. Composition is part of the process of planning the design of a movie. When visualizing and planning shots, filmmakers must make decisions about two elements of composition: what we see on screen and what moves on screen. What are these two elements commonly called?
Topic: n/a
a. framing and kinesis
b. mise-en-scène and action
c. staging and kinesis
d. placement and action
Feedback/Reference: While production design is concerned with everything the audience sees within the frame, composition more specifically determines how we will see this material and how it will move. See p. 202.
10. Unlike a static painting or picture, a motion picture move and thus shift its point of view. Point of view is implied by
Topic: n/a
a. the director’s personal beliefs.
b. a character’s hair, makeup, and wardrobe.
c. the production design.
d. the framing of a shot.
Feedback/Reference: Framing implies point of view and in motion pictures point of view may change as a result of a moving frame or reframing (p. 202). See also the “Point of View” tutorial on the Looking at Movies DVD (Disc 1, Chapter 6: Cinematography).
11. This chapter’s analysis of Chinatown describes a shot in which no one is in the frame, then suddenly a puff of smoke enters the left side of the frame. This is an example of filmmakers using both on-screen and offscreen space. Which of the following clips also uses on-screen and offscreen space?
The Hill : view clip
Bartholomew’s Song : view clip
Kleingeld : view clip
Topic: n/a
a. The Hill
b. Bartholomew’s Song
c. Kleingeld
Feedback/Reference: This shot from Kleingeld relies on the interaction between on-screen space and offscreen space. The ringing phone occurs in offscreen space, and the man reacts to the ringing phone in on-screen space.
12. An open frame is generally employed in _____________ films, while a closed frame is generally employed in ____________ films.
Topic: n/a
a. antirealistic; realistic
b. realistic; antirealistic
c. expressionist; fantastic
d. fantastic; expressionist
Feedback/Reference: This is a common distinction between the open frame and the closed frame (pp. 204–08).
13. What is figure movement?
Topic: n/a
a. the movement of something concrete within the frame
b. the movement of something concrete from foreground to background
c. the movement of something concrete across the frame
d. the movement of the frame itself
Feedback/Reference: A figure is anything concrete that moves within the frame. A figure may move in many ways and is not limited to movement from foreground to background or movement across the frame (pp. 209–10).
14. The planning of the positions and movements of the actors and camera is called
Topic: n/a
a. framing.
b. staging.
c. blocking.
d. preproduction.
Feedback/Reference: This is the basic definition of blocking (p. 209).
15. Consider carefully the details of the mise-en-scène in the following clips. Based on the mise-en-scène, which do you think belongs to a dystopian futuristic narrative inhabited by mostly one-dimensional characters?
Spam-ku : view clip
Bartholomew’s Song : view clip
Two Cars, One Night : view clip
Topic: n/a
a. Spam-ku
b. Bartholomew’s Song
c. Two Cars, One Night
Quiz name: Looking at Movies, 4e
Chapter Number: 05
Student’s name: Francisco Garcia
Student’s email: garciafrancisco458@yahoo.com
Number of questions: 10
Percent correct: 100%
Chapter 13: I learned that neorealism was a cinematic movement. This cinematic movement happened in the 40’s. This movement contributed to the progression of film.
Detour
I was kind of disappointed with this film. A good thing I found from this film was the music, it was just so intense it had me wondering what was going to happen next and I think all movies should be like that. Also I would like to say that according to the movie and the intensity I would say that the outfits for the lady that was traveling with Al were black dresses and her lips were red, I could be wrong but that’s just another thing that caught my attention. I found this film somewhat disappointing because of the ending. I think I would have chosen a different ending for example Al reunited with Sue. Or maybe Al should had made it to Hollywood and been arrested over there. Also did Sue ever find out Al went to jail? Maybe we expect all these happy endings because we are just use to watching happy endings in all the movies.
Quiz name: Looking at Movies, 4e
Chapter Number: 05
Student’s name: Kaylana Bern
Student’s email: kaylanabern@gmail.com
Number of questions: 10
Percent correct: 90%
Question: Composition is part of the process of planning the design of a movie. When visualizing and planning shots, filmmakers must make decisions about two elements of composition: what we see on screen and what moves on screen. What are these two elements commonly called?
Student answered: a) framing and kinesis
Correct answer is: a) framing and kinesis
Question: An open frame is generally employed in _____________ films, while a closed frame is generally employed in ____________ films.
Student answered: b) realistic; antirealistic
Correct answer is: b) realistic; antirealistic
Question: Unlike a static painting or picture, a motion picture move and thus shift its point of view. Point of view is implied by
Student answered: d) the framing of a shot.
Correct answer is: d) the framing of a shot.
Question: The planning of the positions and movements of the actors and camera is called
Student answered: c) blocking.
Correct answer is: c) blocking.
Question: The organization, distribution, balance, movement, and general relationship of actors and objects within the space of a shot is called
Student answered: b) composition.
Correct answer is: b) composition.
Question: Which of the following statements about the production designer is NOT true?
Student answered: c) The production designer is hired relatively late in the production process.
Correct answer is: c) The production designer is hired relatively late in the production process.
Question: What are the major elements of cinematic design?
Student answered: b) setting; decor; properties; lighting; costume; makeup; hairstyle
Correct answer is: b) setting; decor; properties; lighting; costume; makeup; hairstyle
Question: What is figure movement?
Student answered: a) the movement of something concrete within the frame
Correct answer is: a) the movement of something concrete within the frame
Question: An important movement in art direction that sought to articulate human feeling and emotion through design elements such as structure, color, and texture with grossly exaggerated film sets is known as expressionism. Which of the following stills represents expressionism:CabiriaMarie AntoinetteThe Cabinet of Dr. Caligari
Student answered: c) The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari
Correct answer is: c) The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari
Question: Consider carefully the details of the mise-en-scène in the following clips. Based on the mise-en-scène, which do you think belongs to a dystopian futuristic narrative inhabited by mostly one-dimensional characters?Spam-ku : view clipBartholomew’s Song : view clipTwo Cars, One Night : view clip
Student answered: c) Two Cars, One Night
Correct answer is: b) Bartholomew’s Song
This movie was flat out funny. I couldn’t tell if any moment was meant to be taken seriously. Being that this was an older film, I was shocked that I enjoyed it. I typically don’t enjoy movies older than myself so this one was refreshing. It was like watching Saturday-Night-Live making fun of today’s government. The so called spies were to me, the highlight actors. By that I mean, the ones who stood out the most to me. Another thing I enjoyed was that each character was individually unique. Each person had their own distinct persona and that made it more entertaining.
Did I learn anything from this film? no, it was too humorous.
Did I gain anything from this film? no, unless you count a few laughs.
All in all, this was fun to watch, but nothing more than that… at least for me.
Your Score: 93 % (14 out of 15)
Wrong Answer is highlighted in Red.
Correct Answer is highlighted in green.
1. Which of the following statements about mise-en-scène is NOT true?
Topic: n/a
a. Mise-en-scène literally means “staging or putting on an action or scene.”
b. Mise-en-scène refers to the overall look and feel of a movie.
c. Mise-en-scène is the sum of everything the audience sees, hears, and experiences when watching a movie.
d. Mise-en-scène has two visual components: lighting and movement.
Feedback/Reference: The two major visual components of mise-en-scène are design and composition (p. 172).
2. The organization, distribution, balance, movement, and general relationship of actors and objects within the space of a shot is called
Topic: n/a
a. design.
b. composition.
c. framing.
d. cinematography.
Feedback/Reference: This is the basic definition of composition (p. 172). Framing, while an aspect of composition, does not relate to what moves on screen. See also the “Composing the Frame” tutorial on the Looking at Movies DVD (Disc 1, Chapter 5: Mise-en-Scène).
3. Which of the following statements about the production designer is NOT true?
Topic: n/a
a. The production designer is an executive responsible for supervising the heads of various design departments.
b. The production designer is an artist responsible for designing the overall look of a movie.
c. The production designer is hired relatively late in the production process.
d. The production designer is one of the first collaborators a director hires.
Feedback/Reference: The production designer is both an artist and executive who is generally one of the first collaborators hired by the director (pp. 180–82).
4. Some of the departments the production designer supervises include carpentry, properties, and transportation.
Topic: n/a
a. True
b. False
Feedback/Reference: The production designer oversees all of the many design related departments which include carpentry, properties, transportation, and many others (p. 182). For example, in this clip from The Hill, the production designer would be responsible for helping choose the make/model of the car, the house in which the party took place, the color of the walls, the drinks the partygoers have, the CDs on the shelf, the glasses in the cupboard, etc.
The Hill | view clip
5. What are the major elements of cinematic design?
Topic: n/a
a. lighting; framing; movement; setting; costume; makeup; hairstyle
b. setting; decor; properties; lighting; costume; makeup; hairstyle
c. setting; location; sets; properties; lighting; framing; cinematography
d. cinematography; decor; costume; makeup; setting; movement
Feedback/Reference: These are the major elements of cinematic design (pp. 183–94).
6. The two fundamental styles of design established in early motion pictures are the ___________ associated with the Lumière brothers and the ____________ associated with Georges Méliès.
Topic: n/a
a. realistic; surreal
b. realistic; fantastic
c. surreal; realistic
d. fantastic; realistic
Feedback/Reference: See p. 194.
7. An important movement in art direction that sought to articulate human feeling and emotion through design elements such as structure, color, and texture with grossly exaggerated film sets is known as expressionism. Which of the following stills represents expressionism:
image
Cabiria
image
Marie Antoinette
image
The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari
Topic: n/a
a. Cabiria
b. Marie Antoinette
c. The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari
Feedback/Reference: The still from The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari represents the basic qualities associated with expressionism (pp. 194–96). While the other examples have ornate or complex production designs, they do not illustrate the gross exaggeration and emotion of expressionism. See also the “Setting and Expressionism” tutorial on the Looking at Movies DVD (Disc 1, Chapter 5: Mise-en-Scène).
8. What are three elements that describe neorealism?
Topic: n/a
a. nonprofessional actors; constructed sets; fixed camera
b. nonprofessional actors; location sets; handheld camera
c. professional actors; location sets; handheld camera
d. professional actors; constructed sets; fixed camera
Feedback/Reference: These are three major elements associated with neorealism (pp. 200–201).
9. Composition is part of the process of planning the design of a movie. When visualizing and planning shots, filmmakers must make decisions about two elements of composition: what we see on screen and what moves on screen. What are these two elements commonly called?
Topic: n/a
a. framing and kinesis
b. mise-en-scène and action
c. staging and kinesis
d. placement and action
Feedback/Reference: While production design is concerned with everything the audience sees within the frame, composition more specifically determines how we will see this material and how it will move. See p. 202.
10. Unlike a static painting or picture, a motion picture move and thus shift its point of view. Point of view is implied by
Topic: n/a
a. the director’s personal beliefs.
b. a character’s hair, makeup, and wardrobe.
c. the production design.
d. the framing of a shot.
Feedback/Reference: Framing implies point of view and in motion pictures point of view may change as a result of a moving frame or reframing (p. 202). See also the “Point of View” tutorial on the Looking at Movies DVD (Disc 1, Chapter 6: Cinematography).
11. This chapter’s analysis of Chinatown describes a shot in which no one is in the frame, then suddenly a puff of smoke enters the left side of the frame. This is an example of filmmakers using both on-screen and offscreen space. Which of the following clips also uses on-screen and offscreen space?
The Hill : view clip
Bartholomew’s Song : view clip
Kleingeld : view clip
Topic: n/a
a. The Hill
b. Bartholomew’s Song
c. Kleingeld
Feedback/Reference: This shot from Kleingeld relies on the interaction between on-screen space and offscreen space. The ringing phone occurs in offscreen space, and the man reacts to the ringing phone in on-screen space.
12. An open frame is generally employed in _____________ films, while a closed frame is generally employed in ____________ films.
Topic: n/a
a. antirealistic; realistic
b. realistic; antirealistic
c. expressionist; fantastic
d. fantastic; expressionist
Feedback/Reference: This is a common distinction between the open frame and the closed frame (pp. 204–08).
13. What is figure movement?
Topic: n/a
a. the movement of something concrete within the frame
b. the movement of something concrete from foreground to background
c. the movement of something concrete across the frame
d. the movement of the frame itself
Feedback/Reference: A figure is anything concrete that moves within the frame. A figure may move in many ways and is not limited to movement from foreground to background or movement across the frame (pp. 209–10).
14. The planning of the positions and movements of the actors and camera is called
Topic: n/a
a. framing.
b. staging.
c. blocking.
d. preproduction.
Feedback/Reference: This is the basic definition of blocking (p. 209).
15. Consider carefully the details of the mise-en-scène in the following clips. Based on the mise-en-scène, which do you think belongs to a dystopian futuristic narrative inhabited by mostly one-dimensional characters?
Spam-ku : view clip
Bartholomew’s Song : view clip
Two Cars, One Night : view clip
Topic: n/a
a. Spam-ku
b. Bartholomew’s Song
c. Two Cars, One Night
Detour: I liked the lighting in the movie, it created an intensity as we watched it unfold.
Thanks people
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Quiz name: Looking at Movies, 4e
Chapter Number: 05
Student’s name: Jesus Gonzalez
Student’s email: jesus.zalez18@gmail.com
Number of questions: 15
Percent correct: 100%
M/K TILs:
Chapter 13 – In this chapter, I learned about the famous, Italian film director Roberto Rossellini. His film, Open City, is considered the unofficial cornerstone of Neorealism. This new movement was known by its use of nonprofessional actors and ultimately focused on the struggles common folks endured on a daily basis. In fact, Rossellini and his cinematographer actually carried their camera all over the city, taking shots that they would eventually use for the film.
Reflections on Detour:
Detour proved to be an enjoyable and an intriguing movie. It is considered to be a film noir, and is centered on certain aspects that would define it as one such in that genre. There were things that I didn’t quite like from the film, but there were other aspects that I did appreciate. I did not find the ending of the movie very interesting. I think the filmmakers could have incorporated a more captivating ending that wasn’t as predictable as the one they chose to use, which was simply a police car picking Al from the side of the road. However, the fact that it was shot in only six days, clearly explains the dull ending scene. On the other hand, there were certain factors of the film that definitely stood out. One of these factors is the use of a flashback to tell the story and the voice-over narration by the main protagonist, Al. Another aspect I thought was great of the film was the menacing feel the movie carried throughout. During the whole movie, it felt as if Al was trapped or restrained by the women that were involved in his life. Also, it seemed that no matter what he did, he was always bombarded by another situation, finding himself hopeless and lost in life. This sense of hopelessness is a good technique used by the filmmakers to convey the overall message. Some of the Edits done were interesting as well. There was always a use of music in the background whenever a transition from scene to scene occurred and the close-up shot on Al’s face when he was narrating his story definitely helped set the tone of the film. In the end, considering the filmmaker’s low budget and little time, I think Detour is a pretty good movie.
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Quiz name: Looking at Movies, 4e
Chapter Number: 05
Student’s name: Ervin Alcantara
Student’s email: alcantara.ervin2324@gmail.com
Number of questions: 15
Percent correct: 100%
Question: The two fundamental styles of design established in early motion pictures are the ___________ associated with the Lumière brothers and the ____________ associated with Georges Méliès.
Student answered: b) realistic; fantastic
Correct answer is: b) realistic; fantastic
Question: What is figure movement?
Student answered: a) the movement of something concrete within the frame
Correct answer is: a) the movement of something concrete within the frame
Question: What are the major elements of cinematic design?
Student answered: b) setting; decor; properties; lighting; costume; makeup; hairstyle
Correct answer is: b) setting; decor; properties; lighting; costume; makeup; hairstyle
Question: The planning of the positions and movements of the actors and camera is called
Student answered: c) blocking.
Correct answer is: c) blocking.
Question: An important movement in art direction that sought to articulate human feeling and emotion through design elements such as structure, color, and texture with grossly exaggerated film sets is known as expressionism. Which of the following stills represents expressionism:CabiriaMarie AntoinetteThe Cabinet of Dr. Caligari
Student answered: c) The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari
Correct answer is: c) The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari
Question: Which of the following statements about mise-en-scène is NOT true?
Student answered: d) Mise-en-scène has two visual components: lighting and movement.
Correct answer is: d) Mise-en-scène has two visual components: lighting and movement.
Question: Unlike a static painting or picture, a motion picture move and thus shift its point of view. Point of view is implied by
Student answered: d) the framing of a shot.
Correct answer is: d) the framing of a shot.
Question: Which of the following statements about the production designer is NOT true?
Student answered: c) The production designer is hired relatively late in the production process.
Correct answer is: c) The production designer is hired relatively late in the production process.
Question: This chapter’s analysis of Chinatown describes a shot in which no one is in the frame, then suddenly a puff of smoke enters the left side of the frame. This is an example of filmmakers using both on-screen and offscreen space. Which of the following clips also uses on-screen and offscreen space?The Hill : view clipBartholomew’s Song : view clipKleingeld : view clip
Student answered: c) Kleingeld
Correct answer is: c) Kleingeld
Question: Consider carefully the details of the mise-en-scène in the following clips. Based on the mise-en-scène, which do you think belongs to a dystopian futuristic narrative inhabited by mostly one-dimensional characters?Spam-ku : view clipBartholomew’s Song : view clipTwo Cars, One Night : view clip
Student answered: b) Bartholomew’s Song
Correct answer is: b) Bartholomew’s Song
Question: Composition is part of the process of planning the design of a movie. When visualizing and planning shots, filmmakers must make decisions about two elements of composition: what we see on screen and what moves on screen. What are these two elements commonly called?
Student answered: a) framing and kinesis
Correct answer is: a) framing and kinesis
Question: The organization, distribution, balance, movement, and general relationship of actors and objects within the space of a shot is called
Student answered: b) composition.
Correct answer is: b) composition.
Question: What are three elements that describe neorealism?
Student answered: b) nonprofessional actors; location sets; handheld camera
Correct answer is: b) nonprofessional actors; location sets; handheld camera
Question: An open frame is generally employed in _____________ films, while a closed frame is generally employed in ____________ films.
Student answered: b) realistic; antirealistic
Correct answer is: b) realistic; antirealistic
Question: Some of the departments the production designer supervises include carpentry, properties, and transportation.
Student answered: a) True
Correct answer is: a) True
Ch. 13 TILs
I learned that during Neorealism the European films searched for meaningful, life giving values in a world in which absolute values had crumbled. I also learned that the french film sprang from the filmmaker’s stylistic concern with the way a camera could capture reality.
Detour was definitely a darker movie compared to the previous ones we had seen in class like Duck Hunt or The Boy. The movie belongs to film noir which is characterized by a femme fatal which usually only causes problems for herself and others. Vera was a great femme fatal, through out the movie she was a ill humored character who was simply interested in money. The negative tone of film noir can be said to describe the nations overall feelings after the war which was overall lack of hope. Even though detour had been made rather quickly with mass produced shoots it was still very good in developing the plot and pulling the viewers attentions. I did find it disappointing however how the movie was ended. I believe that the movie could have ended in many other ways. Al could have met with his girlfriend and forgotten everything, or he could’ve been captured by the police and put on trial.
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CHAPTER 5
Mise-En-Scène
YOUR SCORE
Your Score: 93 % (14 out of 15)
Wrong Answer is highlighted in Red.
Correct Answer is highlighted in green.
1. Which of the following statements about mise-en-scène is NOT true?
Topic: n/a
a. Mise-en-scène literally means “staging or putting on an action or scene.”
b. Mise-en-scène refers to the overall look and feel of a movie.
c. Mise-en-scène is the sum of everything the audience sees, hears, and experiences when watching a movie.
d. Mise-en-scène has two visual components: lighting and movement.
Feedback/Reference: The two major visual components of mise-en-scène are design and composition (p. 172).
2. The organization, distribution, balance, movement, and general relationship of actors and objects within the space of a shot is called
Topic: n/a
a. design.
b. composition.
c. framing.
d. cinematography.
Feedback/Reference: This is the basic definition of composition (p. 172). Framing, while an aspect of composition, does not relate to what moves on screen. See also the “Composing the Frame” tutorial on the Looking at Movies DVD (Disc 1, Chapter 5: Mise-en-Scène).
3. Which of the following statements about the production designer is NOT true?
Topic: n/a
a. The production designer is an executive responsible for supervising the heads of various design departments.
b. The production designer is an artist responsible for designing the overall look of a movie.
c. The production designer is hired relatively late in the production process.
d. The production designer is one of the first collaborators a director hires.
Feedback/Reference: The production designer is both an artist and executive who is generally one of the first collaborators hired by the director (pp. 180–82).
4. Some of the departments the production designer supervises include carpentry, properties, and transportation.
Topic: n/a
a. True
b. False
Feedback/Reference: The production designer oversees all of the many design related departments which include carpentry, properties, transportation, and many others (p. 182). For example, in this clip from The Hill, the production designer would be responsible for helping choose the make/model of the car, the house in which the party took place, the color of the walls, the drinks the partygoers have, the CDs on the shelf, the glasses in the cupboard, etc.
The Hill | view clip
5. What are the major elements of cinematic design?
Topic: n/a
a. lighting; framing; movement; setting; costume; makeup; hairstyle
b. setting; decor; properties; lighting; costume; makeup; hairstyle
c. setting; location; sets; properties; lighting; framing; cinematography
d. cinematography; decor; costume; makeup; setting; movement
Feedback/Reference: These are the major elements of cinematic design (pp. 183–94).
6. The two fundamental styles of design established in early motion pictures are the ___________ associated with the Lumière brothers and the ____________ associated with Georges Méliès.
Topic: n/a
a. realistic; surreal
b. realistic; fantastic
c. surreal; realistic
d. fantastic; realistic
Feedback/Reference: See p. 194.
7. An important movement in art direction that sought to articulate human feeling and emotion through design elements such as structure, color, and texture with grossly exaggerated film sets is known as expressionism. Which of the following stills represents expressionism:
image
Cabiria
image
Marie Antoinette
image
The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari
Topic: n/a
a. Cabiria
b. Marie Antoinette
c. The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari
Feedback/Reference: The still from The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari represents the basic qualities associated with expressionism (pp. 194–96). While the other examples have ornate or complex production designs, they do not illustrate the gross exaggeration and emotion of expressionism. See also the “Setting and Expressionism” tutorial on the Looking at Movies DVD (Disc 1, Chapter 5: Mise-en-Scène).
8. What are three elements that describe neorealism?
Topic: n/a
a. nonprofessional actors; constructed sets; fixed camera
b. nonprofessional actors; location sets; handheld camera
c. professional actors; location sets; handheld camera
d. professional actors; constructed sets; fixed camera
Feedback/Reference: These are three major elements associated with neorealism (pp. 200–201).
9. Composition is part of the process of planning the design of a movie. When visualizing and planning shots, filmmakers must make decisions about two elements of composition: what we see on screen and what moves on screen. What are these two elements commonly called?
Topic: n/a
a. framing and kinesis
b. mise-en-scène and action
c. staging and kinesis
d. placement and action
Feedback/Reference: While production design is concerned with everything the audience sees within the frame, composition more specifically determines how we will see this material and how it will move. See p. 202.
10. Unlike a static painting or picture, a motion picture move and thus shift its point of view. Point of view is implied by
Topic: n/a
a. the director’s personal beliefs.
b. a character’s hair, makeup, and wardrobe.
c. the production design.
d. the framing of a shot.
Feedback/Reference: Framing implies point of view and in motion pictures point of view may change as a result of a moving frame or reframing (p. 202). See also the “Point of View” tutorial on the Looking at Movies DVD (Disc 1, Chapter 6: Cinematography).
11. This chapter’s analysis of Chinatown describes a shot in which no one is in the frame, then suddenly a puff of smoke enters the left side of the frame. This is an example of filmmakers using both on-screen and offscreen space. Which of the following clips also uses on-screen and offscreen space?
The Hill : view clip
Bartholomew’s Song : view clip
Kleingeld : view clip
Topic: n/a
a. The Hill
b. Bartholomew’s Song
c. Kleingeld
Feedback/Reference: This shot from Kleingeld relies on the interaction between on-screen space and offscreen space. The ringing phone occurs in offscreen space, and the man reacts to the ringing phone in on-screen space.
12. An open frame is generally employed in _____________ films, while a closed frame is generally employed in ____________ films.
Topic: n/a
a. antirealistic; realistic
b. realistic; antirealistic
c. expressionist; fantastic
d. fantastic; expressionist
Feedback/Reference: This is a common distinction between the open frame and the closed frame (pp. 204–08).
13. What is figure movement?
Topic: n/a
a. the movement of something concrete within the frame
b. the movement of something concrete from foreground to background
c. the movement of something concrete across the frame
d. the movement of the frame itself
Feedback/Reference: A figure is anything concrete that moves within the frame. A figure may move in many ways and is not limited to movement from foreground to background or movement across the frame (pp. 209–10).
14. The planning of the positions and movements of the actors and camera is called
Topic: n/a
a. framing.
b. staging.
c. blocking.
d. preproduction.
Feedback/Reference: This is the basic definition of blocking (p. 209).
15. Consider carefully the details of the mise-en-scène in the following clips. Based on the mise-en-scène, which do you think belongs to a dystopian futuristic narrative inhabited by mostly one-dimensional characters?
Spam-ku : view clip
Bartholomew’s Song : view clip
Two Cars, One Night : view clip
Topic: n/a
a. Spam-ku
b. Bartholomew’s Song
c. Two Cars, One Night
The movie Detour was very disappointing because the main protagonist Al never got to be reunited with his girlfriend Sue. Classical Hollywood in the 1940s made films through mass production, distribution, and circulation to cinema regardless of how good or bad the quality of the film was. This movie was very negative in it’s portrayal of women because it reinforced the inaccurate femme fatale stereotype that Women use there own sexuality to exploit men for their own personal gain. None of this is true because in actuality the sexes of men and women are relatively equal in equality to each other regardless of social status or socioeconomic status. Film editing and sound composition was very accurate for the time and the piano symphony scene was amazing along with the narrative of how money corrupts innocent everyday hard working people. If I was the director of this movie I would have made a happy ending where Al got to be reunited with his girlfriend Sue and the antagonist hitchhiker Vera would have been arrested and sent to jail for trying to frame Al for a crime he did not commit.
Today I learned in chapter 13 that Italian neorealism forced filmmakers to rethink the social values and realism of photography in filmmaking. The films often used camera, soundtrack, and mise en-scene to depict Postwar Europe in the aftermath and recovery from World War 2. Europeans revolutionized filmmaking during this era because they brought back a new wave mainstream interest in modernism with absurd drama, atonal music, structured themselves around a sociological problem instead of a story narrative.
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Cinema Ch. 5
Chapter Number: 05
Student’s name: Andrew Modrich
Number of questions: 15
Percent correct: 100%
TIL:
M/K Ch. 13- After the war film critics began to become filmmakers, and their films went back to the way films were made in the 1930s- spontaneity.
B/M Ch. 5- I wasn’t aware of all the roles the production designer has, and how close they work with the director.
Reflection on Detour:
The genre of film noir is marked by the pessimistic mood, and in the movie Detour in addition to the pessimistic mood there was femme fatal. That is characterized by an attractive woman, Vera, who ultimately brings disaster to a man, Al, who becomes involved with her. Throughout the film Al has horrible luck with the guy, Haskell, who he’s driving with dies. Al believes the only way to get out of it is to take Haskell’s identity. When Vera comes into the picture she looks fairly disheveled, and as the film progresses Vera become more assertive. As Vera becomes more assertive her appearance becomes more put together and is visually showing herself progress as a character. After Vera dies Al leaves LA hitchhiking, and ends up getting picked up by the police. The ending was rather odd, so I looked into the production of the film, and found that Hollywood Production Code did not allow a murderer to get away with the crime. The way that Edgar Ulmer got around the censorship was by ending it with Al being picked up, and by doing so foreshadowed what would eventually become of Al.
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Quiz name: Looking at Movies, 4e
Chapter Number: 05
Student’s name: Justin Michael Hines
Student’s email: jhines12@students.solano.edu
Number of questions: 15
Percent correct: 100%
M/K TILs
Chapter:
13. In “Neorealism, the New Wave, and What Followed,” I learned that the two most important movements of the the sound era were the Italian Neorealism and the French New Wave. Italian Neorealism was a national film movement characterized by stories set about the poor and the working class, filmed on location, while using non-professional actors. The French New Wave was a group of directors trying to revolutionize cinematic conventions by marrying the rapid cuts of Hollywood with philosophical trends in the late 1950s.
Reflections on Detour:
The film Detour was the first black and white noir film and it was interesting because of the turning point of the film. In the beginning the film was already in dark-scary mood because of the sound of the music and the tone of Al Roberts. There’s scene in the diner where there was a close up shot of Al where the frame could only see the eyes and part of the head while everything is darkened. In this scene, I interpreted it as if he was guilty as something because it seem his eyes were different than a person who would be acting normally and he was sweating. When the scene darkened that’s when his voice-over came and I thought it as a transition to his flashback.The title “Detour” is a symbol because a detour is a different route to avoid something while in the film it shows how he avoided the fact he wasn’t Charles Haskell and kept going with it until he got arrested. The turning point of the film was when the storm occurred and Haskell died and Al had to bring his body into a different location and hide it then he had to continue with his journey to see his girlfriend, Sue. I liked the editing of the fog when Al and Sue walked out of the bar/restaurant because the fog got thicker and thicker which indicate that something bad is going to happen, which it did, Sue had to go to LA, California, which means she had to leave him behind in New York. The character development was good because I saw journey of Al and Vera how they acted in the beginning of their appearance to their ending appearance. I know that this was a fordist noir film, but I would change the ending and prolonged it by Al meeting Sue and then getting arrested. I recommend this movie because I believe that “Detour” was one of the interesting noir films that was created in the 1940s.
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Chapter 13 TIL: In chapter 13, it talked about Italian neorealism and it became known. Neorealism started as WWII ended. The movement led way to a cultural change in Italy. The film style focused on contemporary stories and ideas and were often shot on the streets with non-professional actors.
Reflections on Detour:
Okay, for a black and white noir film this was actually really good. As a person who enjoys crime dramas , I really enjoyed the story of this film. I tried to figure out what was about to happen before it did but each time I was thrown for a loop. My only nitpick is the ending, it was lack luster. I would have Al reunite Sue and the police figure out that Vera was the one committed all those crimes and assumed that she killed her by accident in her drunken stooper.(I know it sounds crazy but it can happen). But I guess instead of a happy ending the writers wanted to take a “Detour” with the ending.
Quiz name: Looking at Movies, 4e
Chapter Number: 05
Student’s name: Kendall Carnell
Student’s email: Kenny2jay@gmail.com
Number of questions: 10
Percent correct: 80%
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Chapter Number: 5
Student’s Name: Nathaniel Wil Clarke
Number of questions: 15
Percent Correct: 100%
M/K TILs
Chapter 13- I learned about Robert Rossellini who had a hard time making the film Open City because of the lack of money and resources which was an example of Neorealism because he the cameraman was using a handheld camera. In the early 1960’s the French became obsessed with films in which they would also critique the movies rather than only watching them. Another influential filmmaker named Francois Truffaut who created his films around the idea of freedom in humans and filming techniques.
Reflections On Detour- This noir film was a pretty interesting watch in which we were able to see how the main character known as Al Roberts spends the entire movie trying to get to Hollywood to reunite with his girlfriend. His journey takes a turn for the worst when the man who picked up off the streets dies in the car and he has to hide the body to avoid being accused of murder. This movie created a feeling of suspense because it made you wonder how he was going to make it out the situation. There were certain close up frames during the film towards All that gave you a sense that he was feeling very guilty of what had happened. The title of this film fits the story exactly because on his way to reunite with his girlfriend, Al would end up in a situation to would cause him to go places he didn’t expect to go. The shots of Vera in the car when she first gets in a realizes what had happened give you the sense that she is the aggressor and Al doesn’t know how to handle what is going on. As the movie progresses Vera and Al try to go to a car dealer to sell the car so Al can not be attached to the Charles Haskell identity he is using. For being the first black and white noir film in the 1940s this movie is very successful and I would recommend people who are interested in noir films to watch this.
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Quiz name: Looking at Movies, 4e
Chapter Number: 05
Student’s name: Aidan McAninch
Student’s email: aidan.mcaninch@gmail.com
Number of questions: 15
Percent correct: 93%
Reflection on Detour: I saw Detour as a very relatable film which made it very enjoyable. The main protagonist had many flaws which really humanized him. The entire film revolves around his mistakes which is what a lot of people think about themselves. All the mistakes they have made. I really enjoyed the lesson in the film as well. It’s the classic case of doing the wrong thing for the right reasons. Al thinks his response to taking a dead man’s money, car, and clothes was alright because nobody would find out. Unfortunately he gets immediate karma and gets blackmailed by a girl named Vera he picks up on the road. I only have one problem with the movie and that would be the ending. It’s not that I didn’t like it…it just left me confused. For example after Al accidently killed Vera in the hotel room and thinks he’s gonna get in trouble he doesn’t. That’s because the police think the man that accidentally died in the first place or Charles Haskell was guilty and were on a search for him. When in reality he’s hidden away in the middle of the desert behind some bushes. Then soon after Al explains how the police are looking for the wrong guy he get’s picked up by the cops without any explanation. I would have been ok with him getting arrested because it would be a getting your comeuppance kind of moment. Instead I was just left confused if they figured it out or if they think he’s just some slob walking the streets after curfew (if they even had that back then).
TIL: The New Wave is time named by the French when really interesting or thought provoking movies started being produced and by new directors.
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Quiz name: Looking at Movies, 4e
Chapter Number: 05
Student’s name:
Student’s email:
Number of questions: 15
Percent correct: 100%
Question: What is figure movement?
Student answered: a) the movement of something concrete within the frame
Correct answer is: a) the movement of something concrete within the frame
Question: An important movement in art direction that sought to articulate human feeling and emotion through design elements such as structure, color, and texture with grossly exaggerated film sets is known as expressionism. Which of the following stills represents expressionism:CabiriaMarie AntoinetteThe Cabinet of Dr. Caligari
Student answered: c) The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari
Correct answer is: c) The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari
Question: Which of the following statements about mise-en-scène is NOT true?
Student answered: d) Mise-en-scène has two visual components: lighting and movement.
Correct answer is: d) Mise-en-scène has two visual components: lighting and movement.
Question: Unlike a static painting or picture, a motion picture move and thus shift its point of view. Point of view is implied by
Student answered: d) the framing of a shot.
Correct answer is: d) the framing of a shot.
Question: Composition is part of the process of planning the design of a movie. When visualizing and planning shots, filmmakers must make decisions about two elements of composition: what we see on screen and what moves on screen. What are these two elements commonly called?
Student answered: a) framing and kinesis
Correct answer is: a) framing and kinesis
Question: An open frame is generally employed in _____________ films, while a closed frame is generally employed in ____________ films.
Student answered: b) realistic; antirealistic
Correct answer is: b) realistic; antirealistic
Question: The planning of the positions and movements of the actors and camera is called
Student answered: c) blocking.
Correct answer is: c) blocking.
Question: Consider carefully the details of the mise-en-scène in the following clips. Based on the mise-en-scène, which do you think belongs to a dystopian futuristic narrative inhabited by mostly one-dimensional characters?Spam-ku : view clipBartholomew’s Song : view clipTwo Cars, One Night : view clip
Student answered: b) Bartholomew’s Song
Correct answer is: b) Bartholomew’s Song
Question: Which of the following statements about the production designer is NOT true?
Student answered: c) The production designer is hired relatively late in the production process.
Correct answer is: c) The production designer is hired relatively late in the production process.
Question: What are three elements that describe neorealism?
Student answered: b) nonprofessional actors; location sets; handheld camera
Correct answer is: b) nonprofessional actors; location sets; handheld camera
Question: The two fundamental styles of design established in early motion pictures are the ___________ associated with the Lumière brothers and the ____________ associated with Georges Méliès.
Student answered: b) realistic; fantastic
Correct answer is: b) realistic; fantastic
Question: Some of the departments the production designer supervises include carpentry, properties, and transportation.
Student answered: a) True
Correct answer is: a) True
Question: This chapter’s analysis of Chinatown describes a shot in which no one is in the frame, then suddenly a puff of smoke enters the left side of the frame. This is an example of filmmakers using both on-screen and offscreen space. Which of the following clips also uses on-screen and offscreen space?The Hill : view clipBartholomew’s Song : view clipKleingeld : view clip
Student answered: c) Kleingeld
Correct answer is: c) Kleingeld
Question: The organization, distribution, balance, movement, and general relationship of actors and objects within the space of a shot is called
Student answered: b) composition.
Correct answer is: b) composition.
Question: What are the major elements of cinematic design?
Student answered: b) setting; decor; properties; lighting; costume; makeup; hairstyle
Correct answer is: b) setting; decor; properties; lighting; costume; makeup; hairstyle
Ch. 13 TILs
The conflict that drove neorealist films was the conflict between common person and the immense social, economic and political forces that were factors in their existence. Because of these World War II and it’s effects were well documented in these films.
Thoughts on “Detour”
Detours use of an unreliable narrator was a beneficial aspect of the film. He talks about his ‘wonderful’ romance with Sue, but they are clearly on different temperaments. When he debates on whether to inform the police of Haskell’s death, he doubts they’ll believe the truth. However, he doesn’t even check on the man’s medication or health. Al Roberts doesn’t narrate the story we see, he narrates the one he’d prefer we believe. It’s like he’s not there to tell a story but to make an alibi for himself as if the audience is the police. The low production value of the film adds to the gritty dark tone, making us feel uneasy as an audience and that something may not be quite right.
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In the movie Noir we immediately saw the use of lighting and the way the ouch was only in his eyes for us to focuse there. We also saw the camera zooming into the recorder and then we appear into a differ seven if the women singing. Vera the women actress we see was at first seen as arguemental and has to always be right and towards the end we see her change to a drunk who is all over the place. She is going crazy over money and seems to be an alcoholic. He at the being saw his life behind great then a tragic incidents happened that made his head spin and loose all control of what was first a “small” problem to him. The use of the light represented a memory and he was having. I later see why the The lighting was on his eyes, because we saw into his story and the tragic things that put him to that unhappy state of his life. Over all a good movie wished i would have seen if he reunited at all with his girlfriend or what ended up happening with them. Also I wanted to know if he got accused for murdering them. But yet again this seemed like a mystery movie and we make up our own ending.
Number of questions: 15
Percent correct: 93%
Question: An open frame is generally employed in _____________ films, while a closed frame is generally employed in ____________ films.
Student answered: b) realistic; antirealistic
Correct answer is: b) realistic; antirealistic
Question: What are the major elements of cinematic design?
Student answered: b) setting; decor; properties; lighting; costume; makeup; hairstyle
Correct answer is: b) setting; decor; properties; lighting; costume; makeup; hairstyle
Question: Composition is part of the process of planning the design of a movie. When visualizing and planning shots, filmmakers must make decisions about two elements of composition: what we see on screen and what moves on screen. What are these two elements commonly called?
Student answered: a) framing and kinesis
Correct answer is: a) framing and kinesis
Question: Unlike a static painting or picture, a motion picture move and thus shift its point of view. Point of view is implied by
Student answered: d) the framing of a shot.
Correct answer is: d) the framing of a shot.
Question: Consider carefully the details of the mise-en-scène in the following clips. Based on the mise-en-scène, which do you think belongs to a dystopian futuristic narrative inhabited by mostly one-dimensional characters?Spam-ku : view clipBartholomew’s Song : view clipTwo Cars, One Night : view clip
Student answered: b) Bartholomew’s Song
Correct answer is: b) Bartholomew’s Song
Question: The organization, distribution, balance, movement, and general relationship of actors and objects within the space of a shot is called
Student answered: b) composition.
Correct answer is: b) composition.
Question: The planning of the positions and movements of the actors and camera is called
Student answered: c) blocking.
Correct answer is: c) blocking.
Question: Some of the departments the production designer supervises include carpentry, properties, and transportation.
Student answered: a) True
Correct answer is: a) True
Question: What are three elements that describe neorealism?
Student answered: b) nonprofessional actors; location sets; handheld camera
Correct answer is: b) nonprofessional actors; location sets; handheld camera
Question: The two fundamental styles of design established in early motion pictures are the ___________ associated with the Lumière brothers and the ____________ associated with Georges Méliès.
Student answered: b) realistic; fantastic
Correct answer is: b) realistic; fantastic
Question: An important movement in art direction that sought to articulate human feeling and emotion through design elements such as structure, color, and texture with grossly exaggerated film sets is known as expressionism. Which of the following stills represents expressionism:CabiriaMarie AntoinetteThe Cabinet of Dr. Caligari
Student answered: c) The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari
Correct answer is: c) The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari
Question: Which of the following statements about mise-en-scène is NOT true?
Student answered: d) Mise-en-scène has two visual components: lighting and movement.
Correct answer is: d) Mise-en-scène has two visual components: lighting and movement.
Question: What is figure movement?
Student answered: a) the movement of something concrete within the frame
Correct answer is: a) the movement of something concrete within the frame
Question: Which of the following statements about the production designer is NOT true?
Student answered: b) The production designer is an artist responsible for designing the overall look of a movie.
Correct answer is: c) The production designer is hired relatively late in the production process.
Question: This chapter’s analysis of Chinatown describes a shot in which no one is in the frame, then suddenly a puff of smoke enters the left side of the frame. This is an example of filmmakers using both on-screen and offscreen space. Which of the following clips also uses on-screen and offscreen space?The Hill : view clipBartholomew’s Song : view clipKleingeld : view clip
Student answered: c) Kleingeld
Correct answer is: c) Kleingeld
TILs
Ch.13 In this chapter we learn about the French and how they produced movies. We also learned how they mostly were talk about the movie and the hints that was wrong with it rather than acts illy watching it. Yet can be good they can learn from the things they didn’t like. Also learned about neorealism a cinematic movement that happened in the 40’s
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In the movie Noir: Detour we immediately saw the use of lighting and the way the ouch was only in his eyes for us to focuse there. We also saw the camera zooming into the recorder and then we appear into a differ seven if the women singing. Vera the women actress we see was at first seen as arguemental and has to always be right and towards the end we see her change to a drunk who is all over the place. She is going crazy over money and seems to be an alcoholic. He at the being saw his life behind great then a tragic incidents happened that made his head spin and loose all control of what was first a “small” problem to him. The use of the light represented a memory and he was having. I later see why the The lighting was on his eyes, because we saw into his story and the tragic things that put him to that unhappy state of his life. Over all a good movie wished i would have seen if he reunited at all with his girlfriend or what ended up happening with them. Also I wanted to know if he got accused for murdering them. But yet again this seemed like a mystery movie and we make up our own ending.
Number of questions: 15
Percent correct: 93%
Question: An open frame is generally employed in _____________ films, while a closed frame is generally employed in ____________ films.
Student answered: b) realistic; antirealistic
Correct answer is: b) realistic; antirealistic
Question: What are the major elements of cinematic design?
Student answered: b) setting; decor; properties; lighting; costume; makeup; hairstyle
Correct answer is: b) setting; decor; properties; lighting; costume; makeup; hairstyle
Question: Composition is part of the process of planning the design of a movie. When visualizing and planning shots, filmmakers must make decisions about two elements of composition: what we see on screen and what moves on screen. What are these two elements commonly called?
Student answered: a) framing and kinesis
Correct answer is: a) framing and kinesis
Question: Unlike a static painting or picture, a motion picture move and thus shift its point of view. Point of view is implied by
Student answered: d) the framing of a shot.
Correct answer is: d) the framing of a shot.
Question: Consider carefully the details of the mise-en-scène in the following clips. Based on the mise-en-scène, which do you think belongs to a dystopian futuristic narrative inhabited by mostly one-dimensional characters?Spam-ku : view clipBartholomew’s Song : view clipTwo Cars, One Night : view clip
Student answered: b) Bartholomew’s Song
Correct answer is: b) Bartholomew’s Song
Question: The organization, distribution, balance, movement, and general relationship of actors and objects within the space of a shot is called
Student answered: b) composition.
Correct answer is: b) composition.
Question: The planning of the positions and movements of the actors and camera is called
Student answered: c) blocking.
Correct answer is: c) blocking.
Question: Some of the departments the production designer supervises include carpentry, properties, and transportation.
Student answered: a) True
Correct answer is: a) True
Question: What are three elements that describe neorealism?
Student answered: b) nonprofessional actors; location sets; handheld camera
Correct answer is: b) nonprofessional actors; location sets; handheld camera
Question: The two fundamental styles of design established in early motion pictures are the ___________ associated with the Lumière brothers and the ____________ associated with Georges Méliès.
Student answered: b) realistic; fantastic
Correct answer is: b) realistic; fantastic
Question: An important movement in art direction that sought to articulate human feeling and emotion through design elements such as structure, color, and texture with grossly exaggerated film sets is known as expressionism. Which of the following stills represents expressionism:CabiriaMarie AntoinetteThe Cabinet of Dr. Caligari
Student answered: c) The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari
Correct answer is: c) The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari
Question: Which of the following statements about mise-en-scène is NOT true?
Student answered: d) Mise-en-scène has two visual components: lighting and movement.
Correct answer is: d) Mise-en-scène has two visual components: lighting and movement.
Question: What is figure movement?
Student answered: a) the movement of something concrete within the frame
Correct answer is: a) the movement of something concrete within the frame
Question: Which of the following statements about the production designer is NOT true?
Student answered: b) The production designer is an artist responsible for designing the overall look of a movie.
Correct answer is: c) The production designer is hired relatively late in the production process.
Question: This chapter’s analysis of Chinatown describes a shot in which no one is in the frame, then suddenly a puff of smoke enters the left side of the frame. This is an example of filmmakers using both on-screen and offscreen space. Which of the following clips also uses on-screen and offscreen space?The Hill : view clipBartholomew’s Song : view clipKleingeld : view clip
Student answered: c) Kleingeld
Correct answer is: c) Kleingeld
TILs
Ch.13 In this chapter we see how the French and how they produced movies. We also learned how they mostly were talk about the movie and the hints that was wrong with it rather than acts illy watching it. Yet can be good they can learn from the things they didn’t like.
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Quiz name: Looking at Movies, 4e
Chapter Number: 05
Student’s name: Tony Rivera
Student’s email: rivera7o7@yahoo.com
Number of questions: 10
Percent correct: 100%
M/K TILs
Roberto Rossellini, who was an Italian film director and screenwriter, had faced some adversity while creating a name for himself in the industry. He was one of the Directors of the Italian neorealist cinema. Italian Neorealism along with the French New Wave were some of the most significant to the sound era. Regular viewers of films were becoming critics who then became Directors themselves, and new types of filming techniques were being implemented into the industry during this post-war modernism era.
Reflections on Detour:
In this black & white film noir pianist Al Roberts and girlfriend Sue Harvey have a hopeless romantic story where Sue actually leaves Al to pursue her dreams in Hollywood. A twisted story line if you ask me, a murder story mixed with a female antagonist and a failed pursuit of long. Al Roberts attempts to hitchhike all the way to LA and be with Sue but comes across a twisted man by the name of Charles Haskell who he actually murders and pretends to be in order to make it to LA in peace and be with his woman. Another twisted encounter gets him into more than he can handle and eventually kills a woman to make a long story short and makes it to jail before he can make it to Sue Harvey.
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Quiz name: Looking at Movies, 4e
Chapter Number: 05
Student’s name: Iman Ereiqat
Student’s email: imanereiqat0@gmail.com
Number of questions: 15
Percent correct: 100%
Ch 13 TIL: Italian Neorealism was an important movement that contributed to the progression of film.
Detour was a movie that I thought was pretty… cute. Cute is how I feel about it for some reason. It was a cool plot line & I really liked the story. It was a string of strange events that happened to Al, all while he was trying to see his girlfriend in LA. I found the ending to be incredibly underwhelming. Throughout the movie, I found myself feeling very hopeful and wanting Al to at least see his girlfriend. He finally made it to LA but didn’t go to see her before he got taken away. I also think it was kind of dumb for him to take Charles’ car in the first place, but I guess we wouldn’t have the movie if he just did what he should’ve done (which is just call the police and explain to them what happened).
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Quiz name: Looking at Movies, 4e
Chapter Number: 05
Student’s name: Jose Bernal
Number of questions: 10
Percent correct: 90%
Question: The planning of the positions and movements of the actors and camera is called
Student answered: c) blocking.
Correct answer is: c) blocking.
Question: What are three elements that describe neorealism?
Student answered: b) nonprofessional actors; location sets; handheld camera
Correct answer is: b) nonprofessional actors; location sets; handheld camera
Question: The two fundamental styles of design established in early motion pictures are the ___________ associated with the Lumière brothers and the ____________ associated with Georges Méliès.
Student answered: b) realistic; fantastic
Correct answer is: b) realistic; fantastic
Question: Some of the departments the production designer supervises include carpentry, properties, and transportation.
Student answered: a) True
Correct answer is: a) True
Question: What is figure movement?
Student answered: a) the movement of something concrete within the frame
Correct answer is: a) the movement of something concrete within the frame
Question: Composition is part of the process of planning the design of a movie. When visualizing and planning shots, filmmakers must make decisions about two elements of composition: what we see on screen and what moves on screen. What are these two elements commonly called?
Student answered: a) framing and kinesis
Correct answer is: a) framing and kinesis
Question: Which of the following statements about mise-en-scène is NOT true?
Student answered: d) Mise-en-scène has two visual components: lighting and movement.
Correct answer is: d) Mise-en-scène has two visual components: lighting and movement.
Question: Unlike a static painting or picture, a motion picture move and thus shift its point of view. Point of view is implied by
Student answered: d) the framing of a shot.
Correct answer is: d) the framing of a shot.
Question: What are the major elements of cinematic design?
Student answered: b) setting; decor; properties; lighting; costume; makeup; hairstyle
Correct answer is: b) setting; decor; properties; lighting; costume; makeup; hairstyle
Question: The organization, distribution, balance, movement, and general relationship of actors and objects within the space of a shot is called
Student answered: c) framing.
Correct answer is: b) composition.
Detour Review:
Edgar G. Ulmer’s “Detour” was an enjoyable Film Noir but it was very confusing at first and had a weak ending in my opinion. One of Detour’s strong points though was it’s use of lighting to create suspense, the lighting, or rather the absence of it, in certain scenes with Tom Neal’s character really helped to create a sense of interpersonal struggle that his character was going through. Ann Savage was also very entertaining and really captured the Femme Fatale aspect many actresses at the time were sought after for. Though Detour is considered iconic and has been praised since it’s release in 1945, I felt like it had a really weak story and was very confusing up until the death of Edmund Macdonald’s character. The ending could also have been better, I didn’t actually realize Neal’s character being taken away by the Highway Patrol was just in his imagination until reading some more about the film afterwards. If I had to rate this movie out of 10 I would give it a 7 since it was made in a different era of film and was popular at it’s time.
Today I learned about Italian Neorealism and the aspects that went into it such as film techniques like handheld cameras and filming on location rather than sets
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MK
Chapter 13 – Jean-Luc Godard was a French filmmaker whose films are “consistent in their inconsistency, their eclecticism, and their mixing of different kinds of ideas and cinematic principles”. He was a part of the New Wave movement that was split into two primary parts: the Cahiers (critics turned directors) and the Left Bank (those who had gone directly into filmmaking). Godard found the human experience to be irrational and inexplicable.
Quiz 5:
Your Score: 100 % (15 out of 15)
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Quiz name: Looking at Movies, 4e
Chapter Number: 05
Student’s name: Kimi Garcia
Student’s email: kimigarcia123@gmail.com
Number of questions: 15
Percent correct: 100%
M/K TIL:
Chapter 13-Chapter thirteen discusses how Frances style of filming after the war had changed but some things still remained the same, French directors and camera men wanted to catch the harsh reality that is the world everyone lives in now before, during and after war. But, the style and form of the films they produced would remain the same since the French were so strong with experimenting in style and form to make their point in films.
Reflection on Detour:
I thought the film was great because it didn’t have a typical happy ending, it hit with an unexpected ending which is better in my opinion. Anytime I see a flashback in a diner I automatically think of “Back to the Future” directed by Robert Zemeckis except the flashback in “Detour” was way less hilarious and a lot more dark and depressed. The scene where Al Roberts and Sue Harvey are having a discussion about why Sue must leave to California to pursue her career and as they’re walking and talking the fog is built up. I believe the fog was built up for them to walk through together because their relationship then becomes foggy, who know’s if they will still remain in contact after she goes off to pursue her career? We don’t know until he actually calls her and we as the audience see and hear his responses to what she is saying, that things are not going well for her but that is the only time we hear from her again until Al calls her again from the hotel. Now while Sue Harvey is out of the picture for him he runs into Vera, if it isn’t one women causing him to go through so much lengths then it becomes another. It just begs the question, if Al Roberts had not been a gentlemen and given that innocent looking women on the side of the road a ride to her destination, would he still have been in all this trouble? The film kind of makes it seem that maybe by thinking you’re doing the so called ‘right’ thing you are actually doing the exact opposite. Ironic right, because when you do something good then you get good karma and when you do something bad you get bad karma.
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Quiz name: Looking at Movies, 4e
Chapter Number: 05
Student’s name: Fidel Moralez
Student’s email: fmorale9@students.solano.edu
Number of questions: 15
Percent correct: 100%
TIL CH13
I learned about how Italian Neorealism was a film movement to emphasize social values using nonprofessional actors telling the stories of the poor as well as the working class. Also learned about the French and their unique style of critiquing and filming during and after war.
This was a great noir type film because of the drama and crimes. There were dark mysterious parts of the film like when Al was in the diner and the lighting was just on his eyes as the rest of the room was dark and he would explain the story, it gave a cool effect and I’m sure in that time it was very well liked. Basically the whole time Al ran into a snowball effect of issues while he was trying to cross the country to see his girlfriend. When he was left with the dead body I thought it was bad enough but then when he picked up Vera hitchhiking I was like “man he really messed up” I mean it was dumb of him to even get involved with someone when he was dealing with that situation of driving a stolen car with a fake identity in the first place. Overall I just felt sorry for the guy because he really wasn’t a bad guy he just got in some unfortunate situations and made some bad decisions. one part that kind of stood out that was funny to me was when he was narrating and mentioned in the hotel room how “this should be the part where Vera and I just run away together and fall in love and start a new life together” or something along those lines. It did make sense considering the mess they got into. The movie just completely fell off at the end making us think he got away with it then showing him get arrested. It was just so sudden and I feel the director could have at least put a little more effort but instead it seemed like an almost lazy ending. Overall though I would say it was a good movie and I really did enjoy it.
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TIL:
Chapter 13 I learned about what happened with the French and Italians postwar how the content and style that began in Italy and culminated in France affected and influenced.
Quiz name: Looking at Movies
Chapter Number: 05
Student’s name: Cheyenne Ford
Student’s email: cford20@students.solano.edu
Number of questions: 15
Percent correct: 80%
Reflection:
Detours ending was horrible I just had to say that before I started going into my other thoughts about the movie. The movie was kind of sad in a way due to the unfortunate events that occurred to the main character. It was pretty good for a black and white movie, the lighting was interesting to see done in such a way. Black and white movies add more shadows and the lighting or white patches are either dulled in such a way that they can highlight that particular spot. I find black and white movies to be retro in I wish they did more of them today. The contrast throughout the movie is good. A really good part was when they are in the motel together and while he was pulling the telephone cord all I was thinking like why would you pull it when you know it was suck on something and he just keep pulling the cord, like that was going to make a difference. That part and the ending are the only things that bugged me the most about the movie. But other than those parts I believe that it was a well shot and directed movie.
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Chapter 13 – “The New Wave” is a French movement that consisted of two parts: 1) the Cahiers group, former critics turned directors 2) Left Bank, went directly into film making. They have been credited with being more serious and professional filmmakers. The New Wave filmmakers each decided to create their films in their own way and perspective. What i didn’t really know was that this Wave was structured around the filmmakers and their contributions rather than the films they actually made.
B/M TIL
Chapter 5 – Staging has an incredibly huge role in setting the scene and every little piece has a reason for being there. Whether it’s symbolism or scene building each part is carefully considered. This i assumed was headed by the director and had the crew set up each scene but i didn’t realize that this has its own lead, the production designer. They work extremely close with the director and the director of photography in order to have everything necessary to stage the scene.
Detour
After watching Detour I didn’t get much from the story but I felt invested in the characters. It felt more like a character driven movie in which Al hit a string of strange luck and his responses. Everything from the score to the camera angles of him interacting with the police at the check point gave a sense of tension. I think the most telling part were the shots in the diner. As the story progressed and the more that happened the light became shallower from his body, to his face, to finally his eyes; as if the more that happened the more of himself he lost, from his identity, to even his humanity after killing Vera.
1. Which of the following statements about mise-en-scène is NOT true?
Topic: n/a
a. Mise-en-scène literally means “staging or putting on an action or scene.”
b. Mise-en-scène refers to the overall look and feel of a movie.
c. Mise-en-scène is the sum of everything the audience sees, hears, and experiences when watching a movie.
d. Mise-en-scène has two visual components: lighting and movement.
Feedback/Reference: The two major visual components of mise-en-scène are design and composition (p. 172).
2. The organization, distribution, balance, movement, and general relationship of actors and objects within the space of a shot is called
Topic: n/a
a. design.
b. composition.
c. framing.
d. cinematography.
Feedback/Reference: This is the basic definition of composition (p. 172). Framing, while an aspect of composition, does not relate to what moves on screen. See also the “Composing the Frame” tutorial on the Looking at Movies DVD (Disc 1, Chapter 5: Mise-en-Scène).
3. Which of the following statements about the production designer is NOT true?
Topic: n/a
a. The production designer is an executive responsible for supervising the heads of various design departments.
b. The production designer is an artist responsible for designing the overall look of a movie.
c. The production designer is hired relatively late in the production process.
d. The production designer is one of the first collaborators a director hires.
Feedback/Reference: The production designer is both an artist and executive who is generally one of the first collaborators hired by the director (pp. 180–82).
4. Some of the departments the production designer supervises include carpentry, properties, and transportation.
Topic: n/a
a. True
b. False
Feedback/Reference: The production designer oversees all of the many design related departments which include carpentry, properties, transportation, and many others (p. 182). For example, in this clip from The Hill, the production designer would be responsible for helping choose the make/model of the car, the house in which the party took place, the color of the walls, the drinks the partygoers have, the CDs on the shelf, the glasses in the cupboard, etc.
The Hill | view clip
5. What are the major elements of cinematic design?
Topic: n/a
a. lighting; framing; movement; setting; costume; makeup; hairstyle
b. setting; decor; properties; lighting; costume; makeup; hairstyle
c. setting; location; sets; properties; lighting; framing; cinematography
d. cinematography; decor; costume; makeup; setting; movement
Feedback/Reference: These are the major elements of cinematic design (pp. 183–94).
6. The two fundamental styles of design established in early motion pictures are the ___________ associated with the Lumière brothers and the ____________ associated with Georges Méliès.
Topic: n/a
a. realistic; surreal
b. realistic; fantastic
c. surreal; realistic
d. fantastic; realistic
Feedback/Reference: See p. 194.
7. An important movement in art direction that sought to articulate human feeling and emotion through design elements such as structure, color, and texture with grossly exaggerated film sets is known as expressionism. Which of the following stills represents expressionism:
image
Cabiria
image
Marie Antoinette
image
The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari
Topic: n/a
a. Cabiria
b. Marie Antoinette
c. The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari
Feedback/Reference: The still from The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari represents the basic qualities associated with expressionism (pp. 194–96). While the other examples have ornate or complex production designs, they do not illustrate the gross exaggeration and emotion of expressionism. See also the “Setting and Expressionism” tutorial on the Looking at Movies DVD (Disc 1, Chapter 5: Mise-en-Scène).
8. What are three elements that describe neorealism?
Topic: n/a
a. nonprofessional actors; constructed sets; fixed camera
b. nonprofessional actors; location sets; handheld camera
c. professional actors; location sets; handheld camera
d. professional actors; constructed sets; fixed camera
Feedback/Reference: These are three major elements associated with neorealism (pp. 200–201).
9. Composition is part of the process of planning the design of a movie. When visualizing and planning shots, filmmakers must make decisions about two elements of composition: what we see on screen and what moves on screen. What are these two elements commonly called?
Topic: n/a
a. framing and kinesis
b. mise-en-scène and action
c. staging and kinesis
d. placement and action
Feedback/Reference: While production design is concerned with everything the audience sees within the frame, composition more specifically determines how we will see this material and how it will move. See p. 202.
10. Unlike a static painting or picture, a motion picture move and thus shift its point of view. Point of view is implied by
Topic: n/a
a. the director’s personal beliefs.
b. a character’s hair, makeup, and wardrobe.
c. the production design.
d. the framing of a shot.
Feedback/Reference: Framing implies point of view and in motion pictures point of view may change as a result of a moving frame or reframing (p. 202). See also the “Point of View” tutorial on the Looking at Movies DVD (Disc 1, Chapter 6: Cinematography).
11. This chapter’s analysis of Chinatown describes a shot in which no one is in the frame, then suddenly a puff of smoke enters the left side of the frame. This is an example of filmmakers using both on-screen and offscreen space. Which of the following clips also uses on-screen and offscreen space?
The Hill : view clip
Bartholomew’s Song : view clip
Kleingeld : view clip
Topic: n/a
a. The Hill
b. Bartholomew’s Song
c. Kleingeld
Feedback/Reference: This shot from Kleingeld relies on the interaction between on-screen space and offscreen space. The ringing phone occurs in offscreen space, and the man reacts to the ringing phone in on-screen space.
12. An open frame is generally employed in _____________ films, while a closed frame is generally employed in ____________ films.
Topic: n/a
a. antirealistic; realistic
b. realistic; antirealistic
c. expressionist; fantastic
d. fantastic; expressionist
Feedback/Reference: This is a common distinction between the open frame and the closed frame (pp. 204–08).
13. What is figure movement?
Topic: n/a
a. the movement of something concrete within the frame
b. the movement of something concrete from foreground to background
c. the movement of something concrete across the frame
d. the movement of the frame itself
Feedback/Reference: A figure is anything concrete that moves within the frame. A figure may move in many ways and is not limited to movement from foreground to background or movement across the frame (pp. 209–10).
14. The planning of the positions and movements of the actors and camera is called
Topic: n/a
a. framing.
b. staging.
c. blocking.
d. preproduction.
Feedback/Reference: This is the basic definition of blocking (p. 209).
15. Consider carefully the details of the mise-en-scène in the following clips. Based on the mise-en-scène, which do you think belongs to a dystopian futuristic narrative inhabited by mostly one-dimensional characters?
Spam-ku : view clip
Bartholomew’s Song : view clip
Two Cars, One Night : view clip
Topic: n/a
a. Spam-ku
b. Bartholomew’s Song
c. Two Cars, One Night
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Detour:
In this movie the background is constantly moving most of the time while the actors or whatever is in focus is directly in front of the camera and doesn’t appear to move. At the time I didn’t think green screens existed because of how old the film appeared. Then it turns out they did have the technology, but it was called a blue screen at the time. I saw a lot that was done to really set the tone for the story. During the opening the main character is talking to the audience and sets a slightly scary mood as he’s about to tell his story. Then later when it shows him again towards the end of the film, the lighting is darker everywhere else besides the main character’s eyes. I think this was done to show how serious and creepy things have gotten in this point of the story.
TIL
Chapter 13:
In this chapter I learned that a major movement in film making happened in Italy after the war called neorealism. Which were movies shot with non-professional actors and looked at meaningful life-giving values during a time that it seemed lost to the world.
Quiz name: Looking at Movies, 4e
Chapter Number: 05
Student’s name: Roberto Cortez
Student’s email: rcorte12@students.solano.edu
Number of questions: 15
Percent correct: 100%
Question: The organization, distribution, balance, movement, and general relationship of actors and objects within the space of a shot is called
Student answered: b) composition.
Correct answer is: b) composition.
Question: This chapter’s analysis of Chinatown describes a shot in which no one is in the frame, then suddenly a puff of smoke enters the left side of the frame. This is an example of filmmakers using both on-screen and offscreen space. Which of the following clips also uses on-screen and offscreen space?The Hill : view clipBartholomew’s Song : view clipKleingeld : view clip
Student answered: c) Kleingeld
Correct answer is: c) Kleingeld
Question: Which of the following statements about the production designer is NOT true?
Student answered: c) The production designer is hired relatively late in the production process.
Correct answer is: c) The production designer is hired relatively late in the production process.
Question: Composition is part of the process of planning the design of a movie. When visualizing and planning shots, filmmakers must make decisions about two elements of composition: what we see on screen and what moves on screen. What are these two elements commonly called?
Student answered: a) framing and kinesis
Correct answer is: a) framing and kinesis
Question: The two fundamental styles of design established in early motion pictures are the ___________ associated with the Lumière brothers and the ____________ associated with Georges Méliès.
Student answered: b) realistic; fantastic
Correct answer is: b) realistic; fantastic
Question: What is figure movement?
Student answered: a) the movement of something concrete within the frame
Correct answer is: a) the movement of something concrete within the frame
Question: An important movement in art direction that sought to articulate human feeling and emotion through design elements such as structure, color, and texture with grossly exaggerated film sets is known as expressionism. Which of the following stills represents expressionism:CabiriaMarie AntoinetteThe Cabinet of Dr. Caligari
Student answered: c) The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari
Correct answer is: c) The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari
Question: Which of the following statements about mise-en-scène is NOT true?
Student answered: d) Mise-en-scène has two visual components: lighting and movement.
Correct answer is: d) Mise-en-scène has two visual components: lighting and movement.
Question: What are three elements that describe neorealism?
Student answered: b) nonprofessional actors; location sets; handheld camera
Correct answer is: b) nonprofessional actors; location sets; handheld camera
Question: What are the major elements of cinematic design?
Student answered: b) setting; decor; properties; lighting; costume; makeup; hairstyle
Correct answer is: b) setting; decor; properties; lighting; costume; makeup; hairstyle
Question: Unlike a static painting or picture, a motion picture move and thus shift its point of view. Point of view is implied by
Student answered: d) the framing of a shot.
Correct answer is: d) the framing of a shot.
Question: The planning of the positions and movements of the actors and camera is called
Student answered: c) blocking.
Correct answer is: c) blocking.
Question: An open frame is generally employed in _____________ films, while a closed frame is generally employed in ____________ films.
Student answered: b) realistic; antirealistic
Correct answer is: b) realistic; antirealistic
Question: Consider carefully the details of the mise-en-scène in the following clips. Based on the mise-en-scène, which do you think belongs to a dystopian futuristic narrative inhabited by mostly one-dimensional characters?Spam-ku : view clipBartholomew’s Song : view clipTwo Cars, One Night : view clip
Student answered: b) Bartholomew’s Song
Correct answer is: b) Bartholomew’s Song
Question: Some of the departments the production designer supervises include carpentry, properties, and transportation.
Student answered: a) True
Correct answer is: a) True
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TILs Chapter 13: I learned that Bernardo Bertolucci combined the sensuous and the political by showing that political and sexual commitments weave together in complex and mysterious ways.
Quiz name: Looking at Movies, 4e
Chapter Number: 05
Student’s name: Marina Moran
Student’s email: marinamoran44@yahoo.com
Number of questions: 15
Percent correct: 93%
Question: The organization, distribution, balance, movement, and general relationship of actors and objects within the space of a shot is called
Student answered: b) composition.
Correct answer is: b) composition.
Question: An important movement in art direction that sought to articulate human feeling and emotion through design elements such as structure, color, and texture with grossly exaggerated film sets is known as expressionism. Which of the following stills represents expressionism:CabiriaMarie AntoinetteThe Cabinet of Dr. Caligari
Student answered: c) The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari
Correct answer is: c) The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari
Question: The planning of the positions and movements of the actors and camera is called
Student answered: c) blocking.
Correct answer is: c) blocking.
Question: Which of the following statements about mise-en-scène is NOT true?
Student answered: d) Mise-en-scène has two visual components: lighting and movement.
Correct answer is: d) Mise-en-scène has two visual components: lighting and movement.
Question: This chapter’s analysis of Chinatown describes a shot in which no one is in the frame, then suddenly a puff of smoke enters the left side of the frame. This is an example of filmmakers using both on-screen and offscreen space. Which of the following clips also uses on-screen and offscreen space?The Hill : view clipBartholomew’s Song : view clipKleingeld : view clip
Student answered: c) Kleingeld
Correct answer is: c) Kleingeld
Question: Some of the departments the production designer supervises include carpentry, properties, and transportation.
Student answered: a) True
Correct answer is: a) True
Question: What are the major elements of cinematic design?
Student answered: b) setting; decor; properties; lighting; costume; makeup; hairstyle
Correct answer is: b) setting; decor; properties; lighting; costume; makeup; hairstyle
Question: What are three elements that describe neorealism?
Student answered: b) nonprofessional actors; location sets; handheld camera
Correct answer is: b) nonprofessional actors; location sets; handheld camera
Question: What is figure movement?
Student answered: a) the movement of something concrete within the frame
Correct answer is: a) the movement of something concrete within the frame
Question: Unlike a static painting or picture, a motion picture move and thus shift its point of view. Point of view is implied by
Student answered: d) the framing of a shot.
Correct answer is: d) the framing of a shot.
Question: Which of the following statements about the production designer is NOT true?
Student answered: c) The production designer is hired relatively late in the production process.
Correct answer is: c) The production designer is hired relatively late in the production process.
Question: Composition is part of the process of planning the design of a movie. When visualizing and planning shots, filmmakers must make decisions about two elements of composition: what we see on screen and what moves on screen. What are these two elements commonly called?
Student answered: a) framing and kinesis
Correct answer is: a) framing and kinesis
Question: An open frame is generally employed in _____________ films, while a closed frame is generally employed in ____________ films.
Student answered: b) realistic; antirealistic
Correct answer is: b) realistic; antirealistic
Question: The two fundamental styles of design established in early motion pictures are the ___________ associated with the Lumière brothers and the ____________ associated with Georges Méliès.
Student answered: b) realistic; fantastic
Correct answer is: b) realistic; fantastic
Question: Consider carefully the details of the mise-en-scène in the following clips. Based on the mise-en-scène, which do you think belongs to a dystopian futuristic narrative inhabited by mostly one-dimensional characters?Spam-ku : view clipBartholomew’s Song : view clipTwo Cars, One Night : view clip
Student answered: c) Two Cars, One Night
Correct answer is: b) Bartholomew’s Song
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reflection on detour :
`detour was almost like one of those present day flashback movies that we see today. or should is say how the movies we see today relate to detour. in my opinion flashback movies are not my fancy, i like to experience the movie at the same as the actor and not be told a story from the actors future POV. though this movie is not in my tasted, in a way in kind of reflected the same relationship as the one seen in mad max. over time, it seems like the characters began to develop a liking towards one another. the overall was meh, especially the anti-climatic ending of the main character simply walking off as if nothing had happened. this leave the viewer in a place of disbelief, not showing what has happened after both the murder incidents, or even if he got to see his girlfriend at the end.
Quiz name: Looking at Movies, 4e
Chapter Number: 05
Student’s name: marcus bravo
Student’s email: jbravo91697@gmail.com
Number of questions: 10
Percent correct: 100%
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TIL Ch 13: Roberto Rossellini, an Italian director, whose film, “Open City,” is said to be the cornerstone of neorealism…not officially though. Neorealism began after WWII ended.
Detour:
I really enjoyed the way the director started this film. The scene with Al Roberts in a diner, being aggressive and mysterious really got the viewer invested in the film. The director without actually giving us any information, let us know that something bad had already taken place, leading up to Al’s current state. I think their was great character development for both Al and Vera. When the flashbacks began, you see Al in love with his girlfriend, and throughout the movie as a viewer you know that everything he is doing is to be with her. Also as a viewer, you start understanding, before Al does, that he probably will never get to be with his girlfriend in California. Vera, also had great character development. When we first see her she looks, “frumpy,” and very unassuming. Within a few scenes, you can see that her personality is actually very domineering, and their seems to be a sense of foreboding around her. As a viewer, and for Al, it is apparent pretty quickly that their is more to Vera than what originally was seen. Her physical appearance changed throughout the movie. By her final scenes she had more makeup on, her clothes were nicer, and she generally looked sexier; you could tell she was taking on a darker role. Their were lots of green screen shots, or blue screens, as we learned in class. Numerous scenes where the scenery was changing around the characters…especially while Al and Vera were riding in the car. I think that really added to those scenes…it helped to show that time was passing.
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Quiz name: Looking at Movies, 4e
Chapter Number: 05
Student’s name: Reyna Castaneda
Student’s email: rcastaneda1520@yahoo.com
Number of questions: 15
Percent correct: 93%
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Chapter 13
Roberto Rossellini is famous for his influential movie “Rome, Open City”, which was filmed in a documentary-like style that became the cornerstone for neo-realism. It focused on casting “real” people, in “real” locations, going through “real” scenarios and struggles
Detour was my first actual experience watching a classic noir film. It felt kind of funny to see all of the cliches done without irony, like the dramatic lighting, sentimental nightclub music,regretful narration, etc. Overall, I could say I enjoyed it, and at first I felt that it was probably a film that got attention and had some care put into it, only to find out that it was among the many movies that were produced in a short amount of time before it was sent down the factory line. It’s both scary and impressive how production teams were able to pump movies out like no big deal. Honestly, the movie was really frustrating to me. As much as I knew from the beginning that Al was in a hopeless place, I was still hoping that by the end he would get to be with his girlfriend. I found myself incredibly frustrated and annoyed at Vera because of her role as an obstacle. I was pretty surprised to hear that Vera was classified as a femme fatale character, since she wasn’t what I usually pictured when I thought of the term, but the fact that she was seducing (or at least, kind of trying to be, as much as her flirting didn’t seem to work on Al) and that she was Al’s downfall, I can see why.
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Chapter 13 TIL:
In chapter 13 I learned that many of the films that were considered to be the best came from Europe. I always thought that America would be superior in film due to our advanced technology etc and was surprised to find that Europe was actually considered to have produced the best films. Films from Europe were considered to be superior because they captured several traits that opposed American films . For example, European films showed extraordinary sincerity and insight which was shown to be artistic control
I also learned what “neorealism’ is and became very intrigued by the idea of it and what it displayed. Neorealism was a movement that captured the everyday struggles of real people. Rather than using actors and plots, everyday people and circumstances were utilized to exhibit an emphasis on the reality of the world and the struggles that people encounter.
The Detour movie was one of my favorite films that we have viewed so far. When it first began I thought it was going to be a love story between Roberts and the girlfriend that he was hitchhiking to go see. When he entered the small diner, I thought he was going to end up with the woman who was married to the “fat man.” Once again I was tricked! I was very intrigued by this film. When Roberts ended up with the man Haskell I thought that we were back on track for him traveling to Hollywood to meet his love in Hollywood, but once again there was a significant plot twist and he ended up with an interesting woman named Vera. I was almost positive that Roberts was going to have an affair with Vera and leave his girlfriend in Hollywood for her. It came as a surprise to me when he accidently killed her. This movie held a lot of suspense and kept me invested and wondering what would happen next. Although Roberts was projected to be a good guy, after thinking about he let two people die and did not notify anyone!!!
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1. Which of the following statements about mise-en-scène is NOT true?
Topic: n/a
a. Mise-en-scène literally means “staging or putting on an action or scene.”
b. Mise-en-scène refers to the overall look and feel of a movie.
c. Mise-en-scène is the sum of everything the audience sees, hears, and experiences when watching a movie.
d. Mise-en-scène has two visual components: lighting and movement.
Feedback/Reference: The two major visual components of mise-en-scène are design and composition (p. 172).
2. The organization, distribution, balance, movement, and general relationship of actors and objects within the space of a shot is called
Topic: n/a
a. design.
b. composition.
c. framing.
d. cinematography.
Feedback/Reference: This is the basic definition of composition (p. 172). Framing, while an aspect of composition, does not relate to what moves on screen. See also the “Composing the Frame” tutorial on the Looking at Movies DVD (Disc 1, Chapter 5: Mise-en-Scène).
3. Which of the following statements about the production designer is NOT true?
Topic: n/a
a. The production designer is an executive responsible for supervising the heads of various design departments.
b. The production designer is an artist responsible for designing the overall look of a movie.
c. The production designer is hired relatively late in the production process.
d. The production designer is one of the first collaborators a director hires.
Feedback/Reference: The production designer is both an artist and executive who is generally one of the first collaborators hired by the director (pp. 180–82).
4. Some of the departments the production designer supervises include carpentry, properties, and transportation.
Topic: n/a
a. True
b. False
Feedback/Reference: The production designer oversees all of the many design related departments which include carpentry, properties, transportation, and many others (p. 182). For example, in this clip from The Hill, the production designer would be responsible for helping choose the make/model of the car, the house in which the party took place, the color of the walls, the drinks the partygoers have, the CDs on the shelf, the glasses in the cupboard, etc.
The Hill | view clip
5. What are the major elements of cinematic design?
Topic: n/a
a. lighting; framing; movement; setting; costume; makeup; hairstyle
b. setting; decor; properties; lighting; costume; makeup; hairstyle
c. setting; location; sets; properties; lighting; framing; cinematography
d. cinematography; decor; costume; makeup; setting; movement
Feedback/Reference: These are the major elements of cinematic design (pp. 183–94).
6. The two fundamental styles of design established in early motion pictures are the ___________ associated with the Lumière brothers and the ____________ associated with Georges Méliès.
Topic: n/a
a. realistic; surreal
b. realistic; fantastic
c. surreal; realistic
d. fantastic; realistic
Feedback/Reference: See p. 194.
7. An important movement in art direction that sought to articulate human feeling and emotion through design elements such as structure, color, and texture with grossly exaggerated film sets is known as expressionism. Which of the following stills represents expressionism:
Cabiria
Marie Antoinette
The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari
Topic: n/a
a. Cabiria
b. Marie Antoinette
c. The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari
Feedback/Reference: The still from The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari represents the basic qualities associated with expressionism (pp. 194–96). While the other examples have ornate or complex production designs, they do not illustrate the gross exaggeration and emotion of expressionism. See also the “Setting and Expressionism” tutorial on the Looking at Movies DVD (Disc 1, Chapter 5: Mise-en-Scène).
8. What are three elements that describe neorealism?
Topic: n/a
a. nonprofessional actors; constructed sets; fixed camera
b. nonprofessional actors; location sets; handheld camera
c. professional actors; location sets; handheld camera
d. professional actors; constructed sets; fixed camera
Feedback/Reference: These are three major elements associated with neorealism (pp. 200–201).
9. Composition is part of the process of planning the design of a movie. When visualizing and planning shots, filmmakers must make decisions about two elements of composition: what we see on screen and what moves on screen. What are these two elements commonly called?
Topic: n/a
a. framing and kinesis
b. mise-en-scène and action
c. staging and kinesis
d. placement and action
Feedback/Reference: While production design is concerned with everything the audience sees within the frame, composition more specifically determines how we will see this material and how it will move. See p. 202.
10. Unlike a static painting or picture, a motion picture move and thus shift its point of view. Point of view is implied by
Topic: n/a
a. the director’s personal beliefs.
b. a character’s hair, makeup, and wardrobe.
c. the production design.
d. the framing of a shot.
Feedback/Reference: Framing implies point of view and in motion pictures point of view may change as a result of a moving frame or reframing (p. 202). See also the “Point of View” tutorial on the Looking at Movies DVD (Disc 1, Chapter 6: Cinematography).
11. This chapter’s analysis of Chinatown describes a shot in which no one is in the frame, then suddenly a puff of smoke enters the left side of the frame. This is an example of filmmakers using both on-screen and offscreen space. Which of the following clips also uses on-screen and offscreen space?
The Hill : view clip
Bartholomew’s Song : view clip
Kleingeld : view clip
Topic: n/a
a. The Hill
b. Bartholomew’s Song
c. Kleingeld
Feedback/Reference: This shot from Kleingeld relies on the interaction between on-screen space and offscreen space. The ringing phone occurs in offscreen space, and the man reacts to the ringing phone in on-screen space.
12. An open frame is generally employed in _____________ films, while a closed frame is generally employed in ____________ films.
Topic: n/a
a. antirealistic; realistic
b. realistic; antirealistic
c. expressionist; fantastic
d. fantastic; expressionist
Feedback/Reference: This is a common distinction between the open frame and the closed frame (pp. 204–08).
13. What is figure movement?
Topic: n/a
a. the movement of something concrete within the frame
b. the movement of something concrete from foreground to background
c. the movement of something concrete across the frame
d. the movement of the frame itself
Feedback/Reference: A figure is anything concrete that moves within the frame. A figure may move in many ways and is not limited to movement from foreground to background or movement across the frame (pp. 209–10).
14. The planning of the positions and movements of the actors and camera is called
Topic: n/a
a. framing.
b. staging.
c. blocking.
d. preproduction.
Feedback/Reference: This is the basic definition of blocking (p. 209).
15. Consider carefully the details of the mise-en-scène in the following clips. Based on the mise-en-scène, which do you think belongs to a dystopian futuristic narrative inhabited by mostly one-dimensional characters?
Spam-ku : view clip
Bartholomew’s Song : view clip
Two Cars, One Night : view clip
Topic: n/a
a. Spam-ku
b. Bartholomew’s Song
c. Two Cars, One Night
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Quiz name: Looking at Movies, 4e
Chapter Number: 05
Student’s name: Francisco Garcia
Student’s email: garciafrancisco458@yahoo.com
Number of questions: 10
Percent correct: 100%
Chapter 13: I learned that neorealism was a cinematic movement. This cinematic movement happened in the 40’s. This movement contributed to the progression of film.
Detour
I was kind of disappointed with this film. A good thing I found from this film was the music, it was just so intense it had me wondering what was going to happen next and I think all movies should be like that. Also I would like to say that according to the movie and the intensity I would say that the outfits for the lady that was traveling with Al were black dresses and her lips were red, I could be wrong but that’s just another thing that caught my attention. I found this film somewhat disappointing because of the ending. I think I would have chosen a different ending for example Al reunited with Sue. Or maybe Al should had made it to Hollywood and been arrested over there. Also did Sue ever find out Al went to jail? Maybe we expect all these happy endings because we are just use to watching happy endings in all the movies.
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Quiz name: Looking at Movies, 4e
Chapter Number: 05
Student’s name: Kaylana Bern
Student’s email: kaylanabern@gmail.com
Number of questions: 10
Percent correct: 90%
Question: Composition is part of the process of planning the design of a movie. When visualizing and planning shots, filmmakers must make decisions about two elements of composition: what we see on screen and what moves on screen. What are these two elements commonly called?
Student answered: a) framing and kinesis
Correct answer is: a) framing and kinesis
Question: An open frame is generally employed in _____________ films, while a closed frame is generally employed in ____________ films.
Student answered: b) realistic; antirealistic
Correct answer is: b) realistic; antirealistic
Question: Unlike a static painting or picture, a motion picture move and thus shift its point of view. Point of view is implied by
Student answered: d) the framing of a shot.
Correct answer is: d) the framing of a shot.
Question: The planning of the positions and movements of the actors and camera is called
Student answered: c) blocking.
Correct answer is: c) blocking.
Question: The organization, distribution, balance, movement, and general relationship of actors and objects within the space of a shot is called
Student answered: b) composition.
Correct answer is: b) composition.
Question: Which of the following statements about the production designer is NOT true?
Student answered: c) The production designer is hired relatively late in the production process.
Correct answer is: c) The production designer is hired relatively late in the production process.
Question: What are the major elements of cinematic design?
Student answered: b) setting; decor; properties; lighting; costume; makeup; hairstyle
Correct answer is: b) setting; decor; properties; lighting; costume; makeup; hairstyle
Question: What is figure movement?
Student answered: a) the movement of something concrete within the frame
Correct answer is: a) the movement of something concrete within the frame
Question: An important movement in art direction that sought to articulate human feeling and emotion through design elements such as structure, color, and texture with grossly exaggerated film sets is known as expressionism. Which of the following stills represents expressionism:CabiriaMarie AntoinetteThe Cabinet of Dr. Caligari
Student answered: c) The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari
Correct answer is: c) The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari
Question: Consider carefully the details of the mise-en-scène in the following clips. Based on the mise-en-scène, which do you think belongs to a dystopian futuristic narrative inhabited by mostly one-dimensional characters?Spam-ku : view clipBartholomew’s Song : view clipTwo Cars, One Night : view clip
Student answered: c) Two Cars, One Night
Correct answer is: b) Bartholomew’s Song
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Detour
This movie was flat out funny. I couldn’t tell if any moment was meant to be taken seriously. Being that this was an older film, I was shocked that I enjoyed it. I typically don’t enjoy movies older than myself so this one was refreshing. It was like watching Saturday-Night-Live making fun of today’s government. The so called spies were to me, the highlight actors. By that I mean, the ones who stood out the most to me. Another thing I enjoyed was that each character was individually unique. Each person had their own distinct persona and that made it more entertaining.
Did I learn anything from this film? no, it was too humorous.
Did I gain anything from this film? no, unless you count a few laughs.
All in all, this was fun to watch, but nothing more than that… at least for me.
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1. Which of the following statements about mise-en-scène is NOT true?
Topic: n/a
a. Mise-en-scène literally means “staging or putting on an action or scene.”
b. Mise-en-scène refers to the overall look and feel of a movie.
c. Mise-en-scène is the sum of everything the audience sees, hears, and experiences when watching a movie.
d. Mise-en-scène has two visual components: lighting and movement.
Feedback/Reference: The two major visual components of mise-en-scène are design and composition (p. 172).
2. The organization, distribution, balance, movement, and general relationship of actors and objects within the space of a shot is called
Topic: n/a
a. design.
b. composition.
c. framing.
d. cinematography.
Feedback/Reference: This is the basic definition of composition (p. 172). Framing, while an aspect of composition, does not relate to what moves on screen. See also the “Composing the Frame” tutorial on the Looking at Movies DVD (Disc 1, Chapter 5: Mise-en-Scène).
3. Which of the following statements about the production designer is NOT true?
Topic: n/a
a. The production designer is an executive responsible for supervising the heads of various design departments.
b. The production designer is an artist responsible for designing the overall look of a movie.
c. The production designer is hired relatively late in the production process.
d. The production designer is one of the first collaborators a director hires.
Feedback/Reference: The production designer is both an artist and executive who is generally one of the first collaborators hired by the director (pp. 180–82).
4. Some of the departments the production designer supervises include carpentry, properties, and transportation.
Topic: n/a
a. True
b. False
Feedback/Reference: The production designer oversees all of the many design related departments which include carpentry, properties, transportation, and many others (p. 182). For example, in this clip from The Hill, the production designer would be responsible for helping choose the make/model of the car, the house in which the party took place, the color of the walls, the drinks the partygoers have, the CDs on the shelf, the glasses in the cupboard, etc.
The Hill | view clip
5. What are the major elements of cinematic design?
Topic: n/a
a. lighting; framing; movement; setting; costume; makeup; hairstyle
b. setting; decor; properties; lighting; costume; makeup; hairstyle
c. setting; location; sets; properties; lighting; framing; cinematography
d. cinematography; decor; costume; makeup; setting; movement
Feedback/Reference: These are the major elements of cinematic design (pp. 183–94).
6. The two fundamental styles of design established in early motion pictures are the ___________ associated with the Lumière brothers and the ____________ associated with Georges Méliès.
Topic: n/a
a. realistic; surreal
b. realistic; fantastic
c. surreal; realistic
d. fantastic; realistic
Feedback/Reference: See p. 194.
7. An important movement in art direction that sought to articulate human feeling and emotion through design elements such as structure, color, and texture with grossly exaggerated film sets is known as expressionism. Which of the following stills represents expressionism:
image
Cabiria
image
Marie Antoinette
image
The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari
Topic: n/a
a. Cabiria
b. Marie Antoinette
c. The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari
Feedback/Reference: The still from The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari represents the basic qualities associated with expressionism (pp. 194–96). While the other examples have ornate or complex production designs, they do not illustrate the gross exaggeration and emotion of expressionism. See also the “Setting and Expressionism” tutorial on the Looking at Movies DVD (Disc 1, Chapter 5: Mise-en-Scène).
8. What are three elements that describe neorealism?
Topic: n/a
a. nonprofessional actors; constructed sets; fixed camera
b. nonprofessional actors; location sets; handheld camera
c. professional actors; location sets; handheld camera
d. professional actors; constructed sets; fixed camera
Feedback/Reference: These are three major elements associated with neorealism (pp. 200–201).
9. Composition is part of the process of planning the design of a movie. When visualizing and planning shots, filmmakers must make decisions about two elements of composition: what we see on screen and what moves on screen. What are these two elements commonly called?
Topic: n/a
a. framing and kinesis
b. mise-en-scène and action
c. staging and kinesis
d. placement and action
Feedback/Reference: While production design is concerned with everything the audience sees within the frame, composition more specifically determines how we will see this material and how it will move. See p. 202.
10. Unlike a static painting or picture, a motion picture move and thus shift its point of view. Point of view is implied by
Topic: n/a
a. the director’s personal beliefs.
b. a character’s hair, makeup, and wardrobe.
c. the production design.
d. the framing of a shot.
Feedback/Reference: Framing implies point of view and in motion pictures point of view may change as a result of a moving frame or reframing (p. 202). See also the “Point of View” tutorial on the Looking at Movies DVD (Disc 1, Chapter 6: Cinematography).
11. This chapter’s analysis of Chinatown describes a shot in which no one is in the frame, then suddenly a puff of smoke enters the left side of the frame. This is an example of filmmakers using both on-screen and offscreen space. Which of the following clips also uses on-screen and offscreen space?
The Hill : view clip
Bartholomew’s Song : view clip
Kleingeld : view clip
Topic: n/a
a. The Hill
b. Bartholomew’s Song
c. Kleingeld
Feedback/Reference: This shot from Kleingeld relies on the interaction between on-screen space and offscreen space. The ringing phone occurs in offscreen space, and the man reacts to the ringing phone in on-screen space.
12. An open frame is generally employed in _____________ films, while a closed frame is generally employed in ____________ films.
Topic: n/a
a. antirealistic; realistic
b. realistic; antirealistic
c. expressionist; fantastic
d. fantastic; expressionist
Feedback/Reference: This is a common distinction between the open frame and the closed frame (pp. 204–08).
13. What is figure movement?
Topic: n/a
a. the movement of something concrete within the frame
b. the movement of something concrete from foreground to background
c. the movement of something concrete across the frame
d. the movement of the frame itself
Feedback/Reference: A figure is anything concrete that moves within the frame. A figure may move in many ways and is not limited to movement from foreground to background or movement across the frame (pp. 209–10).
14. The planning of the positions and movements of the actors and camera is called
Topic: n/a
a. framing.
b. staging.
c. blocking.
d. preproduction.
Feedback/Reference: This is the basic definition of blocking (p. 209).
15. Consider carefully the details of the mise-en-scène in the following clips. Based on the mise-en-scène, which do you think belongs to a dystopian futuristic narrative inhabited by mostly one-dimensional characters?
Spam-ku : view clip
Bartholomew’s Song : view clip
Two Cars, One Night : view clip
Topic: n/a
a. Spam-ku
b. Bartholomew’s Song
c. Two Cars, One Night
Detour: I liked the lighting in the movie, it created an intensity as we watched it unfold.
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