COMM 150 Exam 1 Questions with 100% Verified Correct Answers Week 1 - Correct Answer
Framing Questions:
- How do artistry, technology, industry, and culture work to create the cinema? What is one of these
- What do you think Martin Scorsese means by "The Language of Cinema"?
- What's your connection to Hugo? What are the first questions you'd ask of the film, or observations
- What are two ways- direct and indirect- you feel that Hugo is "about" the movies? - Correct Answer
concepts at work in Hugo?
you'd make?
Intro: cinema is both an art form and a mass communications medium. defining cinema needs a large screen0 it is both a worldly and a private experience, an experience that knits the past and present of the medium and the society that watches that medium. We'll look at cinema this semester in four ways that summarize this complex experience: - Correct Answer industry, technology, artistry, culture SEQ: Of the following, which did Hagopian use as a visual example of each/all of the "four cinemas" in Hugo during lecture? - Correct Answer A picture of Martin Scorsese in the film Hugo what movie did we watch this week? Why? - Correct Answer Hugo technology industry artistry culture the name for a collection of philosophical, historical, artistic, and political conversations about the cinema - Correct Answer cinema studies ______ are the most influential artistic and communications medium of the modern age- to know the _______ is to begin to know modern culture - Correct Answer movies; cinema 1 / 3
what are the two parts of a movies' split personality? - Correct Answer both art and mass communications medium what is the setting of Hugo? - Correct Answer between WWI and WWII what does timing in a movie fall under? - Correct Answer artistry all film has what context? - Correct Answer industrial what is cinematography? - Correct Answer how the film is photographed what is the most artistic attribute to a film? give a definition - Correct Answer editing, the way individual shots are put together what are promotion and distribution included in? - Correct Answer industry how was technology in Hugo? - Correct Answer based in railroad station, Hugo had dream of train crashing through station (was based on a real picture) how was culture in Hugo? - Correct Answer physical and emotional marks on the characters- especially the station inspector the sum total of the influences, experiences and creative output of filmmakers, working through technical, industrial, and artistic means to bring a vision of the world, real or abstract, true or invented, to a cinematic screen. It is also the sum total of the cultural experiences of audiences, past and present, in watching and making conscious or unconscious use of the cinematic image - Correct Answer film all film- commercial narrative, indie, student film, docs, experimental, DIY, personal - has a(n) ________ context - Correct Answer industrial film is inherently a ________ medium, at whatever level of complexity - Correct Answer technology 2 / 3
the organization of several arts into one complex statement about the world (ex. screenwriting, mise- en-scene, cinematography, editing, sound) - Correct Answer artistry film communicates as well as expresses. it means something and we bring meaning to the film. Film never exists in a historical or cultural vacuum - Correct Answer clip screened in class: 2001: A Space Odyssey - Correct Answer illustrates how the concepts of description and invention are often mingled in the cinema Outro: The cinema is a set of intertwining experiences in technology, industry, artistry, and culture.The movie may stay the same- but the experience always changes. - Correct Answer the name we give for the presence of the audience at/in the film - Correct Answer culture clip screened in class: For All Mankind - Correct Answer illustrates how the concepts of "description" and "invention" are often mingled in the cinema.Week 2 - Correct Answer
Framing Questions:
- Who were George Melies and Auguste and Louis Lumiere, and why were they important?
- What were the major types of films that characterized the early cinema?
- What does author Tom Gunning mean by "The Cinema of Attractions"? What is "an attraction" in
- What echoes do you see in the movies or media today of the Lumieres and Melies? - Correct
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the early cinema?
Answer Intro: The early cinema (1894-1905) witnessed the origin, not of the cinema, but of several cinemas.The cinema underwent many changes afterward, in artistry, technology, and industry, and in its relation to culture- but many of the onscreen satisfactions of the cinema you know were previewed in the age of early cinema - Correct Answer SEQ: According to Bordwell and Thompson in their essay "The Invention and Early Years of the Cinema", which one of these was the most important role of Thomas Edison in the origin of the cinema? - Correct Answer the "inventor" of early business models for the cinema