Introduction To Film
Study Guide for Final Exam over chaps. - 2, 3, 10, 11 & notes
Use this study guide to help you prepare for the exam. Keep in mind that the main purpose for the study guide is narrow down the points in the text for more effective study. Anything presented in class is already narrowed, and the notes you have from class should be included in your preparation.
1. Study the key terms and concepts at the beginning and end of each chapter.
2. Be familiar with these areas of the visual effects lesson & video:
a. What are the different types of mattes?
b. How does a green or blue screen work as a visual effect?
c. What is CGI? How is it created?
d. What is a 3D or stereoscopic movie?
3. Be familiar with these areas of chapter 3:
a. What are the basic modes of screen reality?
b. What are the different types of realism and how do they differ? How does expressionism and fantasy differ in terms of realism from these types?
c. What are the two modes of cinematic self-reflexivity?
d. How does 2D animation differ from 3D animation?
4. Be familiar with these areas of chapters 10 & 11 and the foreign film lesson:
a. Who are the major Hollywood studios - see list in text or Google it.
b. What are the ways Hollywood has had a stylistic influence on world cinema? How has the world influenced Hollywood?
c. What are product tie-ins and product placement?
d. What were the two key features of the international film art movement?
e. Describe the New German Cinema as compared to German expressionism.
f. What was the French New Wave?
5. Be familiar with these areas from the theory lessons:
a. What are the three basic modes or types of film criticism? (check notes on this also)
b. What are the three stages in the creation of film criticism? (check your notes for this, the book may have dropped this information in the latest version)
c. What is an attributional error?
d. What are differences among the theories? - name and definition or explanation.
6. Only the movies featured in class lessons (videos and documentaries) will be on the test. Make sure to look at your notes as much of the the test is film history.
7. Go over your notes from class on subjects such as film history, alternative film theories, etc. that were not in your book. Expect a matching exercise for this material.
8. There will be movie still frames to identify from films shown in class or featured in the book chapters - frames will be limited to these movies:
Star Wars, Jurassic Park, The Bicycle Thief, Metropolis, The Grande Illusion, The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, Rashomon, The Seventh Seal, Jaws, Citizen Kane, Dial M for Murder, Silence of the Lambs,
Battleship Potemkin, and Rebel Without A Cause.