Chapter 2 The Film Experience: Mise-en-scène quiz completed


1. Mise-en-scène is French for:
 a. panning the camera around the set
 b. composition
 c. staging
 d. setting

2. Which of the following is not a way that setting is used in a film:
 a. to convey place
 b. to convey time
 c. to mirror changes in mood
 d. to reveal lighting

3. In preparing for and performing a role, a Method actor might:
 a. research the background of their character
 b. immerse themselves in the personality of the character
 c. create emotion by thinking of emotional situations from their own past
 d. all of the above

4. A director may use a unknown actor so the viewers aren't distracted by:
 a. the Method style of acting
 b. the actor's previous roles and public lives
 c. the director
 d. none of the above

5. Which is not a major aspect of mise-en-scène?
 a. setting
 b. composition
 c. the director
 d. subjects

6. What are the most fundamental features of mise-en-scène?
 a. setting and set
 b. costumes and make-up
 c. lighting and set
 d. props and set

7. Mise-en-scène involves the history of all of the following except:
 a. painting
 b. television
 c. costuming
 d. it contains all of the above

8. Which alteration did NOT happened in the early nineteenth century in regards to mise-en-scène?
 a. lighting and technological advances
 b. the audience began to be more definitively separate from the stage
 c. sets and stages grew smaller
 d. actors started gaining star status

9. When did lighting become as easily manipulated as the sets?
 a. late 19th century
 b. early 20th century
 c. the 1920s
 d. the 1930s and 1940s

10. Which of the following is NOT a type of prop?
 a. thematic
 b. instrumental
 c. invented
 d. cultural

11.Costumes and make-up function as ___________.
 a. character highlights
 b. elements of little importance to mise-en-scène
 c. performative development
 d. none of the above

12. A star ___________.
 a. never dies in the film unless he or she is playing someone with an illness.
 b. brings accumulated history from previous performances to the role.
 c. is also called a character actor.
 d. all of the above

13. Which of the following is NOT a type of lighting?
 a. under lighting
 b. low key lighting
 c. direction lighting
 d. they are all types of lighting

14. Which of the following describes a movie spectacular?
 a. It is a new form ushered in by IMAX theatres.
 b. It concentrates on the complexity of character, imagistic style, and narrative.
 c. The mise-en-scène shares equal emphasis or outshines the traditional focal points of a movie.
 d. It is a type of filmmaking that dates back to Gone with the Wind.

15.Which of the following constructs ordinary and commonplace backdrops for the characters and action?
 a. theatrical mise-en-scène
 b. quotidian mise-en-scène
 c. historical mise-en-scène
 d. holistic mise-en-scène

16. The first movies ___________.
 a. were scenes
 b. were sequences edited simply together
 c. did not possess all the elements of mise-en-scène
 d. none of the above

17. The audience's measure of a film's realism is the authenticity of ___________.
 a. the psychology or action of the character
 b. the plot
 c. the acting
 d. the set and setting

18. What are the elements of mise-en-scène?
 a. objects, actors, make-up, and lights
 b. objects, setting, actors, and make-up
 c. objects, actors, costumes, and lights
 d. setting, costumes, make-up, and lights

19. Which of the following is NOT a type of blocking?
 a. naturalistic blocking
 b. graphic blocking
 c. social blocking
 d. all are types of blocking

20. Which two historical trends are associated with the tradition of theatrical mise-en-scènes?
 a. expressive mise-en-scène and quotidian mise-en-scène
 b. historical mise-en-scène and naturalistic mise-en-scène
 c. historical mise-en-scène and constructive mise-en-scène
 d. expressive mise-en-scène and constructive mise-en-scène

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