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ROOPKALA KENDRO Film and Social Communication Institute, Govt. of West Bengal Sector-V, Block-GM, Salt Lake City, Kolkata - 700 091 MODEL QUESTIONS Please note that the question papers of the earlier Admission test have been enclosed for reference only. For the Combined Group comprising Direction, Motion Picture Photography, Editing and Sound Design, there will be one single Specialisation Question Paper for the Admission test in the Academic Session 2011-2013. For Development Communication and Animation Creation & Direction, there will be separate Specialisation Question Papers like earlier times. 17 Essay : Paper I Full Marks : 100 Time : 3 Hours Write an essay on any of the topics within 1000 words. Candidates have to choose the topic from his/her own stream. Animation Creation & Direction 1. My most favourite BABY - so funny and lovable. 2. Small birds and small animals the world around us. 3. The Novel that I like most. Direction 1. All art must be primarily truthful .... Truth does not make any work a piece of art, but without truth, no art is worth its salt. 2. Documentary is the highest medium to express the reality of the marginalized people. 3. Documentary filmmaking poses more challenges to filmmaker than a fiction film. Editing 1. Reality changes. In order to represent it, modes of representation must change. 2. Editing freed cinema from the dependence of time and space, and allowed it to create new space, new time, another geography and impossible people. 3. Documentary filmmaking poses more challenges to a filmmaker than a fiction film. Motion Picture Photography 1. Visual memories of my childhood and my coming days with the camera. 2. Photography is the best medium of communication today. 3. One winter day in a room with 3 windows my experiences with day light. Sound Design 1. Sound can make a good cinema bad or a bad cinema watchable. Development Communication 1. We have got the kind of media we deserve. 2. Mainstream Media and Marginal people : is there a space? 3. Development is not possible without people mobilisation and free flow of information. 18 Discipline : Development Communication Full Marks : 200 Time : 3 Hours Answer ten questions from the following: 1. What in your view will be the attributes that a person trained as a Development Communication professional will possess and what performance outputs will s/he be expected to deliver? (20 Marks) 2. As a journalist, you are responsible for a social reporting section in the newspaper. Your work requires your association with organizations working on media advocacy. As you are well aware the cut-throat competition of the print media necessitates that your reporting is appealing and creates an impression even as Page 3 glamourises uneventful news. Mention 10 creative and innovative ways to promote media advocacy. (20Marks) 3. Folk media are being increasingly used in development communication campaign. Do you think that this will destroy the originality of its form and content or will this fusion be a value-addition? Suggest the folk medium being used in mass awareness campaigns and state your arguments to support your stand. (20 Marks) 4. Films, audio programmes, posters, leaflets, ready reckoners, brochures are different types of communication materials designed and used for different target groups. These materials could be cost intensive and low cost based on available resources. However, no matter how low-cost, other locally viable communication means and materials could also supplement these materials like miking etc. Can you suggest and explain at least five such materials. (20 Marks) 5. In an era of new media the immense potentiality of the Internet is being explored in multiple ways. As a new entrant to a development organization, you have been assigned to prepare the concept plan for the home-page design and content. Suggest the look of your website. What are the major links and menu under which you would like to design your profile? (20 Marks) 6. You are a coordinator in a Gender Sensitization camp in a village where 60% of girls get married below the age of 16 years. Who will primarily be your target group? Why? What will be your strategy to communicate? [You can use Print and / or Video / any local art form] (20 Marks) 7. What according to you are the characteristics of a promotional film for urban audience? Write a concept of a promotional film of 60 seconds on anything of your choice. (20 Marks) 8. Choose a developmental theme of your choice. Write concepts notes for one commercial advertisement and one social spot of 60 seconds concerning the theme. (20 Marks) 19 9.1) Relate A with B: (10 Marks) A. a) Ratan Thiyam, B. a) News Personality, b) Brinda Karat, b) Film Maker, c) Nagesh Kukunur, c) Documentary Filmmaker d) Mahesh, Sarita d) Baul Singer, e) Anand Patwardhan, e) Theatre Personality, f) Girija Vyas, f) Social Activist, g) Pronnoy Roy, g) Chairperson, NCW, h) Prahlad Kakkar h) Writer, i) Mahasweta Devi, i) Ad. Filmmaker. j) Paban Das 9.2) Write full forms and basic objectives in brief (any five) (5 X 2) =10 ICDS SSA BPL JFM SHG EPC SGSY 10. Popular films can also evoke social awareness. Do you agree? Give at least two examples in support of your answer. (20 Marks) 11. Write notes on (any four) (5X4) =20 Marks Hegemony Civil Society Feminism Globalisation Gender Modernism Orientalism Realism 12. Does the mass media reflect social reality or create it? Answer the question with reasons. 20 Discipline : Direction Full Marks : 200 Time : 3 Hours 1. Name you favourite film or television programme with explanatory notes. (26 Marks) 2. Assume that you are travelling by a state bus on a long route. Due to break down, the bus has to take a halt near a village for almost an hour. Narrate your experience through audiovisual expressions of your own. (530 words) (40 Marks) 3. How do you react to this photograph / painting? Explain your views. (200 words) (40 Marks) 4. Match the following: (8 X 3) = 24 Marks a. Palatak Ritwik Ghatak b. 36 Chowringhee Lane Bimal Roy c. Garam Hawa Hrishikesh Mukherjee d. Satranj Ki Khiladi Tarun Majumder e. Pyasaa Aparna Sen f. Meghe Dhaka Tara M.S. Sathyu g. Anand Satyajit Ray h.Do Bigha Zamin Guru Dutt 5. Write any one of the following: (40 Marks) a. A romantic narrative involving a boy and a girl. OR b. Write with reasons about your most favourite book. 6. Write any one of the following: (30 Marks) a. Give your views on the effect of censorship in television programme and advertisement. OR b. Analyze briefly any sequence from any film of your choice. 21 Discipline: Motion Picture Photography Full Marks : 200 Time : 3 Hours Photography (Total Marks: 100) 1. Why you had chosen photography as your discipline? Justify your answer. (15 Marks) 2. Photography is a combination of Arts and Sciences. Justify your answer. (15 Marks) 3. Evaluate the photograph from different aspects e.g. composition, lighting and contrast. 4. Write in detail on any one of the under-mentioned films for its excellence in photography. (10 Marks) Meghe Dhaka Tara Charulata Chokher Bali Shatranj Ke Khiladi Abar Aranya 5. Differentiate the following from photographic point of views with at least 5 different views. (5 X 2 = 10 Marks) a. Documentary film and feature film. b. Black & White image & color image of a same subject. 6. Write the answer of the following within 7-10 sentences (5X4 = 20 Marks) a. What precautions should you take before you click for an SLR still camera? b. Write at least 5 valuable points regarding the attitude of a photographer while photographing an accident occurred in a busy street. c. Write your observations for light during a sunny day and a cloudy day. d. Write your photographic observations for photographing a subject in available sunlight and with a flash gun. 7. Match the following (5X1 = 5 Marks) a. Sun 1. Antihallation backing b. Lens 2. Shutter speed c. Fish eye 3. Glare d. Film 4. Aperture e. 90 5. Flare 6. Wide angle 22 8. Fill in the blanks (10X1 = Marks) a. Yellow + Magenta + Cyan -------------------------------------- b. Blue + Yellow Cyan -------------------------------------- c. Sodium thiosulphate is used as ------------------------------------ d. In a transparency film green color is represented as ------------------------- color. e. Human eye is more sensitive to -------------------------------------- color. f. Size of an image formed in a 35 mm still photography negative is ---------- mm x ---------- mm. g. Number of sprockets used in one frame of a still photography negative is -------------- h. Number of sprockets used in one frame of a motion picture negative is ---------------- i. On -------------- of human eye image is formed. j. In an aim and shoot camera the taking lens is --------------- as the viewing lens. Film History (Total Marks: 40) 1. Answer the followings briefly a. Satyajit Ray made two documentaries Inner Eye and Bala on two great personalities. Mention the names and their credits. b. Ritwik Ghatak made a documentary on a famous sculptor. Mention his name and the name of the documentary. c. Why Lumiere brothers are famous? What is their contribution towards world cinema? d. Name five films directed by Akira Kurosawa. e. Name five films directed by Ritwik Ghatak. f. Name five films photographed by Sri Subrata Mitra g. Name five films photographed by Sri Radhu Karmakar. h. Name five films where Uttam Kumar and Suchitra Sen have worked together. i. Name five films made from the stories of Sri Rabindranath Tagore. j. Name five films made from the stories of Sri Sarat Chandra Chattopadhyay. 2. Fill in the Blanks (1 X 10 = 10 Marks) a. MUKHAMUKHAM is directed by b.