1st Semester Film Literature Final Exam 2014-2015
Your exam may be made up of the following: 1. Important people and characters 2. Connections between films 3. Movie clip analysis 4. Identifying Hitchcock and Film Noir 5. Favorite film from the semester
Know this film terminology and be able to use it in an analysis: Mise-en-scene Film Noir Cut Continuity editing Cross cutting Dissolve Editing Errors of continuity Establishing shot Eyeline match Fade Final cut Iris Jump cut Matched cut Montage Rough cut Sequence shot Shot-reverse-shot cutting Wipe Pan Tilt reframing Angles (bird’s-eye, high, eye-level, low, oblique, point of view) Interior Flashback shot zoom Variety full shot traveling scene Order dissolves exterior composition Frame Intercutting close-up sequence Long shot tracking shot flat cuts dolly Hitchcockian techniques (13 of these)
Review the following films – refresh your memory regarding directors, plot, characters, importance to genre, and themes: The Godfather Citizen Kane Chicago Psycho The Shining Seven Singin’ in the Rain Strangers on a Train Halloween Scream The Sixth Sense Forrest Gump Rear Window Brick Good Fellas What Lies Beneath The Usual Suspects Big Sleep (partial) Disturbia Hitchcock Hair Spray Birth of a Nation (partial)
Know the following important people and their contributions to film: Janet Leigh Grace Kelly Orson Welles Anthony Perkins Stanley Kubrick D.W. Griffith Alfred Hitchcock Gene Kelly James Stewart Bob Fosse William Randolph Hearst Francis Ford Coppola Martin Scorsese John Carpenter