Key elements of film form overview quiz - WJEC A-Level Film Studies quiz

Plot, theme, character, setting and dialogue

Cinematography, mise-en-scene, editing, sound and performance

Budget, casting, marketing, distribution and exhibition

Genre, auteur, spectatorship, ideology and narrative

It enlarges and empowers them, making them dominant or threatening

It always makes them appear weak, small and frightened

It has no effect on how we read the character at all

It removes the character entirely from the frame

The way the soundtrack is mixed and balanced for the audience

The order in which the shots of a film are joined together

The frequency with which a film cuts from shot to shot

Everything arranged before the camera: setting, props, costume, colour and staging

Shallow focus is for close-ups only; deep focus is for long shots only

Shallow keeps one plane sharp and isolates a subject; deep keeps near and far sharp

They are two names for exactly the same effect with no difference

Shallow focus brightens the image; deep focus darkens the image

To draw constant attention to the cuts and the editing technique

To make every transition a visible dissolve or wipe

To create a smooth, coherent flow so the cutting is barely noticed

To slow every scene down to a single very long take

Diegetic is loud sound; non-diegetic is quiet sound

Diegetic comes from within the film's world; non-diegetic is added for the audience

Diegetic is music only; non-diegetic is dialogue only

Diegetic is recorded on set; non-diegetic is always recorded on set too

The cutting rate of the editing in the scene

The depth of field used by the cinematographer

The colour grading of the final image

Facial expression, gesture, movement and vocal delivery

Hollywood, British film and global film

The key elements of film form; meaning and response; the contexts of film

Spectatorship, ideology and auteur

Documentary, experimental and silent film

Film selects, frames and shapes what we see, producing a particular version of reality

Film is a neutral mirror that reflects reality exactly as it is

Representation only matters in documentary films, not fiction

Representation is decided entirely by the audience, not the film

The running time and certificate of the film

The number of shots in the opening sequence

Social, cultural, political, historical and institutional contexts

The colour of the opening title card

Story is the title; plot is the running time

They mean exactly the same thing in film analysis

Story is for fiction; plot is for documentary

Story is the events in chronological order; plot is how the film selects and reveals them

It always signals that the film has ended

It focuses attention and can intensify shock, dread or emotion

It means a technical fault with the soundtrack

It has no effect because audiences ignore silence

It ties the audience to one character's knowledge, so we discover things as they do

It always shows the audience everything that every character knows

It removes all dialogue from the film

It only appears in non-linear films

List as many techniques as possible without explaining them

Name the choice, state its effect, then link it to meaning and response

Describe the plot of the whole film in detail

Say whether the technique is used well or badly