QUIZ from ThinkQuest Team C0122862 - Behind the Big Screen
1. What are the main contributions to the making of film? (History)
2. What are the four volumes updated four times a year? (Production)
3. Which are the 2 types of filmmakers? (Production)
4. What is a storyboard? (Production)
5. Who's film is the most expensive movie to date? (History)
6. Based on what factors does the director or producers chooses the crew? (Production)
7. What are call sheets? (Production)
8. Who participated in the idea of setting up an elite club to praise actors,directors and producers who contributed to the film industry? (Oscar)
9. What are production sound effects? (Production)
10. What is the camera obscura principle? (History)
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ANSWERS
1. Projection by the camera obscura and the magic lantern, the illusion of movement by the stroboscopic effect, images in motion by photography, all contributed to the making of film.
2.
Volume
one: Leading Women
3. There are two different types of filmmakers, thus bring two different kinds of viewpoints. The first type is independent filmmakers, and they're the kind that really see the importance in the script, whereas studio filmmakers don't. Independent filmmakers are able to take risks that studio filmmakers can't. In order for their films to be a guaranteed success, studios remake previously successfully films or hit TV shows. Their focus might not so much be on the screenplay, but on special effects. In Hollywood, there are top-notch scriptwriters who are hired as "script doctors" by studio executives. Obviously, as you can see from the name, these scriptwriters are given huge amount of money to correct/rewrite any parts of the script that might be in trouble. They are also hired as a protection to the executives themselves, because just in case the movie is a big flop, the executive can say, "but I hired William Goldman!" Sometimes it isn't just the studio executive that wants to hire top screenwriters as script doctors, it's the actors (well known and famous actors, of course) who demand this as part of their contract.
4. A storyboard is a multiple paneled pictorial demonstration of the film, something like a comic book.
5. It is James Cameron's Titanic.
6. These decisions will be based on personal preferences, budget, artistic and technical requirements etc. Once you have chosen the key members, then that person will naturally bring their own support staff, and your job of crewing will be over.
7.
Call sheets are made for everyday of the production by the first AD and approved
by the production manager. They are given out to the cast and crew each evening
so that they will know the next day¡¦s work. They contain the following
information: the scenes to be shot, the location(s) for the day¡¦s shooting,
which cast members will be required for the day, the time each member of the
cast and crew is expected to arrive (call time), and special requirements for
the day such as stunts or special effects equipment etc.
8. It all started in Hollywood, with a very important man called Louis B. Mayer,
the president of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) in 1926. During a dinner meeting,
Mayer and three studio acolytes: Conrad Nagel, Fred Beetson and Fred Niblo,
thought of an idea to improve the artistic standards of films and promote the
filming industry. They planned to set up an elite club with members who have
made achievements and special contributions to the industry, such as actors,
directors and producers.
9. Production sound effects are sound effects that are recorded during a take, usually for scenes in which there is no dialogue.
10.
The camera
obscura is a principle in which light enters a dark chamber through a small
hole, projecting a picture from outside inverted and upside down onto the
surface opposite the hole. This principle was adapted by Della Porta to the dark
chamber.
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