Deck 1: Describing One Medium Through Another

Question 1

The term meta-writing refers to the __________ activity of the creative imagination.

A) pro-writing
B) ur-writing
C) id-writing
D) all of the above

Answer 1

B

Question 2

A script is necessary for making decisions about any production.

Answer 2

True

Question 3

A script is

A) a suggestion for a film
B) written for a specific audience
C) an idea that implies a cost for every written element
D) all of the above

Answer 3

D

Question 4

A scriptwriter is not a necessary part of the industry.

Question 5

Who invented the notion picture camera in 1895?

A) Thomas Edison
B) D. W. Griffith
C) Louis Lumière
D) J. T. Kodak

Question 6

In 1998 an Academy Award nominee had triple credits - writer, producer, director - for the film that won the nominee a Best Director award. Name the nominee and the film.

Question 7

When the credits roll, where does the Writer's Guild of America require the scriptwriting credit be listed?

Question 8

What was considered the pre-cursor to the treatment in the early days of film?

A) photo-play
B) photo-drama
C) concept
D) scenario

Question 9

Give an example of a sequence of images

Question 10

A feature film is __________of script for ___________of screen time.

Question 11

Explain what visual writing is and how the writer will use a visual metaphor to enhance it.

Question 12

If novels describe emotions then visual media has to

Question 13

A script is the basis for ______________.

A) Production
B) a writer's resume
C) a play
D) a novel

Question 14

Writing in one medium to describe another means:

A) writing for a production team, not an audience
B) writing for yourself, not your friends
C) writing using lots of description and internal dialogue not action only
D) writing for all not just for one

Question 15

What group standardized the script form?

Question 16

Scriptwriting is primarily an art of organizing things and describing action to tell a story or communicate a message.

Question 17

What were cue cards called in the early days of film?

Question 18

Give an example of what is not included in a script, but something a writer must think about because of the implications of the scene, setting, and the action.

Question 19

A film treatment is similar to a synopsis for a novel.

Question 20

The scriptwriter's job is to describe action as the camera sees it.