Deck 8: Moving Images: Film and Digital Arts

Question 1

An Andalusian Dog was created by surreal artists Luis Bunuel and:

A) Rene Magritte
B) Max Ernst
C) Merret Oppenheim
D) Salvador Dali

Answer 1

D

Question 2

What were some of the important contributions made by filmmakers who developed the basic visual language of films? Identify names and link them with their respective innovations.

Answer 2

not answered

Question 3

Identify the different types of film.

Answer 3

not answered

Question 4

Discuss the development of motion pictures from its beginnings with Muybridge and his motion studies. Discuss the contributions of Griffith and Eisenstein in the development of motion picture photography.

Question 5

This artist is best known for expanding the traditional limitations of artistic media by incorporating video and electronic media into his/her artwork, as can be seen in Video Flag Z.

A) Nam June Paik
B) Jerry Uelsmann
C) Sonia Landy Sheridan
D) Eliot Porter

Question 6

In filmmaking, each unbroken sequence of movie frames, with the camera still rolling, is called a:

A) take
B) shot
C) roll
D) pan

Question 7

Edward Muybridge is best known for photographing people and animals in:

A) color
B) juxtaposition
C) pastoral environments
D) motion

Question 8

When was the first computer art created?

Question 9

One of Russian filmmaker Sergei Eisenstein's major contributions to film was his skilled use of_______ to heighten the dramatic intensity.

A) close-ups
B) special effects
C) montage
D) animation

Question 10

What kinds of artworks are created for online viewing?
Essay Questions

Question 11

Discuss how the use of "montage" was used by Sergei Eisenstein in The Battleship Potemkin to express powerful emotion.

Question 12

This still from Oskar Fischinger's film Circles is considered to be the first:

A) motion picture
B) use of digital media
C) silent film
D) experimental film

Question 13

Film depends on a phenomenon called _______ in which the human brain retains a visual image for a fraction of a second longer than the human eye records, making everything we see continuous and uninterrupted.

A) mise-en-scene
B) persistence of vision
C) retinal tracking
D) continual perception

Question 14

Discuss the ways the digital age revolutionized filmmaking.
PART TWO: THE MEDIA OF ART

Question 15

Identify the technique where the actions of the actors are scanned and digitized in 3-D modeling and used for recent films such as James Cameron's Avatar.