Cinematography quiz!

What is cinematographer’s usual intention when shooting an “establishing shot”

To cover all the casts characters in one shot

To provide the audience with a mental map of where actors and props are positioned in a scene relative to each other

To give viewers geographic and background context at the opening of a scene, often without characters included.

What does a medium shot include?

A tight, partial framing of the subject, either actor or object

A full framing of the entire subject with little to no background

A large wide-angle landscape shot?

What is the camera movement called which combines both horizontal and vertical camera movement in the same motion?

Dollying movement

Crabbing movement

Compound movement

Panning movement

Shooting upwards, or downwards on a subject is used by cinematographers to achieve what perceptive effect?

Stature/Authority. Shooting upwards makes the subject appear more authoritative, and vice versa.

Fear and unease

Danger

To emphasize the actor's hair color and facial features

What is the main benefit of using a 3rd party camera app on your smartphone?

3rd party camera apps often allow you to manually adjust and lock focus, unlike the generic camera app.

3rd party apps often re calibrate the smartphone's camera aperture to increase image resolution quality

They have purchasable "neutral density" filters that reduce brightness without altering the smartphone lens ISO

How do generic smartphone cameras handle focusing?

Smartphone cameras focus on the object centered on the screen, or an object in frame the user manually taps.

The level of ambient light and the height of the sun determines smartphone camera's quality of focus

Smartphone cameras have preset, changeable focus filters for use during light settings.

Smartphone cameras are always in focus; they are flawless engineering masterpieces

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