Write a paper about "Intro to Cinema Studies".
You can answer all the questions in short answer.
Who made the seminal movie Salle Gardner at a Gallop that would eventually earn cinema standing in the academic community?
In France, who invented a camera to study the motion with movies such as Pigeon enVol?
Which primitive movie is credited with beginning movies as a business?
Which primitive movie used mechanical distortion to express the imagination of the storyteller?
What was the significant editing technique used in The Great Train Robbery?
Understand the use of reflexivity in Sherlock Jr. and Singin' in the Rain.
Which crew member must complete his or her job before the rest of the crew and cast can begin the essential process of preproduction?
By what are stories that share similar conventions categorized?
When characters lie but the camera communicates to the audience another truth, what narrative effect does the story depend on?
Know the difference between the building blocks of a screenplay and the building blocks of a movie.
What is "backstory"?
What is a "beat" as actors are concerned?
What is subtext?
Understand what makes a character an "unreliable narrator."
In a close-up, what's the difference between a character looking a few degrees off the lens and a character looking into the lens?
Who posited the auteur theory? Who resurrected it?
What is the auteur theory?
What are the auteur theory's liabilities?
How can the production designer's selection of imagery enhance the story?
What is the advantage to shooting on a sound stage?
Be able to recognize thematic dialog from Citizen Kane.
Why does the audience reject Lina in the penultimate scene of Singin' in the Rain?
In the final shot of Singin' in the Rain, what dominates the long shot?
Be able to recognize Welles style and personality in Touch of Evil.