Wednesday, April 27, 2011

WEEK 12 Questions!!!

) What was the name of the film made by Edwin S Porter that made use of a double-exposure to show a train window view of passing landscape?

2) Who invented the traveling matte shot in 1916?

3) How many weeks did it take to animate the main character in 1933’s KING KONG?

4) Which film made use of the ‘slit scan’ process in the 1960s?

5) In his essay “Industrial Memory” theorist Mark Dery argues that the silver fluid T1000 cyborg character represents a ‘masculine recoil’ – but from what?

6) Tim Recuber in his essay “Immersion Cinema” describes the key idea – that of immersion cinema itself – what is it? What makes it unique?

7) In the special effects history links, in the Time magazine history of special effects, there is a description of ‘motion control’ cameras developed for “Star Wars” in the 1970s. What is motion control?(1 paragraph)

8) Out of the 14 minutes of Jurassic Park’s dinosaur footage, how many minutes were computer generated imagery or CGI?

9) In the ‘denofgeek’ website, what is the name of the film that features an army of sword fighting skeletons, made in 1963?

10) In the ‘denofgeek’ site, which 2005 film used a special effects shot to sell the idea of a remake of a famous science fiction story to Steven Spielberg?

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