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This set of Introduction to Cinema Multiple Choice Questions & Answers (MCQs) focuses on Introduction To Cinema Set 1

Q1 | The life of Eskimos is pictured by Robert Flaherty in his classical documentary ……
  • man of aran
  • nanook of the north
  • nanook of the south
  • man of arabia
Q2 | Jib arm is a/an……………………….
  • arm of the camera
  • transition device in video film editing
  • device on which camera lense is mounted for flexible movement
  • none of the above
Q3 | Which among the following is a mismatch?
  • andre bazin – what is cinema
  • eisenstein – film form
  • adoor gopalakrishnan – sculpting time
  • gerald mast – a short
Q4 | Who directed Drishyam?
  • salim ahamed
  • sunny joseph
  • sohan roy
  • jithu joseph
Q5 | During the evolutionary period of cinema Eadweard Muybridge experimented theshooting of …………………………
  • a fireman extinguishing fire
  • workers leaving a factory
  • the sneeze of a lab assistant
  • the galloping of a horse
Q6 | Father of African Cinema
  • auguste lumiere
  • thomas alva edison
  • edwin s. porter
  • osmane sembene
Q7 | Edison is considered the father of movie studio. His studio was known as ………….
  • edison parlour
  • film strip parlour
  • black maria
  • black edison
Q8 | “2001 A Space Odyssey” is directed by………………………….
  • steven spielberg
  • stanley kubrick
  • francis ford cappola
  • emile cohl
Q9 | Satyajit Ray’s Apu trilogy consists of Pather panchali, Aparajito and ……………….
  • mahanagar
  • apursansar
  • devi
  • kanchanjungha
Q10 | The first Malayalam Feature film “Vigathakumaran” was shown to the public at theCapitol theatre in Thiruvananthapuram on 7 November ..........................
  • 1928
  • 1926
  • 1930
  • 1931
Q11 | The first shot is a man looking up. The second shot is a low angle shot of a high riseapartment. The second shot is a .................shot
  • long shot
  • mid – shot
  • extreme long shot
  • point - of – view
Q12 | Which is Walt Disney’s first feature film?
  • snow white and seven dwarfs
  • the three little pigs
  • fantasia
  • trouble in paradise
Q13 | The second Malayalam feature film “Marthanda Varma”, produced by Sundar Raj wasdirected by
  • k. gopinath
  • j.c. daniel
  • v. v. rao
  • johnson
Q14 | A colored lens or paper that is placed in between the light source and the subject to eitherdarken or lighten a particular colour is a……….
  • filter
  • transparency
  • barn door
  • aperture
Q15 | Generation loss is the most minimal in
  • nonlinear editing
  • transferring
  • linear editing
  • assemble editing
Q16 | Take is a version of a………..
  • shot
  • scene
  • sequence
  • mise-en scene
Q17 | The light source that casts sharp, well define shadows is called …………
  • key light
  • fill light
  • set light
  • hard light
Q18 | MFD stands for ________________
  • minimum focusing distance
  • maximum focusing
  • distance minimum focusing direction
  • none of the above
Q19 | A camera mounting that straps the camera to the body of the operator to keep therecorded image reasonably steady is known as ………….
  • steadicam
  • sturdycam
  • studycam
  • none of the above
Q20 | story board
  • illustrations in sequence
  • story about released film
  • advertorial
  • none of the above
Q21 | Aspect ratio
  • ratio of width and height
  • ratio of width and depth
  • ratio of width and diagonal
  • none of the above
Q22 | Continuity
  • a report of shooting details
  • continuous frames
  • continuous shots
  • none of the above
Q23 | Rule of thirds
  • rule of composition
  • rule of camera fixing
  • rule of editing
  • rule of art direction
Q24 | Director
  • head of an institution
  • person converting a script into a movie.
  • set designer
  • none of the above
Q25 | Feature Film
  • any film at least one hour long that people pay to see
  • documentary
  • advertorial
  • none of the above