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Passage 18

Most moviegoers tend to sum up all of a films features acting, directing,

special effects, and script into a blanket I loved it or hated it. Butmovie industry workers, and even film connoisseurs, can attest to the

contribution of the movies cinematics, or technical features, towards

creating any movies atmosphere.

Artistic movies are composed of a multitude of shots or discrete scenes

usually lasting only 6 to 20 seconds; together the hundreds of individual

scenes combine to make up the movie. For each shot the director has

many options on how to film the same. For example, imagine that the

movies script calls for two actors to speak a fixed dialogue in a specified

location. Even while the director stays true to the script, he has

considerable leeway in how to film the scene. He may fil m an extremelong shot, with the camera far away. This tends to show the setting in a

panorama, emphasizing the background while underplaying the actors, and

is used primarily in outdoor scenes where the backdrop is particularly

impressive. Or, he may em ploy the long shot, which brings the camera

close enough to capture the actors entire bodies, together with some of

the setting. And finally there is the close-up, where the camera is brought

in close enough to focus on the actors heads and faces and has the effect

of spotlighting a part icular actor wh ile hiding the sett ing and oth er actors.

Camera angling refers to the cameras height from the ground and thus

the vertical angle from which the audience views the action. The most

common angle is filmed at adult eye level, though some artistic films for or

about children can capture a childs-eye view of the world by filming from a

childs eye level, looking up at most things. Similarly, even ordinary films

can switch to low angle view by occasionally lowering the camera to look

upwards at a character or building. The low-angle format suggests that the

object or character is somehow larger, grander and more dominant or

intimidating. In contrast the high angle shot positions the camera to look

down on a character which often suggest that he is inferior, powerless, or

in trouble. A side by side shot of two characters suggest that they are

equal in importance, while filming one character as seen over the shoulderof another emphasises that character, while reminding the audiences that

he is being observed or heard.

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1. The passage discussion m ost clearly suggests t hat the m ost im portant aspect

of fi lmmaking is

A. figuring out what moviegoers are going to love

B. deciding how to make a movie artistic

C. using a good director

D. signing a top actor for t he lead role

E. having excellent m usic

2. According to the passage, a scene from a horror movie showing two lovers

embracing, unaware of the huge monster closing in on them, would be filmed

using

A. an eye- level, close up

B. a high-angle, long shot

C. a low angle, long shot

D. a childs eye level, close up

E. an eye- level, over the shoulder

3. According to the passage, a childrens film with three alternative shots

showing a mother scolding her small daughter, the daughter, and the father

who is secretly listening, would m ost likely be film ed using which sequence ofcamera angles?

A. low angle, high angle and over the shoulder

B. low angle,low angle, and high angle

C. high angle, high angle, and over the shoulder

D. over the shoulder, high angle, and low angle

E. high angle, low angle and low angle