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what are the three major perceptual properties of film sound?
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loudness, pitch, timbre
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a "dialogue overlap" means
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continuing a line of dialogue over cuts during shot/ reverse shot
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the frequency of sound affects pitch, or the
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perceived highness or lowness of the sound
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in film sound, "fidelity" refers to
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whether the sound comes from within the diegetic space of the story
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what is not true about diegetic sound?
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it can come from a source inside or outside of the world of the narrative
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the term for sound that represents a character's thoughts without him or her speaking aloud is
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internal diegetic sound
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a "sound bridge" is
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overlapping the sound of one scene into the next
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what are two methods of sound recording?
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foley, ADR
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(t/f) sound effects are the most common kind of non-diegetic sound
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true
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(t/f) contemporary films have denser, fuller soundtracks when compared to older films
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true
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(t/f) internal diegetic sound can be heard by other characters
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false
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(t/f) robert bressons a man escaped frequently uses offscreen diegetic sound
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true
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(t/f) ADR refers to a type of sound recording that takes place while filming on set
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false
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(t/f) sound gives new value to silence
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true
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(t/f) the dialogue between characters is a common example of asynchronous sound
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false
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in a narrative film, an element is nondiagetic if
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it is not part of the world of the depicted narrative
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as defined by film art, a film's plot is
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everything visually and audibly present in the film
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the flashbacks of citizen kane are an example of
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a manipulation of temporal order
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the flashbacks of the girl triggered by jamal's memory in slumdog millionaire are an example of
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mental subjectivity
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the chains of actions that make up the narratives of classical hollywood films most typically depend on
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psychological causes
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the final freeze frame of Francois Truffaut's 400 Blows is an example of
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an open ending
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when a film opens in media res it literally means that
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the narration begins in the middle of action
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credit sequences may often provide
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glimpses of forthcoming action, an overall mood, motif or themes
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(t/f) narrative form can be used in documentary films
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true
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(t/f) the opening scene of north by northwest contains no nondiegetic elements
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false
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(t/f) in a narrative film, plot duration is always equal to story duration
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false
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(t/f) a point of view shot is an example of perceptual subjectivity in narration
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true
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(t/f) plots based on searches might be considered examples of goal oriented plots
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true
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(t/f) alfred hitchcock's approach to narration is to withhold as much information as possible from the spectator in order to create surprise
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false
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(t/f) film credits and orchestral music are considered to be diegetic elements
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false
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john grierson was responsible for the establishment of
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national film board (NFB)
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a "direct cinema" documentary
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records a real event as it happens
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leni riefenstahl's triumph of the will is an example of which type of documentary
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government progaganda
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dziga vertov's most famous documentary is
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a city symphony named man with the movie camera
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which of the following types of argument is not typical of rhetorical form?
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arguments from source
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(t/f) a documentary film is defined by the fact that none of the action has been staged
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false
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(t/f) cinema verite techniques have been over-used by music documentaries and reality television shows
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true
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(t/f) fact-based films like apollo 13, schindlers list, and malcolm x deal with real events are considered documentaries
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false
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(t/f) night mail is robert flaherty's most famous documentary film
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false
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(t/f) michael moore's films are examples of the rhetorical form of documentaries that employ arguments from source
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true
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nanook of the north is about
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the archaic lifestyle of inuits
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(t/f) triumph of the will was recut and used as counter propaganda for the allies against the nazi party
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true
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dziga vertov believed that documentary films should have an educational and social function
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false
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kenneth anger is an important filmmaker in the area of
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experimental cinema
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film art describes a common way of organizing films with abstract form as
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theme and variations
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the "dance" in ballet mecanique consists of
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a rhythmic juxtaposition of various ordinary objects and people
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experimental filmmakers often begin abstract films
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by photographing real objects
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many experimental filmmakers were early pioneers of
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music videos
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the two filmmakers who made ballet mecanique are
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dudley murphy and fernand leger
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an example of the associational form of experimental cinema is
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a movie
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(t/f) ballet mecanique uses a theme and variations pattern of formal progression
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true
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(t/f) any sort of footage may be used for an avant-garde film
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true
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(t/f) bruce conner's a movie is an example of found footage
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true
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(t/f) techniques associated with the avant-garde have been deployed in music videos
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true
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(t/f) an experimental film cannot be improvised or built according to mathematical plan
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false
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(t/f) the experimental may tell no story, creating instead poetic reveries or pulsating visual collages
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true
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(t/f) in talking about abstract films, film art amends the phrase "art for art's sake" to "art for life's sake" thus suggesting the importance of such films in enhancing ones life
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true
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(t/f) kenneth angers scorpio rising explicitly associates motorcycle gangs with traditional religious groups and with nazi violence
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true
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a genre's "iconography" consists of
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its characteristic objects, settings and stars
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which of the following is not a reason or is not true about the recent popularity of the crime thriller with filmmakers?
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it allows for elaborate special effects
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which of the following is not a reason for the longevity of horror sub-genres
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lack of other genres such as the western and the musical
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which statement about the musical is not true
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it is a genre without possibilities for innovation
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there can be genres in...
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fictional live action films, documentaries, experiment and animated films and others
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(t/f) the fred astaire ginger rogers film swing time is an example of the backstage musical
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true
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(t/f) periods within which genres are popular are called "cycles"
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true
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(t/f) filmmakers try to create "pure" films that avoid mixing the conventions of more that one genre
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false
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(t/f) most scholars see genre films as pure escapism with no significant relation to contemporary society
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false
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(t/f) genre criticism has overinvested in analyzing the genre of the western
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true
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(t/f) genres have fixed conventions and do not change over history
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false
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an ordinary modern hollywood film typically contains
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1000 to 2000 shots
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which of the following is not a type of transition from one shot to another
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glide
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in the scene of the gas station explosion in the birds, the editing employs
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conflict of graphic qualities
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lev kuleshove's discovery, termed the "kuleshov effect", suggests that
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even if no establishing shot is shown, spectators will still assume that objects in separate shots are near one another
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the term "crosscutting" means
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alternating between simultaneous shots in two separate spaces
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a temporal ellipsis in editing
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eliminates part of the action
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the 180 degree system is designed to
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ensure consistent screen direction across cuts
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(t/f) films that use a great deal of editing are more "cinematic" than those that rely mostly on long takes
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false
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(t/f) film editing may be though of as the coordination of one shot with the next
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true
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(t/f) in editing, rhythm depends on the patterning of shot lengths
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true
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(t/f) an establishing shot is a close view that reveals a significant detail in the scene
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false
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(t/f) shot/reverse shot refers to cutting across the axis of action
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false
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(t/f) a match on action is a common method of breaking the axis of action
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false
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(t/f) the iris and wipe are cinematographic devices
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false
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which of the following is a characteristic of discontinuity/alternative editing?
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crossing the 180-degree axis of action
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abstract films are often edited based on
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graphic or rhythmic patterns
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jump cuts occur due to
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the violation of the 30-degree rule
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which filmmaker is associated with the term "intellectual montage"
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sergei eisenstien
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which of the following is a discontinuity editing device frequently used by sergei eisenstein?
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non-diegetic insert
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non-diegetic inserts occur in which of the following films
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october
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(t/f) overlapping editing is a device used by both continuity and non-continuity editing systems
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true
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(t/f) montage is a french word meaning editing
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true
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(t/f) jump cuts shots the action from multiple angles
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false
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(t/f) ballet mechanique is an abstract film which explores rhythmic editing
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true
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(t/f) the non-diegetic insert is a metaphorical or symbolic shot that is not part of the space and time of the story world
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true
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(t/f) in eisensteinian editing, shots are not just joined, they collide together to create a new idea or emotion
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true
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(t/f) shots cannot be joined together on the basis of purely graphic or rhythmic qualities
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false
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(t/f) in october, the classical continuity of space is broken by the intercutting of different locales
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true
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(t/f) eisensteinian editing asks viewers to interpret the story events and work out implicit meanings
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true
