Answer each question individually.
- How does a film’s editing contribute to its success or failure? What is the relationship between a finished film and the tempothe editing creates? How does editing create a film’s rhythm?
- Objects, people, and ambient sounds can make up a film’s sound effects. How do these contribute to the film? Identify a film in which objects, people, and ambient sounds were convincing. Cansilence be considered a sound?
- Can you discuss some more recent films that are in keeping with David Puttnam’s philosophy of “shaping values”?
- What are the key principles a cinemtographer uses when he or she shoots a feature film? Are they different from those principles used for other forms of film like docunemtaries?
- What is the most salient element you take from Hitchcock’s editing philosophy as he expresses it in this interview?
- What is the essential device Eisenstein uses to create montage that conveys more than dialogue or still pictures alone? Can you think of an example of montage from a film you know (besides Psycho)? How is it similar to or different from Eisenstein’s example?