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  1. This command, shouted on set, signals actors to begin performing their scene.

    Difficulty: Easy
    • Action
    • Rolling
    • Scene
    • Start
  2. This guideline states that consecutive camera setups should differ by at least 30 degrees to avoid jarring cuts.

    Difficulty: Medium
    • 30-degree rule
    • 180-degree rule
    • Jump cut rule
    • Axis of action rule
  3. This French critic and filmmaker developed auteur theory in his writings for Cahiers du Cinema.

    Difficulty: Hard
    • Francois Truffaut
    • Jean-Luc Godard
    • Andre Bazin
    • Eric Rohmer
  4. The person with ultimate creative control over a film's visual storytelling and actor performances.

    Difficulty: Easy
    • Producer
    • Director
    • Cinematographer
    • Editor
  5. This lighting style creates a small triangle of light on the shadowed side of a subject's face.

    Difficulty: Medium
    • Butterfly lighting
    • Split lighting
    • Rembrandt lighting
    • Loop lighting
  6. This Eisenstein montage method cuts based on the dominant emotional tone of each shot rather than content or rhythm.

    Difficulty: Hard
    • Overtonal montage
    • Tonal montage
    • Rhythmic montage
    • Metric montage
  7. This word describes a single continuous recorded segment of a scene, often numbered sequentially.

    Difficulty: Easy
    • Scene
    • Sequence
    • Take
    • Shot
  8. This uninterrupted shot captures an entire scene without any visible cuts or edits.

    Difficulty: Medium
    • Master shot
    • Sequence shot
    • Long take
    • Continuous take

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