1. The life of Eskimos is pictured by Robert Flaherty in his classical documentary ……
Correct : D. man of arabia
2. Jib arm is a/an……………………….
Correct : C. device on which camera lense is mounted for flexible movement
3. Which among the following is a mismatch?
Correct : C. adoor gopalakrishnan – sculpting time
4. Who directed Drishyam?
Correct : D. jithu joseph
5. During the evolutionary period of cinema Eadweard Muybridge experimented the
shooting of …………………………
Correct : D. the galloping of a horse
6. Father of African Cinema
Correct : D. osmane sembene
7. Edison is considered the father of movie studio. His studio was known as ………….
Correct : C. black maria
8. “2001 A Space Odyssey” is directed by………………………….
Correct : B. stanley kubrick
9. Satyajit Ray’s Apu trilogy consists of Pather panchali, Aparajito and ……………….
Correct : B. apursansar
10. The first Malayalam Feature film “Vigathakumaran” was shown to the public at the
Capitol theatre in Thiruvananthapuram on 7 November ..........................
Correct : A. 1928
11. The first shot is a man looking up. The second shot is a low angle shot of a high rise
apartment. The second shot is a .................shot
Correct : D. point - of – view
12. Which is Walt Disney’s first feature film?
Correct : A. snow white and seven dwarfs
13. The second Malayalam feature film “Marthanda Varma”, produced by Sundar Raj was
directed by
Correct : C. v. v. rao
14. A colored lens or paper that is placed in between the light source and the subject to either
darken or lighten a particular colour is a……….
Correct : A. filter
15. Generation loss is the most minimal in
Correct : A. nonlinear editing
16. Take is a version of a………..
Correct : A. shot
17. The light source that casts sharp, well define shadows is called …………
Correct : D. hard light
18. MFD stands for ________________
Correct : A. minimum focusing distance
19. A camera mounting that straps the camera to the body of the operator to keep the
recorded image reasonably steady is known as ………….
Correct : A. steadicam
20. story board
Correct : A. illustrations in sequence
21. Aspect ratio
Correct : A. ratio of width and height
22. Continuity
Correct : A. a report of shooting details
23. Rule of thirds
Correct : A. rule of composition
24. Director
Correct : B. person converting a script into a movie.
25. Feature Film
Correct : A. any film at least one hour long that people pay to see
26. Intercutting
Correct : A. at a point, two scenes will be shown a few moments each, back and forth
27. Iris Out
Correct : A. transition from one to another frame
28. Montage
Correct : A. a series of images showing a theme
29. POV
Correct : A. point of view
30. REVERSE ANGLE
Correct : A. reveal things for comic or dramatic effect
31. Shooting Script
Correct : A. final draft used on set by the production people
32. Screenplay
Correct : A. a specific script
33. Tracking Shot
Correct : A. a camera following a person or an object
34. Transition
Correct : A. these describe the style in which one scene becomes the next
35. Console
Correct : A. key board for input
36. Nonlinear Editing
Correct : A. nondestructive editing
37. Type of Audio visual media
Correct : A. web casting
38. Audio channel
Correct : A. a pathway through an audio device
39. DAT
Correct : A. digital audio tape
40. Key frame
Correct : A. points between transition
41. Analog recording
Correct : A. stored as a physical texture in recorder
42. Audio file formats
Correct : A. mpeg-3
43. Copy right
Correct : A. ipr
44. Digital Editing
Correct : A. final cut pro
45. Digital sound
Correct : A. encoding audio signal in digital
46. DAB
Correct : A. digital audio broadcasting
47. FM radio
Correct : A. frequency modulation
48. Soap Opera
Correct : A. serial drama, on television
49. Camera angles, continuity, cutting, close-ups and ……………………are the five C’s of
cinematography.
Correct : D. composition
50. Film strip normally runs at a speed of ……………………per second
Correct : A. 24 frames
51. The video effect that slowly replaces one image on the screen with another is known
as………………………………..
Correct : C. dissolve
52. Who among the following I & B ministers in the union government banned the musical
instrument harmonium from AIR’s music programmes?
Correct : A. B.V. Keskar
53. A low angle shot emphasizes the …………………..of the person in the shot
Correct : B. prominence
54. Akira Kurosawa’s “Throne of Blood” is a free adaptation of a play by
Correct : A. William Shakespeare
55. The adjustable flaps on a lighting instrument which control the throw of light is known as ………………………………..
Correct : D. barn door
56. The life of Eskimos is pictured by Robert Flaherty in his classical documentary……………..
Correct : B. Nanook of the North
57. French critic Andre Bazin’s classic work on film theory in titled ……………….
Correct : D. What is cinema
58. Which among the following movies had a long speech of Charles Chaplin against the war?
Correct : D. The Great Dictator
59. Which among the following Indian film festivals is devoted exclusively to short films?
Correct : C. MIFF
60. Who is the first African American actress to win Oscar for best actress?
Correct : B. Halle Berry
61. Steadicam is…………………………
Correct : B. a camera fitted to the body of a person who shoots
62. Mike Pandey is ……………………..
Correct : A. a wild life film maker
63. Sir David Attenborough is a renowned………………………….
Correct : D. video documentary director
64. Who among the following film makers first introduced illusory tricks in cinema?
Correct : A. Georges Milies
65. Who created the classic character Charles Foster Kane?
Correct : D. Orson Welles
66. Which among the following is a mismatch?
Correct : C. Adoor Gopalakrishnan – Sculpting Time
67. Which among the following films has a sequence on the torture of the revolting public at the
steps of Odessa?
Correct : B. Battleship Potemkin
68. Which among the following films won an award at the Cannes Film Festival in 1956?
Correct : D. Pather panchali
69. Who directed Aadaminte Makan Abu?
Correct : A. Salim Ahamed
70. The French movie “Breathless” is considered as a/an………film
Correct : A. avantgarde
71. Treatment, a terminology in cinema means………………
Correct : C. a short written outline of a film specifying how the story is to be told
72. During the evolutionary period of cinema Eadweard Muybridge experimented the shooting
of …………………………
Correct : D. the galloping of a horse
73. ………………………is a device which converts motion picture film image into video
Correct : B. telecine
74. Which among the following is a mismatch?
Correct : C. Claude Chabrol – Cries and Whispers
75. Robert Wiene’s movie……………first used the expressionist-cubist world of horror through
painted shadows, the irregular non-perpendicular chimneys, doors and windows.
Correct : B. The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari
76. Mohsen Makhmalbaf is an …………………………film maker
Correct : A. Iranian
77. “Night and Fog”, the classical documentary on the mass killings during the second world war
was made by………………………..
Correct : D. Allain Resnais
78. In which of the following films did Chaplin appear as a hired killer?
Correct : C. Monsieur Verdoux
79. The Hollywood movie “Dam 999” is made…………………….
Correct : B. Sohan Roy
80. Which of the following films of Adoor Gopalakrishnan won the British Film Institute Award?
Correct : C. Elipathayam
81. Story board narrates the story of the movie through………………………..
Correct : A. rough sketches
82. Film and Television Institute of India under the Union I & B Ministry is located
in…………………
Correct : D. Pune
83. The Kerala Government’s lifetime achievement award in the field of cinema is named after
Correct : C. J.C. Daniel
84. IFFK is held every year in ………………………..
Correct : C. Thiruvananthapuram
85. “Train Arriving the Platform” is one among the early actuality film shot by………………
Correct : D. Lumiere Brothers
86. “The Great Train Robbery” is made by……………………….
Correct : C. Edwin S. Porter
87. ………………….was the first film maker who introduced parallel action editing (cross-cut) to
heighten the anxiety of the audience.
Correct : B. D.W. Griffith
88. Which is the film production company launched jointly by Griffith, Chalpin, Mary Pickford
and Doughlas Fairbanks?
Correct : A. United Artist’s Corporation
89. “Kino-Pravda”, a newsreel of unstaged shots is produced by…………………..
Correct : C. Dziga Vertov
90. …………………………….is a trial performance of talents to assess their ability to act.
Correct : D. Audition
91. The horizontal movement of the camera is called……………………..
Correct : C. panning
92. The first movie theatre was opened to the paying public on 28th December 1895 by Lumiere
brothers in the basement room of the Grand Café in ……………………..
Correct : D. Paris
93. Which of the following is a Buster Keaton movie?
Correct : A. The General
94. The Blue Angel, a Marlene Dietrich film is directed by…………………..
Correct : A. Josef von Sternberg
95. Which of the following is an ideal device on which camera can be mounted for taking various
kinds of dynamic shots?
Correct : D. Jibarm
96. An establishing shot is………………..
Correct : B. a wide angle shot
97. Who among the following film makers created one of the world cinema’s most comic
characters, Mr. Hulot?
Correct : D. Jacques Tati
98. The first event in his first film was a close-up of a razor slicing the human eye ball. Who is this
Spanish surrealist film author?
Correct : C. Luis Bunuel
99. Adoor Gopalakrishnan’s authorized biography “A Life in Cinema” is written by
Correct : A. M.F. Thomas
100. Bert Haanstra’s classic documentary........................ documents Holland’s struggle against the sea