Test on Friday, 12/4

The test will focus on George A. Romero's Night of the Living Dead, Tom Tykwer's Run Lola Run, and Alfred Hitchcock's North By Northwest. You should also know the terms from chapters 2 and the first half of chapter 4 of our textbook, Understanding Movies. Also, you should know all critical terms that we learned earlier in the course, from cinematic terms (such as "long shot") to other terms such as "metonymy."

Look over your notes, your homework assignments, and all Viewing Guides and handouts.

Be sure to focus on these areas in your review:

• In Night of the Living Dead: the zombie apocalypse genre and its conventions; continuity error; colorblind casting; "stealing a scene"; indie film; expressionism; subtexts (cultural/historical significance); ironies in the plot; final shot; director's cameo.  Be able to cite specific examples of these concepts from the film to prove your point.
• In Run Lola Run: birds-eye view shot; split screen; pastiche; arc shot; crane or boom shot; steadicam; chaos theory; motifs (spirals, etc.); snorkel camera; montage; red filter; web of life plot; Lola as hero. Be able to cite specific examples of these concepts from the film to prove your point.
• In North By Northwest: Director's cameo; femme fatale; MacGuffin; final cut privileges; title credits; montage; characterization & compression; visual irony; visual foreshadowing; aural cue; character subtext; "stealing a scene"; film subtexts; "Becoming George Kaplan"; "The Matchless Eve Kendall"; "Murder scenes shot lovingly & love scenes shot murderously"; epiphany & character arc; how tension & suspense are created in "The Crop Dusting Scene." Be able to cite specific examples of these concepts from the film to prove your point.
• Key Terms: Mise-en-scene ("placing on stage"); aspect ratio (standard vs. widescreen); iris shot; the dominant; tight framing, proxemic patterns; open vs. closed form; the take; cutting to continuity; jump cut; parallel editing / crosscutting

This is only a general guide and not a complete list of everything we learned and everything you should study!

Good luck!