Film and Visual Communication Questions and Answers

Q: Movies such as The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, "Metropolis" and "Psycho" are examples of films influenced by which movement ?

The movement is Expressionism.The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (Robert Wiene, 1920) and Metropolis (Fritz Lang, 1927) are landmarks of German Expressionist cinema, with distorted sets, stark contrasts of light and shadow and stylised acting that express inner states of fear and madness. Hitchcock worked in German studios in the 1920s, and the shadows, looming staircases and psychological horror of Psycho (1960) show that influence.Italian neo-realism (Bicycle Thieves) used real locations and non-actors, the opposite of studio stylisation. Surrealism (Bunuel and Dali's Un Chien Andalou) worked with dream logic rather than this look, and social realism is a documentary-like portrayal of working-class life.

Q: Which one of the following films was co-produced and directed by Jabbar Patel and dealt with, among other things, lesbianism ?

The film is Umbartha (1982).Jabbar Patel directed this Marathi film, made in Hindi as Subah, with Smita Patil as a woman who leaves home to run a women's reformatory. Among the institution's problems it shows a relationship between two inmates, one of the earliest portrayals of lesbianism in Indian cinema, alongside its main themes of a woman's career and her family's resistance.Uttarayan (2005) is a Marathi film directed by Bipin Nadkarni about love late in life, not a Jabbar Patel film. Vidushak and Maza Ghar are not the Jabbar Patel film on this theme; his best-known films besides Umbartha are Samna, Jait Re Jait and Sinhasan.

Q: Who received the first prestigious "Dada Saheb Phalke Award" for Indian Cinema ?

The first Dadasaheb Phalke Award went to Devika Rani.The award, India's highest honour in cinema, was instituted by the Government of India in 1969, the birth centenary year of Dhundiraj Govind Phalke, who made Raja Harishchandra (1913). Devika Rani, star of Bombay Talkies films such as Achhut Kanya (1936) and often called the first lady of Indian cinema, was the first recipient.The other three received it later. The composer and singer Pankaj Mullick was honoured in 1972, the silent-era actress Sulochana (Ruby Myers) in 1973, and the music director Naushad in 1981.

Q: Which of the following is not a film about news media ?

The film that is not about news media is Silence.Martin Scorsese's Silence (2016) follows two Jesuit priests searching for their mentor in seventeenth-century Japan, during the persecution of Christians. It is about faith and doubt, not journalism.The other three are classic newspaper films. Ace in the Hole (Billy Wilder, 1951) follows a cynical reporter who prolongs a man's entrapment in a cave to keep his story running. Citizen Kane (Orson Welles, 1941) is the life of a newspaper magnate modelled partly on William Randolph Hearst. All the President's Men (1976) dramatises the Washington Post's Watergate investigation by Woodward and Bernstein.

Q: Which of the following is not considered to be the significant characteristic of popular Indian films in the established discourse of film theories ?

The characteristic that does not fit is highly subtle and restrained treatment of narrative.Film theorists describe popular Indian cinema as melodramatic and excessive rather than restrained: emotions are stated openly, conflicts are heightened and the treatment is anything but subtle. Restraint is associated instead with parallel or art cinema.The other three are standard descriptions. The narrative is repeatedly interrupted by songs, dances, comic tracks and the interval, which Lalitha Gopalan calls a cinema of interruptions (the paper prints 'Intrumption oriented'). Dialogue carries much of the meaning, often in declamatory set pieces. Stories are commonly underpinned by traditional and patriarchal values about family, honour and women's roles.

Q: Which one of the following is warm colour ?

The warm colour is red-orange.On the colour wheel the warm colours are the reds, oranges and yellows, hues associated with fire and sunlight that seem to advance towards the viewer and convey energy and excitement. Red-orange, a tertiary colour between red and orange, falls squarely in this half of the wheel, which is why designers use such colours to draw attention in layouts and advertisements.Blue, green and blue-violet are on the other side of the wheel. They are cool colours, associated with water, sky and foliage, which seem to recede and give a calm effect.

Q: Which movement is defined as the rejection of western conventions and the depiction of reality that is widely distorted for emotional effect ?

The movement is German Expressionism.German Expressionist cinema of the 1920s, with films such as The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (1920) and Nosferatu (1922), turned away from realistic conventions and used painted, angular sets, extreme shadows and stylised acting so that the distorted world on screen expressed fear, madness and inner emotion.The French New Wave of the late 1950s was a modernist break with studio storytelling but did not distort reality for emotional effect; it favoured location shooting and jump cuts. Cinema Verite is the opposite tendency, an observational documentary style that tries to capture reality as it happens. 'Cinema Nono' is not an established film movement.

Q: Statement (A) :Caste discriminations are now-a-days observed only on celluloid.Statement (R) :The directors of films have stopped addressing caste distinction.In the context of above statements, which one of the following is correct ?

The answer is Neither (A) nor (R) is accurate.Statement (A) is false: caste discrimination is still a social reality in India, in villages, in marriage and in access to work and housing, and is not something seen only on the cinema screen ('celluloid').Statement (R) is also false: Indian film-makers continue to address caste, for example in Marathi and Tamil films such as Sairat (2016), Pariyerum Perumal (2018) and Kaala (2018).Since both statements are false, every option that treats (A) or (R) as true is wrong.

Q: Which of the following is not a major distinguishing characteristic of India soap operas ?

The characteristic that does not fit is Preference to outdoor shoots.Indian television soap operas are shot overwhelmingly on indoor studio sets, the rich family home being the typical setting, because indoor shooting is cheaper, faster and easy to control for daily episodes.The other three are well-known distinguishing features of the genre: stories centred on women, especially the daughter-in-law and mother-in-law; loud, melodramatic treatment with repeated dramatic zooms and background music; and plots driven by marital and family conflict.

Q: What is diegetic sound ?

Diegetic sound is sound that is heard by the characters in the fictional world of the film.The diegesis is the story world. Diegetic sound has a source inside that world: dialogue, footsteps, a radio playing in the room or a song a character sings. The characters can hear it as well as the audience.Music and narration that only the audience hears, such as a background score or a voice-over, is non-diegetic sound, the opposite. Whether a sound is diegetic does not depend on the technology used to create it or on whether it was added in post-production; much diegetic sound is recreated by Foley artists later.

11.

Movies such as The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, "Metropolis" and "Psycho" are examples of films influenced by which movement ?

A.Social realism
B.Neo-realism
C.Surrealism
D.Expressionism

Exam Year(s)

MH SET - 2018, SET Exam - 2018,

Answer: D

The movement is Expressionism.

The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (Robert Wiene, 1920) and Metropolis (Fritz Lang, 1927) are landmarks of German Expressionist cinema, with distorted sets, stark contrasts of light and shadow and stylised acting that express inner states of fear and madness. Hitchcock worked in German studios in the 1920s, and the shadows, looming staircases and psychological horror of Psycho (1960) show that influence.

Italian neo-realism (Bicycle Thieves) used real locations and non-actors, the opposite of studio stylisation. Surrealism (Bunuel and Dali's Un Chien Andalou) worked with dream logic rather than this look, and social realism is a documentary-like portrayal of working-class life.

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12.

Which one of the following films was co-produced and directed by Jabbar Patel and dealt with, among other things, lesbianism ?

A.Uttarayan
B.Umbartha
C.Vidushak
D.Maza Ghar

Exam Year(s)

MH SET - 2018, SET Exam - 2018,

Answer: B

The film is Umbartha (1982).

Jabbar Patel directed this Marathi film, made in Hindi as Subah, with Smita Patil as a woman who leaves home to run a women's reformatory. Among the institution's problems it shows a relationship between two inmates, one of the earliest portrayals of lesbianism in Indian cinema, alongside its main themes of a woman's career and her family's resistance.

Uttarayan (2005) is a Marathi film directed by Bipin Nadkarni about love late in life, not a Jabbar Patel film. Vidushak and Maza Ghar are not the Jabbar Patel film on this theme; his best-known films besides Umbartha are Samna, Jait Re Jait and Sinhasan.

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13.

Who received the first prestigious "Dada Saheb Phalke Award" for Indian Cinema ?

A.Pankaj Mullick
B.Sulochana
C.Naushad
D.Devika Rani

Exam Year(s)

MH SET - 2018, SET Exam - 2018,

Answer: D

The first Dadasaheb Phalke Award went to Devika Rani.

The award, India's highest honour in cinema, was instituted by the Government of India in 1969, the birth centenary year of Dhundiraj Govind Phalke, who made Raja Harishchandra (1913). Devika Rani, star of Bombay Talkies films such as Achhut Kanya (1936) and often called the first lady of Indian cinema, was the first recipient.

The other three received it later. The composer and singer Pankaj Mullick was honoured in 1972, the silent-era actress Sulochana (Ruby Myers) in 1973, and the music director Naushad in 1981.

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14.

Which of the following is not a film about news media ?

A.Ace in the Hole
B.Citizen Kane
C.All the President's Men
D.Silence

Exam Year(s)

MH SET - 2018, SET Exam - 2018,

Answer: D

The film that is not about news media is Silence.

Martin Scorsese's Silence (2016) follows two Jesuit priests searching for their mentor in seventeenth-century Japan, during the persecution of Christians. It is about faith and doubt, not journalism.

The other three are classic newspaper films. Ace in the Hole (Billy Wilder, 1951) follows a cynical reporter who prolongs a man's entrapment in a cave to keep his story running. Citizen Kane (Orson Welles, 1941) is the life of a newspaper magnate modelled partly on William Randolph Hearst. All the President's Men (1976) dramatises the Washington Post's Watergate investigation by Woodward and Bernstein.

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15.

Which of the following is not considered to be the significant characteristic of popular Indian films in the established discourse of film theories ?

A.Intrumption oriented narrative flow
B.Emphasis on dialogues and verbal communication
C.Traditional and patriarchial underpinning to story
D.Highly subtle and restrained treatment of narrative

Exam Year(s)

MH SET - 2018, SET Exam - 2018,

Answer: D

The characteristic that does not fit is highly subtle and restrained treatment of narrative.

Film theorists describe popular Indian cinema as melodramatic and excessive rather than restrained: emotions are stated openly, conflicts are heightened and the treatment is anything but subtle. Restraint is associated instead with parallel or art cinema.

The other three are standard descriptions. The narrative is repeatedly interrupted by songs, dances, comic tracks and the interval, which Lalitha Gopalan calls a cinema of interruptions (the paper prints 'Intrumption oriented'). Dialogue carries much of the meaning, often in declamatory set pieces. Stories are commonly underpinned by traditional and patriarchal values about family, honour and women's roles.

Discuss in Forum

16.

Which one of the following is warm colour ?

A.Blue
B.Green
C.Red-orange
D.Blue-violet

Exam Year(s)

MH SET - 2018, SET Exam - 2018,

Answer: C

The warm colour is red-orange.

On the colour wheel the warm colours are the reds, oranges and yellows, hues associated with fire and sunlight that seem to advance towards the viewer and convey energy and excitement. Red-orange, a tertiary colour between red and orange, falls squarely in this half of the wheel, which is why designers use such colours to draw attention in layouts and advertisements.

Blue, green and blue-violet are on the other side of the wheel. They are cool colours, associated with water, sky and foliage, which seem to recede and give a calm effect.

Discuss in Forum

17.

Which movement is defined as the rejection of western conventions and the depiction of reality that is widely distorted for emotional effect ?

A.German Expressionism
B.French New Wave
C.Cinema Verite
D.Cinema Nono

Exam Year(s)

MH SET - 2019, SET Exam - 2019,

Answer: A

The movement is German Expressionism.

German Expressionist cinema of the 1920s, with films such as The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (1920) and Nosferatu (1922), turned away from realistic conventions and used painted, angular sets, extreme shadows and stylised acting so that the distorted world on screen expressed fear, madness and inner emotion.

The French New Wave of the late 1950s was a modernist break with studio storytelling but did not distort reality for emotional effect; it favoured location shooting and jump cuts. Cinema Verite is the opposite tendency, an observational documentary style that tries to capture reality as it happens. 'Cinema Nono' is not an established film movement.

Discuss in Forum

18.

Statement (A) :
Caste discriminations are now-a-days observed only on celluloid.
Statement (R) :
The directors of films have stopped addressing caste distinction.

In the context of above statements, which one of the following is correct ?

A.Both (A) and (R) are true, (R) is the correct explanation of (A)
B.Both (A) and (R) are true, (R) is not the correct explanation of (A)
C.Neither (A) nor (R) is accurate
D.(A) is false and (R) is true

Exam Year(s)

MH SET - 2019, SET Exam - 2019,

Answer: C

The answer is Neither (A) nor (R) is accurate.

Statement (A) is false: caste discrimination is still a social reality in India, in villages, in marriage and in access to work and housing, and is not something seen only on the cinema screen ('celluloid').

Statement (R) is also false: Indian film-makers continue to address caste, for example in Marathi and Tamil films such as Sairat (2016), Pariyerum Perumal (2018) and Kaala (2018).

Since both statements are false, every option that treats (A) or (R) as true is wrong.

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19.

Which of the following is not a major distinguishing characteristic of India soap operas ?

A.Preference to outdoor shoots
B.Women centric stories
C.Loud and melodramatic narrative treatment
D.Storyline that has excessive marital and familial conflicts

Exam Year(s)

MH SET - 2019, SET Exam - 2019,

Answer: A

The characteristic that does not fit is Preference to outdoor shoots.

Indian television soap operas are shot overwhelmingly on indoor studio sets, the rich family home being the typical setting, because indoor shooting is cheaper, faster and easy to control for daily episodes.

The other three are well-known distinguishing features of the genre: stories centred on women, especially the daughter-in-law and mother-in-law; loud, melodramatic treatment with repeated dramatic zooms and background music; and plots driven by marital and family conflict.

Discuss in Forum

20.

What is diegetic sound ?

A.Sound created through the use of an advanced digital system
B.Music and narrative that the audience hear and the characters do not
C.Sound that is heard by the characters in the fictional world of the film
D.Sound created during the post-production phase

Exam Year(s)

MH SET - 2019, SET Exam - 2019,

Answer: C

Diegetic sound is sound that is heard by the characters in the fictional world of the film.

The diegesis is the story world. Diegetic sound has a source inside that world: dialogue, footsteps, a radio playing in the room or a song a character sings. The characters can hear it as well as the audience.

Music and narration that only the audience hears, such as a background score or a voice-over, is non-diegetic sound, the opposite. Whether a sound is diegetic does not depend on the technology used to create it or on whether it was added in post-production; much diegetic sound is recreated by Foley artists later.

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