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This section includes 242 Mcqs, each offering curated multiple-choice questions to sharpen your Bachelor Multimedia Communication (B.M.M.C.) knowledge and support exam preparation. Choose a topic below to get started.
| 101. |
Adoor Gopalakrishnan’s authorized biography “A Life in Cinema” is written by |
| A. | M.F. Thomas |
| B. | Madhu Eravankara |
| C. | Gautaman Bhaskaran |
| D. | Derek Malcolm |
| Answer» B. Madhu Eravankara | |
| 102. |
The first event in his first film was a close-up of a razor slicing the human eye ball. Who is thisSpanish surrealist film author? |
| A. | Ousmane Sembene |
| B. | Ingmar Bergman |
| C. | Luis Bunuel |
| D. | Tomas Gutierrez Alea |
| Answer» D. Tomas Gutierrez Alea | |
| 103. |
Who among the following film makers created one of the world cinema’s most comiccharacters, Mr. Hulot? |
| A. | Charles Chaplin |
| B. | Buster Keaton |
| C. | Robert Bresson |
| D. | Jacques Tati |
| Answer» E. | |
| 104. |
An establishing shot is……………….. |
| A. | an extreme long shot |
| B. | a wide angle shot |
| C. | a mid shot |
| D. | an extreme close-up |
| Answer» C. a mid shot | |
| 105. |
Which of the following is an ideal device on which camera can be mounted for taking variouskinds of dynamic shots? |
| A. | Dolly |
| B. | Track |
| C. | Crane |
| D. | Jibarm |
| Answer» E. | |
| 106. |
The Blue Angel, a Marlene Dietrich film is directed by………………….. |
| A. | Josef von Sternberg |
| B. | Ernst Lubitsch |
| C. | Alfred Hitchcock |
| D. | John Ford |
| Answer» B. Ernst Lubitsch | |
| 107. |
The first movie theatre was opened to the paying public on 28th December 1895 by Lumierebrothers in the basement room of the Grand Café in …………………….. |
| A. | London |
| B. | New York |
| C. | Munich |
| D. | Paris |
| Answer» E. | |
| 108. |
…………………………….is a trial performance of talents to assess their ability to act. |
| A. | Screen test |
| B. | Screen interview |
| C. | Rehearsal |
| D. | Audition |
| Answer» E. | |
| 109. |
The horizontal movement of the camera is called…………………….. |
| A. | tilting |
| B. | zooming |
| C. | panning |
| D. | dollying |
| Answer» D. dollying | |
| 110. |
“Kino-Pravda”, a newsreel of unstaged shots is produced by………………….. |
| A. | V.I. Pudovkin |
| B. | Siegfried Kracauer |
| C. | Dziga Vertov |
| D. | Mack Sennett |
| Answer» D. Mack Sennett | |
| 111. |
Which is the film production company launched jointly by Griffith, Chalpin, Mary Pickfordand Doughlas Fairbanks? |
| A. | United Artist’s Corporation |
| B. | Paramount |
| C. | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer |
| D. | Rex Pictures |
| Answer» B. Paramount | |
| 112. |
………………….was the first film maker who introduced parallel action editing (cross-cut) toheighten the anxiety of the audience. |
| A. | Cecil Hepworth |
| B. | D.W. Griffith |
| C. | Mack Sennette |
| D. | Stuart Blackton |
| Answer» C. Mack Sennette | |
| 113. |
“The Great Train Robbery” is made by………………………. |
| A. | Auguste Lumiere |
| B. | Thomas Alva Edison |
| C. | Edwin S. Porter |
| D. | Thomas Armat |
| Answer» D. Thomas Armat | |
| 114. |
“Train Arriving the Platform” is one among the early actuality film shot by……………… |
| A. | Edwin S. Porter |
| B. | Eadweard Muybridge |
| C. | Georges Milies |
| D. | Lumiere Brothers |
| Answer» E. | |
| 115. |
IFFK is held every year in ……………………….. |
| A. | New Delhi |
| B. | Goa |
| C. | Thiruvananthapuram |
| D. | Mumbai |
| Answer» D. Mumbai | |
| 116. |
The Kerala Government’s lifetime achievement award in the field of cinema is named after |
| A. | Satyan |
| B. | P. Subramanian |
| C. | J.C. Daniel |
| D. | Ramu Kariat |
| Answer» D. Ramu Kariat | |
| 117. |
Film and Television Institute of India under the Union I & B Ministry is locatedin………………… |
| A. | Mumbai |
| B. | Chennai |
| C. | Kolkotha |
| D. | Pune |
| Answer» E. | |
| 118. |
Story board narrates the story of the movie through……………………….. |
| A. | rough sketches |
| B. | film strips |
| C. | story synopsis |
| D. | comic strips |
| Answer» B. film strips | |
| 119. |
The Hollywood movie “Dam 999” is made……………………. |
| A. | Viswanath |
| B. | Sohan Roy |
| C. | Shyamalan |
| D. | Deepa Nair |
| Answer» C. Shyamalan | |
| 120. |
“Night and Fog”, the classical documentary on the mass killings during the second world warwas made by……………………….. |
| A. | Roberto Fellini |
| B. | Dziga Vertov |
| C. | Roman Polanski |
| D. | Allain Resnais |
| Answer» E. | |
| 121. |
Mohsen Makhmalbaf is an …………………………film maker |
| A. | Iranian |
| B. | Iraqui |
| C. | Israeli |
| D. | Afghani |
| Answer» B. Iraqui | |
| 122. |
Robert Wiene’s movie……………first used the expressionist-cubist world of horror throughpainted shadows, the irregular non-perpendicular chimneys, doors and windows. |
| A. | Warning Shadows |
| B. | The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari |
| C. | Metropolis |
| D. | Destiny |
| Answer» C. Metropolis | |
| 123. |
………………………is a device which converts motion picture film image into video |
| A. | cinetal |
| B. | telecine |
| C. | telepic |
| D. | motiontel |
| Answer» C. telepic | |
| 124. |
During the evolutionary period of cinema Eadweard Muybridge experimented the shootingof ………………………… |
| A. | a fireman extinguishing fire |
| B. | workers leaving a factory |
| C. | the sneeze of a lab assistant |
| D. | the galloping of a horse |
| Answer» E. | |
| 125. |
Treatment, a terminology in cinema means……………… |
| A. | synopsis of a film |
| B. | a proposal for the production of a film |
| C. | a short written outline of a film specifying how the story is to be told |
| D. | summary of the story |
| Answer» D. summary of the story | |
| 126. |
The French movie “Breathless” is considered as a/an………film |
| A. | avantgarde |
| B. | cinema verite |
| C. | underground |
| D. | neo-realist |
| Answer» B. cinema verite | |
| 127. |
Which among the following films has a sequence on the torture of the revolting public at thesteps of Odessa? |
| A. | Unchien Andalou |
| B. | Battleship Potemkin |
| C. | Spartacus |
| D. | Birth of a Nation |
| Answer» C. Spartacus | |
| 128. |
Sir David Attenborough is a renowned…………………………. |
| A. | script writer |
| B. | film editor |
| C. | feature film director |
| D. | video documentary director |
| Answer» E. | |
| 129. |
Mike Pandey is …………………….. |
| A. | a wild life film maker |
| B. | a film critic |
| C. | producer of a music reality |
| D. | Hollywood film actor |
| Answer» B. a film critic | |
| 130. |
Steadicam is………………………… |
| A. | a device on which camera is mounted |
| B. | a camera fitted to the body of a person who shoots |
| C. | a device fitted to a camera for flexible shots |
| D. | a small camera used during shoots for publicity shoots |
| Answer» C. a device fitted to a camera for flexible shots | |
| 131. |
French critic Andre Bazin’s classic work on film theory in titled ………………. |
| A. | Shot, scene and sequence |
| B. | montage |
| C. | Looking Glass |
| D. | What is cinema |
| Answer» E. | |
| 132. |
The life of Eskimos is pictured by Robert Flaherty in his classical documentary…………….. |
| A. | Man of Aran |
| B. | Nanook of the North |
| C. | Nanook of the South |
| D. | Man of Arabia |
| Answer» C. Nanook of the South | |
| 133. |
The adjustable flaps on a lighting instrument which control the throw of light is known as ……………………………….. |
| A. | Light flaps |
| B. | adjusters |
| C. | bouncers |
| D. | barn door |
| Answer» E. | |
| 134. |
Akira Kurosawa’s “Throne of Blood” is a free adaptation of a play by |
| A. | William Shakespeare |
| B. | Kalidasa |
| C. | Bernand Shaw |
| D. | Prem Chand |
| Answer» B. Kalidasa | |
| 135. |
Who among the following I & B ministers in the union government banned the musicalinstrument harmonium from AIR’s music programmes? |
| A. | B.V. Keskar |
| B. | Indira Gandhi |
| C. | Krishna Kumar |
| D. | Vasanth Sathe |
| Answer» B. Indira Gandhi | |
| 136. |
A low angle shot emphasizes the …………………..of the person in the shot |
| A. | Brutal character |
| B. | prominence |
| C. | idiotic nature |
| D. | low class status |
| Answer» C. idiotic nature | |
| 137. |
The video effect that slowly replaces one image on the screen with another is knownas……………………………….. |
| A. | Bumper |
| B. | bridge |
| C. | dissolve |
| D. | crash |
| Answer» D. crash | |
| 138. |
Film strip normally runs at a speed of ……………………per second |
| A. | 24 frames |
| B. | 25 frames |
| C. | 30 frames |
| D. | 16 frames |
| Answer» B. 25 frames | |
| 139. |
Camera angles, continuity, cutting, close-ups and ……………………are the five C’s ofcinematography. |
| A. | Compulsion |
| B. | calculation |
| C. | co-operation |
| D. | composition |
| Answer» E. | |
| 140. |
A camera mounting that straps the camera to the body of the operator to keep therecorded image reasonably steady is known as …………. |
| A. | steadicam |
| B. | sturdycam |
| C. | studycam |
| D. | none of the above |
| Answer» B. sturdycam | |
| 141. |
The light source that casts sharp, well define shadows is called ………… |
| A. | key light |
| B. | fill light |
| C. | set light |
| D. | hard light |
| Answer» E. | |
| 142. |
A colored lens or paper that is placed in between the light source and the subject to eitherdarken or lighten a particular colour is a………. |
| A. | filter |
| B. | transparency |
| C. | barn door |
| D. | aperture |
| Answer» B. transparency | |
| 143. |
The second Malayalam feature film “Marthanda Varma”, produced by Sundar Raj wasdirected by |
| A. | k. gopinath |
| B. | j.c. daniel |
| C. | v. v. rao |
| D. | johnson |
| Answer» D. johnson | |
| 144. |
Satyajit Ray’s Apu trilogy consists of Pather panchali, Aparajito and ………………. |
| A. | mahanagar |
| B. | apursansar |
| C. | devi |
| D. | kanchanjungha |
| Answer» C. devi | |
| 145. |
Which is Walt Disney’s first feature film? |
| A. | snow white and seven dwarfs |
| B. | the three little pigs |
| C. | fantasia |
| D. | trouble in paradise |
| Answer» B. the three little pigs | |
| 146. |
The first shot is a man looking up. The second shot is a low angle shot of a high riseapartment. The second shot is a .................shot |
| A. | long shot |
| B. | mid – shot |
| C. | extreme long shot |
| D. | point - of – view |
| Answer» E. | |
| 147. |
The first Malayalam Feature film “Vigathakumaran” was shown to the public at theCapitol theatre in Thiruvananthapuram on 7 November .......................... |
| A. | 1928 |
| B. | 1926 |
| C. | 1930 |
| D. | 1931 |
| Answer» B. 1926 | |
| 148. |
“2001 A Space Odyssey” is directed by…………………………. |
| A. | steven spielberg |
| B. | stanley kubrick |
| C. | francis ford cappola |
| D. | emile cohl |
| Answer» C. francis ford cappola | |
| 149. |
Edison is considered the father of movie studio. His studio was known as …………. |
| A. | edison parlour |
| B. | film strip parlour |
| C. | black maria |
| D. | black edison |
| Answer» D. black edison | |
| 150. |
During the evolutionary period of cinema Eadweard Muybridge experimented theshooting of ………………………… |
| A. | a fireman extinguishing fire |
| B. | workers leaving a factory |
| C. | the sneeze of a lab assistant |
| D. | the galloping of a horse |
| Answer» E. | |