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title: How films are made: script, crew, sets, editing — how Mova does on the tests · Arts
description: Lesson 22 of the arts course of Mova's primary school: 6 of 11 tests right, exam 3 of 4, every question with the options, the student's choice, the right answer and why it chose.
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# How films are made: script, crew, sets, editing

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**Tests:** 6 of 11 right · **Exam:** 3 of 4 right · **Kind:** plain · **Understood:** 10 of 15 · **Run:** 2026-10-18, commit `f3c23ea72`

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Lesson 22 of the arts course of Mova's primary school, as Mova's small model took its tests: it had read this lesson and the ones before it and learned from their exercises. Each test shows the options in the order the student saw them, its choice, the right answer, the score of every option and why it chose. The lesson itself, sentence by sentence with trees and pragmatics: [the lesson in the corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/arts/22-how-films-are-made-script-crew-sets-editing/).

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Every question of this lesson and each of its options parsed by Mova, with trees and pragmatics: [the lesson's questions in the corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/arts/22-how-films-are-made-script-crew-sets-editing/).

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### Test 1 · right ✓ {#t1}

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Your cousin goes, "The director and the stars make the whole film, sorted." What is the mistake?

- **1.** A film needs a huge crew — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 4
- **2.** Films mostly make themselves with computers these days — no support
- **3.** He is right, nobody else is needed apart from the stars — no support
- **4.** Only the camera operator really matters, the rest just watch — no support

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**Why:** It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 1 with score 4, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 22, line 6: «A big film can need hundreds or even thousands of people, and the credits at the end list them all.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «need» (+3); the same doer «big film» (+2). Against it: a different thing acted on (counts against) (-1). · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/arts/22-how-films-are-made-script-crew-sets-editing/t1/)

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### Test 2 · right ✓ {#t2}

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What would happen if a plane flew over during a quiet love scene?

- **1.** The film would be cancelled — score 0
- **2.** The actors would have to stop for a year — no support
- **3.** They would probably film another take — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 2
- **4.** The plane would be kept in the film — score 0

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**Why:** It took the question to ask what happens next. It chose option 3 with score 2, against 0 for the next best. Its support: lesson 22, line 11: «A plane flying over or a camera wobble can mean another take, so many takes do not mean bad acting.», reached through what followed the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same thing acted on «take» (+4). Against it: a different action (counts against) (-2). · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/arts/22-how-films-are-made-script-crew-sets-editing/t2/)

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### Test 3 · wrong ✗ {#t3}

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A cartoon shows a film crew filming the story in perfect order from page one. What is usually different in real life?

- **1.** Real films are filmed all in one day so the actors do not get older — **← Mova's choice** · score 7
- **2.** Real films skip the script — no support
- **3.** Real films are always filmed backwards, starting from the very end — score 7
- **4.** Films are shot in a puzzle order and edited later — **✓ the right answer** · score 7

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**Why:** It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 1 with score 7, tied with another option at 7 (the first shown, or the one claiming less beyond what it knows, wins). Its support: lesson 22, line 3: «Films are shot like a jigsaw, not like a story: all the scenes in one place are filmed together, even if one is at the start and one at the end, and the editor…», reached through the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «shoot» (+5); the same thing acted on «films» (+2). The right option, 4, scored 7. · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/arts/22-how-films-are-made-script-crew-sets-editing/t3/)

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### Test 4 · right ✓ {#t4}

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Kid in Texas says, "Bro, the set was mid, it's just boards at the back" ("mid" means not great). What is the best reply?

- **1.** Sets only need to look real to the camera — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **2.** Boards look better on film — no support
- **3.** Real films always use real buildings, so this one was a cheap film — no support
- **4.** The film crew simply forgot to finish building the back of the set — no support

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**Why:** No option found support in what it remembers, so it guessed: it took the first option shown. · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/arts/22-how-films-are-made-script-crew-sets-editing/t4/)

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### Test 5 · wrong ✗ {#t5}

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Which statement about books and their films is fair?

- **1.** Films are proven by scientists to be better every single time — no support
- **2.** Books are proven by scientists to be better every single time — no support
- **3.** It is argued which is better — **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **4.** Nobody has ever made a film from a book, they are always new — **← Mova's choice** · score 12

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**Why:** It took the question to ask who or what does it. It chose option 4 with score 12, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 22, line 12: «Many films are adaptations of books, comics or games, and people argue whether the book or the film is better.», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: it fills the role the question asks for (+6); the same doer «many films» (+4); the same light verb (be, have, do, get, go) (+2). The right option, 3, found no support in what it remembers. · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/arts/22-how-films-are-made-script-crew-sets-editing/t5/)

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### Test 6 · right ✓ {#t6}

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Granda in Belfast says, "Them old films had no sound at all, so they hadn't." What is the correction?

- **1.** He is right, the cinema was silent — no support
- **2.** Live music was often played in the cinema — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 11
- **3.** Audiences had to hum the music themselves — no support
- **4.** The actors' voices were played on a radio — no support

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**Why:** It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 2 with score 11, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 22, line 16: «Silent films, from before about 1927, had no recorded talking, so actors used big faces and movements; words were shown on cards and music was often played liv…», reached through the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «play» (+5); the same place «cinema» (+3); the same thing acted on «music» (+2); the same property (+1). · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/arts/22-how-films-are-made-script-crew-sets-editing/t6/)

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### Test 7 · wrong ✗ {#t7}

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Your class film has a great shot of a dog, then a shot of a bowl. Who decides which comes first?

- **1.** The tablet decides automatically, in the order the shots were taken — **← Mova's choice** · score 2
- **2.** The dog decides, by where it walks while the camera is filming — no support
- **3.** Nobody decides, it is chosen by chance when the film is saved — no support
- **4.** The editor — **✓ the right answer** · no support

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**Why:** It took the question to ask who or what does it. It chose option 1 with score 2, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 22, line 10: «A take is one try at filming a shot; directors often film many takes to get the acting, camera and light right together.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same thing acted on «shot» (+2); the same action «film» (+1). Against it: a different doer (counts against) (-1). The right option, 4, found no support in what it remembers. · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/arts/22-how-films-are-made-script-crew-sets-editing/t7/)

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### Test 8 · right ✓ {#t8}

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Why might a film set in New York be filmed in another city?

- **1.** It is cheaper or easier, and signs are changed — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **2.** New York does not allow cameras of any kind in its streets — no support
- **3.** The actors live there — no support
- **4.** Other cities look exactly like New York, so nobody can ever tell — no support

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**Why:** No option found support in what it remembers, so it guessed: it took the first option shown. · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/arts/22-how-films-are-made-script-crew-sets-editing/t8/)

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### Test 9 · right ✓ {#t9}

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An editor says, "Snap, then we can sync it" ("sync" means match up). What is she using?

- **1.** A script to check the lines — no support
- **2.** A microphone to record music — score 4
- **3.** A clapperboard to match sound and picture — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 6
- **4.** A camera flash to light the scene — score 6

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**Why:** It took the question to ask what it is done to. It chose option 3 with score 6, tied with another option at 6 (the first shown, or the one claiming less beyond what it knows, wins). Its support: lesson 22, line 9: «A clapperboard shows the scene and take number, and its clap helps the editor match the sound to the picture, which are often recorded separately.», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: it fills the role the question asks for (+5); the same thing acted on «sound» (+3); the same action «match» (+1). Against it: a different doer (counts against) (-3). · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/arts/22-how-films-are-made-script-crew-sets-editing/t9/)

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### Test 10 · wrong ✗ {#t10}

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Why do many films today cut every few seconds?

- **1.** Cameras now stop by themselves every few seconds — no support
- **2.** Shot lengths have become shorter over the years — **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **3.** Editors are paid for every cut they make — score 2
- **4.** Audiences used to complain films were too fast — **← Mova's choice** · score 4

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**Why:** It took the question to ask why something happens (its cause). It chose option 4 with score 4, against 2 for the next best. Its support: lesson 20, line 9: «Before digital cameras, photos were taken on film that had to be developed with chemicals in a dark room, and a roll often had only 24 or 36 pictures, so peopl…», reached through the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same doer «film» (+2); the same thing acted on «film» (+2). The right option, 2, found no support in what it remembers. · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/arts/22-how-films-are-made-script-crew-sets-editing/t10/)

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### Test 11 · wrong ✗ {#t11}

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Which is true about forty takes of one scene?

- **1.** It is against film rules, so the director will be told off — **← Mova's choice** · no support
- **2.** It only ever happens in cartoons, never in films with real actors — no support
- **3.** It proves that the actor is terrible and should be replaced — no support
- **4.** It is normal on a film set — **✓ the right answer** · no support

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**Why:** No option found support in what it remembers, so it guessed: it took the first option shown. · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/arts/22-how-films-are-made-script-crew-sets-editing/t11/)

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### Exam question 1 · formal language · right ✓ {#e1}

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Identify the principal reason for which motion pictures are customarily filmed in a sequence other than that of the narrative.

- **1.** To confuse the performers — no support
- **2.** The concluding scene is invariably the least demanding and is therefore filmed first — no support
- **3.** Scenes sharing a location are recorded together for economy — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 4
- **4.** Directors are obliged by statute to film every narrative in reverse order — no support

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**Why:** It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 3 with score 4, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 22, line 3: «Films are shot like a jigsaw, not like a story: all the scenes in one place are filmed together, even if one is at the start and one at the end, and the editor…», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same thing acted on «scenes» (+3); the same property (+2). Against it: a different action (counts against) (-1). · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/arts/22-how-films-are-made-script-crew-sets-editing/e1/)

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### Exam question 2 · formal language · wrong ✗ {#e2}

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Which of the following most accurately characterises the function of the clapperboard?

- **1.** It serves solely as an ornament of tradition — **← Mova's choice** · no support
- **2.** It records the dialogue of the performers — no support
- **3.** It permits the subsequent synchronisation of sound and picture — **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **4.** It signals to the audience that a scene has commenced — no support

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**Why:** No option found support in what it remembers, so it guessed: it took the first option shown. · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/arts/22-how-films-are-made-script-crew-sets-editing/e2/)

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### Exam question 3 · formal language · right ✓ {#e3}

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Select the response consistent with the established facts concerning silent films.

- **1.** Feeling was shown by gesture, with live music — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 4
- **2.** Recorded speech was reproduced from gramophone discs during exhibition — no support
- **3.** No sound of any description accompanied their exhibition in any cinema — no support
- **4.** Actors spoke very loudly — no support

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**Why:** It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 1 with score 4, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 10, line 2: «Picture a world music fair: a Ukrainian bandura with dozens of strings, a Chinese erhu with only two, an Indian sitar with strings nobody touches that still hu…», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «picture» (+3); the same circumstance (+2). Against it: a different doer (counts against) (-1). · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/arts/22-how-films-are-made-script-crew-sets-editing/e3/)

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### Exam question 4 · formal language · right ✓ {#e4}

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Ascertain the person principally responsible for the assembly of filmed shots into their final order.

- **1.** The editor — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **2.** The costume maker — no support
- **3.** The caterer — no support
- **4.** The member of the audience — no support

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**Why:** No option found support in what it remembers, so it guessed: it took the first option shown. · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/arts/22-how-films-are-made-script-crew-sets-editing/e4/)

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