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Film Vocab
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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Match each statement with the correct term.
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1. The non-chronological insertion of events from the past into the present day of the story world
Flashback
Time-lapse photography
Digital video
Omniscient narration
2. A videotape system that records images onto magnetic tape - using electronic signals
Analog Video
Fade-out
Camera distance
Rack focus
3. A transparent sheet on which animation artists draw images.
Cel
Neutral-density filter
Medium close-up
Gauge
4. A crew member responsible for logging the details of each take on the set so as to ensure continuity
Script supervisor
Continuity editing
Matte painting
Closure
5. A camera shot taken at a large distance from the subject. Using the human body as the subject - a long shot captures the entire human form
Long shot
Hollywood Blacklist
Promotion
Green screen
6. Then Hollywood writers and directors cited for Contempt of Congress for refusing to cooperate with the House Committee on Un-American Activities' attempts to root out Communists in the film industry
Hollywood Ten
Negative
Blockbuster
Overexposure
7. A shot transition where shot A slowly disappears as the screen becomes black before shot B appears. A fade-in is the reverse of this process
Handheld shot
Pulling
Block booking
Fade-out
8. Sound recorded on a set - on location - or - for documentary film - at an actual real-world event - as opposed to dubbed in post-production through ADR or looping
Crab dolly
Set-up
Direct sound
Iris in...
9. Squeezes the image at a ratio of 2:1 horizontally onto a standard film frame. On the projector - it unsqueezes the image - creating a widescreen aspect ratio during presentation
Telecine
Anamorphic lens
Panchromatic
Protagonist
10. A small - variable opening on a camera lens that regulates the amount of light entering the camera and striking the surface of the film
Outsourcing
Aperture
Aerial Shot
Hollywood Blacklist
11. A shot taken from a camera position above the subject - looking down at it
Blaxploitation
High-angle shot
Trailer
Letterboxing
12. Creating an image by combining several elements created separately using computer graphics rather than photographic means
Digital compositing
Swish pan
Pulling
Morphing
13. A technique of shifting the camera angle - height - or distance to take into account the motion of actors or objects within the frame
Extreme wide-angle lens
Telephoto lens
Runaway production
Reframing
14. A musical in which some or all musical numbers are not motivated by the narrative; for example - characters sing and dance throughout the film but at least some performances are not staged for an onscreen audience. Examples include Oklahoma - The umb
Analog Video
Shot transition
Integrated musical
Jump cut
15. A statement that presents an argument about a film's meaning and significance
Interpretive claim
Charge coupler device
Diegesis
Split screen
16. The rules of character - setting - and narrative that films that belong to a genre - such as Westerns - horror films - and screwball comedies - generally obey.
Underexposure
Normal lens
Genre conventions
Hollywood Blacklist
17. A compositing method that allows cinematographers to combine live action and settings that are filmed or created separately. Actors are filmed against a green or blue background. During post-production - this background is filled in with an image thr
Three-act structure
Director
Green screen
Narrative sequencing
18. A post-studio era Hollywood film designed to appeal to the broadest possible audience by fusing a simple story line with major movie stars and mounting a lavish marketing campaign
Cameo
High concept film
High-key lighting
Evaluative claim
19. Devices that attach to actors' faces and/or bodies to change their appearance
Wide film
Prosthesis
Syuzhet
Auteur
20. A technique of moving a zoom lens from a wide-angle position to a telephoto position - which results in a magnification of the subject within the frame - and keeps the subject in focus
Zoom in...
Low-key lighting
Motif
Deep focus cinematography
21. The film medium's technological apparatus is inherently ideological
Apparatus Theory
Pixel
Intertextual reference
Soundtrack
22. A model of industrial organization in the film industry from about 1915 to 1946 - characterized by the development of major and minor studios that produced - distributed - and exhibited films - and held film actors - directors - art directors - and o
Product placement
Time-lapse photography
Double exposure
Studio system
23. Devices that attach to actors' faces and/or bodies to change their appearance
Scene
Master shot
Prosthesis
Editor
24. A camera shot taken at a large distance from the subject. Using the human body as the subject - a long shot captures the entire human form
Script supervisor
Long shot
Shot transition
Steadicam
25. The length in minutes for a film to play in its entirety (for example - 120 minutes). Also referred to as 'screen time.'
Blockbuster
Running time
Split screen
Closure
26. Recording images at a slower speed than the speed of projection (24 frames per second). Before cameras were motorized - this was called undercranking. Fewer frames are exposed in one minute - so - when projected at 24 f.p.s. - that action takes less
Bleach bypass
Fast motion
Color consultant
Continuity editor
27. An alternative to continuity editing - this style of editing was developed in silent Soviet cinema - based on the theory that editing should exploit the difference between shots to generate intellectual and emotional responses in the audience
Scene
Formalist style
Soviet montage
Digital compositing
28. A film process that uses 35mm film stock but changes the orientation of the film so that the film moves through the camera horizontally instead of vertically. The larger image is of higher quality than standard 35mm processes
Steadicam
30-degree rule
Vista Vision
Continuity editing
29. A system of constructing and arranging buildings and objects on the set so that they diminish in size dramatically from foreground to background - which creates the illusion of depth
Rack focus
Star system
Aperture
Forced perspective
30. A group of films within a given genre that share their own specific set of conventions that differentiate them from other films in the genre. For example - the slasher film is a subgenre of the horror genre
Subgenre
Soviet montage
Wide-angle lens
Major studios
31. The average length in seconds of a series of shots - covering a portion of a film or an entire film; a measure of pace within a scene or in the film as a whole.
Gaffer
Release prints
Average shot length
Line of action
32. An attribute of newer television monitors - where each frame is scanned by the electron beam as a single field. If slowed down - each frame would appear on the monitor in its entirety on the screen - rather than line by line - as is the case with int
Promotion
Pan
Speed
Progressive scanning
33. The person in charge of planning the style and look of the film with the production designer and director of photography - working with actors during principal photography - and collaborating with the editor on the final version
Blocking
Match on action
Flashforward
Director
34. A complete narrative unit within a film - with its own beginning - middle - and end. Often scenes are unified - and distinguished from one another - by time and setting
Soft light
Green screen
Lightning mix
Scene
35. A production term referring to coordinating actors' movements with lines of dialogue
Shot transition
Anime
Blocking
Toning
36. A platform on wheels - used for mobile camera shots
Focus puller
Evaluative claim
Flashback
Dolly
37. Early films that documented everyday events - such as workers leaving a factory
Actualitas
Scratching
Syuzhet
Day for night
38. Invisible editing; a system devised to minimize the audience's awareness of shot transitions - especially cuts - in order to improve the flow of the story and avoid interrupting the viewer's immersion it in
Voice-over
Evaluative claim
Newsreel
Continuity editing
39. Also called 'd-cinema.' Not to be confused with digital cinematography (shooting movies on digital video) - this term refers to using digital technologies for exhibition
Iris in...
Cinerama
Digital cinema
Dailies
40. The non-chronological insertion of events from the past into the present day of the story world
Split screen
Flashback
Video assist
Pushing
41. A scene transition wherein sound from one scene bleeds over into the ext scene - often resulting in a contrast between sound image
Revisionist
Normal lens
Grain
Sound bridge
42. A term that refers to the organization of an industry wherein one type of corporation also owns corporations in allied industries - for example - film production and video games
Extra
Toning
Horizontal integration
Episodic
43. The shape of the image onscreen as determined by the width of the frame relative to its height
Anime
Cinerama
Polarizing filters
Aspect Ratio
44. An abrupt - inexplicable shift in time and place of an action not signaled by an appropriate shot transition
Underexposure
Descriptive claim
Jump cut
Panchromatic
45. A neutral account of the basic plot and style of a film - a part of a film - or a group of films
Descriptive claim
Extra
Tight framing
Slow motion
46. Individuals who were prevented from working in the film industry because of their suspected involvement with Communist interests
Fog filter
Hollywood Blacklist
Closure
Score
47. Leaving the silver grains in the emulsion rather than bleaching them out - which produces desaturated color
Slow
Normal lens
Toning
Bleach bypass
48. A measure of a film stock's sensitivity to light. 'Fast' refers to sensitive film stock - while slow film is relatively insensitive
Wide-angle lens
Production values
Speed
Zoom lens
49. The annotated script - containing information about set-ups used during shooting
Shooting script
High-key lighting
Take
Overexposure
50. A machine that converts film prints to videotape format
Score
Tinting
Telecine
Double exposure