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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. A widescreen process that uses three cameras - three projectors - and a wide - curved screen
Denouement
Available light
Trombone shot
Cinerama
2. A fiction film (often a comedy) that uses documentary conventions on fictional rather than real-world subject matter
Mockumentary
Reframing
Superimposition
Phi phenomenon
3. Live action is filmed in front of a blue screen and a matte. It's then joined with the background footage
Persistence of vision
Match on action
Blue screen
Pre-production
4. A technique of overdeveloping exposed film stock (leaving it in the chemical bath longer than indicated) in order to increase density and contrast in the image
Pushing
Bleach bypass
Compilation film
Omniscient narration
5. A musical accompaniment written specifically for a film
Oeuvre
Best boy
Score
Selective focus
6. Dutch angle; a shot resulting from a static camera that is tilted to the right or left - so that the subject in the frame appears at a diagonal
Auteur
Widescreen
Canted angle
On-the-nose dialogue
7. The written blueprint for a film - composed of three elements: dialogue - sluglines (setting the place and time of each scene) - and description. Feature-length screenplays typically run 90-130 pages
Special visual effects
Time-lapse photography
Screenplay
Second unit
8. Processes such as Cinemascope and Cinerama - developed during the 1950s to enhance film's size advantage over the smaller television image
Assistant Editor
Propaganda film
Widescreen
Rotoscope
9. A production crew responsible not for shooting the primary footage but - instead - for remote location shooting and B-roll. See also B-roll
Film stock
First-person narration
Second unit
Matte
10. 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
Protagonist
Screenplay
Shot transition
Digital cinema
11. Individuals who were prevented from working in the film industry because of their suspected involvement with Communist interests
Hollywood Blacklist
Progressive scanning
High-angle shot
Two-shot
12. A black masking device used to black out a portion of the frame - usually for the insertion of other images
Low-angle shot
Shutter
Matte
Charge coupler device
13. Muted - washed out color that contains more white than a saturated color
Neutral-density filter
Voice-over
Backstage musical
Desaturated
14. A term for film stock used in early cinema that was insensitive to red hues
Orthochromatic
Digital set extension
Digital cinema
Take
15. The arrangement of images to depict a unified storyline
Continuity editing
Storyboard
Narrative sequencing
Pan
16. A measure of a film stock's sensitivity to light. 'Fast' refers to sensitive film stock - while slow film is relatively insensitive
Director
German Expressionism
Exposition
Speed
17. A business model adopted by the major studios during the Hollywood studio era - in which studios controlled all aspects of the film business - from production to distribution and exhibition
Focal length
Vertical integration
Progressive scanning
Major studios
18. An unstated meaning that underlies and is implied by spoken dialogue
Exposure latitude
Subtext
Flashforward
Mixing
19. The term for a film's spoken dialogue - as opposed to the underlying meaning contained in the subtext
Continuity editor
Text
Parellel
Zoom out
20. A type of matte shot - created by positioning a pane of optically flawless glass with a painting on it between the camera and the scene to be photographed. This combines the painting on the glass with the set or location - seen through the glass - be
Graphic match
Glass shot
Long take
Studio system
21. Because film stock is sensitive to the color of light - directors work with film labs in post-production to monitor the color scheme of each scene in a film - making adjustments for consistency and aesthetic effect
Wireframe
Tableau shot
Color timing
Cut
22. Using computer graphics to 'build' structures connected to the actual architecture on set or location
Digital set extension
Post-production
Rack focus
Figure placement and movement
23. An animation technique that uses a computer program to interpolate frames to produce the effect of an object or creature changing gradually into something different. The program calculates the way the image must change in order for the first image to
Long take
Morphing
Line of action
Match on action
24. Lighting design that provides an even illumination of the subject - with many facial details washed out. High-key lighting tends to create a hopeful mood - in contrast to low-key lighting
Tinting
High-key lighting
Extreme wide-angle lens
Charge coupler device
25. 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
Motif
German Expressionism
Green screen
Mixing
26. A camera device that opens and closes to regulate the length of time the film is exposed to light
Masking
Progressive scanning
Shutter
Three-point lighting
27. A scene transition wherein sound from one scene bleeds over into the ext scene - often resulting in a contrast between sound image
Sound bridge
German Expressionism
Hard light
Scene
28. A format that uses a larger film stock than standard 35mm. IMAX - Omnimax - and Showscan are shot on 70mm film
Shutter
Color consultant
Color filter
Wide film
29. The use of editing techniques - such as a fade or dissolve - to indicate the end of one scene and the beginning of another
Tilt
Underexposure
Camera distance
Shot transition
30. A painting used on the set as a portion of the background
Matte painting
Pre-production
Kuleshov effect
Overlapping dialogue
31. A widescreen process that uses three cameras - three projectors - and a wide - curved screen
Re-establishing shot
Cinerama
Camera distance
Evaluative claim
32. Dutch angle; a shot resulting from a static camera that is tilted to the right or left - so that the subject in the frame appears at a diagonal
Depth of field
Crab dolly
Overexposure
Canted angle
33. Non-diegetic; any element in the film that is not part of the imagined story world
Prosthesis
Hollywood Ten
Omniscient narration
Extradiegetic
34. A shot in a sequence that is taken from the reverse angle of the shot previous to it
Speed
Bleach bypass
Reverse shot
Diffusion filters
35. A technique of underdeveloping exposed film stock (leaving it in a chemical batch a shorter amount of time than usual) in order to achieve the visual effect of reducing contrast
Pulling
Hard light
Hollywood Ten
Special visual effects
36. 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
Matte painting
Line reading
Director
Two-shot
37. Natural light; The process of suing sunlight rather than artificial studio lights when filming
Available light
Continuity editor
Go-motion
Eye-level shot
38. A process of transferring film to video tapes or DVDs so that the original aspect ratio of the film is preserved
Cut
Gaffer
Letterboxing
Diffusion filters
39. The chip in a video camera that converts the incoming light to an electronic signal
Charge coupler device
Voice-over
Phi phenomenon
Grain
40. (Automatic dialogue replacement) recording synchronized dialogue in post-production - cutting several identical lengths of developed film and having actors record the dialogue repeatedly
ADR
Continuity editor
Interpretive claim
Emulsion
41. The aspect ratio of 1.33:1 - standardized by the Academy of Motion Picture Art and Sciences until the development of widescreen formats in the 1950s
Academy Ratio
Forced perspective
Filter
Frame narration
42. A technique of recording very few images over a long period of time - say - one frame per minute or per day
Time-lapse photography
Prosthesis
Out-take
Synthespian
43. A term used for any narrative sound - or visual element not contained in the story world. Also called 'extradiegetic'
Newsreel
Aerial Shot
Non-diegetic
Method acting
44. A narrative approach that limits the audience's view of events to that of the main character(s) in the film. Occasional moments of omniscient narration may give viewers more information than the character shave at specific points in the narrative
Restricted narration
Panchromatic
Forced perspective
Pushing
45. A film style that - in contrast to the classical and formalist styles - focuses characters - place - and the spontaneity and digressiveness of life - rather than on highly structured stories or aesthetic abstraction
Mixing
Outsourcing
Realist style
Academy Ratio
46. A technique used to join live action with a pre-recorded background image. A projector is placed behind a screen and projects an image onto it. Actors stand in front of the screen and the camera records them in front of the projected background
Rear projection
Wipe
Grain
Flashback
47. A screenplay written and submitted to a studio or production company without a prior contract or agreement
Spec script
Promotion
Motivation
Travelling matte
48. Optical illusions created during post-production
Visual effects
Shot transition
Blue screen
Frame narration
49. The measure of intensity or purity of a color. Saturated color is purer than desaturated color - which has more white in it and thus offers a washed-out - less intense version of a color
Negative
Protagonist
Saturation
Sound bridge
50. A shot taken from a vantage point so close that only a part of the subject is visible. On an actor - it might show only an eye or a portion of the face
Digital set extension
Low-angle shot
ADR
Extreme close-up