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Film Vocab
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1. The horizontal turning movement of an otherwise immobile camera across a scene from left to right or vice versa
Pan
Figure placement and movement
Fade-out
Green screen
2. A direct vocal address to the audience - Which may emanate from a character or from a narrative voice apparently unrelated to the diegesis
Scene
First-person narration
Production values
Voice-over
3. The practice or repeatedly casting actors in similar roles across different films
Filter
Forced development
Low-key lighting
Typecasting
4. A shot that interrupts a scene's master shot and may include character reactions
Soft light
Dolly
Vista Vision
Insert
5. A description of film stock that is highly sensitive to light
Mockumentary
Motif
Fast
Typecasting
6. Any noticeable but unintended discrepancy from one shot to the next in costume - props - hairstyle - posture - etc.
Gaffer
Canted angle
Continuity error
Matte painting
7. A technician responsible for splicing and assembling the film negative to the editor's specifications
Minor studios
Integrated musical
Hard light
Negative cutter
8. A shot that appears during or near the end of a scene and reorients viewers to the setting
Out-take
High-angle shot
Blocking
Re-establishing shot
9. A camera device that opens and closes to regulate the length of time the film is exposed to light
Digital cinema
Digital compositing
Digital set extension
Shutter
10. Prefogging; a cinematographic technique that exposes raw film stock to light before - during - or after shooting - resulting in an image with reduced contrast. This effect can also be created using digital post-production techniques
Line reading
Extra
Flashing
Insert
11. A shot that appears during or near the end of a scene and reorients viewers to the setting
Lightning mix
Director
Re-establishing shot
Wipe
12. A rule in continuity editing - which dictates that if a cut occurs while a character is in the midst of an action - the subsequent shot must begin so that audiences see the completion of that action
Cut
Match on action
Filter
Episodic
13. Louis Althusser's term for the way in which a society creates its subjects/citizens through ideological (as opposed to repressive) state apparatuses - which include education - media - religion - and the family
Three-point lighting
Interpellation
Natural-key lighting
Trailer
14. Author; A term popularized by French film critics and refers to film directors with their own distinctive style
Auteur
Point-of-view shot
Overhead shot
Foley artist
15. A film style that emerged in the 1910s in Germany. It was heavily indebted to the Expressionist art movement of the time and influenced subsequent horror films and film noir
German Expressionism
Dye coupler
Eyeline match
ADR
16. A machine used to create optical effects such as fades - dissolves - and superimpositions. Most are now created digitally
Slow
Average shot length
Optical printer
Blocking
17. A shot taken from a camera position above the subject - looking down at it
Canted angle
High-angle shot
Digital set extension
Matte
18. The falling or unraveling action after the climax of a narrative that leads to resolution
Slow motion
Composition in depth
City symphony
Denouement
19. A shot transition that emphasizes the visual similarities between two consecutive shots
German Expressionism
Narrative sequencing
Graphic match
Wireframe
20. The details of a character's past that emerge as the film unfolds - and which often play a role in character motivation
Script supervisor
Interlaced scanning
Shot/reverse shot
Backstory
21. A musical accompaniment written specifically for a film
Dolly
Animation
Score
Backstory
22. Leaving the silver grains in the emulsion rather than bleaching them out - which produces desaturated color
Zoom in...
Composition in depth
Avant-garde film
Bleach bypass
23. A type of documentary film whose purpose is to present the way of life of a culture or subculture
ADR
Interlaced scanning
Ethnographic film
Hollywood Ten
24. The central cause(s) behind a character's actions
Dailies
Motivation
Negative cutter
Pixilation
25. 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
Special visual effects
Split screen
Studio system
Major studios
26. Processes such as Cinemascope and Cinerama - developed during the 1950s to enhance film's size advantage over the smaller television image
Star filter
Widescreen
Normal lens
Tinting
27. 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
Phi phenomenon
Day for night
Episodic
Fast motion
28. A statement that asserts a judgment that a given film or group of films is good or bad - based on specific criteria - Which may or may not be stated
Extreme long-shot
Saturation
Evaluative claim
Gaffer
29. A technique of recording very few images over a long period of time - say - one frame per minute or per day
Forced perspective
Negative cutter
ADR
Time-lapse photography
30. A shot that makes the human subject very small in relation to his or her environment. The entire figure from head to toe is onscreen and dwarfed by the surroundings
Jump cut
Extreme long-shot
Protagonist
Star filter
31. A shot depicting the human body from the waist up
Medium shot
Kuleshov effect
B-roll
Diffusion filters
32. An alternative to classical and realist styles - formalism is a self-consciously interventionist approach that explores ideas - abstraction - and aesthetics rather than focusing on storytelling (as in classical films) or everyday life (as in realist
Gaffer
Reframing
Propaganda film
Formalist style
33. An actor whose career rests on playing minor or secondary quirky characters rather than leading roles
Optical printer
Character actor
Assistant Editor
First-person narration
34. A shot that interrupts a scene's master shot and may include character reactions
Insert
Superimposition
Text
Genre
35. A system initially developed for marketing films by creating and promoting stars as objects of admiration. The promotion of stars has now become an end in itself
Natural-key lighting
Star system
Travelling matte
Plot summary
36. The shape of the image onscreen as determined by the width of the frame relative to its height
Aspect Ratio
Diegesis
Long shot
Animation
37. Images that originate from computer graphics technology - rather than photography
Genre conventions
Glass shot
Superimposition
Computer-generated imagery (CGI)
38. Lighting design in which the greater intensity of the key light makes it impossible for the fill to eliminate shadows - producing a high-contrast image (with many grades of light and dark) - a number of shadows - and a somber mood
Wide film
Panchromatic
Medium long shot
Low-key lighting
39. 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
Cameo
High-key lighting
Anime
Dye coupler
40. A mental phenomenon by which viewers derive more meaning from the interaction of two sequential shots than from a single shot in isolation
Kuleshov effect
Integrated musical
Speed
Compositing
41. A shot transition that emphasizes the visual similarities between two consecutive shots
Exposure
German Expressionism
Graphic match
Establishing shot
42. A technique of leaving empty space around the subject in the frame - in order to covey openness and continuity of visible space and to imply offscreen space
Loose framing
Animation
Product placement
Emulsion
43. A short documentary on current events - show in movie theaters along with cartoons and feature films beginning in the 1930s
Wipe
Negative
Hue
Newsreel
44. 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
Four-part structure
Soundtrack
Storyboard
Long shot
45. A production term denoting a single uninterrupted series of frames exposed by a motion picture or video camera between the time it is turned on and the time it is turned off. Filmmakers shoot several takes of any scene and the film editor selects the
German Expressionism
Continuity editing
Take
Speed
46. The distance that appears in focus in front of and behind the subject. It is determined by the aperture - distance and focal length of lens
Eye-level shot
Anamorphic lens
Depth of field
Camera distance
47. A machine that converts film prints to videotape format
Digital video
Camera distance
Telecine
Soft light
48. A measure of the visual and sound quality of a film. Low-budget films tend to have lower production values because they lack the resources to devote to expensive pre- and post-production activities
Plot summary
Integrated musical
Dissolve
Production values
49. Public identity created by marketing a film actor's performances - press coverage - and 'personal' information to fans as the star's personality
Anamorphic lens
Intertextual reference
Focal length
Star persona
50. A machine used to create optical effects such as fades - dissolves - and superimpositions. Most are now created digitally
Frame narration
Optical printer
Non-diegetic
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