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Film Vocab
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1. A system for combining two separately filmed images in the same frame that involves create a matte (a black mask that covers a portion of the image) for a live action sequence and using it to block out a portion of the frame when filming the backgrou
Kuleshov effect
Continuity editing
Travelling matte
Natural-key lighting
2. A technique of 'pushing' the film (overdeveloping it) to correct problems of underexposure (resulting from insufficient light during shooting) by increasing image contrast
Forced development
Fog filter
Take
Tracking shot
3. 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
Extreme long-shot
180-degree rule
Interpretive claim
Morphing
4. 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
Fast motion
Long take
Color filter
Hue
5. Creating the appearance of movement by drawing a series of frames that are projected sequentially - rather than photographing a series of still images
Subgenre
Animation
Spec script
Forced perspective
6. The conclusion of the film wraps up - all loose ends in a form of resolution - though not necessarily with a happy ending.
Closure
Trailer
Letterboxing
Digital video
7. An effect created when more light is required to produce an image strakes the film stock - so that the resulting image exhibits high contrast - glaring light - and washed out shadows. This effect ma or may not be intentional on the filmmaker's part
Overexposure
Direct sound
Telephoto lens
Day for night
8. Drawing attention to the process of representation (including narrative and characterization) to break the theatrical illusion and elicit a distanced - intellectual response in the audience
Brechtian distanciation
Non-diegetic
Blocking
Color consultant
9. The conclusion of the film wraps up - all loose ends in a form of resolution - though not necessarily with a happy ending.
Color filter
Closure
Loose framing
Screenplay
10. 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
Set-up
Charge coupler device
Jump cut
Forced perspective
11. An unstated meaning that underlies and is implied by spoken dialogue
Subtext
Filter
Release prints
Frame narration
12. A change of focus from one plane of depth to another. As the in-focus subject goes out of focus - another object - which has been blurry - comes into focus in either the background or the foreground
Ethnographic film
Lightning mix
Digital compositing
Rack focus
13. A technique of shifting the camera angle - height - or distance to take into account the motion of actors or objects within the frame
Backstage musical
Panchromatic
Tinting
Reframing
14. A device attached to the film camera that records videotape of what has been filmed - allowing the director immediate access to video footage
Video assist
Depth of field
Revisionist
ADR
15. Non-diegetic; any element in the film that is not part of the imagined story world
Morphing
Extradiegetic
Orthochromatic
Product placement
16. An action film cycle of the late 1960s and early 1970s that featured bold - rebellious African American characters
Blaxploitation
Revisionist
Matte painting
Morphing
17. A style of Japanese animation - distinguished primarily by the fact that it is not all geared for young audiences
Reverse shot
Anime
Montage sequence
Color filter
18. A shot that focuses audience attention on precise details that may or may not be the focus of characters
Match on action
Cutaway
Subgenre
Panning and scanning
19. Reels of film that are shipped to movie theaters for exhibition. Digital cinema - which can be distributed via satellite - broadband - or on media such as DVDs - may soon replace film prints because the latter are expensive to create - copy - and dis
Dailies
Tracking shot
Intertextual reference
Release prints
20. Individuals who were prevented from working in the film industry because of their suspected involvement with Communist interests
Second unit
Plot summary
Zoom out
Hollywood Blacklist
21. 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
High concept film
Negative cutter
Product placement
Wipe
22. A production crew responsible not for shooting the primary footage but - instead - for remote location shooting and B-roll. See also B-roll
Visual effects
Second unit
Descriptive claim
Morphing
23. Also called 'full screen -' the technique of re-shooting a widescreen film in order to convert it to the original television aspect ration of 1.33 to 1. Rather than reproduce the original aspect ratio - as a letterboxed version does - a panned and sc
Brechtian distanciation
Progressive scanning
Typecasting
Panning and scanning
24. A platform on wheels - used for mobile camera shots
First-person narration
Studio system
Dolly
Telecine
25. 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
Integrated musical
Synthespian
Soft light
Direct sound
26. Creating images during post-production by joining together photographic or CGI material shot or created at different times and places
Compositing
Parellel
Three-point lighting
Shooting script
27. A shot taken fro a position directly above the action - also called a 'birds' eye shot'
Overhead shot
Digital cinema
Wide-angle lens
Direct cinema
28. A fiction film (often a comedy) that uses documentary conventions on fictional rather than real-world subject matter
Continuity error
Jump cut
Take
Mockumentary
29. Exposed and developed film stock from which the master positive is struck. If projected - the negative would produce a reverse of the image - with dark areas appearing white and vice versa or - if color film - areas of color appearing as their comple
Color timing
Matte painting
Jump cut
Negative
30. An optical effect whereby the eye continues to register a visual stimulus in the brain for a brief period after that stimulus has been removed
Persistence of vision
Master shot
Editor
Two-shot
31. A computer-generated actor that some speculate will replace flesh and blood actors in the not so distant future
Synthespian
Pixel
Narrative sequencing
Gaffer
32. The individual arrangement of lighting and camera placement used for each shot
Charge coupler device
Overlapping dialogue
Set-up
Direct sound
33. 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
Telecine
Cinerama
Master shot
Long shot
34. 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
Neutral-density filter
Continuity editor
Episodic
Academy Ratio
35. Leaving the silver grains in the emulsion rather than bleaching them out - which produces desaturated color
Promotion
Bleach bypass
On-the-nose dialogue
Trailer
36. Processes such as Cinemascope and Cinerama - developed during the 1950s to enhance film's size advantage over the smaller television image
Negative cutter
Tracking shot
Interpretive claim
Widescreen
37. 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
Medium long shot
Recursive action
Extreme long-shot
Frame narration
38. An early color process - involving bathing lengths of processed film in dye one scene at a time
Hollywood Blacklist
Fast motion
Split screen
Tinting
39. The width of the film stock - measured across the frame. Typical sizes are 8mm - 16mm - 35mm - and 70mm
City symphony
Assistant Editor
Hybrid
Gauge
40. Color. The strength of a hue is measured by its saturation or desaturation
Orthochromatic
Orthochromatic
Go-motion
Hue
41. The visual arrangement of objects - actors - and space within the frame
Pulling
Composition
Loose framing
Aspect Ratio
42. Also called 'full screen -' the technique of re-shooting a widescreen film in order to convert it to the original television aspect ration of 1.33 to 1. Rather than reproduce the original aspect ratio - as a letterboxed version does - a panned and sc
Subtext
Standard shot pattern
Filter
Panning and scanning
43. 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
Zoom lens
Low-key lighting
Anime
Front projection
44. A device that projects photographs or footage onto glass so that images can be traced by hand to create animated images
Rotoscope
Glass shot
Second unit
Available light
45. 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
Filter
High-key lighting
Normal lens
Tight framing
46. A shot that appears during or near the end of a scene and reorients viewers to the setting
Line reading
Re-establishing shot
Text
Green screen
47. A narrative - visual - or sound element that refers viewers to other films or works of art
Intertextual reference
30-degree rule
Compositing
Lightning mix
48. A lens with a shorter focal length than a normal or telephoto lens (usually between 15-35mm). The subject appears smaller as a result - but the angle of vision is wider and an illusion is created of greater depth in the frame
Focal length
Color consultant
Protagonist
Wide-angle lens
49. The width of the film stock - measured across the frame. Typical sizes are 8mm - 16mm - 35mm - and 70mm
Trailer
Pan
Fog filter
Gauge
50. A device worn by a camera operator that holds the motion picture camera - allowing it glide smoothly through spaces unreachable by camera mounted on a crane or other apparatus
Descriptive claim
Digital video
Steadicam
Flashing
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