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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 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
Gauge
Selective focus
Zoom out
2. 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
Extreme close-up
Block booking
Anime
Panning and scanning
3. 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
Figure placement and movement
Telecine
Anamorphic lens
Motivation
4. A shot taken fro a position directly above the action - also called a 'birds' eye shot'
Editor
Overhead shot
Blockbuster
Foley artist
5. A device used to manipulate the amount and/or color of light entering the lens
Progressive scanning
Vertical integration
Filter
Double exposure
6. A shot taken from a camera position below the subject
Low-angle shot
Evaluative claim
Director
Swish pan
7. A shot in a sequence that is taken from the reverse angle of the shot previous to it
Set-up
Underexposure
Reverse shot
Long shot
8. 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
Emulsion
Extradiegetic
Screenplay
9. A small - variable opening on a camera lens that regulates the amount of light entering the camera and striking the surface of the film
Split screen
Dye coupler
Aperture
Second unit
10. The width of the film stock - measured across the frame. Typical sizes are 8mm - 16mm - 35mm - and 70mm
Gauge
Mockumentary
Subtext
Horizontal integration
11. Creating the appearance of movement by drawing a series of frames that are projected sequentially - rather than photographing a series of still images
Vertical integration
Chiaroscuro
Animation
Academy Ratio
12. 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
Medium long shot
Glass shot
Digital video
Auteur
13. A consistent style - theme - and subject matter developed over the course of a director's body of work
Studio system
Oeuvre
Motivation
Fog filter
14. An abrupt - inexplicable shift in time and place of an action not signaled by an appropriate shot transition
Two-shot
180-degree rule
Soft light
Jump cut
15. The practice or repeatedly casting actors in similar roles across different films
Typecasting
Widescreen
Exposure
Grain
16. A mental phenomenon by which viewers derive more meaning from the interaction of two sequential shots than from a single shot in isolation
Synthespian
Iris out
Narrative
Kuleshov effect
17. 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
Aerial Shot
Computer-generated imagery (CGI)
Studio system
Blocking
18. Assists the gaffer in managing lighting crews
Rear projection
Blocking
Motivation
Best boy
19. 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
Score
Anime
Available light
Interpellation
20. Using computer graphics to 'build' structures connected to the actual architecture on set or location
Digital set extension
Director
Star system
Charge coupler device
21. A form of shot transition - generally concluding a scene - where a circular mask constricts around the image until the entire frame is black
Interpellation
Soft light
Panning and scanning
Iris in...
22. A flexible celluloid strip that - along with the emulsion layer - comprises 35mm film stock
Mockumentary
Foley artist
Revisionist
Base
23. A crew member whose job is to measure the distance between the subject and the camera lens - marking the ring on the camera lens - and ensuring the ring is turned precisely so that the image is in focus
Focus puller
Cel
Tight framing
Color timing
24. A chemical embedded in the emulsion layer of film stock that - when developed after exposure - releases a particular color dye (red - green - or blue)
Soviet montage
Dye coupler
Digital compositing
Shot
25. The way an actor delivers a line of dialogue - including pauses - inflection - and emotion
Score
Extreme wide-angle lens
180-degree rule
Line reading
26. A crew member who works in post-production in a specially equipped studio to create the sounds of the story world - such as the shuffling of shoes on various surfaces for footsteps
Foley artist
Out-take
Out-take
Jump cut
27. A small - variable opening on a camera lens that regulates the amount of light entering the camera and striking the surface of the film
Aperture
Slow
Vista Vision
Montage sequence
28. Light striking the emulsion layer of the film - activating light-sensitive grains
Morphing
Typecasting
Exposure
Charge coupler device
29. A system for recording images on magnetic tape using a digital signal - that is - an electronic signal comprised of 0s and 1s
Actualitas
Digital video
Continuity editor
Hollywood Ten
30. A videotape system that records images onto magnetic tape - using electronic signals
Zoom in...
Go-motion
Analog Video
Interpellation
31. 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
Eye-level shot
Pulling
ADR
Direct sound
32. A widescreen process that uses three cameras - three projectors - and a wide - curved screen
Match on action
Cinerama
Pre-production
Non-diegetic
33. An action film cycle of the late 1960s and early 1970s that featured bold - rebellious African American characters
Non-diegetic
Overlapping dialogue
Blaxploitation
Classical style
34. A series of individual drawings that provides a blueprint for the shooting of a scene
Prosthesis
Storyboard
Go-motion
Available light
35. The measurement of how forgiving a film stock is. It determines whether an acceptable image will be produced when the film stock is exposed to too little or too much light
Hard light
Rack focus
Negative
Exposure latitude
36. A term describing a conclusion that does not answer all the questions raised regarding characters or storylines - nor tie up all loose ends
Line of action
Available light
Open-ended
Video assist
37. A technician responsible for splicing and assembling the film negative to the editor's specifications
B-roll
Flashforward
Negative cutter
Text
38. A long shot in which the film frame resembles the proscenium arch of the stage - distancing the audience
Ethnographic film
Tableau shot
Release prints
Tight framing
39. 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
Flashing
Method acting
Tight framing
Syuzhet
40. A shot taken when the camera is so close to a subject that it fills the frame. It is most commonly used for a shot that isolates and encompasses a single actor's face - to emphasize the expression of emotion
Cut
Point-of-view shot
Close-up
Vista Vision
41. A camera device that opens and closes to regulate the length of time the film is exposed to light
Editor
Shutter
Figure placement and movement
Compilation film
42. A technique used to join live action with pre-recorded background images. A projector is aimed at a half-silvered mirror that reflects the background - which the camera records as being located behind the actors
Front projection
Backstory
Computer-generated imagery (CGI)
Fog filter
43. A method for producing a widescreen image without special lenses or equipment - using standard film stock and blocking out the top and bottom of the frame to achieve an aspect ration of 1.85:1
Travelling matte
Masking
Go-motion
Fog filter
44. A visual effect achieved through the use of photography and digital techniques that appears to stop time and allow the viewer to travel around the subject and view it from a multitude of vantage points
Kuleshov effect
Saturation
Frozen time moment
Sound bridge
45. A documentary or occasionally - a narrative film that presents only one side of an argument or one approach to a subject
Interlaced scanning
Continuity error
Tinting
Propaganda film
46. 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
Wide film
Fade-out
Tinting
Computer-generated imagery (CGI)
47. The plotline that surrounds an embedded tale. The frame narration may or may not be as fully developed as the embedded tale
Pushing
Plot summary
Frame narration
Score
48. A style of stage acting developed from the teachings of Constantin Stanislavsky - which trains actors to get into character through the use of emotional memory
Scratching
Method acting
Gauge
Interpellation
49. A lens with a focal length greater than 50 mm (usually between 80mm and 20mm) - which provides a larger image of the subject than a normal or wide-angle lens but which narrows the angle of vision and flattens the depth of the image relative to normal
Montage sequence
Script supervisor
Telephoto lens
Speed
50. A scene transition wherein sound from one scene bleeds over into the ext scene - often resulting in a contrast between sound image
Reverse shot
Flashback
Shot
Sound bridge