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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 scene transition wherein sound from one scene bleeds over into the ext scene - often resulting in a contrast between sound image
Mockumentary
Sound bridge
Pixilation
Foley artist
2. Smaller corporations that did not own distribution and/or exhibition companies in the studio era - including Universal - Columbia - and United Artists
Integrated musical
Montage sequence
Persistence of vision
Minor studios
3. 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
Frozen time moment
Zoom out
Steadicam
Actualitas
4. Using computer graphics to 'build' structures connected to the actual architecture on set or location
Flashforward
Slow
Digital set extension
Narrative sequencing
5. Images that originate from computer graphics technology - rather than photography
Special visual effects
Average shot length
Freeze frame
Computer-generated imagery (CGI)
6. Projecting a series of frames of film with the same image - which appears to stop the action
Medium shot
Freeze frame
Shooting script
Realist style
7. The chronological accounting of all events presented and suggested
Filter
Fabula
Cutaway
Star filter
8. A consistent style - theme - and subject matter developed over the course of a director's body of work
Oeuvre
Hollywood Blacklist
Slow
Digital cinema
9. The first step in the process of creating CGI. The wireframe is a three-dimensional computer model of an object - which is then rendered (producing the finished image) and animated (using simulated camera movement frame by frame)
Lightning mix
Descriptive claim
Wireframe
Pixilation
10. 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
Auteur
Continuity editing
Filter
Panning and scanning
11. 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
Line of action
Composition
Eyeline match
Front projection
12. A character who in some way opposes the protagonist - leading to protracted conflict
Antagonist
Focus puller
Academy Ratio
Soundtrack
13. Early films that documented everyday events - such as workers leaving a factory
Second unit
Eye-level shot
Scene
Actualitas
14. A device attached to the film camera that records videotape of what has been filmed - allowing the director immediate access to video footage
Kuleshov effect
Hollywood Ten
Master positive
Video assist
15. A person responsible for putting a film together from a mass of developed footage - making decisions regarding pace - shot transitions - and which scenes and shots will be used
Editor
Go-motion
Denouement
Fast motion
16. An optical effect whereby the human eye fills in gaps between closely spaced objects - so that two light bulbs flashing on and off are understood as one light moving back and forth
Phi phenomenon
Fast
Tableau shot
Zoom lens
17. A format that uses a larger film stock than standard 35mm. IMAX - Omnimax - and Showscan are shot on 70mm film
Master positive
Steadicam
Pixilation
Wide film
18. A large-budget film whose strategy is to swamp the competition through market saturation
Charge coupler device
Extreme wide-angle lens
Blockbuster
Available light
19. A pan executed so quickly that it produces a blurred image - indicated rapid activity or - sometimes - the passage of time
Medium close-up
Editor
Mixing
Swish pan
20. A technique of 'pushing' the film (overdeveloping it) to correct problems of underexposure (resulting from insufficient light during shooting) by increasing image contrast
Star filter
Third-person narration
Digital compositing
Forced development
21. 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
Roadshowing
Extradiegetic
Apparatus Theory
High-key lighting
22. A type of film stock that is sensitive to (in other words - registers) all tones in the color spectrum
Shot transition
Panchromatic
Pixilation
Direct cinema
23. An effect created when too little light strikes the film during shooting. As a result the image will contain dark areas that appear very dense and dark (including shadows) and the overall contrast will be less than with a properly exposed image
Extra
Underexposure
Two-shot
First-person narration
24. Suspended particles of silver in the film's emulsion - Which may become visible in the final image as dots
Sound bridge
Grain
B-roll
Animation
25. The chronological accounting of all events presented and suggested
Matte painting
Backstage musical
Fabula
Available light
26. A chemical embedded in the emulsion layer of film stock that - when developed after exposure - releases a particular color dye (red - green - or blue)
Natural-key lighting
Vista Vision
Focal length
Dye coupler
27. A technique of shooting a scene at a very high speed (96 frames per second) - then adding and subtracting frames in post-production - 'fanning out' the action through the overlapping images
Hollywood Blacklist
Average shot length
B-roll
Recursive action
28. An unstated meaning that underlies and is implied by spoken dialogue
Apparatus Theory
Screenplay
Subtext
Extreme wide-angle lens
29. 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
Four-part structure
Genre
Loose framing
Wide film
30. The artful use of light and dark areas in the composition in black and white filmmaking
Dye coupler
Continuity error
Travelling matte
Chiaroscuro
31. A machine that converts film prints to videotape format
Eye-level shot
Persistence of vision
Telecine
Loose framing
32. The visual arrangement of objects - actors - and space within the frame
Composition
Digital cinema
Vertical integration
Gauge
33. The horizontal turning movement of an otherwise immobile camera across a scene from left to right or vice versa
Panning and scanning
Fast
Pan
Hybrid
34. 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
Dolly
Canted angle
Persistence of vision
Compilation film
35. 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
Direct sound
First-person narration
Medium shot
Panchromatic
36. The arrangement of images to depict a unified storyline
Video assist
Narrative sequencing
Undercranking
Telecine
37. A statement that presents an argument about a film's meaning and significance
Direct sound
Match on action
Interpretive claim
Promotion
38. Also called 'stop motion photography.' A technique of photographing a scene one frame at a time and moving the model between each shot
Composition in depth
Blocking
180-degree rule
Pixilation
39. A production crew responsible not for shooting the primary footage but - instead - for remote location shooting and B-roll. See also B-roll
Camera distance
Iris in...
Parellel editing
Second unit
40. Light emitted from a larger source that is scattered over a bigger area or reflected off a surface before it strikes the subject. Soft light minimizes facial details - including wrinkles
Studio system
Production values
Soft light
Restricted narration
41. A technique of moving the camera - on a specially built track. Such shots often trace character movement laterally across the frame or in and out of the depth of the frame
Emulsion
Direct cinema
Tracking shot
Syuzhet
42. 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
Assistant Editor
Zoom in...
Motivation
Digital video
43. The camera does not move across an imagined line drawn between two characters
180-degree rule
Jump cut
Travelling matte
Split screen
44. The individual arrangement of lighting and camera placement used for each shot
Newsreel
Foley artist
Set-up
Score
45. A chemical embedded in the emulsion layer of film stock that - when developed after exposure - releases a particular color dye (red - green - or blue)
Formalist style
Dye coupler
Shooting script
Propaganda film
46. 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
Rack focus
Depth of field
Reverse shot
Interpretive claim
47. A consistent style - theme - and subject matter developed over the course of a director's body of work
Oeuvre
Realist style
Blaxploitation
Travelling matte
48. A technique of cutting back and forth between action occurring in two different locations - which often creates the illusion that they are happening simultaneously. Also called 'cross cutting.'
Master shot
Parellel editing
Post-production
Take
49. Optical illusions created during post-production
Medium shot
Match on action
Persistence of vision
Visual effects
50. A visual effect created when the subject in the frame is restricted by the objects or the physical properties of the set
Post-production
Tight framing
Matte
Extra