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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 narrative path of the main or supporting characters - also called a plotline. Complex films may have several lines of action
Pan
Line of action
High-angle shot
Backstage musical
2. A technique of intentionally adding scratches in a film's emulsion layer for aesthetic purposes - such as to simulate home movie footage
Scratching
Subtext
Blaxploitation
Extreme wide-angle lens
3. Projecting a series of frames of film with the same image - which appears to stop the action
Crab dolly
On-the-nose dialogue
Aspect Ratio
Freeze frame
4. A narrative moment that signals an important shift of some kind in character or situation
Oeuvre
Iris out
Denouement
Turning point
5. Film productions shot outside the U.S. for economic reasons
Integrated musical
Runaway production
Non-diegetic
Product placement
6. The artful use of light and dark areas in the composition in black and white filmmaking
Negative
Hollywood Blacklist
Chiaroscuro
Orthochromatic
7. The average length in seconds of a series of shots - covering a portion of a film or an entire film; a measure of pace within a scene or in the film as a whole.
Blue screen
Telephoto lens
Average shot length
Hollywood Blacklist
8. Creating the appearance of movement by drawing a series of frames that are projected sequentially - rather than photographing a series of still images
Ethnographic film
Genre conventions
Antagonist
Animation
9. 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
Offscreen space
Tilt
Tracking shot
Gaffer
10. A shot that contains two characters within the frame
Fabula
Two-shot
Long shot
Narrative
11. An alternative to continuity editing - this style of editing was developed in silent Soviet cinema - based on the theory that editing should exploit the difference between shots to generate intellectual and emotional responses in the audience
Actualitas
Text
Soviet montage
Blue screen
12. 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
Trailer
Apparatus Theory
Overexposure
B-roll
13. Everything audiences hear when they watch a sound film. The soundtrack is the composite of all three elements of film sound: dialogue - music - and sound effects
Soundtrack
Iris in...
Pulling
Exposition
14. A series of individual drawings that provides a blueprint for the shooting of a scene
Morphing
Continuity editing
Descriptive claim
Storyboard
15. The arrangement of actors on screen as a compositional element that suggests themes - character development - emotional content - and visual motifs
Figure placement and movement
Visual effects
Recursive action
Subgenre
16. A shot transition that emphasizes the visual similarities between two consecutive shots
Wireframe
Graphic match
Realist style
Gauge
17. A scene transition wherein sound from one scene bleeds over into the ext scene - often resulting in a contrast between sound image
Method acting
Intertextual reference
Scratching
Sound bridge
18. A series of related scene joined through elliptical editing that indicates the passage of time
Line reading
Overexposure
Studio system
Montage sequence
19. A screenplay written and submitted to a studio or production company without a prior contract or agreement
Persistence of vision
Panning and scanning
Zoom out
Spec script
20. The chronological accounting of all events presented and suggested
Exposure
Forced perspective
Fabula
Canted angle
21. The artful use of light and dark areas in the composition in black and white filmmaking
Insert
City symphony
Rack focus
Chiaroscuro
22. An efficient system developed for film lighting. In a standard lighting set-up - the key light illuminates the subject - the fill light eliminates shadows cast by the key light - and the back light separates the subject from the background
Wide film
Matte painting
Three-point lighting
Offscreen space
23. 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
Soft light
Focus puller
Eyeline match
Low-angle shot
24. Individuals who were prevented from working in the film industry because of their suspected involvement with Communist interests
Color timing
Hollywood Blacklist
Dye coupler
Motif
25. Filters that increase color saturation and contrast in outdoor shots
Medium shot
Evaluative claim
Polarizing filters
Extreme close-up
26. A pan executed so quickly that it produces a blurred image - indicated rapid activity or - sometimes - the passage of time
Standard shot pattern
Major studios
Swish pan
Outsourcing
27. A term describing a conclusion that does not answer all the questions raised regarding characters or storylines - nor tie up all loose ends
Kuleshov effect
Continuity error
Re-establishing shot
Open-ended
28. 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
Subtext
Dailies
Extreme long-shot
Emulsion
29. 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
Desaturated
Green screen
Soundtrack
Normal lens
30. Also called 'rushes.' Footage exposed and developed quickly so that the director can assess the day's work
Low-key lighting
Trailer
Dailies
Digital set extension
31. A film's main characters - one whose conflicts and motives drive the story forward
Day for night
Tracking shot
Undercranking
Protagonist
32. 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
Line of action
Offscreen space
Soft light
Narrative sequencing
33. A scene transition in which the first frame of the incoming scene appears to push the last frame of the previous scene off the screen horizontally
Third-person narration
Charge coupler device
Wipe
Digital compositing
34. A filter that simply reduces the amount of light entering the lens - without affecting the color characteristics
Foley artist
Neutral-density filter
Day for night
Foley artist
35. A chemical embedded in the emulsion layer of film stock that - when developed after exposure - releases a particular color dye (red - green - or blue)
Reframing
Best boy
Dye coupler
Close-up
36. 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
Line reading
German Expressionism
180-degree rule
Propaganda film
37. Optical illusions created during production - including the use of matte paintings - glass shots - models - and prosthesis
Special visual effects
Analog Video
Score
Superimposition
38. A film composed entirely of footage from other films.
Compilation film
Actualitas
Integrated musical
Double exposure
39. The width of the film stock - measured across the frame. Typical sizes are 8mm - 16mm - 35mm - and 70mm
Freeze frame
Gauge
Flashback
Iris out
40. An actor whose career rests on playing minor or secondary quirky characters rather than leading roles
Continuity error
Rotoscope
Character actor
German Expressionism
41. The arrangement of images to depict a unified storyline
Reverse shot
Apparatus Theory
Narrative sequencing
Mockumentary
42. A chemical coating on film stock containing light-sensitive grains
Point-of-view shot
Matte painting
Tilt
Emulsion
43. Literary narration from a viewpoint beyond that of any one individual character
Third-person narration
Letterboxing
Production values
Insert
44. (Automatic dialogue replacement) recording synchronized dialogue in post-production - cutting several identical lengths of developed film and having actors record the dialogue repeatedly
Flashforward
Auteur
ADR
Long shot
45. A documentary or occasionally - a narrative film that presents only one side of an argument or one approach to a subject
Propaganda film
Sound bridge
Non-diegetic
Mockumentary
46. A term that refers to the organization of an industry wherein one type of corporation also owns corporations in allied industries - for example - film production and video games
Horizontal integration
Fast motion
Major studios
Release prints
47. A film that fuses the conventions of two or more genres
Soft light
Hybrid
Take
Flashforward
48. A shot transition that involves the gradual disappearance of the image at the same time that a new image gradually comes into view
Graphic match
Composition in depth
City symphony
Dissolve
49. A pan executed so quickly that it produces a blurred image - indicated rapid activity or - sometimes - the passage of time
Color filter
Swish pan
Cutaway
Subtext
50. 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
Morphing
Compilation film
Selective focus
Scene