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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 technician responsible for splicing and assembling the film negative to the editor's specifications
Negative cutter
Letterboxing
Filter
Continuity editing
2. A technique of manipulating focus to direct the viewer's attention
Motivation
Descriptive claim
Selective focus
Montage sequence
3. Experimental film; Underground cinema;
Fabula
Denouement
Roadshowing
Avant-garde film
4. The length in minutes for a film to play in its entirety (for example - 120 minutes). Also referred to as 'screen time.'
Phi phenomenon
Travelling matte
Telecine
Running time
5. 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
Restricted narration
Method acting
Bleach bypass
Natural-key lighting
6. The details of a character's past that emerge as the film unfolds - and which often play a role in character motivation
Sound bridge
Backstory
Horizontal integration
Direct sound
7. The period of time before principal photography during which actors are signed - sets and costumes designed - and locations scouted
Extreme close-up
Flashback
Pre-production
Swish pan
8. A shot transition that involves the gradual disappearance of the image at the same time that a new image gradually comes into view
Direct sound
Focus puller
Wide film
Dissolve
9. Literary narration from a viewpoint beyond that of any one individual character
Newsreel
Third-person narration
Hollywood Ten
Actualitas
10. The falling or unraveling action after the climax of a narrative that leads to resolution
Dailies
Denouement
Grain
Block booking
11. The practice of shooting during the day but using filters and underexposure to create the illusion of nighttime
Motif
Day for night
Long take
Auteur
12. A machine used to create optical effects such as fades - dissolves - and superimpositions. Most are now created digitally
Hybrid
Optical printer
Revisionist
Dailies
13. 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
Shot
Storyboard
Panning and scanning
Crane shot
14. 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
Toning
High-key lighting
Exposure latitude
Superimposition
15. A small - variable opening on a camera lens that regulates the amount of light entering the camera and striking the surface of the film
Extradiegetic
Aperture
Director
Continuity editor
16. 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
Closure
Loose framing
Extradiegetic
Panchromatic
17. A direct vocal address to the audience - Which may emanate from a character or from a narrative voice apparently unrelated to the diegesis
Voice-over
Matte painting
Motif
Long shot
18. Also called 'd-cinema.' Not to be confused with digital cinematography (shooting movies on digital video) - this term refers to using digital technologies for exhibition
Tight framing
Subgenre
Digital cinema
Director
19. The non-chronological insertion of events from the past into the present day of the story world
Flashback
Shooting script
Apparatus Theory
Digital video
20. A brief chronological description of the basic events and characters in a film. It does not include interpretive or evaluative claims
Plot summary
Diegesis
Storyboard
Tilt
21. The five vertically integrated corporations that exerted the greatest control over film production in the studio era: MGM - Warner Brothers - RKO - Twentieth Century Fox - and Paramount
Promotion
Take
Analog Video
Major studios
22. A film composed entirely of footage from other films.
Pre-production
Compilation film
Out-take
Auteur
23. A shot taken from a camera position above the subject - looking down at it
Animation
Blockbuster
Editor
High-angle shot
24. A shot in a sequence that is taken from the reverse angle of the shot previous to it
Avant-garde film
Narrative sequencing
Reverse shot
Restricted narration
25. Also called 'rushes.' Footage exposed and developed quickly so that the director can assess the day's work
Toning
Dailies
Tinting
Fabula
26. A technique of arranging the actors on the set to take advantage of deep focus cinematography - which allows for many planes of depth in the film frame to remain in focus
Third-person narration
Horizontal integration
Direct cinema
Composition in depth
27. 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
Widescreen
Restricted narration
Close-up
On-the-nose dialogue
28. The practice or repeatedly casting actors in similar roles across different films
Typecasting
Eye-level shot
Tilt
Persistence of vision
29. Early films that documented everyday events - such as workers leaving a factory
Medium long shot
Telecine
Actualitas
Interpretive claim
30. 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
Promotion
Formalist style
Extreme long-shot
Undercranking
31. A technique of depicting two layered images simultaneously. Images from one frame or several frames of film are added to pre-existing images - using an optical printer - to produce the same effect as a double exposure
Selective focus
Superimposition
Digital cinema
Chiaroscuro
32. A videotape system that records images onto magnetic tape - using electronic signals
Production values
Standard shot pattern
Avant-garde film
Analog Video
33. A term applied to film stock that is relatively insensitive to light. This stock will not yield acceptable images unless the amount of light can be carefully controlled
Neutral-density filter
Extradiegetic
Slow
Method acting
34. 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
Insert
Orthochromatic
Vista Vision
Extreme long-shot
35. 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
Average shot length
Promotion
Master positive
36. The rules of character - setting - and narrative that films that belong to a genre - such as Westerns - horror films - and screwball comedies - generally obey.
High concept film
Soft light
Genre conventions
Star system
37. 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
Direct sound
Fast motion
Direct sound
Backstage musical
38. Color. The strength of a hue is measured by its saturation or desaturation
Hue
Script supervisor
Superimposition
Auteur
39. The conclusion of the film wraps up - all loose ends in a form of resolution - though not necessarily with a happy ending.
Panchromatic
Synthespian
Closure
Motivation
40. Muted - washed out color that contains more white than a saturated color
Wipe
Digital set extension
Wireframe
Desaturated
41. 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
Wipe
Forced perspective
Overexposure
Backstory
42. A process of transferring film to video tapes or DVDs so that the original aspect ratio of the film is preserved
Letterboxing
Camera distance
City symphony
Zoom lens
43. The measure of intensity or purity of a color. Saturated color is purer than desaturated color - which has more white in it and thus offers a washed-out - less intense version of a color
Progressive scanning
Telecine
Actualitas
Saturation
44. A device that projects photographs or footage onto glass so that images can be traced by hand to create animated images
Line of action
Travelling matte
Rotoscope
Wireframe
45. 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
Cameo
Swish pan
Eye-level shot
Production values
46. Also called 'rushes.' Footage exposed and developed quickly so that the director can assess the day's work
Production values
Dailies
Analog Video
Screenplay
47. Natural light; The process of suing sunlight rather than artificial studio lights when filming
Available light
Backstage musical
Aspect Ratio
Iris out
48. 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
Extreme long-shot
Desaturated
Persistence of vision
Sound bridge
49. An agreement made between filmmakers and those who license the use of commercial products to feature those products in films - generally as props used by characters
Travelling matte
Color filter
Product placement
Parellel
50. 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
Closure
Saturation
Episodic