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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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This is a study tool. The 3 wrong answers for each question are randomly chosen from answers to other questions. So, you might find at times the answers obvious, but you will see it re-enforces your understanding as you take the test each time.
1. Any noticeable but unintended discrepancy from one shot to the next in costume - props - hairstyle - posture - etc.
Continuity error
Narrative
Foley artist
Letterboxing
2. The selection and ordering of narrative events presented in a film
Wipe
Typecasting
Syuzhet
Rack focus
3. The use of editing techniques - such as a fade or dissolve - to indicate the end of one scene and the beginning of another
Base
Desaturated
Shot transition
Third-person narration
4. Using computer graphics to 'build' structures connected to the actual architecture on set or location
Hybrid
Digital set extension
High-angle shot
Overlapping dialogue
5. A camera device that opens and closes to regulate the length of time the film is exposed to light
Shutter
High-angle shot
Best boy
Academy Ratio
6. Optical illusions created during post-production
Focal length
Recursive action
Motivation
Visual effects
7. Color. The strength of a hue is measured by its saturation or desaturation
Post-production
Eye-level shot
Hue
Release prints
8. 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
German Expressionism
Foley artist
Turning point
High-key lighting
9. 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
Formalist style
Master shot
Recursive action
Optical printer
10. Non-diegetic; any element in the film that is not part of the imagined story world
Narrative
Prosthesis
Wireframe
Extradiegetic
11. A shot taken from a level camera located approximately 5' to 6' from the ground - simulating the perspective of a person standing before the action presented
Frame narration
Eye-level shot
Persistence of vision
Tinting
12. The arrangement of actors on screen as a compositional element that suggests themes - character development - emotional content - and visual motifs
Non-diegetic
Figure placement and movement
Medium close-up
Release prints
13. Creating the appearance of movement by drawing a series of frames that are projected sequentially - rather than photographing a series of still images
Dolly
Extradiegetic
Animation
Evaluative claim
14. A relatively long - uninterrupted sot - generally of a minute or more
Interpellation
Outsourcing
Long take
Extreme wide-angle lens
15. Projecting a series of frames of film with the same image - which appears to stop the action
Interlaced scanning
Freeze frame
Classical style
Establishing shot
16. A transparent sheet on which animation artists draw images.
Cel
Zoom out
Point-of-view shot
Diffusion filters
17. A musical accompaniment written specifically for a film
Undercranking
Score
Color filter
Rear projection
18. 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
Fade-out
Direct cinema
Medium long shot
Negative cutter
19. A shot taken from a camera mounted on a crane that moves three-dimensionally in a space
Academy Ratio
Diffusion filters
Orthochromatic
Crane shot
20. A process of transferring film to video tapes or DVDs so that the original aspect ratio of the film is preserved
Letterboxing
Take
Fast
Medium long shot
21. A visual effect created when the subject in the frame is restricted by the objects or the physical properties of the set
Tight framing
Matte painting
Focal length
Shooting script
22. An abrupt shot transition that occurs when Shot A is instantaneously replaced by Shot B.
Apparatus Theory
Cut
Color filter
Post-production
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
Compilation film
Underexposure
Superimposition
Score
24. Wheeled platform with wheels that rotate - so the dolly can change direction
Dailies
Sound bridge
Crab dolly
Vista Vision
25. A pan executed so quickly that it produces a blurred image - indicated rapid activity or - sometimes - the passage of time
Swish pan
Wireframe
Flashback
Wireframe
26. An early color process that replaced silver halide grains with colored salts
Toning
Wireframe
Studio system
Trombone shot
27. The falling or unraveling action after the climax of a narrative that leads to resolution
Fade-out
High-key lighting
Wide film
Denouement
28. 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
Tracking shot
Dolly
Lightning mix
Base
29. A form of shot transition - generally concluding a scene - where a circular mask constricts around the image until the entire frame is black
Pulling
Apparatus Theory
Iris in...
Insert
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
Star persona
Fast motion
Kuleshov effect
Formalist style
31. Glass filters whose surface is etched with spots that refract light - so they create the appearance of water droplets in the air
Fog filter
Extreme wide-angle lens
Score
Matte painting
32. 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
Director
Mockumentary
Academy Ratio
Rotoscope
33. Any noticeable but unintended discrepancy from one shot to the next in costume - props - hairstyle - posture - etc.
Integrated musical
Hollywood Blacklist
Academy Ratio
Continuity error
34. The camera does not move across an imagined line drawn between two characters
Evaluative claim
180-degree rule
Compositing
Shot
35. Sound design that blends the speech of several characters talking simultaneously - used to create spontaneity - although it may also confuse the audience
Overlapping dialogue
Diffusion filters
Matte painting
Tilt
36. A short documentary on current events - show in movie theaters along with cartoons and feature films beginning in the 1930s
Reframing
Newsreel
Pushing
Tinting
37. 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
Establishing shot
Panning and scanning
Fog filter
Interpretive claim
38. 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
Visual effects
Director
Day for night
Forced perspective
39. The person in charge of planning the style and look of the film with the production designer and director of photography - working with actors during principal photography - and collaborating with the editor on the final version
Color consultant
Block booking
Director
Low-key lighting
40. 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
Re-establishing shot
Loose framing
Three-act structure
Zoom in...
41. A term describing a conclusion that does not answer all the questions raised regarding characters or storylines - nor tie up all loose ends
Open-ended
Available light
Intertextual reference
Crane shot
42. 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
Cutaway
Green screen
Exposition
Aerial Shot
43. A shot that focuses audience attention on precise details that may or may not be the focus of characters
Available light
Letterboxing
Cutaway
Chiaroscuro
44. The non-chronological insertion of events from the past into the present day of the story world
Flashback
Turning point
Matte
Trombone shot
45. Materials intentionally released by studios to attract public attention to films and their stars. Promotion differs from publicity - which is information that is not (or does not appear to be) intentionally disseminated by studios
Promotion
Dolly
Subgenre
Exposure
46. A production term referring to coordinating actors' movements with lines of dialogue
Blocking
Diffusion filters
Denouement
Digital compositing
47. 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
Typecasting
Recursive action
Vista Vision
Undercranking
48. The period of time before principal photography during which actors are signed - sets and costumes designed - and locations scouted
Blue screen
Pre-production
Forced perspective
Newsreel
49. A device attached to the film camera that records videotape of what has been filmed - allowing the director immediate access to video footage
Propaganda film
Star persona
Video assist
Newsreel
50. 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
Interpretive claim
Visual effects
Zoom in...
Recursive action