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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. Author; A term popularized by French film critics and refers to film directors with their own distinctive style
Auteur
Fast
Post-production
Text
2. 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
Interlaced scanning
Fast
Wipe
Protagonist
3. 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
Synthespian
Academy Ratio
Superimposition
Pulling
4. A shot that focuses audience attention on precise details that may or may not be the focus of characters
Cutaway
Roadshowing
Out-take
Hue
5. A complete narrative unit within a film - with its own beginning - middle - and end. Often scenes are unified - and distinguished from one another - by time and setting
Major studios
Descriptive claim
Narrative
Scene
6. A term describing a conclusion that does not answer all the questions raised regarding characters or storylines - nor tie up all loose ends
Match on action
Sound bridge
Second unit
Open-ended
7. A film that fuses the conventions of two or more genres
Hybrid
Digital video
Diegesis
Pixilation
8. A non-standard narrative organization that assumes 'day in the life' quality rather than the highly structured three-act or four part narrative - and that features loose or indirect cause-effect relationships
Wipe
Selective focus
Optical printer
Episodic
9. Assists the gaffer in managing lighting crews
Average shot length
Polarizing filters
Digital set extension
Best boy
10. An actor whose career rests on playing minor or secondary quirky characters rather than leading roles
Character actor
Selective focus
Non-diegetic
Orthochromatic
11. A technique in which the audience temporarily shares the visual perspective of a character or a group of characters. The camera points in the directions the character looks - simulating the character's field of vision
Four-part structure
Second unit
Color consultant
Point-of-view shot
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
Overexposure
Anamorphic lens
Star persona
Telecine
13. A system for combining two separately filmed images in the same frame that involves create a matte (a black mask that covers a portion of the image) for a live action sequence and using it to block out a portion of the frame when filming the backgrou
Actualitas
Travelling matte
Shot/reverse shot
Blockbuster
14. 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
Four-part structure
Standard shot pattern
Pulling
Extreme close-up
15. Devices that attach to actors' faces and/or bodies to change their appearance
Anime
Prosthesis
Visual effects
Offscreen space
16. An optical technique that divides the screen into two or more frames
Split screen
Pixel
Newsreel
Insert
17. Reels of film that are shipped to movie theaters for exhibition. Digital cinema - which can be distributed via satellite - broadband - or on media such as DVDs - may soon replace film prints because the latter are expensive to create - copy - and dis
Release prints
Evaluative claim
Selective focus
Frozen time moment
18. The non-chronological insertion of scenes of events yet to happen into the present day of the story world
Master positive
Release prints
Scratching
Flashforward
19. A story narrated by one of the characters within the story - using the 'I' voice
Saturation
First-person narration
Color consultant
Newsreel
20. The camera does not move across an imagined line drawn between two characters
Match on action
Freeze frame
180-degree rule
Go-motion
21. A picture element - a measure of image density. There are approximately 18 million pixels in a frame of 35mm film and 300000-400000 in a video image
Pixel
Digital set extension
Letterboxing
Horizontal integration
22. 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
Polarizing filters
Travelling matte
Composition in depth
23. A scene filmed and processed but not selected to appear in the final version of the film
Out-take
Protagonist
Blaxploitation
Score
24. A technique of shifting the camera angle - height - or distance to take into account the motion of actors or objects within the frame
Undercranking
Assistant Editor
Reframing
Toning
25. 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
Realist style
Standard shot pattern
Direct sound
Extradiegetic
26. 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
Fast motion
First-person narration
Freeze frame
Underexposure
27. 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
Synthespian
Mockumentary
Motivation
28. A narrative approach that limits the audience's view of events to that of the main character(s) in the film. Occasional moments of omniscient narration may give viewers more information than the character shave at specific points in the narrative
Gaffer
Restricted narration
Focus puller
Letterboxing
29. A process of blending the three elements of the sound track (dialogue - music - and effects) in post-production
Mixing
Omniscient narration
Eyeline match
Continuity error
30. Optical illusions created during production - including the use of matte paintings - glass shots - models - and prosthesis
On-the-nose dialogue
Special visual effects
Double exposure
Dissolve
31. The selection and ordering of narrative events presented in a film
Continuity error
Rotoscope
Interlaced scanning
Syuzhet
32. Natural light; The process of suing sunlight rather than artificial studio lights when filming
Available light
Tableau shot
Protagonist
Gauge
33. A shot transition that involves the gradual disappearance of the image at the same time that a new image gradually comes into view
Dissolve
Trailer
High concept film
Rack focus
34. Public identity created by marketing a film actor's performances - press coverage - and 'personal' information to fans as the star's personality
Visual effects
Diegesis
Vertical integration
Star persona
35. 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
Screenplay
Mockumentary
Travelling matte
Horizontal integration
36. Thin - flexible material comprised of base and emulsion layers - onto which light rays are focused and which is processed in chemicals to produce film images
Forced development
Auteur
Film stock
Restricted narration
37. Early films that documented everyday events - such as workers leaving a factory
Continuity error
Classical style
Hybrid
Actualitas
38. Dutch angle; a shot resulting from a static camera that is tilted to the right or left - so that the subject in the frame appears at a diagonal
Typecasting
Typecasting
Mockumentary
Canted angle
39. A short documentary on current events - show in movie theaters along with cartoons and feature films beginning in the 1930s
Mockumentary
Newsreel
Three-point lighting
Fast
40. The narrative path of the main or supporting characters - also called a plotline. Complex films may have several lines of action
Master shot
Iris in...
Wide film
Line of action
41. A device used to manipulate the amount and/or color of light entering the lens
Filter
Backstage musical
Zoom in...
Film stock
42. Light emitted from a relatively small source positioned close to the subject. It tends to be unflattering because it creates deep shadows and emphasizes surface imperfections
Reverse shot
Parellel editing
Hard light
City symphony
43. 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
Front projection
Eye-level shot
Running time
Matte painting
44. Lighting design in which the greater intensity of the key light makes it impossible for the fill to eliminate shadows - producing a high-contrast image (with many grades of light and dark) - a number of shadows - and a somber mood
Low-key lighting
Compositing
Frozen time moment
Re-establishing shot
45. 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
Focal length
Realist style
Re-establishing shot
Anamorphic lens
46. A machine that converts film prints to videotape format
Focal length
Rear projection
Telecine
Toning
47. A production term denoting a single uninterrupted series of frames exposed by a motion picture or video camera between the time it is turned on and the time it is turned off. Filmmakers shoot several takes of any scene and the film editor selects the
Loose framing
Product placement
Take
Star persona
48. Smaller corporations that did not own distribution and/or exhibition companies in the studio era - including Universal - Columbia - and United Artists
Minor studios
Masking
Film stock
Animation
49. A mental phenomenon by which viewers derive more meaning from the interaction of two sequential shots than from a single shot in isolation
Extreme close-up
Post-production
Extreme wide-angle lens
Kuleshov effect
50. A filter that simply reduces the amount of light entering the lens - without affecting the color characteristics
Shot transition
Negative cutter
Negative cutter
Neutral-density filter