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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 musical film in which each song and dance number is narratively motivated by a plot that situates characters in performance contexts
Underexposure
Intertextual reference
Anamorphic lens
Backstage musical
2. An abrupt shot transition that occurs when Shot A is instantaneously replaced by Shot B.
Take
180-degree rule
Wipe
Cut
3. A film that fuses the conventions of two or more genres
Narrative sequencing
Formalist style
Hybrid
Crane shot
4. Also called 'rushes.' Footage exposed and developed quickly so that the director can assess the day's work
Fabula
Dailies
Overhead shot
Phi phenomenon
5. A chemical coating on film stock containing light-sensitive grains
Charge coupler device
Emulsion
Evaluative claim
Focal length
6. Live action is filmed in front of a blue screen and a matte. It's then joined with the background footage
Grain
Intertextual reference
Blue screen
Dolly
7. A camera device that opens and closes to regulate the length of time the film is exposed to light
Point-of-view shot
Shutter
Avant-garde film
Non-diegetic
8. A genre film that radically modifies accepted genre conventions for dramatic effect
Bleach bypass
Revisionist
High-key lighting
Phi phenomenon
9. The building block of a scene; an uninterrupted sequence of frames that viewers experience as they watch a film - ending with a cut - fade - dissolve - etc. See also Take
Hard light
Steadicam
Pixel
Shot
10. A machine that converts film prints to videotape format
Telecine
Double exposure
Low-angle shot
Revisionist
11. 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
Hollywood Blacklist
City symphony
Film stock
Crab dolly
12. 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
Voice-over
Production values
Runaway production
Propaganda film
13. The rules of character - setting - and narrative that films that belong to a genre - such as Westerns - horror films - and screwball comedies - generally obey.
Cel
German Expressionism
Pan
Genre conventions
14. 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
Pixel
Restricted narration
Mixing
Shot/reverse shot
15. A continuity editing technique that preserves spatial continuity by using a character's line of vision as motivation for a cut
First-person narration
Eyeline match
Apparatus Theory
Diegesis
16. A story narrated by one of the characters within the story - using the 'I' voice
First-person narration
Emulsion
Match on action
Closure
17. A crew member who reports to the Director of Photography (DP) and is in charge of tasks involving lighting and electrical needs
Voice-over
Gaffer
Overhead shot
Special visual effects
18. 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
Close-up
Compositing
Desaturated
Toning
19. Film productions shot outside the U.S. for economic reasons
Runaway production
Low-key lighting
Color filter
Pixilation
20. The imagined world of the story
Diegesis
Offscreen space
Wide film
Film stock
21. A consistent style - theme - and subject matter developed over the course of a director's body of work
Line reading
Protagonist
Typecasting
Oeuvre
22. Lighting design where the key light is somewhat more intense than the fill light - so the fill does not eliminate every shadow. The effect is generally less cheerful than high-key lighting - but not as gloomy as low-key lighting
Natural-key lighting
Studio system
Saturation
High concept film
23. A machine that converts film prints to videotape format
Slow motion
Genre
Telecine
Tableau shot
24. 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
Non-diegetic
Interpellation
Director
Charge coupler device
25. The central cause(s) behind a character's actions
On-the-nose dialogue
Eyeline match
Storyboard
Motivation
26. A transparent sheet on which animation artists draw images.
Split screen
Flashback
Direct sound
Cel
27. A shot combining two kinds of movement: the camera tracks in toward the subject wile the lens zooms out
Academy Ratio
Trombone shot
Fade-out
Tight framing
28. A style of Japanese animation - distinguished primarily by the fact that it is not all geared for young audiences
Anime
Negative cutter
Base
Closure
29. The artful use of light and dark areas in the composition in black and white filmmaking
Wide-angle lens
Interpretive claim
Scene
Chiaroscuro
30. 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
Dissolve
Voice-over
Revisionist
Travelling matte
31. A technique of running the motion picture camera at a speed slower than projection speed (24 frames per second) - in order to produce at a fast motion sequence when projected at normal speed. The term derives from early film cameras - which were cran
Dissolve
Pixel
Deep focus cinematography
Undercranking
32. A shot taken from a camera position below the subject
Superimposition
Mixing
Vista Vision
Low-angle shot
33. Suspended particles of silver in the film's emulsion - Which may become visible in the final image as dots
Widescreen
Extreme close-up
Grain
Newsreel
34. The details of a character's past that emerge as the film unfolds - and which often play a role in character motivation
Selective focus
Backstory
Cinerama
Direct sound
35. 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
Protagonist
Panchromatic
Overexposure
Extreme wide-angle lens
36. Public identity created by marketing a film actor's performances - press coverage - and 'personal' information to fans as the star's personality
Prosthesis
Forced perspective
Star persona
Cameo
37. A film's main characters - one whose conflicts and motives drive the story forward
Protagonist
Gauge
Actualitas
Phi phenomenon
38. A shot that contains two characters within the frame
Academy Ratio
Soundtrack
Two-shot
Hue
39. The camera does not move across an imagined line drawn between two characters
Minor studios
On-the-nose dialogue
180-degree rule
Low-key lighting
40. A lens with a focal length greater than 50 mm (usually between 80mm and 20mm) - which provides a larger image of the subject than a normal or wide-angle lens but which narrows the angle of vision and flattens the depth of the image relative to normal
Low-angle shot
Score
Medium long shot
Telephoto lens
41. 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
Voice-over
B-roll
Three-act structure
Digital cinema
42. 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
Superimposition
Eye-level shot
Plot summary
Minor studios
43. 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
Three-point lighting
Cel
Recursive action
Blaxploitation
44. A narrative - visual - or sound element that refers viewers to other films or works of art
Tinting
Intertextual reference
Soft light
Fast motion
45. A term for film stock used in early cinema that was insensitive to red hues
Intertextual reference
Ethnographic film
Zoom out
Orthochromatic
46. Early films that documented everyday events - such as workers leaving a factory
Match on action
Compilation film
Actualitas
Jump cut
47. 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
Fast motion
Anamorphic lens
Tinting
Vista Vision
48. A crew member whose job is to maintain consistency in visual details from one shot to the next
Video assist
Continuity editor
Travelling matte
Progressive scanning
49. The period after principal photography during which editing and looping take place - and special visual effects are added to the film
Slow
Widescreen
Three-point lighting
Post-production
50. A contemporary modification of the standard three-act structure that identifies a critical turning point at the halfway mark of most narrative films
Focus puller
High-angle shot
Shot
Four-part structure