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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 computer-generated actor that some speculate will replace flesh and blood actors in the not so distant future
Synthespian
Denouement
Parellel editing
Matte
2. The practice of shooting during the day but using filters and underexposure to create the illusion of nighttime
Film stock
Day for night
Establishing shot
Text
3. 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
Time-lapse photography
Canted angle
Character actor
Forced perspective
4. The first step in the process of creating CGI. The wireframe is a three-dimensional computer model of an object - which is then rendered (producing the finished image) and animated (using simulated camera movement frame by frame)
Wireframe
Masking
Matte
Cut
5. A shot that depicts a human body from the feet up
Crab dolly
Direct cinema
Medium long shot
Antagonist
6. A neutral account of the basic plot and style of a film - a part of a film - or a group of films
Blockbuster
Toning
Descriptive claim
Exposure latitude
7. An actor whose career rests on playing minor or secondary quirky characters rather than leading roles
Motivation
Narrative sequencing
Character actor
Exposition
8. The annotated script - containing information about set-ups used during shooting
Available light
Interpellation
Shooting script
Studio system
9. 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
Dolly
First-person narration
Promotion
Computer-generated imagery (CGI)
10. A character who in some way opposes the protagonist - leading to protracted conflict
Color consultant
Blocking
Antagonist
Extra
11. A widescreen process that uses three cameras - three projectors - and a wide - curved screen
Fast
Day for night
Visual effects
Cinerama
12. Devices that attach to actors' faces and/or bodies to change their appearance
Standard shot pattern
Avant-garde film
Tableau shot
Prosthesis
13. A screenplay written and submitted to a studio or production company without a prior contract or agreement
Out-take
Spec script
Motif
Zoom out
14. A system initially developed for marketing films by creating and promoting stars as objects of admiration. The promotion of stars has now become an end in itself
Horizontal integration
Shooting script
Glass shot
Star system
15. The central cause(s) behind a character's actions
Storyboard
Motivation
Exposition
Digital cinema
16. A flexible celluloid strip that - along with the emulsion layer - comprises 35mm film stock
Grain
Base
Extreme long-shot
Mockumentary
17. 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
Extradiegetic
Front projection
Production values
Continuity editor
18. 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
Script supervisor
Focal length
Soft light
Panning and scanning
19. An early color process that replaced silver halide grains with colored salts
Color consultant
Hybrid
Toning
Assistant Editor
20. 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
Protagonist
Digital cinema
Propaganda film
Brechtian distanciation
21. A brief chronological description of the basic events and characters in a film. It does not include interpretive or evaluative claims
Typecasting
Star filter
Aerial Shot
Plot summary
22. Author; A term popularized by French film critics and refers to film directors with their own distinctive style
Tilt
Digital set extension
Auteur
Emulsion
23. 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
Long shot
Standard shot pattern
Omniscient narration
Formalist style
24. A chemical coating on film stock containing light-sensitive grains
Emulsion
Establishing shot
Take
Insert
25. Devices that attach to actors' faces and/or bodies to change their appearance
Forced perspective
Prosthesis
Persistence of vision
Extradiegetic
26. A technique of moving from the telephoto position to the wide-angle position of a zoom lens - which results in the subject appearing to become smaller within the frame - while remaining in focus
Actualitas
Newsreel
Zoom out
Digital compositing
27. The film medium's technological apparatus is inherently ideological
Low-angle shot
Prosthesis
Scene
Apparatus Theory
28. Images that originate from computer graphics technology - rather than photography
Continuity editing
Protagonist
Computer-generated imagery (CGI)
Bleach bypass
29. A business model adopted by the major studios during the Hollywood studio era - in which studios controlled all aspects of the film business - from production to distribution and exhibition
Genre conventions
Wireframe
Genre conventions
Vertical integration
30. A camera shot taken at a large distance from the subject. Using the human body as the subject - a long shot captures the entire human form
Matte
Chiaroscuro
Long shot
180-degree rule
31. A film composed entirely of footage from other films.
Compilation film
Extradiegetic
B-roll
Parellel editing
32. A marketing strategy of screening a blockbuster prior to general release only in premier theaters
Roadshowing
Denouement
Persistence of vision
Soft light
33. Literary narration from a viewpoint beyond that of any one individual character
Montage sequence
Iris in...
Third-person narration
Dolly
34. A statement that asserts a judgment that a given film or group of films is good or bad - based on specific criteria - Which may or may not be stated
Ethnographic film
Evaluative claim
Medium long shot
Extradiegetic
35. The horizontal turning movement of an otherwise immobile camera across a scene from left to right or vice versa
Loose framing
Pan
Montage sequence
Telephoto lens
36. The non-chronological insertion of events from the past into the present day of the story world
Optical printer
German Expressionism
Classical style
Flashback
37. 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
Academy Ratio
Newsreel
Steadicam
Director
38. A screenplay written and submitted to a studio or production company without a prior contract or agreement
Analog Video
Montage sequence
Spec script
Set-up
39. Sound design that blends the speech of several characters talking simultaneously - used to create spontaneity - although it may also confuse the audience
Overlapping dialogue
Split screen
Eyeline match
Dolly
40. A scene transition wherein sound from one scene bleeds over into the ext scene - often resulting in a contrast between sound image
B-roll
Slow motion
Sound bridge
Negative cutter
41. The chronological accounting of all events presented and suggested
Graphic match
Matte painting
Fabula
Standard shot pattern
42. The conclusion of the film wraps up - all loose ends in a form of resolution - though not necessarily with a happy ending.
Interpretive claim
Closure
Antagonist
Crane shot
43. A shot taken from a camera position below the subject
Second unit
German Expressionism
Studio system
Low-angle shot
44. A relatively long - uninterrupted sot - generally of a minute or more
On-the-nose dialogue
Long take
Masking
Low-angle 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
Iris out
Post-production
Line reading
46. Light striking the emulsion layer of the film - activating light-sensitive grains
Fast
Set-up
Long take
Exposure
47. Non-diegetic; any element in the film that is not part of the imagined story world
Classical style
Extradiegetic
German Expressionism
Shot/reverse shot
48. 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
Aspect Ratio
Fade-out
Slow
Handheld shot
49. A format that uses a larger film stock than standard 35mm. IMAX - Omnimax - and Showscan are shot on 70mm film
Three-act structure
180-degree rule
Extreme long-shot
Wide film
50. A camera shot taken at a large distance from the subject. Using the human body as the subject - a long shot captures the entire human form
Analog Video
Long shot
Hard light
Depth of field