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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 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
Point-of-view shot
Fade-out
Optical printer
Video assist
2. The way an actor delivers a line of dialogue - including pauses - inflection - and emotion
Line of action
Go-motion
Line reading
First-person narration
3. Louis Althusser's term for the way in which a society creates its subjects/citizens through ideological (as opposed to repressive) state apparatuses - which include education - media - religion - and the family
Interpellation
Hollywood Ten
Genre
Slow motion
4. A shot transition that emphasizes the visual similarities between two consecutive shots
Graphic match
Formalist style
Iris out
Dailies
5. The period after principal photography during which editing and looping take place - and special visual effects are added to the film
Post-production
Exposure latitude
Available light
Pre-production
6. Non-diegetic; any element in the film that is not part of the imagined story world
Medium close-up
Eyeline match
Low-angle shot
Extradiegetic
7. A flexible celluloid strip that - along with the emulsion layer - comprises 35mm film stock
Base
Cameo
Pre-production
Four-part structure
8. An actor whose career rests on playing minor or secondary quirky characters rather than leading roles
Best boy
Character actor
Horizontal integration
Offscreen space
9. An attribute of newer television monitors - where each frame is scanned by the electron beam as a single field. If slowed down - each frame would appear on the monitor in its entirety on the screen - rather than line by line - as is the case with int
Dolly
Negative cutter
Progressive scanning
Re-establishing shot
10. A process of blending the three elements of the sound track (dialogue - music - and effects) in post-production
Production values
Mixing
Block booking
Reframing
11. Optical illusions created during production - including the use of matte paintings - glass shots - models - and prosthesis
Take
Master positive
Special visual effects
Soundtrack
12. A technique of recording very few images over a long period of time - say - one frame per minute or per day
Non-diegetic
Third-person narration
Gauge
Time-lapse photography
13. A device used to manipulate the amount and/or color of light entering the lens
Ethnographic film
Foley artist
Anamorphic lens
Filter
14. A filter that simply reduces the amount of light entering the lens - without affecting the color characteristics
Soviet montage
Available light
Neutral-density filter
Roadshowing
15. A production crew responsible not for shooting the primary footage but - instead - for remote location shooting and B-roll. See also B-roll
Second unit
Mixing
Scratching
Text
16. Non-diegetic; any element in the film that is not part of the imagined story world
Offscreen space
Freeze frame
Newsreel
Extradiegetic
17. A black masking device used to black out a portion of the frame - usually for the insertion of other images
Foley artist
Toning
Antagonist
Matte
18. Light striking the emulsion layer of the film - activating light-sensitive grains
Spec script
Exposure
Star system
Minor studios
19. Early films that documented everyday events - such as workers leaving a factory
Actualitas
Digital cinema
Trombone shot
Text
20. A person responsible for putting a film together from a mass of developed footage - making decisions regarding pace - shot transitions - and which scenes and shots will be used
Soundtrack
Editor
Integrated musical
Toning
21. 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
High-key lighting
Depth of field
Shutter
Telephoto lens
22. Smaller corporations that did not own distribution and/or exhibition companies in the studio era - including Universal - Columbia - and United Artists
Superimposition
Minor studios
Optical printer
Best boy
23. Cinema verite; a documentary style in which the filmmaker attempts to remain as unobtrusive as possible - recording without obvious editorial comment
Open-ended
Cut
Direct cinema
Analog Video
24. A technique of recording very few images over a long period of time - say - one frame per minute or per day
Hybrid
Time-lapse photography
Propaganda film
Motif
25. A type of film stock that is sensitive to (in other words - registers) all tones in the color spectrum
Saturation
Panchromatic
Travelling matte
Masking
26. A technique of intentionally adding scratches in a film's emulsion layer for aesthetic purposes - such as to simulate home movie footage
Aerial Shot
Persistence of vision
Scratching
Revisionist
27. A computer-generated actor that some speculate will replace flesh and blood actors in the not so distant future
Synthespian
Panning and scanning
Phi phenomenon
Zoom lens
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
Method acting
On-the-nose dialogue
Vista Vision
Restricted narration
29. Fish-eye lens; With a focal length of 15mm or less - this lens presents an extremely distorted image - where objects in the center of the frame appear to bulge toward the camera
Pre-production
Compositing
Dolly
Extreme wide-angle lens
30. A story; a chain of events linked by cause-and-effect logic
Formalist style
Zoom out
Narrative
Promotion
31. Color. The strength of a hue is measured by its saturation or desaturation
Descriptive claim
Pulling
Out-take
Hue
32. A term for film stock used in early cinema that was insensitive to red hues
Orthochromatic
Analog Video
Trombone shot
Script supervisor
33. A filter that creates points of light that streak outward from a light source
Compilation film
Soft light
Academy Ratio
Star filter
34. The artful use of light and dark areas in the composition in black and white filmmaking
Rotoscope
Chiaroscuro
Depth of field
Cut
35. A neutral account of the basic plot and style of a film - a part of a film - or a group of films
Formalist style
Descriptive claim
Color timing
Depth of field
36. 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
Master positive
Composition in depth
Crab dolly
Scene
37. A lens with a shorter focal length than a normal or telephoto lens (usually between 15-35mm). The subject appears smaller as a result - but the angle of vision is wider and an illusion is created of greater depth in the frame
Forced development
Running time
Wide-angle lens
Star system
38. Any noticeable but unintended discrepancy from one shot to the next in costume - props - hairstyle - posture - etc.
Script supervisor
Special visual effects
Continuity error
Soviet montage
39. Any narrative - visual - or sound element that is repeated and thereby acquires and reflects its significance to the story - characters - or themes of the film.
Realist style
Low-angle shot
Motif
Third-person narration
40. A transparent sheet on which animation artists draw images.
Forced development
Slow
Tableau shot
Cel
41. A shot taken fro a position directly above the action - also called a 'birds' eye shot'
Overhead shot
Tight framing
Diegesis
Star filter
42. 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
Color consultant
Zoom out
Low-key lighting
Prosthesis
43. 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
Minor studios
Forced perspective
Bleach bypass
Typecasting
44. A brief chronological description of the basic events and characters in a film. It does not include interpretive or evaluative claims
Blue screen
Natural-key lighting
Plot summary
Diegesis
45. A format that uses a larger film stock than standard 35mm. IMAX - Omnimax - and Showscan are shot on 70mm film
Hue
Selective focus
Wide film
Camera distance
46. Invisible editing; a system devised to minimize the audience's awareness of shot transitions - especially cuts - in order to improve the flow of the story and avoid interrupting the viewer's immersion it in
Medium long shot
Cameo
Auteur
Continuity editing
47. A technique of shifting the camera angle - height - or distance to take into account the motion of actors or objects within the frame
Apparatus Theory
Second unit
Reframing
Direct cinema
48. Processes such as Cinemascope and Cinerama - developed during the 1950s to enhance film's size advantage over the smaller television image
Computer-generated imagery (CGI)
Matte
Widescreen
Anime
49. An uncredited actor - usually hired for crowd scenes
Optical printer
Color filter
Extra
Undercranking
50. The way an actor delivers a line of dialogue - including pauses - inflection - and emotion
Genre
Line reading
Storyboard
Steadicam