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Film Vocab
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performing-arts
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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. The non-chronological insertion of events from the past into the present day of the story world
Flashback
Vertical integration
Editor
Depth of field
2. 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
Take
Episodic
Text
Mockumentary
3. A similarity established between two characters or situations that invites the audience to compare the two. It may involve visual - narrative - and/or sound elements
Orthochromatic
Frozen time moment
Forced perspective
Parellel
4. A technique used to join live action with pre-recorded background images. A projector is aimed at a half-silvered mirror that reflects the background - which the camera records as being located behind the actors
Front projection
Pre-production
Close-up
Assistant Editor
5. The plotline that surrounds an embedded tale. The frame narration may or may not be as fully developed as the embedded tale
Interpellation
Forced perspective
Frame narration
Shot/reverse shot
6. A type of documentary film whose purpose is to present the way of life of a culture or subculture
Blaxploitation
Pixel
Ethnographic film
Continuity editor
7. Drawing attention to the process of representation (including narrative and characterization) to break the theatrical illusion and elicit a distanced - intellectual response in the audience
Brechtian distanciation
Interlaced scanning
Line of action
Speed
8. Cinema verite; a documentary style in which the filmmaker attempts to remain as unobtrusive as possible - recording without obvious editorial comment
Normal lens
Vista Vision
Assistant Editor
Direct cinema
9. 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
German Expressionism
Eye-level shot
Polarizing filters
Insert
10. A sound editing technique that links several scenes through parallel and overlapping sounds. Each sound is associated with one scene - unlike a sound bridge - where a sound from one scene bleeds into that of another
Dailies
Lightning mix
Panning and scanning
Zoom out
11. Creating images during post-production by joining together photographic or CGI material shot or created at different times and places
Compositing
Natural-key lighting
Medium shot
Extradiegetic
12. Assists the editor with various tasks - including taking footage to the lab - checking the condition of the negative - cataloguing footage - and supervising optical effects - often produced by an outside company
Assistant Editor
Recursive action
Natural-key lighting
Method acting
13. A widescreen process that uses three cameras - three projectors - and a wide - curved screen
Restricted narration
Aspect Ratio
Cinerama
Best boy
14. A mental phenomenon by which viewers derive more meaning from the interaction of two sequential shots than from a single shot in isolation
Subgenre
Kuleshov effect
Wide-angle lens
Four-part structure
15. A shot that depicts a human body from the feet up
Medium long shot
Soviet montage
Slow motion
Underexposure
16. The width of the film stock - measured across the frame. Typical sizes are 8mm - 16mm - 35mm - and 70mm
Antagonist
Plot summary
Shooting script
Gauge
17. An action film cycle of the late 1960s and early 1970s that featured bold - rebellious African American characters
Non-diegetic
Overhead shot
Blaxploitation
Negative cutter
18. Prefogging; a cinematographic technique that exposes raw film stock to light before - during - or after shooting - resulting in an image with reduced contrast. This effect can also be created using digital post-production techniques
Flashing
Orthochromatic
Composition in depth
Tilt
19. A technician responsible for splicing and assembling the film negative to the editor's specifications
Persistence of vision
Negative
Negative cutter
Avant-garde film
20. Devices that attach to actors' faces and/or bodies to change their appearance
Third-person narration
Prosthesis
Interpellation
Product placement
21. A chemical coating on film stock containing light-sensitive grains
Oeuvre
Emulsion
On-the-nose dialogue
Out-take
22. A description of film stock that is highly sensitive to light
Underexposure
Negative
Fast
Genre
23. 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
Match on action
Blocking
Medium shot
24. A type of documentary film whose purpose is to present the way of life of a culture or subculture
Ethnographic film
Wipe
Cutaway
Screenplay
25. The use of editing techniques - such as a fade or dissolve - to indicate the end of one scene and the beginning of another
High-angle shot
Analog Video
Shot transition
Studio system
26. A shot that interrupts a scene's master shot and may include character reactions
Insert
Propaganda film
Hard light
Overhead shot
27. A videotape system that records images onto magnetic tape - using electronic signals
Analog Video
Gaffer
Protagonist
Star filter
28. A technique of intentionally adding scratches in a film's emulsion layer for aesthetic purposes - such as to simulate home movie footage
Vertical integration
Scratching
Aperture
Wide-angle lens
29. 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
Fabula
Director
Negative
Normal lens
30. 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
Script supervisor
Negative cutter
Diffusion filters
Extreme wide-angle lens
31. 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
Phi phenomenon
Studio system
German Expressionism
Fabula
32. A film process that uses 35mm film stock but changes the orientation of the film so that the film moves through the camera horizontally instead of vertically. The larger image is of higher quality than standard 35mm processes
Green screen
Front projection
Point-of-view shot
Vista Vision
33. Images that originate from computer graphics technology - rather than photography
Computer-generated imagery (CGI)
Undercranking
Exposure latitude
Ethnographic film
34. A shot in a sequence that is taken from the reverse angle of the shot previous to it
Progressive scanning
Reverse shot
High-key lighting
Travelling matte
35. A device used to manipulate the amount and/or color of light entering the lens
Freeze frame
Focal length
Foley artist
Filter
36. The written blueprint for a film - composed of three elements: dialogue - sluglines (setting the place and time of each scene) - and description. Feature-length screenplays typically run 90-130 pages
Iris in...
Available light
Screenplay
Plot summary
37. A group of films within a given genre that share their own specific set of conventions that differentiate them from other films in the genre. For example - the slasher film is a subgenre of the horror genre
Oeuvre
Selective focus
Interpellation
Subgenre
38. Individuals who were prevented from working in the film industry because of their suspected involvement with Communist interests
Available light
Hollywood Ten
Out-take
Hollywood Blacklist
39. 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
Overhead shot
Forced perspective
Crab dolly
Direct sound
40. A device that projects photographs or footage onto glass so that images can be traced by hand to create animated images
Special visual effects
Rotoscope
City symphony
Outsourcing
41. Creating an image by combining several elements created separately using computer graphics rather than photographic means
Cel
Saturation
Digital compositing
Kuleshov effect
42. A type of short film that blends elements of documentary and avant-garde film to document and often to celebrate the wonder of the modern city
Flashback
City symphony
Take
Telecine
43. A type of short film that blends elements of documentary and avant-garde film to document and often to celebrate the wonder of the modern city
Four-part structure
City symphony
High-angle shot
Compilation film
44. A shot transition that involves the gradual disappearance of the image at the same time that a new image gradually comes into view
Bleach bypass
Blue screen
Montage sequence
Dissolve
45. A direct vocal address to the audience - Which may emanate from a character or from a narrative voice apparently unrelated to the diegesis
Voice-over
Cut
Tracking shot
Insert
46. A machine that converts film prints to videotape format
Telecine
Crane shot
Subgenre
Color filter
47. The period after principal photography during which editing and looping take place - and special visual effects are added to the film
Flashing
Three-point lighting
Panning and scanning
Post-production
48. A term describing a conclusion that does not answer all the questions raised regarding characters or storylines - nor tie up all loose ends
Three-point lighting
Turning point
Gaffer
Open-ended
49. 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
Direct sound
Reframing
Release prints
Forced perspective
50. The length in minutes for a film to play in its entirety (for example - 120 minutes). Also referred to as 'screen time.'
Animation
Running time
Frame narration
Continuity editing