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Film Vocab
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1. Any noticeable but unintended discrepancy from one shot to the next in costume - props - hairstyle - posture - etc.
Oeuvre
Flashing
Continuity error
Diegesis
2. The distance in millimeters from the optical center of a lens to the lane where the sharpest image is formed while focusing on a distant object
Wide-angle lens
Assistant Editor
Take
Focal length
3. A black masking device used to black out a portion of the frame - usually for the insertion of other images
Matte
Apparatus Theory
Mixing
B-roll
4. The film medium's technological apparatus is inherently ideological
Wireframe
Apparatus Theory
Fabula
Product placement
5. A fiction film (often a comedy) that uses documentary conventions on fictional rather than real-world subject matter
Mockumentary
Text
180-degree rule
Pulling
6. A device used to manipulate the amount and/or color of light entering the lens
Negative
Major studios
Filter
Undercranking
7. A computer-generated actor that some speculate will replace flesh and blood actors in the not so distant future
Major studios
Synthespian
Running time
Cameo
8. A film that fuses the conventions of two or more genres
Hybrid
Fast
Product placement
Assistant Editor
9. A marketing strategy of screening a blockbuster prior to general release only in premier theaters
Descriptive claim
Roadshowing
Match on action
Blocking
10. A technique of intentionally adding scratches in a film's emulsion layer for aesthetic purposes - such as to simulate home movie footage
Slow
Scratching
Voice-over
Spec script
11. 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
Avant-garde film
Production values
Superimposition
Hollywood Blacklist
12. Light emitted from a larger source that is scattered over a bigger area or reflected off a surface before it strikes the subject. Soft light minimizes facial details - including wrinkles
Production values
Soft light
Brechtian distanciation
Oeuvre
13. A shot taken from a camera position above the subject - looking down at it
Runaway production
Block booking
High-angle shot
Apparatus Theory
14. Individuals who were prevented from working in the film industry because of their suspected involvement with Communist interests
Hollywood Blacklist
Frozen time moment
Split screen
Plot summary
15. A style of Japanese animation - distinguished primarily by the fact that it is not all geared for young audiences
Anime
Green screen
Overexposure
Editor
16. 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
Aperture
First-person narration
Grain
Travelling matte
17. An abrupt - inexplicable shift in time and place of an action not signaled by an appropriate shot transition
180-degree rule
Jump cut
Auteur
Digital cinema
18. 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
Blue screen
Low-key lighting
Line of action
Three-act structure
19. A cinematography technique that produces an image with many planes of depth in focus. It can be accomplished by using a small aperture - a large distance between camera and subject - and/or a lens of short focal length
Hard light
Three-act structure
Motivation
Deep focus cinematography
20. Experimental film; Underground cinema;
Close-up
Exposition
Avant-garde film
Cinerama
21. Color. The strength of a hue is measured by its saturation or desaturation
Persistence of vision
Direct cinema
Intertextual reference
Hue
22. A process of transferring film to video tapes or DVDs so that the original aspect ratio of the film is preserved
Shot/reverse shot
Letterboxing
Point-of-view shot
Telephoto lens
23. The arrangement of images to depict a unified storyline
Exposure
Fast motion
Lightning mix
Narrative sequencing
24. Literary narration from a viewpoint beyond that of any one individual character
Backstory
Vista Vision
Third-person narration
Open-ended
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
Crane shot
High concept film
Direct sound
Three-act structure
26. A shot transition that emphasizes the visual similarities between two consecutive shots
Soundtrack
Graphic match
Fast
Establishing shot
27. A series of related scene joined through elliptical editing that indicates the passage of time
Montage sequence
30-degree rule
Charge coupler device
Direct cinema
28. Wheeled platform with wheels that rotate - so the dolly can change direction
180-degree rule
Flashback
Filter
Crab dolly
29. A standard shot pattern that dictates that a shot of one character will be followed by a shot of another character - taken from the reverse angle of the first shot
Panchromatic
Open-ended
Shot/reverse shot
Deep focus cinematography
30. A continuity editing technique that preserves spatial continuity by using a character's line of vision as motivation for a cut
Selective focus
Eyeline match
Running time
Visual effects
31. A shot that interrupts a scene's master shot and may include character reactions
Ethnographic film
Insert
Blocking
Special visual effects
32. Also called 'stop motion photography.' A technique of photographing a scene one frame at a time and moving the model between each shot
Underexposure
Scene
Widescreen
Pixilation
33. 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
Rotoscope
Subgenre
Aspect Ratio
Slow
34. An optical effect whereby the human eye fills in gaps between closely spaced objects - so that two light bulbs flashing on and off are understood as one light moving back and forth
Phi phenomenon
Filter
Double exposure
Three-act structure
35. The five vertically integrated corporations that exerted the greatest control over film production in the studio era: MGM - Warner Brothers - RKO - Twentieth Century Fox - and Paramount
Pixilation
Split screen
Major studios
Blaxploitation
36. A relatively long - uninterrupted sot - generally of a minute or more
Long take
Deep focus cinematography
Revisionist
Medium close-up
37. A shot that contains two characters within the frame
Average shot length
Two-shot
Star filter
Recursive action
38. A pan executed so quickly that it produces a blurred image - indicated rapid activity or - sometimes - the passage of time
Formalist style
Wide-angle lens
Time-lapse photography
Swish pan
39. Creating the appearance of movement by drawing a series of frames that are projected sequentially - rather than photographing a series of still images
Animation
Compilation film
Establishing shot
Hue
40. A system for recording images on magnetic tape using a digital signal - that is - an electronic signal comprised of 0s and 1s
Digital video
Formalist style
Protagonist
Closure
41. 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
Promotion
Subtext
Eye-level shot
Dailies
42. A crew member who reports to the Director of Photography (DP) and is in charge of tasks involving lighting and electrical needs
Point-of-view shot
Backstory
Gaffer
Reframing
43. A long shot in which the film frame resembles the proscenium arch of the stage - distancing the audience
Tableau shot
Forced perspective
Storyboard
B-roll
44. The chronological accounting of all events presented and suggested
Fabula
Low-key lighting
Direct cinema
Kuleshov effect
45. A crew member who works in post-production in a specially equipped studio to create the sounds of the story world - such as the shuffling of shoes on various surfaces for footsteps
Roadshowing
Prosthesis
Insert
Foley artist
46. A style associated with Hollywood filmmaking of the studio and post-studio era - in which efficient storytelling - rather than gritty realism or aesthetic innovation - is of paramount importance
Color filter
Pushing
Classical style
Second unit
47. A device worn by a camera operator that holds the motion picture camera - allowing it glide smoothly through spaces unreachable by camera mounted on a crane or other apparatus
Wide-angle lens
Master positive
Steadicam
Optical printer
48. A device used to manipulate the amount and/or color of light entering the lens
Storyboard
Filter
Rear projection
Intertextual reference
49. Projecting a series of frames of film with the same image - which appears to stop the action
Filter
Base
Character actor
Freeze frame
50. 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
Composition in depth
Undercranking
Bleach bypass
Neutral-density filter
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