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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
Letterboxing
Scene
Text
Backstage musical
2. A specialist who monitors the processing of color on the se and in the film lab
Restricted narration
Plot summary
Color consultant
Scene
3. Leaving the silver grains in the emulsion rather than bleaching them out - which produces desaturated color
Minor studios
Bleach bypass
Line of action
Soundtrack
4. A term used for any narrative sound - or visual element not contained in the story world. Also called 'extradiegetic'
Propaganda film
Non-diegetic
Hollywood Ten
Mockumentary
5. An early color process that replaced silver halide grains with colored salts
Shooting script
Toning
Standard shot pattern
Offscreen space
6. 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
Academy Ratio
Filter
Genre
Foley artist
7. A pan executed so quickly that it produces a blurred image - indicated rapid activity or - sometimes - the passage of time
Realist style
Swish pan
Close-up
Flashforward
8. 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
Dolly
Natural-key lighting
Classical style
Color filter
9. Smaller corporations that did not own distribution and/or exhibition companies in the studio era - including Universal - Columbia - and United Artists
B-roll
Selective focus
Low-key lighting
Minor studios
10. A rule in continuity editing - which dictates that if a cut occurs while a character is in the midst of an action - the subsequent shot must begin so that audiences see the completion of that action
Pan
Establishing shot
Match on action
Composition
11. A type of filter that absorbs certain wavelength but leave others unaffected. On black and white film - color filters lighten or darken tones. On color film - they can produce a range of effects
Chiaroscuro
Color filter
Screenplay
Composition
12. A format that uses a larger film stock than standard 35mm. IMAX - Omnimax - and Showscan are shot on 70mm film
Block booking
Eyeline match
Wide film
Apparatus Theory
13. Dialogue that restates What is already obvious from images or action
Forced perspective
Frozen time moment
Wide film
On-the-nose dialogue
14. A shot transition that involves the gradual disappearance of the image at the same time that a new image gradually comes into view
Continuity editor
Lens
Dissolve
Pixel
15. A technique of manipulating focus to direct the viewer's attention
Gaffer
Composition in depth
Selective focus
Exposure
16. A scene filmed and processed but not selected to appear in the final version of the film
Closure
Out-take
Tight framing
Hard light
17. The film medium's technological apparatus is inherently ideological
Classical style
Chiaroscuro
Split screen
Apparatus Theory
18. The arrangement of images to depict a unified storyline
Dye coupler
Eyeline match
Narrative sequencing
Interpretive claim
19. Early films that documented everyday events - such as workers leaving a factory
Actualitas
Omniscient narration
Phi phenomenon
Forced perspective
20. The conclusion of the film wraps up - all loose ends in a form of resolution - though not necessarily with a happy ending.
Phi phenomenon
Continuity editing
Closure
Motif
21. The technique of telling the story from an all-knowing character. Films that use restricted narration limit the audience's perception to what one particular character knows - but may insert moments of omniscience
Omniscient narration
Aperture
Newsreel
Emulsion
22. 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
Telephoto lens
Wipe
Camera distance
Continuity editing
23. Creating images during post-production by joining together photographic or CGI material shot or created at different times and places
Compositing
Zoom out
Cinerama
High-angle shot
24. A chemical embedded in the emulsion layer of film stock that - when developed after exposure - releases a particular color dye (red - green - or blue)
Backstage musical
Special visual effects
Shot transition
Dye coupler
25. A picture element - a measure of image density. There are approximately 18 million pixels in a frame of 35mm film and 300000-400000 in a video image
Pixel
Underexposure
Hollywood Ten
Negative cutter
26. A technique of depicting two layered images simultaneously. Images from one frame or several frames of film are added to pre-existing images - using an optical printer - to produce the same effect as a double exposure
Superimposition
Steadicam
Focal length
Trailer
27. 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
Phi phenomenon
Color timing
Available light
Screenplay
28. 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
Prosthesis
Continuity editor
Progressive scanning
Prosthesis
29. Sound design that blends the speech of several characters talking simultaneously - used to create spontaneity - although it may also confuse the audience
Tight framing
City symphony
Overlapping dialogue
Toning
30. An agreement made between filmmakers and those who license the use of commercial products to feature those products in films - generally as props used by characters
Zoom lens
Standard shot pattern
Long shot
Product placement
31. A film composed entirely of footage from other films.
Set-up
Slow
Compilation film
Extreme wide-angle lens
32. A black masking device used to black out a portion of the frame - usually for the insertion of other images
Third-person narration
Undercranking
Subtext
Matte
33. A vertical - up-and-down - motion of an otherwise stationary camera
Exposure latitude
First-person narration
Tilt
Canted angle
34. The visual arrangement of objects - actors - and space within the frame
Letterboxing
Direct sound
Master positive
Composition
35. Secondary footage that is interspersed with master shots - sometimes in the form of footage shot for another production or archival footage
B-roll
Genre conventions
Base
Natural-key lighting
36. 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
Analog Video
180-degree rule
Close-up
Release prints
37. A fiction film (often a comedy) that uses documentary conventions on fictional rather than real-world subject matter
Exposure
Mockumentary
Selective focus
Color filter
38. A platform on wheels - used for mobile camera shots
Canted angle
Eye-level shot
Direct cinema
Dolly
39. A lens with a variable focal length that allows changes of focal length while keeping the subject in focus
Flashforward
Color consultant
Extradiegetic
Zoom lens
40. 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
Frame narration
Three-point lighting
Gauge
Four-part structure
41. A crew member who reports to the Director of Photography (DP) and is in charge of tasks involving lighting and electrical needs
Blaxploitation
Visual effects
Blue screen
Gaffer
42. A transparent sheet on which animation artists draw images.
Selective focus
Cel
Fog filter
Evaluative claim
43. 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
Available light
Character actor
Lightning mix
Three-point lighting
44. A shot that contains two characters within the frame
Two-shot
Cut
Composition
Persistence of vision
45. A technique of manipulating focus to direct the viewer's attention
Subgenre
Selective focus
Crane shot
Grain
46. The narrative path of the main or supporting characters - also called a plotline. Complex films may have several lines of action
Aspect Ratio
Line of action
Fast
Emulsion
47. A technique of shifting the camera angle - height - or distance to take into account the motion of actors or objects within the frame
Outsourcing
Cameo
Reframing
Widescreen
48. Light emitted from a relatively small source positioned close to the subject. It tends to be unflattering because it creates deep shadows and emphasizes surface imperfections
Hard light
Medium long shot
Establishing shot
Telecine
49. Creating the appearance of movement by drawing a series of frames that are projected sequentially - rather than photographing a series of still images
Animation
Slow motion
Aspect Ratio
Composition in depth
50. A description of film stock that is highly sensitive to light
Fast
Parellel editing
Parellel editing
Tilt