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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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This is a study tool. The 3 wrong answers for each question are randomly chosen from answers to other questions. So, you might find at times the answers obvious, but you will see it re-enforces your understanding as you take the test each time.
1. A technician responsible for splicing and assembling the film negative to the editor's specifications
Rear projection
Deep focus cinematography
Negative cutter
Base
2. 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
Telephoto lens
Hollywood Blacklist
Turning point
Letterboxing
3. The falling or unraveling action after the climax of a narrative that leads to resolution
First-person narration
Denouement
Film stock
High concept film
4. 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
Low-angle shot
Third-person narration
Frame narration
Classical style
5. A machine used to create optical effects such as fades - dissolves - and superimpositions. Most are now created digitally
Ethnographic film
Frame narration
Depth of field
Optical printer
6. 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
Director
Synthespian
Newsreel
Interpellation
7. The annotated script - containing information about set-ups used during shooting
Shooting script
Zoom in...
Hard light
Intertextual reference
8. Public identity created by marketing a film actor's performances - press coverage - and 'personal' information to fans as the star's personality
Star persona
Camera distance
Blaxploitation
Split screen
9. The film medium's technological apparatus is inherently ideological
Apparatus Theory
Swish pan
Anamorphic lens
Matte
10. The camera should move at least 30 degrees any time there is a cut within a scene
30-degree rule
Horizontal integration
Freeze frame
Pre-production
11. A process of transferring film to video tapes or DVDs so that the original aspect ratio of the film is preserved
Narrative
Prosthesis
Vertical integration
Letterboxing
12. The way an actor delivers a line of dialogue - including pauses - inflection - and emotion
Reverse shot
Color filter
First-person narration
Line reading
13. A technique of shooting a scene at a very high speed (96 frames per second) - then adding and subtracting frames in post-production - 'fanning out' the action through the overlapping images
Denouement
30-degree rule
Compositing
Recursive action
14. 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
Focal length
Pixel
Persistence of vision
Syuzhet
15. The non-chronological insertion of events from the past into the present day of the story world
Handheld shot
Fast motion
Progressive scanning
Flashback
16. A term used for any narrative sound - or visual element not contained in the story world. Also called 'extradiegetic'
Classical style
Descriptive claim
Non-diegetic
Third-person narration
17. (Automatic dialogue replacement) recording synchronized dialogue in post-production - cutting several identical lengths of developed film and having actors record the dialogue repeatedly
Actualitas
ADR
Average shot length
Deep focus cinematography
18. Early films that documented everyday events - such as workers leaving a factory
Actualitas
Wipe
Production values
Aperture
19. 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
Flashforward
Score
Frame narration
Vertical integration
20. The central cause(s) behind a character's actions
Shot
Digital cinema
Motif
Motivation
21. A post-studio era Hollywood film designed to appeal to the broadest possible audience by fusing a simple story line with major movie stars and mounting a lavish marketing campaign
Revisionist
High concept film
Flashforward
Phi phenomenon
22. The artful use of light and dark areas in the composition in black and white filmmaking
Chiaroscuro
Neutral-density filter
Medium shot
Apparatus Theory
23. The central cause(s) behind a character's actions
Score
Motivation
Go-motion
Direct cinema
24. 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
Tracking shot
Aperture
Subgenre
Aerial Shot
25. A visual effect achieved through the use of photography and digital techniques that appears to stop time and allow the viewer to travel around the subject and view it from a multitude of vantage points
Grain
Hard light
Frozen time moment
Analog Video
26. 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
Time-lapse photography
Progressive scanning
Anime
Descriptive claim
27. An actor whose career rests on playing minor or secondary quirky characters rather than leading roles
Spec script
Parellel
Third-person narration
Character actor
28. A technique of running the motion picture camera at a speed slower than projection speed (24 frames per second) - in order to produce at a fast motion sequence when projected at normal speed. The term derives from early film cameras - which were cran
Widescreen
Jump cut
Release prints
Undercranking
29. A scene filmed and processed but not selected to appear in the final version of the film
Out-take
Kuleshov effect
Three-point lighting
Compositing
30. A camera device that opens and closes to regulate the length of time the film is exposed to light
Evaluative claim
Fog filter
Swish pan
Shutter
31. A story narrated by one of the characters within the story - using the 'I' voice
Overexposure
Extreme close-up
Auteur
First-person narration
32. A short screen appearance by a celebrity - playing himself or herself
Canted angle
Masking
Shot/reverse shot
Cameo
33. A glass element on a camera that focuses light rays so that the image of the object appears on the surface of the film
Lens
30-degree rule
Forced perspective
Episodic
34. Any lens with a focal length approximately equal to the diagonal of the frame. For 35mm filmmaking - a 35-50 mm lens does not distort the angle of vision or depth
Pan
Glass shot
Pulling
Normal lens
35. A shot filmed from an airplane or helicopter
Double exposure
Aerial Shot
Time-lapse photography
Aspect Ratio
36. A mental phenomenon by which viewers derive more meaning from the interaction of two sequential shots than from a single shot in isolation
On-the-nose dialogue
ADR
Low-key lighting
Kuleshov effect
37. Because film stock is sensitive to the color of light - directors work with film labs in post-production to monitor the color scheme of each scene in a film - making adjustments for consistency and aesthetic effect
Evaluative claim
Zoom out
Color timing
Chiaroscuro
38. A term applied to film stock that is relatively insensitive to light. This stock will not yield acceptable images unless the amount of light can be carefully controlled
Slow
Hard light
Director
Episodic
39. Live action is filmed in front of a blue screen and a matte. It's then joined with the background footage
Blue screen
Handheld shot
Text
Reframing
40. The arrangement of actors on screen as a compositional element that suggests themes - character development - emotional content - and visual motifs
Diegesis
Restricted narration
Filter
Figure placement and movement
41. Lighting design that provides an even illumination of the subject - with many facial details washed out. High-key lighting tends to create a hopeful mood - in contrast to low-key lighting
Front projection
Episodic
Realist style
High-key lighting
42. A flexible celluloid strip that - along with the emulsion layer - comprises 35mm film stock
Base
Subgenre
Closure
Telephoto lens
43. A marketing strategy of screening a blockbuster prior to general release only in premier theaters
Roadshowing
Cameo
Zoom lens
Running time
44. The falling or unraveling action after the climax of a narrative that leads to resolution
Denouement
Fabula
Dissolve
Digital video
45. The chip in a video camera that converts the incoming light to an electronic signal
Trailer
Storyboard
Charge coupler device
Available light
46. A filter that creates points of light that streak outward from a light source
Method acting
Auteur
Genre conventions
Star filter
47. A technique of recording very few images over a long period of time - say - one frame per minute or per day
Time-lapse photography
Graphic match
Line of action
Wipe
48. Thin - flexible material comprised of base and emulsion layers - onto which light rays are focused and which is processed in chemicals to produce film images
Direct sound
Film stock
Progressive scanning
Eyeline match
49. A device that projects photographs or footage onto glass so that images can be traced by hand to create animated images
Telephoto lens
Rotoscope
Cut
Classical style
50. The selection and ordering of narrative events presented in a film
Grain
Long take
Syuzhet
Front projection