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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 story; a chain of events linked by cause-and-effect logic
Extreme close-up
Line reading
Narrative
Release prints
2. 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
Swish pan
Restricted narration
Assistant Editor
Wide-angle lens
3. A large-budget film whose strategy is to swamp the competition through market saturation
Spec script
Neutral-density filter
Blockbuster
Brechtian distanciation
4. A statement that asserts a judgment that a given film or group of films is good or bad - based on specific criteria - Which may or may not be stated
Exposure latitude
Recursive action
Evaluative claim
Day for night
5. 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
Master shot
Genre conventions
High-key lighting
Video assist
6. 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
Recursive action
Integrated musical
Analog Video
Superimposition
7. The horizontal turning movement of an otherwise immobile camera across a scene from left to right or vice versa
Narrative sequencing
Close-up
Fast motion
Pan
8. 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
Blaxploitation
Syuzhet
Frozen time moment
Focus puller
9. The reverse of Iris in: an iris expands outward until the next shot takes up the entire screen
Academy Ratio
Iris out
Shot
Crab dolly
10. Suspended particles of silver in the film's emulsion - Which may become visible in the final image as dots
Montage sequence
Visual effects
Spec script
Grain
11. 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.
Motif
Blocking
ADR
Vista Vision
12. 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
Extradiegetic
Close-up
Three-act structure
Subtext
13. A story narrated by one of the characters within the story - using the 'I' voice
Swish pan
Typecasting
Parellel editing
First-person narration
14. The use of editing techniques - such as a fade or dissolve - to indicate the end of one scene and the beginning of another
Three-act structure
Best boy
Medium shot
Shot transition
15. A style of stage acting developed from the teachings of Constantin Stanislavsky - which trains actors to get into character through the use of emotional memory
Anime
Turning point
Method acting
Three-point lighting
16. Using computer graphics to 'build' structures connected to the actual architecture on set or location
Non-diegetic
Grain
Digital set extension
Undercranking
17. The falling or unraveling action after the climax of a narrative that leads to resolution
Denouement
Point-of-view shot
Hybrid
Rack focus
18. An alternative to continuity editing - this style of editing was developed in silent Soviet cinema - based on the theory that editing should exploit the difference between shots to generate intellectual and emotional responses in the audience
Soviet montage
Narrative
Diffusion filters
Color consultant
19. A camera device that opens and closes to regulate the length of time the film is exposed to light
Flashback
Bleach bypass
Gaffer
Shutter
20. Wheeled platform with wheels that rotate - so the dolly can change direction
Trailer
Script supervisor
Blaxploitation
Crab dolly
21. A documentary or occasionally - a narrative film that presents only one side of an argument or one approach to a subject
Masking
Propaganda film
Reframing
Normal lens
22. The central cause(s) behind a character's actions
Narrative
Negative
Motivation
Brechtian distanciation
23. A scene transition in which the first frame of the incoming scene appears to push the last frame of the previous scene off the screen horizontally
Progressive scanning
Wipe
Hollywood Ten
Hollywood Ten
24. A scene transition wherein sound from one scene bleeds over into the ext scene - often resulting in a contrast between sound image
Cinerama
Avant-garde film
Sound bridge
Plot summary
25. A property of older television monitors - where each frame was scanned as two fields: One consisting of all the odd numbered lines - the other all the even lines. If slowed down - the television image would appear to sweep down the screen one line at
Special visual effects
Fast
Flashforward
Interlaced scanning
26. Film productions shot outside the U.S. for economic reasons
Runaway production
Vertical integration
Exposure latitude
Handheld shot
27. A film composed entirely of footage from other films.
Director
Compilation film
Protagonist
Flashforward
28. 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
Hybrid
Cinerama
Director
Wireframe
29. A style of Japanese animation - distinguished primarily by the fact that it is not all geared for young audiences
Anime
Take
Newsreel
Freeze frame
30. The shape of the image onscreen as determined by the width of the frame relative to its height
Extreme wide-angle lens
Canted angle
Aspect Ratio
Assistant Editor
31. A shot that interrupts a scene's master shot and may include character reactions
Slow
Insert
German Expressionism
Phi phenomenon
32. A complete narrative unit within a film - with its own beginning - middle - and end. Often scenes are unified - and distinguished from one another - by time and setting
Scene
Exposure
Cut
Animation
33. A scene transition in which the first frame of the incoming scene appears to push the last frame of the previous scene off the screen horizontally
Anime
Desaturated
Star filter
Wipe
34. A machine that converts film prints to videotape format
Aspect Ratio
Color filter
Telecine
Establishing shot
35. 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
Propaganda film
Superimposition
Neutral-density filter
Negative cutter
36. Dense accumulation of detail conveyed in the opening moments of a film
Low-angle shot
Exposition
Soundtrack
Open-ended
37. A property of older television monitors - where each frame was scanned as two fields: One consisting of all the odd numbered lines - the other all the even lines. If slowed down - the television image would appear to sweep down the screen one line at
Persistence of vision
Aspect Ratio
Interlaced scanning
Screenplay
38. A term that refers to the organization of an industry wherein one type of corporation also owns corporations in allied industries - for example - film production and video games
30-degree rule
Tracking shot
Extreme long-shot
Horizontal integration
39. 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
Widescreen
Orthochromatic
Text
Color filter
40. A genre film that radically modifies accepted genre conventions for dramatic effect
Revisionist
Plot summary
Blue screen
Roadshowing
41. The practice or repeatedly casting actors in similar roles across different films
Compositing
Typecasting
Panning and scanning
Camera distance
42. A screenplay written and submitted to a studio or production company without a prior contract or agreement
Canted angle
Phi phenomenon
Line of action
Spec script
43. A shot in a sequence that is taken from the reverse angle of the shot previous to it
Reverse shot
Zoom lens
Pre-production
Wide-angle lens
44. Using computer graphics to 'build' structures connected to the actual architecture on set or location
Digital set extension
Prosthesis
Iris out
Undercranking
45. A shot filmed from an airplane or helicopter
Ethnographic film
Medium close-up
Aerial Shot
Slow
46. The measurement of how forgiving a film stock is. It determines whether an acceptable image will be produced when the film stock is exposed to too little or too much light
Matte painting
Exposure latitude
Blaxploitation
Studio system
47. Early films that documented everyday events - such as workers leaving a factory
Desaturated
Actualitas
Interpellation
Emulsion
48. Also called 'rushes.' Footage exposed and developed quickly so that the director can assess the day's work
Glass shot
Descriptive claim
Pan
Dailies
49. A shot that appears during or near the end of a scene and reorients viewers to the setting
Frame narration
Line reading
Re-establishing shot
Release prints
50. A chemical embedded in the emulsion layer of film stock that - when developed after exposure - releases a particular color dye (red - green - or blue)
Mockumentary
Lens
Dye coupler
Low-angle shot