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Film Vocab
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1. Squeezes the image at a ratio of 2:1 horizontally onto a standard film frame. On the projector - it unsqueezes the image - creating a widescreen aspect ratio during presentation
Forced development
Descriptive claim
Hybrid
Anamorphic lens
2. A marketing strategy of screening a blockbuster prior to general release only in premier theaters
Lightning mix
Roadshowing
Major studios
Rack focus
3. A film style that - in contrast to the classical and formalist styles - focuses characters - place - and the spontaneity and digressiveness of life - rather than on highly structured stories or aesthetic abstraction
Matte
Re-establishing shot
Realist style
Storyboard
4. 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
Rotoscope
Interlaced scanning
Establishing shot
Film stock
5. The measure of intensity or purity of a color. Saturated color is purer than desaturated color - which has more white in it and thus offers a washed-out - less intense version of a color
Diegesis
Close-up
Saturation
Digital set extension
6. A technique of intentionally adding scratches in a film's emulsion layer for aesthetic purposes - such as to simulate home movie footage
Low-key lighting
Continuity error
Flashforward
Scratching
7. The annotated script - containing information about set-ups used during shooting
Interlaced scanning
Camera distance
Shooting script
Sound bridge
8. An early color process that replaced silver halide grains with colored salts
Subtext
Subtext
Tableau shot
Toning
9. A screenplay written and submitted to a studio or production company without a prior contract or agreement
Spec script
Video assist
Flashback
Editor
10. A crew member whose job is to maintain consistency in visual details from one shot to the next
Anamorphic lens
Handheld shot
High concept film
Continuity editor
11. A narrative moment that signals an important shift of some kind in character or situation
Backstage musical
Typecasting
Interlaced scanning
Turning point
12. (Automatic dialogue replacement) recording synchronized dialogue in post-production - cutting several identical lengths of developed film and having actors record the dialogue repeatedly
Syuzhet
Apparatus Theory
ADR
Set-up
13. A painting used on the set as a portion of the background
Matte painting
Motivation
Fabula
Brechtian distanciation
14. 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
Canted angle
Episodic
Reverse shot
Tight framing
15. A technique of underdeveloping exposed film stock (leaving it in a chemical batch a shorter amount of time than usual) in order to achieve the visual effect of reducing contrast
Pulling
Canted angle
Synthespian
Match on action
16. Creating an image by combining several elements created separately using computer graphics rather than photographic means
Digital cinema
Digital compositing
Orthochromatic
Propaganda film
17. 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
Soviet montage
Persistence of vision
Shot transition
Interpellation
18. A technique of filming at a speed faster than projection - the projecting the footage at normal speed of 24 frames per second. Because fewer frames were recorded per second - the action appears to be speeded up
Slow motion
Director
Soundtrack
Low-key lighting
19. A shot that focuses audience attention on precise details that may or may not be the focus of characters
Anamorphic lens
Cutaway
Vertical integration
Negative
20. A musical in which some or all musical numbers are not motivated by the narrative; for example - characters sing and dance throughout the film but at least some performances are not staged for an onscreen audience. Examples include Oklahoma - The umb
Continuity editor
Integrated musical
Wide film
Phi phenomenon
21. 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
Analog Video
Method acting
Pan
22. A platform on wheels - used for mobile camera shots
Dolly
Filter
Wipe
Medium long shot
23. The central cause(s) behind a character's actions
Motivation
Forced development
Foley artist
Intertextual reference
24. 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
Realist style
Horizontal integration
Wide film
Third-person narration
25. Glass filters whose surface is etched with spots that refract light - so they create the appearance of water droplets in the air
Fog filter
Horizontal integration
Overhead shot
Figure placement and movement
26. A technician responsible for splicing and assembling the film negative to the editor's specifications
Negative cutter
Running time
Overexposure
Running time
27. Reels of film that are shipped to movie theaters for exhibition. Digital cinema - which can be distributed via satellite - broadband - or on media such as DVDs - may soon replace film prints because the latter are expensive to create - copy - and dis
Take
Rack focus
Release prints
Desaturated
28. A crew member who reports to the Director of Photography (DP) and is in charge of tasks involving lighting and electrical needs
Focus puller
Gaffer
Blocking
Score
29. A visual effect created when the subject in the frame is restricted by the objects or the physical properties of the set
Tight framing
Front projection
Negative cutter
Point-of-view shot
30. Also called 'd-cinema.' Not to be confused with digital cinematography (shooting movies on digital video) - this term refers to using digital technologies for exhibition
Propaganda film
Low-key lighting
Digital cinema
Tight framing
31. A shot that depicts a human body from the feet up
Medium long shot
Production values
Four-part structure
Low-angle shot
32. A story narrated by one of the characters within the story - using the 'I' voice
First-person narration
Post-production
Denouement
Genre
33. The central cause(s) behind a character's actions
Motivation
Anamorphic lens
Anamorphic lens
Shot
34. An effect created when too little light strikes the film during shooting. As a result the image will contain dark areas that appear very dense and dark (including shadows) and the overall contrast will be less than with a properly exposed image
Steadicam
Soviet montage
Assistant Editor
Underexposure
35. A technique of 'pushing' the film (overdeveloping it) to correct problems of underexposure (resulting from insufficient light during shooting) by increasing image contrast
Subgenre
Assistant Editor
Forced development
Shot
36. A specialist who monitors the processing of color on the se and in the film lab
Diffusion filters
Color consultant
Orthochromatic
Exposition
37. Public identity created by marketing a film actor's performances - press coverage - and 'personal' information to fans as the star's personality
Star persona
Zoom out
Character actor
Handheld shot
38. A specialist who monitors the processing of color on the se and in the film lab
Extreme long-shot
Soviet montage
Color consultant
Standard shot pattern
39. 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
Genre conventions
Evaluative claim
Storyboard
Cameo
40. 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
Restricted narration
180-degree rule
City symphony
Match on action
41. A black masking device used to black out a portion of the frame - usually for the insertion of other images
Overhead shot
Continuity editor
Matte
Compilation film
42. The reverse of Iris in: an iris expands outward until the next shot takes up the entire screen
Iris out
Gaffer
Major studios
Star filter
43. A technique of 'pushing' the film (overdeveloping it) to correct problems of underexposure (resulting from insufficient light during shooting) by increasing image contrast
Forced development
Wireframe
Interlaced scanning
Freeze frame
44. The term for a film's spoken dialogue - as opposed to the underlying meaning contained in the subtext
Available light
Open-ended
Standard shot pattern
Text
45. 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
Tracking shot
Saturation
Blockbuster
Travelling matte
46. Recording images at a slower speed than the speed of projection (24 frames per second). Before cameras were motorized - this was called undercranking. Fewer frames are exposed in one minute - so - when projected at 24 f.p.s. - that action takes less
Close-up
Fast motion
Lens
Master positive
47. A part of the story world implied by visual or sound techniques rather than being revealed by the camera
Propaganda film
Offscreen space
Go-motion
Storyboard
48. 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
Subtext
Parellel editing
Editor
Superimposition
49. A single take that contains an entire scene
Long shot
Lens
Master shot
Desaturated
50. 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)
Line of action
Slow
Intertextual reference
Wireframe
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