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Film Vocab
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1. 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
Vertical integration
Iris out
Front projection
On-the-nose dialogue
2. A shot taken fro a position directly above the action - also called a 'birds' eye shot'
Overhead shot
Exposure latitude
Handheld shot
Underexposure
3. The imagined world of the story
Steadicam
Saturation
Diegesis
Exposure latitude
4. The practice of shooting during the day but using filters and underexposure to create the illusion of nighttime
Roadshowing
Freeze frame
Day for night
Re-establishing shot
5. 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
Exposition
Close-up
Cutaway
6. A relatively long - uninterrupted sot - generally of a minute or more
Long take
Zoom out
Low-key lighting
Spec script
7. Filters that increase color saturation and contrast in outdoor shots
Set-up
Polarizing filters
Wipe
Hybrid
8. Filters that increase color saturation and contrast in outdoor shots
Aerial Shot
Omniscient narration
Polarizing filters
Text
9. A musical accompaniment written specifically for a film
Auteur
Reframing
Score
Digital compositing
10. 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
Propaganda film
Direct cinema
Glass shot
11. 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
Brechtian distanciation
Exposition
Long take
High-key lighting
12. A consistent style - theme - and subject matter developed over the course of a director's body of work
Digital video
Time-lapse photography
Major studios
Oeuvre
13. 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
Open-ended
Actualitas
Parellel
Pixel
14. A computer-generated actor that some speculate will replace flesh and blood actors in the not so distant future
Protagonist
Synthespian
Composition
Split screen
15. A musical accompaniment written specifically for a film
Score
Out-take
Frozen time moment
Freeze frame
16. 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
Extreme wide-angle lens
Product placement
Slow
17. 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
Toning
Scene
Flashback
Wipe
18. A lens with a shorter focal length than a normal or telephoto lens (usually between 15-35mm). The subject appears smaller as a result - but the angle of vision is wider and an illusion is created of greater depth in the frame
Double exposure
Wide-angle lens
Focal length
Pushing
19. A technique of moving from the telephoto position to the wide-angle position of a zoom lens - which results in the subject appearing to become smaller within the frame - while remaining in focus
Third-person narration
Telecine
Emulsion
Zoom out
20. A technique of leaving empty space around the subject in the frame - in order to covey openness and continuity of visible space and to imply offscreen space
Average shot length
Director
Set-up
Loose framing
21. The building block of a scene; an uninterrupted sequence of frames that viewers experience as they watch a film - ending with a cut - fade - dissolve - etc. See also Take
Shot
Depth of field
Director
Shot/reverse shot
22. An optical technique that divides the screen into two or more frames
Narrative sequencing
Split screen
Digital set extension
Medium close-up
23. A measure of a film stock's sensitivity to light. 'Fast' refers to sensitive film stock - while slow film is relatively insensitive
Deep focus cinematography
Slow motion
Shot transition
Speed
24. A technique of manipulating focus to direct the viewer's attention
Figure placement and movement
Blockbuster
Selective focus
Apparatus Theory
25. 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
Composition
Flashing
Integrated musical
Split screen
26. 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
Match on action
Parellel
Omniscient narration
Deep focus cinematography
27. The conclusion of the film wraps up - all loose ends in a form of resolution - though not necessarily with a happy ending.
Computer-generated imagery (CGI)
Closure
Steadicam
Parellel editing
28. A narrative moment that signals an important shift of some kind in character or situation
Oeuvre
Turning point
First-person narration
Propaganda film
29. A technique in which the audience temporarily shares the visual perspective of a character or a group of characters. The camera points in the directions the character looks - simulating the character's field of vision
Point-of-view shot
Scene
Revisionist
Steadicam
30. A filter that simply reduces the amount of light entering the lens - without affecting the color characteristics
Star persona
Neutral-density filter
Actualitas
Recursive action
31. 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
Pulling
Digital cinema
Zoom out
Digital set extension
32. A neutral account of the basic plot and style of a film - a part of a film - or a group of films
First-person narration
Polarizing filters
Descriptive claim
Actualitas
33. The details of a character's past that emerge as the film unfolds - and which often play a role in character motivation
High-key lighting
Depth of field
Rear projection
Backstory
34. A short segment of film used to promote an upcoming release
Trailer
City symphony
Prosthesis
Reverse shot
35. The chronological accounting of all events presented and suggested
Slow motion
Wide-angle lens
Academy Ratio
Fabula
36. A relatively long - uninterrupted sot - generally of a minute or more
Shutter
Long take
Color consultant
Soviet montage
37. Everything audiences hear when they watch a sound film. The soundtrack is the composite of all three elements of film sound: dialogue - music - and sound effects
Desaturated
Soundtrack
Soviet montage
Gauge
38. Dialogue that restates What is already obvious from images or action
Forced development
On-the-nose dialogue
Lightning mix
Crab dolly
39. A term describing a conclusion that does not answer all the questions raised regarding characters or storylines - nor tie up all loose ends
Canted angle
Flashback
Open-ended
Hybrid
40. A film's main characters - one whose conflicts and motives drive the story forward
Zoom out
Figure placement and movement
Protagonist
Take
41. An effect created when more light is required to produce an image strakes the film stock - so that the resulting image exhibits high contrast - glaring light - and washed out shadows. This effect ma or may not be intentional on the filmmaker's part
Eye-level shot
Overexposure
Formalist style
Negative
42. A vertical - up-and-down - motion of an otherwise stationary camera
Tilt
Panchromatic
Focal length
Rack focus
43. The non-chronological insertion of scenes of events yet to happen into the present day of the story world
Time-lapse photography
Flashforward
Product placement
Saturation
44. A series of related scene joined through elliptical editing that indicates the passage of time
Montage sequence
Extra
Syuzhet
Digital cinema
45. The details of a character's past that emerge as the film unfolds - and which often play a role in character motivation
Genre conventions
Studio system
Backstory
Zoom lens
46. 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
Realist style
ADR
ADR
Descriptive claim
47. Secondary footage that is interspersed with master shots - sometimes in the form of footage shot for another production or archival footage
Flashforward
Zoom lens
Assistant Editor
B-roll
48. Author; A term popularized by French film critics and refers to film directors with their own distinctive style
Charge coupler device
Wide-angle lens
Auteur
Orthochromatic
49. 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
Neutral-density filter
Tracking shot
Screenplay
Montage sequence
50. 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
Subtext
Director
Newsreel
Cameo
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