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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. The imagined world of the story
Rear projection
Synthespian
Loose framing
Diegesis
2. A part of the story world implied by visual or sound techniques rather than being revealed by the camera
Continuity editor
Offscreen space
Spec script
Undercranking
3. A single take that contains an entire scene
Text
Master shot
Gauge
High-key lighting
4. Projecting a series of frames of film with the same image - which appears to stop the action
Director
Freeze frame
Long take
Chiaroscuro
5. A short screen appearance by a celebrity - playing himself or herself
Cameo
City symphony
Vertical integration
Star filter
6. 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
B-roll
High concept film
Dolly
Compositing
7. The individual arrangement of lighting and camera placement used for each shot
Reframing
Montage sequence
Standard shot pattern
Set-up
8. A film process that uses 35mm film stock but changes the orientation of the film so that the film moves through the camera horizontally instead of vertically. The larger image is of higher quality than standard 35mm processes
Go-motion
Motif
Vista Vision
30-degree rule
9. A film that fuses the conventions of two or more genres
Antagonist
Integrated musical
Block booking
Hybrid
10. A technique of intentionally adding scratches in a film's emulsion layer for aesthetic purposes - such as to simulate home movie footage
Scratching
Orthochromatic
Handheld shot
Second unit
11. A shot transition that emphasizes the visual similarities between two consecutive shots
Dailies
Hollywood Blacklist
Dissolve
Graphic match
12. A shot taken from a vantage point so close that only a part of the subject is visible. On an actor - it might show only an eye or a portion of the face
Close-up
Aerial Shot
Extreme close-up
Character actor
13. A shot depicting the human body from the waist up
Pan
Medium shot
Continuity error
Hollywood Ten
14. A filter that creates points of light that streak outward from a light source
Average shot length
Deep focus cinematography
Star filter
Medium long shot
15. A device worn by a camera operator that holds the motion picture camera - allowing it glide smoothly through spaces unreachable by camera mounted on a crane or other apparatus
Steadicam
Color consultant
Dailies
Pushing
16. The period after principal photography during which editing and looping take place - and special visual effects are added to the film
Jump cut
Blocking
Filter
Post-production
17. 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
Four-part structure
Avant-garde film
Medium close-up
18. The narrative path of the main or supporting characters - also called a plotline. Complex films may have several lines of action
Shot
Matte
Line of action
Line reading
19. Materials intentionally released by studios to attract public attention to films and their stars. Promotion differs from publicity - which is information that is not (or does not appear to be) intentionally disseminated by studios
Descriptive claim
Genre
Frame narration
Promotion
20. 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
Steadicam
Matte
Hue
Omniscient narration
21. A device attached to the film camera that records videotape of what has been filmed - allowing the director immediate access to video footage
Pixel
Crab dolly
Telecine
Video assist
22. A technique used to join live action with pre-recorded background images. A projector is aimed at a half-silvered mirror that reflects the background - which the camera records as being located behind the actors
Front projection
Line of action
Reframing
Saturation
23. 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
Pushing
Film stock
Color filter
Matte painting
24. A statement that presents an argument about a film's meaning and significance
Desaturated
Runaway production
Standard shot pattern
Interpretive claim
25. Prefogging; a cinematographic technique that exposes raw film stock to light before - during - or after shooting - resulting in an image with reduced contrast. This effect can also be created using digital post-production techniques
Close-up
Orthochromatic
Flashing
Composition in depth
26. 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
Text
Subgenre
Blaxploitation
Ethnographic film
27. A system of constructing and arranging buildings and objects on the set so that they diminish in size dramatically from foreground to background - which creates the illusion of depth
Matte
Restricted narration
Best boy
Forced perspective
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
Deep focus cinematography
Denouement
Director
Ethnographic film
29. A form of shot transition - generally concluding a scene - where a circular mask constricts around the image until the entire frame is black
Telephoto lens
Oeuvre
Iris in...
Star filter
30. A technique of moving the camera - on a specially built track. Such shots often trace character movement laterally across the frame or in and out of the depth of the frame
Classical style
Backstory
Optical printer
Tracking shot
31. 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
Available light
Direct cinema
Analog Video
32. A musical accompaniment written specifically for a film
Masking
Base
Score
Non-diegetic
33. Filters that increase color saturation and contrast in outdoor shots
Frozen time moment
Polarizing filters
Phi phenomenon
Storyboard
34. A production crew responsible not for shooting the primary footage but - instead - for remote location shooting and B-roll. See also B-roll
Second unit
Turning point
Vertical integration
Iris out
35. A series of individual drawings that provides a blueprint for the shooting of a scene
Telecine
Panchromatic
Storyboard
Letterboxing
36. A shot transition that emphasizes the visual similarities between two consecutive shots
Handheld shot
Graphic match
Exposure latitude
Evaluative claim
37. A film that fuses the conventions of two or more genres
Intertextual reference
Take
Anamorphic lens
Hybrid
38. A fiction film (often a comedy) that uses documentary conventions on fictional rather than real-world subject matter
Available light
Open-ended
Mockumentary
Canted angle
39. Lighting design in which the greater intensity of the key light makes it impossible for the fill to eliminate shadows - producing a high-contrast image (with many grades of light and dark) - a number of shadows - and a somber mood
Fog filter
Interlaced scanning
Low-key lighting
Dissolve
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
Color filter
Take
Three-point lighting
Genre
41. A film style that emerged in the 1910s in Germany. It was heavily indebted to the Expressionist art movement of the time and influenced subsequent horror films and film noir
Front projection
Soft light
German Expressionism
Two-shot
42. Literary narration from a viewpoint beyond that of any one individual character
Digital set extension
Forced development
Letterboxing
Third-person narration
43. 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
Compilation film
Undercranking
Classical style
Masking
44. Natural light; The process of suing sunlight rather than artificial studio lights when filming
Available light
Backstory
Studio system
Frame narration
45. The individual arrangement of lighting and camera placement used for each shot
Set-up
Blocking
Normal lens
Charge coupler device
46. A shot that includes a human figure from the shoulders up
Medium close-up
Method acting
Persistence of vision
Extreme long-shot
47. Sound design that blends the speech of several characters talking simultaneously - used to create spontaneity - although it may also confuse the audience
Overlapping dialogue
Hue
Average shot length
High-angle shot
48. The visual arrangement of objects - actors - and space within the frame
Charge coupler device
Horizontal integration
Composition
Brechtian distanciation
49. Optical illusions created during production - including the use of matte paintings - glass shots - models - and prosthesis
Special visual effects
Voice-over
Star persona
Extradiegetic
50. A style of Japanese animation - distinguished primarily by the fact that it is not all geared for young audiences
Digital compositing
Pan
Cutaway
Anime