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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 system for recording images on magnetic tape using a digital signal - that is - an electronic signal comprised of 0s and 1s
Fade-out
Digital video
Average shot length
Trailer
2. Optical illusions created during post-production
Standard shot pattern
Video assist
Omniscient narration
Visual effects
3. The practice of Hollywood studios contracting out post-production work to individuals or firms outside the U.S.
Outsourcing
Reframing
Propaganda film
Day for night
4. An animation technique that uses a computer program to interpolate frames to produce the effect of an object or creature changing gradually into something different. The program calculates the way the image must change in order for the first image to
Digital set extension
Roadshowing
Morphing
Hybrid
5. The film medium's technological apparatus is inherently ideological
Assistant Editor
Apparatus Theory
Release prints
Pixilation
6. The first shot in a standard shot sequence. Its purpose is to provide a clear representation of the location of the action
Establishing shot
Cameo
Actualitas
Line of action
7. A shot that contains two characters within the frame
Focal length
Natural-key lighting
Two-shot
Wide film
8. A shot taken by a camera that is held manually rather than supported by a tripod - crane or Steadicam. Generally - such shots are shaky - owing to the motion of the camera operator
Hybrid
Motivation
Cel
Handheld shot
9. 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
Panning and scanning
Shot transition
Soviet montage
Motivation
10. A crew member whose job is to maintain consistency in visual details from one shot to the next
Continuity editor
Shutter
Selective focus
Crab dolly
11. Leaving the silver grains in the emulsion rather than bleaching them out - which produces desaturated color
Bleach bypass
Closure
Character actor
Recursive action
12. Film productions shot outside the U.S. for economic reasons
Open-ended
Normal lens
Runaway production
Episodic
13. The camera does not move across an imagined line drawn between two characters
Hybrid
Hue
180-degree rule
Long shot
14. The space between the camera and subject it is filming.
Composition
Lightning mix
Camera distance
Low-key lighting
15. 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
Shooting script
Horizontal integration
Product placement
Color consultant
16. A type of matte shot - created by positioning a pane of optically flawless glass with a painting on it between the camera and the scene to be photographed. This combines the painting on the glass with the set or location - seen through the glass - be
Editor
Academy Ratio
Glass shot
Panning and scanning
17. Color. The strength of a hue is measured by its saturation or desaturation
Shot
Composition in depth
Propaganda film
Hue
18. A term for film stock used in early cinema that was insensitive to red hues
Backstory
Orthochromatic
Anime
Blocking
19. A series of related scene joined through elliptical editing that indicates the passage of time
Matte painting
Matte
Montage sequence
Iris out
20. 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
Exposition
Rack focus
Front projection
Pixel
21. A camera device that opens and closes to regulate the length of time the film is exposed to light
Shutter
Lens
Rear projection
Wide film
22. 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
Horizontal integration
Backstage musical
Aerial Shot
Forced development
23. The falling or unraveling action after the climax of a narrative that leads to resolution
Oeuvre
Denouement
Three-act structure
Tight framing
24. A film's main characters - one whose conflicts and motives drive the story forward
Newsreel
Split screen
Protagonist
Overlapping dialogue
25. The film medium's technological apparatus is inherently ideological
Tinting
Apparatus Theory
Dye coupler
Mockumentary
26. A contemporary modification of the standard three-act structure that identifies a critical turning point at the halfway mark of most narrative films
Soft light
Running time
Toning
Four-part structure
27. A device attached to the film camera that records videotape of what has been filmed - allowing the director immediate access to video footage
Composition
Match on action
Frozen time moment
Video assist
28. A camera device that opens and closes to regulate the length of time the film is exposed to light
Morphing
Pre-production
Shutter
Scene
29. A short segment of film used to promote an upcoming release
Closure
Trailer
Character actor
German Expressionism
30. A chemical coating on film stock containing light-sensitive grains
Trombone shot
Outsourcing
Avant-garde film
Emulsion
31. A shot that depicts a human body from the feet up
Master positive
Pre-production
Closure
Medium long shot
32. A production term referring to coordinating actors' movements with lines of dialogue
Front projection
Cel
Blocking
Widescreen
33. A measure of a film stock's sensitivity to light. 'Fast' refers to sensitive film stock - while slow film is relatively insensitive
Speed
Tinting
Telephoto lens
Cutaway
34. A machine used to create optical effects such as fades - dissolves - and superimpositions. Most are now created digitally
Propaganda film
Rear projection
Diegesis
Optical printer
35. Smaller corporations that did not own distribution and/or exhibition companies in the studio era - including Universal - Columbia - and United Artists
Available light
Zoom in...
Running time
Minor studios
36. A film that fuses the conventions of two or more genres
Dissolve
Hybrid
Offscreen space
Shot/reverse shot
37. 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
Production values
Antagonist
Roadshowing
38. 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
Persistence of vision
Optical printer
Product placement
39. A term used for any narrative sound - or visual element not contained in the story world. Also called 'extradiegetic'
Base
Newsreel
ADR
Non-diegetic
40. A shot that makes the human subject very small in relation to his or her environment. The entire figure from head to toe is onscreen and dwarfed by the surroundings
Production values
Wipe
Extreme long-shot
High-key lighting
41. A platform on wheels - used for mobile camera shots
Travelling matte
High concept film
High-key lighting
Dolly
42. 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
Composition in depth
Evaluative claim
Undercranking
Crab dolly
43. A contemporary modification of the standard three-act structure that identifies a critical turning point at the halfway mark of most narrative films
Four-part structure
Shot/reverse shot
Director
Hard light
44. A device that projects photographs or footage onto glass so that images can be traced by hand to create animated images
Typecasting
Rotoscope
Second unit
Slow motion
45. A camera shot taken at a large distance from the subject. Using the human body as the subject - a long shot captures the entire human form
Long shot
Emulsion
Overlapping dialogue
Gaffer
46. A series of related scene joined through elliptical editing that indicates the passage of time
Pushing
Soviet montage
Protagonist
Montage sequence
47. An optical effect whereby the human eye fills in gaps between closely spaced objects - so that two light bulbs flashing on and off are understood as one light moving back and forth
Eye-level shot
Phi phenomenon
Superimposition
Composition in depth
48. An optical effect whereby the eye continues to register a visual stimulus in the brain for a brief period after that stimulus has been removed
Matte
Subgenre
Tinting
Persistence of vision
49. An action film cycle of the late 1960s and early 1970s that featured bold - rebellious African American characters
Blaxploitation
Running time
Selective focus
ADR
50. Standard shot pattern: A sequence of shots designed to maintain spatial continuity. Scene begin with an establishing shot - then move to a series of individual shots depicting characters and action - before reestablishing shots re-orient viewers to t
Standard shot pattern
Overlapping dialogue
Backstage musical
Trombone shot