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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 scene transition wherein sound from one scene bleeds over into the ext scene - often resulting in a contrast between sound image
Emulsion
Loose framing
Zoom lens
Sound bridge
2. Creating images during post-production by joining together photographic or CGI material shot or created at different times and places
Zoom lens
Compositing
Running time
Diffusion filters
3. 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
Dye coupler
Pushing
Slow
Time-lapse photography
4. The non-chronological insertion of events from the past into the present day of the story world
Medium long shot
Flashback
Character actor
Anamorphic lens
5. A transparent sheet on which animation artists draw images.
Cel
Speed
Protagonist
Desaturated
6. A production crew responsible not for shooting the primary footage but - instead - for remote location shooting and B-roll. See also B-roll
Phi phenomenon
Cel
Second unit
Hard light
7. 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
High-key lighting
Fast motion
Fast
Fade-out
8. A brief chronological description of the basic events and characters in a film. It does not include interpretive or evaluative claims
Motif
Plot summary
Avant-garde film
Zoom in...
9. Non-diegetic; any element in the film that is not part of the imagined story world
Video assist
Extradiegetic
Focus puller
Iris out
10. A vertical - up-and-down - motion of an otherwise stationary camera
Frame narration
Recursive action
Natural-key lighting
Tilt
11. Individuals who were prevented from working in the film industry because of their suspected involvement with Communist interests
Synthespian
Computer-generated imagery (CGI)
Deep focus cinematography
Hollywood Blacklist
12. 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
Cut
Running time
Scratching
Deep focus cinematography
13. A form of shot transition - generally concluding a scene - where a circular mask constricts around the image until the entire frame is black
Freeze frame
Evaluative claim
Filter
Iris in...
14. A glass element on a camera that focuses light rays so that the image of the object appears on the surface of the film
Lens
Shot
Filter
Exposure
15. Wheeled platform with wheels that rotate - so the dolly can change direction
Recursive action
Crab dolly
Three-point lighting
Horizontal integration
16. The first print made from a film negative
Focal length
Selective focus
Master positive
Front projection
17. Optical illusions created during post-production
Subtext
Pan
Non-diegetic
Visual effects
18. Exposed and developed film stock from which the master positive is struck. If projected - the negative would produce a reverse of the image - with dark areas appearing white and vice versa or - if color film - areas of color appearing as their comple
Pixel
Negative
Lightning mix
Trailer
19. A crew member whose job is to maintain consistency in visual details from one shot to the next
Minor studios
Digital video
Continuity editor
Eye-level shot
20. Author; A term popularized by French film critics and refers to film directors with their own distinctive style
Auteur
Reverse shot
Long shot
Loose framing
21. Fish-eye lens; With a focal length of 15mm or less - this lens presents an extremely distorted image - where objects in the center of the frame appear to bulge toward the camera
Cutaway
Promotion
Episodic
Extreme wide-angle lens
22. A statement that presents an argument about a film's meaning and significance
Brechtian distanciation
Scratching
Backstage musical
Interpretive claim
23. 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
Set-up
Continuity editing
Vista Vision
Shot
24. Suspended particles of silver in the film's emulsion - Which may become visible in the final image as dots
Academy Ratio
Storyboard
Grain
Antagonist
25. 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
Canted angle
Handheld shot
Assistant Editor
Zoom out
26. A digital technique developed by Industrial Light and Magic - which builds movement sequences from single frames of film
Plot summary
Major studios
Wide film
Go-motion
27. 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
Fog filter
Release prints
Cinerama
High concept film
28. A technique of recording very few images over a long period of time - say - one frame per minute or per day
Time-lapse photography
Figure placement and movement
Genre
Anime
29. 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
Front projection
Interpellation
Trombone shot
Panning and scanning
30. 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
Intertextual reference
Interlaced scanning
Promotion
Average shot length
31. A class or type of film - such as the Western or the horror movie. They share narrative - visual - and/or sound conventions
Fade-out
Subtext
Director
Genre
32. The falling or unraveling action after the climax of a narrative that leads to resolution
Speed
Compositing
Persistence of vision
Denouement
33. 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
Oeuvre
Intertextual reference
First-person narration
Extreme close-up
34. A device that projects photographs or footage onto glass so that images can be traced by hand to create animated images
Insert
Rotoscope
Narrative
Restricted narration
35. Wheeled platform with wheels that rotate - so the dolly can change direction
Dailies
Second unit
Crab dolly
Hollywood Ten
36. Smaller corporations that did not own distribution and/or exhibition companies in the studio era - including Universal - Columbia - and United Artists
Medium shot
Minor studios
Cinerama
Visual effects
37. A flexible celluloid strip that - along with the emulsion layer - comprises 35mm film stock
Voice-over
Insert
Long take
Base
38. Exposed and developed film stock from which the master positive is struck. If projected - the negative would produce a reverse of the image - with dark areas appearing white and vice versa or - if color film - areas of color appearing as their comple
Star persona
Flashback
Hollywood Ten
Negative
39. The first shot in a standard shot sequence. Its purpose is to provide a clear representation of the location of the action
Establishing shot
Compilation film
Underexposure
Propaganda film
40. 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
Persistence of vision
Toning
Tight framing
Three-act structure
41. Then Hollywood writers and directors cited for Contempt of Congress for refusing to cooperate with the House Committee on Un-American Activities' attempts to root out Communists in the film industry
Extra
Hollywood Ten
Normal lens
Two-shot
42. 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
Forced perspective
30-degree rule
Vista Vision
Assistant Editor
43. 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
Sound bridge
Non-diegetic
Subgenre
Fast
44. A statement that presents an argument about a film's meaning and significance
Recursive action
Two-shot
Interpretive claim
Exposition
45. A single take that contains an entire scene
Normal lens
Master shot
Denouement
Iris out
46. An action film cycle of the late 1960s and early 1970s that featured bold - rebellious African American characters
Glass shot
Blaxploitation
Freeze frame
Close-up
47. A shot that depicts a human body from the feet up
Filter
Color consultant
Medium long shot
Scratching
48. A class or type of film - such as the Western or the horror movie. They share narrative - visual - and/or sound conventions
Line of action
Undercranking
Wide-angle lens
Genre
49. A filter that simply reduces the amount of light entering the lens - without affecting the color characteristics
Exposure latitude
Typecasting
Neutral-density filter
Script supervisor
50. A shot that interrupts a scene's master shot and may include character reactions
Overlapping dialogue
Insert
Camera distance
Color timing