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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 short screen appearance by a celebrity - playing himself or herself
Interlaced scanning
Depth of field
Cameo
Anime
2. Sound recorded on a set - on location - or - for documentary film - at an actual real-world event - as opposed to dubbed in post-production through ADR or looping
Backstage musical
Auteur
Direct sound
Video assist
3. A standard shot pattern that dictates that a shot of one character will be followed by a shot of another character - taken from the reverse angle of the first shot
Extreme close-up
Trailer
Wireframe
Shot/reverse shot
4. A story narrated by one of the characters within the story - using the 'I' voice
First-person narration
Negative
Camera distance
30-degree rule
5. A process of transferring film to video tapes or DVDs so that the original aspect ratio of the film is preserved
Letterboxing
Zoom in...
Integrated musical
Production values
6. A style of Japanese animation - distinguished primarily by the fact that it is not all geared for young audiences
Anime
Screenplay
Canted angle
Fabula
7. A shot that interrupts a scene's master shot and may include character reactions
Polarizing filters
Two-shot
Insert
ADR
8. An early color process that replaced silver halide grains with colored salts
Toning
Shutter
Eyeline match
Double exposure
9. A flexible celluloid strip that - along with the emulsion layer - comprises 35mm film stock
Base
Pixilation
Major studios
Plot summary
10. 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
Trombone shot
Promotion
Synthespian
11. A statement that presents an argument about a film's meaning and significance
Pixilation
Tableau shot
Glass shot
Interpretive claim
12. A brief chronological description of the basic events and characters in a film. It does not include interpretive or evaluative claims
Plot summary
Negative
Loose framing
Studio system
13. Non-diegetic; any element in the film that is not part of the imagined story world
Episodic
Extradiegetic
Rotoscope
Montage sequence
14. Dense accumulation of detail conveyed in the opening moments of a film
Rear projection
Time-lapse photography
Typecasting
Exposition
15. Suspended particles of silver in the film's emulsion - Which may become visible in the final image as dots
Animation
Soundtrack
Split screen
Grain
16. A complete narrative unit within a film - with its own beginning - middle - and end. Often scenes are unified - and distinguished from one another - by time and setting
Prosthesis
Scene
Persistence of vision
Video assist
17. The annotated script - containing information about set-ups used during shooting
Exposition
Shooting script
Cel
Fabula
18. The arrangement of actors on screen as a compositional element that suggests themes - character development - emotional content - and visual motifs
Composition
Figure placement and movement
Forced development
Slow motion
19. A production term denoting a single uninterrupted series of frames exposed by a motion picture or video camera between the time it is turned on and the time it is turned off. Filmmakers shoot several takes of any scene and the film editor selects the
Dissolve
Backstory
Backstage musical
Take
20. The period of time before principal photography during which actors are signed - sets and costumes designed - and locations scouted
Newsreel
Pre-production
Reverse shot
Direct sound
21. Experimental film; Underground cinema;
Saturation
Motif
Blaxploitation
Avant-garde film
22. A direct vocal address to the audience - Which may emanate from a character or from a narrative voice apparently unrelated to the diegesis
Voice-over
Formalist style
Sound bridge
Low-angle shot
23. A technique of moving a zoom lens from a wide-angle position to a telephoto position - which results in a magnification of the subject within the frame - and keeps the subject in focus
Exposition
City symphony
Subgenre
Zoom in...
24. 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)
Wireframe
Fast
Shot transition
Editor
25. Images that originate from computer graphics technology - rather than photography
Point-of-view shot
Promotion
Propaganda film
Computer-generated imagery (CGI)
26. 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
Line of action
Antagonist
Parellel
Overexposure
27. 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
Color timing
Anime
Film stock
Underexposure
28. 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
Narrative
Interpellation
Extradiegetic
Camera distance
29. 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
Gauge
Backstory
Tracking shot
Lightning mix
30. The plotline that surrounds an embedded tale. The frame narration may or may not be as fully developed as the embedded tale
Speed
Slow motion
Frame narration
Zoom out
31. The arrangement of actors on screen as a compositional element that suggests themes - character development - emotional content - and visual motifs
Figure placement and movement
Shutter
Medium shot
Foley artist
32. A shot taken fro a position directly above the action - also called a 'birds' eye shot'
Vertical integration
180-degree rule
Overhead shot
Special visual effects
33. 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
Line of action
Realist style
Soundtrack
Canted angle
34. 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
Dolly
Wide-angle lens
Release prints
Shooting script
35. A shot that depicts a human body from the feet up
Interpretive claim
Speed
Medium long shot
Special visual effects
36. A scene filmed and processed but not selected to appear in the final version of the film
Out-take
Method acting
Formalist style
Formalist style
37. Dutch angle; a shot resulting from a static camera that is tilted to the right or left - so that the subject in the frame appears at a diagonal
Rotoscope
Compositing
Open-ended
Canted angle
38. 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
Trombone shot
Glass shot
Set-up
Antagonist
39. 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
Offscreen space
Front projection
Turning point
Interlaced scanning
40. Light emitted from a larger source that is scattered over a bigger area or reflected off a surface before it strikes the subject. Soft light minimizes facial details - including wrinkles
Genre
Vista Vision
Insert
Soft light
41. The camera should move at least 30 degrees any time there is a cut within a scene
Saturation
Filter
Overexposure
30-degree rule
42. 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
Canted angle
Interpretive claim
Horizontal integration
43. A style of stage acting developed from the teachings of Constantin Stanislavsky - which trains actors to get into character through the use of emotional memory
Aerial Shot
Method acting
Episodic
Fast motion
44. A lens with a variable focal length that allows changes of focal length while keeping the subject in focus
Script supervisor
Freeze frame
Zoom lens
Three-act structure
45. The selection and ordering of narrative events presented in a film
Aspect Ratio
Syuzhet
Speed
Special visual effects
46. 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
Interlaced scanning
City symphony
Blockbuster
Academy Ratio
47. The average length in seconds of a series of shots - covering a portion of a film or an entire film; a measure of pace within a scene or in the film as a whole.
Average shot length
Grain
Forced perspective
Rack focus
48. A statement that presents an argument about a film's meaning and significance
Double exposure
City symphony
Neutral-density filter
Interpretive claim
49. The practice of Hollywood studios contracting out post-production work to individuals or firms outside the U.S.
Outsourcing
Low-key lighting
Turning point
Ethnographic film
50. The first print made from a film negative
Denouement
Master positive
Low-key lighting
Non-diegetic