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Film Vocab
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performing-arts
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film
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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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This is a study tool. The 3 wrong answers for each question are randomly chosen from answers to other questions. So, you might find at times the answers obvious, but you will see it re-enforces your understanding as you take the test each time.
1. The details of a character's past that emerge as the film unfolds - and which often play a role in character motivation
Backstory
Formalist style
Mockumentary
Protagonist
2. A format that uses a larger film stock than standard 35mm. IMAX - Omnimax - and Showscan are shot on 70mm film
Tilt
Screenplay
Wide film
Pre-production
3. A story narrated by one of the characters within the story - using the 'I' voice
Emulsion
Revisionist
First-person narration
Overlapping dialogue
4. 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
Color filter
Backstory
Forced perspective
Long take
5. A series of related scene joined through elliptical editing that indicates the passage of time
Frame narration
Montage sequence
Integrated musical
Editor
6. The use of editing techniques - such as a fade or dissolve - to indicate the end of one scene and the beginning of another
Scene
Aspect Ratio
Overlapping dialogue
Shot transition
7. A shot transition that emphasizes the visual similarities between two consecutive shots
Graphic match
Line reading
Blaxploitation
Color consultant
8. Filters that increase color saturation and contrast in outdoor shots
Polarizing filters
Extra
Star filter
Actualitas
9. Optical illusions created during production - including the use of matte paintings - glass shots - models - and prosthesis
Flashing
Gaffer
Charge coupler device
Special visual effects
10. Optical illusions created during post-production
Overexposure
Visual effects
Parellel editing
Aerial Shot
11. Dialogue that restates What is already obvious from images or action
Close-up
Overexposure
On-the-nose dialogue
Wide-angle lens
12. (Automatic dialogue replacement) recording synchronized dialogue in post-production - cutting several identical lengths of developed film and having actors record the dialogue repeatedly
Character actor
Travelling matte
ADR
Exposure latitude
13. Film productions shot outside the U.S. for economic reasons
Re-establishing shot
Panning and scanning
Runaway production
Frame narration
14. 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
Scene
Optical printer
Three-point lighting
Superimposition
15. 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
Post-production
Academy Ratio
Text
Extreme close-up
16. A shot that includes a human figure from the shoulders up
Reverse shot
Medium close-up
Hue
Canted angle
17. Early films that documented everyday events - such as workers leaving a factory
Actualitas
Rotoscope
Long take
Focus puller
18. A measure of the visual and sound quality of a film. Low-budget films tend to have lower production values because they lack the resources to devote to expensive pre- and post-production activities
Production values
Oeuvre
Screenplay
Denouement
19. A process of transferring film to video tapes or DVDs so that the original aspect ratio of the film is preserved
Character actor
Forced development
Letterboxing
Blue screen
20. A scene filmed and processed but not selected to appear in the final version of the film
Overexposure
Medium shot
Hollywood Blacklist
Out-take
21. An attribute of newer television monitors - where each frame is scanned by the electron beam as a single field. If slowed down - each frame would appear on the monitor in its entirety on the screen - rather than line by line - as is the case with int
Progressive scanning
Fog filter
Normal lens
Turning point
22. Public identity created by marketing a film actor's performances - press coverage - and 'personal' information to fans as the star's personality
Hybrid
Mockumentary
Wide film
Star persona
23. 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
Underexposure
Spec script
Editor
Editor
24. The visual arrangement of objects - actors - and space within the frame
Anamorphic lens
Composition
Descriptive claim
Day for night
25. Individuals who were prevented from working in the film industry because of their suspected involvement with Communist interests
Hollywood Blacklist
Hollywood Ten
Extreme close-up
Line reading
26. A measure of the visual and sound quality of a film. Low-budget films tend to have lower production values because they lack the resources to devote to expensive pre- and post-production activities
Green screen
Production values
Film stock
Digital set extension
27. 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
Green screen
Promotion
Dolly
Morphing
28. A shot taken when the camera is so close to a subject that it fills the frame. It is most commonly used for a shot that isolates and encompasses a single actor's face - to emphasize the expression of emotion
Green screen
Protagonist
Close-up
Editor
29. 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
Time-lapse photography
Tilt
Subgenre
Promotion
30. 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
Undercranking
Zoom lens
Canted angle
Oeuvre
31. A large-budget film whose strategy is to swamp the competition through market saturation
Exposure
Auteur
Blockbuster
Second unit
32. A relatively long - uninterrupted sot - generally of a minute or more
Long take
Horizontal integration
Glass shot
Hollywood Ten
33. A crew member responsible for logging the details of each take on the set so as to ensure continuity
Script supervisor
Digital set extension
Brechtian distanciation
First-person narration
34. A pan executed so quickly that it produces a blurred image - indicated rapid activity or - sometimes - the passage of time
Digital compositing
Close-up
Swish pan
Backstage musical
35. A technique of overdeveloping exposed film stock (leaving it in the chemical bath longer than indicated) in order to increase density and contrast in the image
Medium long shot
Classical style
Pushing
Crab dolly
36. 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
Exposure
Film stock
High concept film
Color consultant
37. Any noticeable but unintended discrepancy from one shot to the next in costume - props - hairstyle - posture - etc.
Pulling
Go-motion
Rotoscope
Continuity error
38. A production crew responsible not for shooting the primary footage but - instead - for remote location shooting and B-roll. See also B-roll
Overhead shot
Star system
Pre-production
Second unit
39. A camera device that opens and closes to regulate the length of time the film is exposed to light
Character actor
Shutter
Newsreel
Video assist
40. A computer-generated actor that some speculate will replace flesh and blood actors in the not so distant future
Formalist style
Computer-generated imagery (CGI)
Synthespian
Master positive
41. 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
Mixing
Best boy
Rear projection
Zoom out
42. The rules of character - setting - and narrative that films that belong to a genre - such as Westerns - horror films - and screwball comedies - generally obey.
Emulsion
Genre conventions
Medium shot
Interpellation
43. A direct vocal address to the audience - Which may emanate from a character or from a narrative voice apparently unrelated to the diegesis
Director
Typecasting
Digital video
Voice-over
44. 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
Kuleshov effect
Eyeline match
Negative
Insert
45. A pan executed so quickly that it produces a blurred image - indicated rapid activity or - sometimes - the passage of time
Chiaroscuro
Swish pan
Cameo
Aspect Ratio
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
Front projection
Realist style
Zoom in...
Eyeline match
47. A system initially developed for marketing films by creating and promoting stars as objects of admiration. The promotion of stars has now become an end in itself
Master shot
Pre-production
Star system
Fast motion
48. Recording images at a slower speed than the speed of projection (24 frames per second). Before cameras were motorized - this was called undercranking. Fewer frames are exposed in one minute - so - when projected at 24 f.p.s. - that action takes less
Direct sound
Fast motion
Grain
Production values
49. 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
Take
Loose framing
Deep focus cinematography
Horizontal integration
50. Using computer graphics to 'build' structures connected to the actual architecture on set or location
Color consultant
Establishing shot
Two-shot
Digital set extension