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Film Vocab
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1. A short documentary on current events - show in movie theaters along with cartoons and feature films beginning in the 1930s
Matte
Tilt
Newsreel
Diffusion filters
2. The conclusion of the film wraps up - all loose ends in a form of resolution - though not necessarily with a happy ending.
Classical style
Animation
Closure
Soundtrack
3. The measurement of how forgiving a film stock is. It determines whether an acceptable image will be produced when the film stock is exposed to too little or too much light
High concept film
Exposure latitude
Zoom in...
Overlapping dialogue
4. The first print made from a film negative
Master positive
Syuzhet
Auteur
Extra
5. A shot that depicts a human body from the feet up
Color consultant
Vertical integration
Medium long shot
Offscreen space
6. A lens with a focal length greater than 50 mm (usually between 80mm and 20mm) - which provides a larger image of the subject than a normal or wide-angle lens but which narrows the angle of vision and flattens the depth of the image relative to normal
Lightning mix
High-key lighting
Telephoto lens
Emulsion
7. A genre film that radically modifies accepted genre conventions for dramatic effect
Out-take
Normal lens
Fog filter
Revisionist
8. Any lens with a focal length approximately equal to the diagonal of the frame. For 35mm filmmaking - a 35-50 mm lens does not distort the angle of vision or depth
Motif
Normal lens
Persistence of vision
Selective focus
9. Invisible editing; a system devised to minimize the audience's awareness of shot transitions - especially cuts - in order to improve the flow of the story and avoid interrupting the viewer's immersion it in
Travelling matte
Continuity editing
Aspect Ratio
Hollywood Blacklist
10. A film that fuses the conventions of two or more genres
Hybrid
Extra
Montage sequence
Continuity editor
11. The non-chronological insertion of events from the past into the present day of the story world
Vertical integration
Flashback
Best boy
Color filter
12. (Automatic dialogue replacement) recording synchronized dialogue in post-production - cutting several identical lengths of developed film and having actors record the dialogue repeatedly
Tracking shot
Backstage musical
Figure placement and movement
ADR
13. A business model adopted by the major studios during the Hollywood studio era - in which studios controlled all aspects of the film business - from production to distribution and exhibition
Jump cut
Dolly
On-the-nose dialogue
Vertical integration
14. A similarity established between two characters or situations that invites the audience to compare the two. It may involve visual - narrative - and/or sound elements
Runaway production
Parellel
Fade-out
Crane shot
15. The individual arrangement of lighting and camera placement used for each shot
Camera distance
Blaxploitation
Set-up
Flashback
16. A transparent sheet on which animation artists draw images.
Pixilation
Cel
Best boy
Analog Video
17. A measure of a film stock's sensitivity to light. 'Fast' refers to sensitive film stock - while slow film is relatively insensitive
Freeze frame
Shot transition
Speed
Plot summary
18. A shot taken from a camera mounted on a crane that moves three-dimensionally in a space
Script supervisor
Crane shot
Promotion
Mixing
19. A type of documentary film whose purpose is to present the way of life of a culture or subculture
Text
Third-person narration
Ethnographic film
Star persona
20. A chemical embedded in the emulsion layer of film stock that - when developed after exposure - releases a particular color dye (red - green - or blue)
Avant-garde film
Dye coupler
Genre conventions
Wireframe
21. The practice or repeatedly casting actors in similar roles across different films
Telephoto lens
Graphic match
Extreme long-shot
Typecasting
22. The camera does not move across an imagined line drawn between two characters
Second unit
180-degree rule
Interpretive claim
Persistence of vision
23. Muted - washed out color that contains more white than a saturated color
Extra
Desaturated
Matte
Insert
24. 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
Pushing
Neutral-density filter
Subgenre
Trombone shot
25. A technique of filming at a speed faster than projection - the projecting the footage at normal speed of 24 frames per second. Because fewer frames were recorded per second - the action appears to be speeded up
Time-lapse photography
Slow motion
Flashforward
Hollywood Blacklist
26. A technique of exposing film frames - then rewinding the film and exposing it again - which results in an image that combines two shots in a single frame
Persistence of vision
Exposure
Double exposure
Panning and scanning
27. Also called 'rushes.' Footage exposed and developed quickly so that the director can assess the day's work
Classical style
Avant-garde film
Outsourcing
Dailies
28. A person responsible for putting a film together from a mass of developed footage - making decisions regarding pace - shot transitions - and which scenes and shots will be used
Text
Editor
Handheld shot
Swish pan
29. Color. The strength of a hue is measured by its saturation or desaturation
Iris out
Hue
Figure placement and movement
Master positive
30. An agreement made between filmmakers and those who license the use of commercial products to feature those products in films - generally as props used by characters
Computer-generated imagery (CGI)
On-the-nose dialogue
Extreme wide-angle lens
Product placement
31. Leaving the silver grains in the emulsion rather than bleaching them out - which produces desaturated color
Establishing shot
Bleach bypass
Extradiegetic
Fog filter
32. A system for combining two separately filmed images in the same frame that involves create a matte (a black mask that covers a portion of the image) for a live action sequence and using it to block out a portion of the frame when filming the backgrou
Low-key lighting
Travelling matte
Iris out
Double exposure
33. 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
Academy Ratio
Negative cutter
Cel
Classical style
34. 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
Overhead shot
Extreme wide-angle lens
Closure
Best boy
35. Any noticeable but unintended discrepancy from one shot to the next in costume - props - hairstyle - posture - etc.
Continuity error
Extreme close-up
Non-diegetic
Narrative sequencing
36. A description of film stock that is highly sensitive to light
Backstory
Fast
Anime
Running time
37. The period of time before principal photography during which actors are signed - sets and costumes designed - and locations scouted
Polarizing filters
Lightning mix
Continuity editor
Pre-production
38. A black masking device used to black out a portion of the frame - usually for the insertion of other images
Pixel
Revisionist
Matte
Parellel
39. 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
Assistant Editor
Backstory
Handheld shot
Loose framing
40. 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
Hollywood Blacklist
Medium shot
Restricted narration
Panning and scanning
41. 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
Close-up
Omniscient narration
Diffusion filters
Pixel
42. An uncredited actor - usually hired for crowd scenes
Extra
German Expressionism
Aerial Shot
Cel
43. An unstated meaning that underlies and is implied by spoken dialogue
Color filter
Subtext
Parellel
Time-lapse photography
44. 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
Compilation film
German Expressionism
Synthespian
High-angle shot
45. 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
Travelling matte
Production values
Double exposure
Aperture
46. Optical illusions created during post-production
Visual effects
Blue screen
Four-part structure
Extra
47. A shot transition that emphasizes the visual similarities between two consecutive shots
Color consultant
Graphic match
Crab dolly
Camera distance
48. A technique of cutting back and forth between action occurring in two different locations - which often creates the illusion that they are happening simultaneously. Also called 'cross cutting.'
Insert
Filter
Superimposition
Parellel editing
49. A digital technique developed by Industrial Light and Magic - which builds movement sequences from single frames of film
Go-motion
German Expressionism
Telecine
Focal length
50. A shot that contains two characters within the frame
B-roll
Best boy
Anime
Two-shot
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