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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 shot that focuses audience attention on precise details that may or may not be the focus of characters
Horizontal integration
Color timing
Interlaced scanning
Cutaway
2. A system for recording images on magnetic tape using a digital signal - that is - an electronic signal comprised of 0s and 1s
Reframing
Cameo
Apparatus Theory
Digital video
3. A relatively long - uninterrupted sot - generally of a minute or more
Long take
Master positive
Denouement
Roadshowing
4. Leaving the silver grains in the emulsion rather than bleaching them out - which produces desaturated color
Medium shot
Focal length
Exposition
Bleach bypass
5. 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
On-the-nose dialogue
Deep focus cinematography
Re-establishing shot
Four-part structure
6. Squeezes the image at a ratio of 2:1 horizontally onto a standard film frame. On the projector - it unsqueezes the image - creating a widescreen aspect ratio during presentation
Anamorphic lens
Progressive scanning
Zoom out
Spec script
7. 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
Base
Score
Vista Vision
Progressive scanning
8. The visual arrangement of objects - actors - and space within the frame
Composition
Handheld shot
Video assist
Parellel editing
9. Individuals who were prevented from working in the film industry because of their suspected involvement with Communist interests
Pulling
Hollywood Blacklist
Match on action
Toning
10. 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
Production values
Soundtrack
Shot transition
Propaganda film
11. 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
Continuity editing
Block booking
Depth of field
Flashing
12. The length in minutes for a film to play in its entirety (for example - 120 minutes). Also referred to as 'screen time.'
Point-of-view shot
Fog filter
Running time
Subtext
13. A form of shot transition - generally concluding a scene - where a circular mask constricts around the image until the entire frame is black
Editor
Iris in...
Tight framing
Genre conventions
14. A crew member who reports to the Director of Photography (DP) and is in charge of tasks involving lighting and electrical needs
Fade-out
Aspect Ratio
Low-key lighting
Gaffer
15. A crew member who reports to the Director of Photography (DP) and is in charge of tasks involving lighting and electrical needs
Gaffer
Second unit
Average shot length
Base
16. A scene filmed and processed but not selected to appear in the final version of the film
Out-take
Chiaroscuro
Base
Iris in...
17. The way an actor delivers a line of dialogue - including pauses - inflection - and emotion
Line reading
Toning
Crab dolly
Lightning mix
18. 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
Non-diegetic
Iris out
Interpellation
Trombone shot
19. The term for a film's spoken dialogue - as opposed to the underlying meaning contained in the subtext
Text
Figure placement and movement
Double exposure
Matte painting
20. The chip in a video camera that converts the incoming light to an electronic signal
Rotoscope
Phi phenomenon
Wide-angle lens
Charge coupler device
21. Processes such as Cinemascope and Cinerama - developed during the 1950s to enhance film's size advantage over the smaller television image
Direct sound
Color filter
Widescreen
Phi phenomenon
22. The horizontal turning movement of an otherwise immobile camera across a scene from left to right or vice versa
Pan
Medium long shot
Flashing
Long take
23. The conclusion of the film wraps up - all loose ends in a form of resolution - though not necessarily with a happy ending.
Crab dolly
Vista Vision
Prosthesis
Closure
24. 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
Soviet montage
Long take
Zoom lens
Fast motion
25. A statement that presents an argument about a film's meaning and significance
Soviet montage
Glass shot
Interpretive claim
High-angle shot
26. Devices that attach to actors' faces and/or bodies to change their appearance
Video assist
Prosthesis
Three-act structure
Wide-angle lens
27. A shot taken fro a position directly above the action - also called a 'birds' eye shot'
Formalist style
Overhead shot
Production values
Descriptive claim
28. (Automatic dialogue replacement) recording synchronized dialogue in post-production - cutting several identical lengths of developed film and having actors record the dialogue repeatedly
Dissolve
Pan
ADR
Product placement
29. A story narrated by one of the characters within the story - using the 'I' voice
Canted angle
Offscreen space
First-person narration
Double exposure
30. The imagined world of the story
Synthespian
Diegesis
Slow
Typecasting
31. 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
Three-point lighting
Pulling
Fast motion
Continuity editing
32. The visual arrangement of objects - actors - and space within the frame
Dye coupler
Shot/reverse shot
Hybrid
Composition
33. A shot filmed from an airplane or helicopter
Aerial Shot
Frame narration
Slow motion
Wipe
34. Early films that documented everyday events - such as workers leaving a factory
Actualitas
Pushing
Classical style
Master positive
35. A term used for any narrative sound - or visual element not contained in the story world. Also called 'extradiegetic'
Overlapping dialogue
Non-diegetic
Aspect Ratio
Text
36. A camera device that opens and closes to regulate the length of time the film is exposed to light
Forced perspective
Shutter
Pre-production
Realist style
37. A series of individual drawings that provides a blueprint for the shooting of a scene
Storyboard
Flashback
Reverse shot
High-key lighting
38. A shot taken from a level camera located approximately 5' to 6' from the ground - simulating the perspective of a person standing before the action presented
Eye-level shot
Release prints
Vertical integration
Polarizing filters
39. A lens with a shorter focal length than a normal or telephoto lens (usually between 15-35mm). The subject appears smaller as a result - but the angle of vision is wider and an illusion is created of greater depth in the frame
Line reading
Wide-angle lens
Tracking shot
Montage sequence
40. A mental phenomenon by which viewers derive more meaning from the interaction of two sequential shots than from a single shot in isolation
Optical printer
Motivation
Storyboard
Kuleshov effect
41. A type of filter that absorbs certain wavelength but leave others unaffected. On black and white film - color filters lighten or darken tones. On color film - they can produce a range of effects
Protagonist
Fade-out
Color filter
Rotoscope
42. A short segment of film used to promote an upcoming release
Filter
Trailer
Point-of-view shot
Direct cinema
43. Suspended particles of silver in the film's emulsion - Which may become visible in the final image as dots
Grain
Lightning mix
Auteur
Motivation
44. A single take that contains an entire scene
Denouement
Master shot
High-key lighting
Reframing
45. The central cause(s) behind a character's actions
Swish pan
Motivation
Pan
Charge coupler device
46. A screenplay written and submitted to a studio or production company without a prior contract or agreement
Realist style
Wipe
Fabula
Spec script
47. 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
Post-production
Canted angle
Montage sequence
Evaluative claim
48. 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
Omniscient narration
Go-motion
Undercranking
Extreme close-up
49. The space between the camera and subject it is filming.
Color timing
Text
Camera distance
Omniscient narration
50. A crew member who works in post-production in a specially equipped studio to create the sounds of the story world - such as the shuffling of shoes on various surfaces for footsteps
Foley artist
180-degree rule
Hard light
Motif