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Film Vocab
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1. The visual arrangement of objects - actors - and space within the frame
Deep focus cinematography
Composition
Dolly
Spec script
2. A visual effect achieved through the use of photography and digital techniques that appears to stop time and allow the viewer to travel around the subject and view it from a multitude of vantage points
Frozen time moment
Product placement
Denouement
Insert
3. Using computer graphics to 'build' structures connected to the actual architecture on set or location
Crab dolly
Neutral-density filter
Dissolve
Digital set extension
4. Creating an image by combining several elements created separately using computer graphics rather than photographic means
Academy Ratio
Digital compositing
Persistence of vision
Low-key lighting
5. A measure of a film stock's sensitivity to light. 'Fast' refers to sensitive film stock - while slow film is relatively insensitive
Desaturated
Medium close-up
Widescreen
Speed
6. 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
German Expressionism
Frozen time moment
Three-point lighting
Pulling
7. A measure of a film stock's sensitivity to light. 'Fast' refers to sensitive film stock - while slow film is relatively insensitive
Polarizing filters
Speed
Digital video
Panning and scanning
8. 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
Typecasting
Saturation
Master positive
Zoom in...
9. Using computer graphics to 'build' structures connected to the actual architecture on set or location
Digital set extension
Third-person narration
Insert
Depth of field
10. Also called 'd-cinema.' Not to be confused with digital cinematography (shooting movies on digital video) - this term refers to using digital technologies for exhibition
Deep focus cinematography
Mixing
Jump cut
Digital cinema
11. The practice or repeatedly casting actors in similar roles across different films
Academy Ratio
Superimposition
Typecasting
Method acting
12. 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
Vertical integration
Narrative sequencing
Denouement
Freeze frame
13. The first shot in a standard shot sequence. Its purpose is to provide a clear representation of the location of the action
Integrated musical
Dailies
Color timing
Establishing shot
14. The period after principal photography during which editing and looping take place - and special visual effects are added to the film
Omniscient narration
Slow motion
Special visual effects
Post-production
15. Film productions shot outside the U.S. for economic reasons
Flashforward
Horizontal integration
Zoom lens
Runaway production
16. Smaller corporations that did not own distribution and/or exhibition companies in the studio era - including Universal - Columbia - and United Artists
Letterboxing
Close-up
Minor studios
Turning point
17. 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
Desaturated
Low-key lighting
Focus puller
Front projection
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
Split screen
Set-up
Interpellation
Anime
19. A form of shot transition - generally concluding a scene - where a circular mask constricts around the image until the entire frame is black
Set-up
Iris in...
Product placement
Gaffer
20. The camera should move at least 30 degrees any time there is a cut within a scene
Loose framing
Extra
30-degree rule
Hybrid
21. 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
Optical printer
Matte painting
Mixing
Close-up
22. A technique of shooting a scene at a very high speed (96 frames per second) - then adding and subtracting frames in post-production - 'fanning out' the action through the overlapping images
Brechtian distanciation
Recursive action
Roadshowing
Academy Ratio
23. A brief chronological description of the basic events and characters in a film. It does not include interpretive or evaluative claims
High-key lighting
Parellel
Plot summary
Newsreel
24. A musical film in which each song and dance number is narratively motivated by a plot that situates characters in performance contexts
Backstage musical
Overlapping dialogue
Prosthesis
Medium shot
25. The period after principal photography during which editing and looping take place - and special visual effects are added to the film
Offscreen space
Mixing
Post-production
Best boy
26. A story narrated by one of the characters within the story - using the 'I' voice
Kuleshov effect
First-person narration
Zoom out
Intertextual reference
27. A story narrated by one of the characters within the story - using the 'I' voice
Fade-out
First-person narration
Persistence of vision
Zoom lens
28. A lens with a variable focal length that allows changes of focal length while keeping the subject in focus
Continuity editing
Zoom lens
Scratching
Pan
29. A film's main characters - one whose conflicts and motives drive the story forward
Release prints
Roadshowing
Protagonist
30-degree rule
30. A shot transition that involves the gradual disappearance of the image at the same time that a new image gradually comes into view
Dissolve
First-person narration
Direct sound
Product placement
31. A technique of recording very few images over a long period of time - say - one frame per minute or per day
Blue screen
Interlaced scanning
Narrative
Time-lapse photography
32. An alternative to classical and realist styles - formalism is a self-consciously interventionist approach that explores ideas - abstraction - and aesthetics rather than focusing on storytelling (as in classical films) or everyday life (as in realist
Handheld shot
Studio system
Formalist style
Diegesis
33. Sound design that blends the speech of several characters talking simultaneously - used to create spontaneity - although it may also confuse the audience
Set-up
Overlapping dialogue
Academy Ratio
Dissolve
34. An outlawed studio era practice - where studios forced exhibitors to book groups of films at once - thus ensuring a market for their failures along with their successes
Block booking
Compilation film
Continuity editor
Low-angle shot
35. (Automatic dialogue replacement) recording synchronized dialogue in post-production - cutting several identical lengths of developed film and having actors record the dialogue repeatedly
Day for night
ADR
30-degree rule
Episodic
36. A shot that makes the human subject very small in relation to his or her environment. The entire figure from head to toe is onscreen and dwarfed by the surroundings
Extreme long-shot
Medium long shot
High-key lighting
Master shot
37. The written blueprint for a film - composed of three elements: dialogue - sluglines (setting the place and time of each scene) - and description. Feature-length screenplays typically run 90-130 pages
Screenplay
Backstage musical
Overexposure
Diffusion filters
38. Lighting design where the key light is somewhat more intense than the fill light - so the fill does not eliminate every shadow. The effect is generally less cheerful than high-key lighting - but not as gloomy as low-key lighting
Gauge
Intertextual reference
Natural-key lighting
Plot summary
39. A crew member whose job is to measure the distance between the subject and the camera lens - marking the ring on the camera lens - and ensuring the ring is turned precisely so that the image is in focus
Forced perspective
Focus puller
Tilt
Blocking
40. 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
Running time
Release prints
Scene
Motif
41. A videotape system that records images onto magnetic tape - using electronic signals
Denouement
Film stock
Master positive
Analog Video
42. 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.
Jump cut
Average shot length
Underexposure
Pixilation
43. An unstated meaning that underlies and is implied by spoken dialogue
Widescreen
Glass shot
Mockumentary
Subtext
44. 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
Shutter
Point-of-view shot
Pulling
Emulsion
45. 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
Extreme wide-angle lens
Composition
Wide-angle lens
Shot transition
46. The shape of the image onscreen as determined by the width of the frame relative to its height
Aspect Ratio
Camera distance
Visual effects
Matte
47. A sound editing technique that links several scenes through parallel and overlapping sounds. Each sound is associated with one scene - unlike a sound bridge - where a sound from one scene bleeds into that of another
Jump cut
Lightning mix
Vista Vision
Split screen
48. A character who in some way opposes the protagonist - leading to protracted conflict
Motivation
Persistence of vision
Medium long shot
Antagonist
49. A technique of shifting the camera angle - height - or distance to take into account the motion of actors or objects within the frame
Synthespian
Motif
Hollywood Ten
Reframing
50. A platform on wheels - used for mobile camera shots
Iris out
Dolly
Selective focus
Master positive
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