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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 videotape system that records images onto magnetic tape - using electronic signals
Gauge
Analog Video
Letterboxing
Pushing
2. 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
Restricted narration
Oeuvre
Zoom out
Chiaroscuro
3. 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
Release prints
Best boy
Soft light
Rotoscope
4. Film productions shot outside the U.S. for economic reasons
Runaway production
Special visual effects
Third-person narration
Dissolve
5. A production term referring to coordinating actors' movements with lines of dialogue
Gauge
Blocking
Dye coupler
Swish pan
6. Live action is filmed in front of a blue screen and a matte. It's then joined with the background footage
Blue screen
Saturation
High-key lighting
Narrative sequencing
7. 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
Block booking
Fog filter
Set-up
Scene
8. The falling or unraveling action after the climax of a narrative that leads to resolution
Realist style
Close-up
Video assist
Denouement
9. 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.
Backstory
Tight framing
Progressive scanning
Average shot length
10. A consistent style - theme - and subject matter developed over the course of a director's body of work
Panning and scanning
Available light
Oeuvre
Overhead shot
11. A model of industrial organization in the film industry from about 1915 to 1946 - characterized by the development of major and minor studios that produced - distributed - and exhibited films - and held film actors - directors - art directors - and o
Episodic
Studio system
Loose framing
Diegesis
12. 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
Saturation
Hollywood Blacklist
Continuity editing
Vertical integration
13. 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
Restricted narration
Natural-key lighting
German Expressionism
Overlapping dialogue
14. A continuity editing technique that preserves spatial continuity by using a character's line of vision as motivation for a cut
Flashforward
Motif
Eyeline match
Star filter
15. A transparent sheet on which animation artists draw images.
Polarizing filters
Panchromatic
Cel
Intertextual reference
16. Author; A term popularized by French film critics and refers to film directors with their own distinctive style
Split screen
Glass shot
Slow
Auteur
17. 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
Formalist style
Wireframe
Extreme wide-angle lens
Matte
18. Glass filters whose surface is etched with spots that refract light - so they create the appearance of water droplets in the air
Travelling matte
Shot
Fog filter
Line of action
19. Projecting a series of frames of film with the same image - which appears to stop the action
Freeze frame
Progressive scanning
Close-up
Turning point
20. 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
Swish pan
Denouement
Editor
Dailies
21. A shot that includes a human figure from the shoulders up
Phi phenomenon
Medium close-up
Undercranking
Three-act structure
22. Suspended particles of silver in the film's emulsion - Which may become visible in the final image as dots
Anime
Out-take
Grain
Storyboard
23. Cinema verite; a documentary style in which the filmmaker attempts to remain as unobtrusive as possible - recording without obvious editorial comment
Glass shot
Direct cinema
Interpellation
Shot/reverse shot
24. Light striking the emulsion layer of the film - activating light-sensitive grains
Exposure
Swish pan
Second unit
Digital cinema
25. A type of documentary film whose purpose is to present the way of life of a culture or subculture
Voice-over
Parellel editing
Ethnographic film
Animation
26. Literary narration from a viewpoint beyond that of any one individual character
Shot/reverse shot
Filter
Third-person narration
Gauge
27. Standard shot pattern: A sequence of shots designed to maintain spatial continuity. Scene begin with an establishing shot - then move to a series of individual shots depicting characters and action - before reestablishing shots re-orient viewers to t
Post-production
Propaganda film
Standard shot pattern
Revisionist
28. A large-budget film whose strategy is to swamp the competition through market saturation
Normal lens
Orthochromatic
Blockbuster
Gauge
29. Drawing attention to the process of representation (including narrative and characterization) to break the theatrical illusion and elicit a distanced - intellectual response in the audience
Brechtian distanciation
Spec script
German Expressionism
Line reading
30. A genre film that radically modifies accepted genre conventions for dramatic effect
Star filter
Extreme long-shot
Revisionist
Flashback
31. Optical illusions created during post-production
Continuity error
Video assist
Eyeline match
Visual effects
32. A term describing a conclusion that does not answer all the questions raised regarding characters or storylines - nor tie up all loose ends
Foley artist
Superimposition
Travelling matte
Open-ended
33. 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
Extra
Parellel
Match on action
Double exposure
34. 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
Fast motion
Backstory
Major studios
Mockumentary
35. Light striking the emulsion layer of the film - activating light-sensitive grains
Exposure
Second unit
Charge coupler device
Studio system
36. The arrangement of images to depict a unified storyline
Narrative sequencing
Scene
Promotion
Reframing
37. A term used for any narrative sound - or visual element not contained in the story world. Also called 'extradiegetic'
Non-diegetic
Exposure latitude
Go-motion
Avant-garde film
38. A filter that creates points of light that streak outward from a light source
Available light
Undercranking
Star filter
Digital cinema
39. A technique used to join live action with a pre-recorded background image. A projector is placed behind a screen and projects an image onto it. Actors stand in front of the screen and the camera records them in front of the projected background
Rear projection
Phi phenomenon
Take
German Expressionism
40. Glass filters whose surface is etched with spots that refract light - so they create the appearance of water droplets in the air
180-degree rule
Academy Ratio
Medium shot
Fog filter
41. A series of individual drawings that provides a blueprint for the shooting of a scene
Intertextual reference
Director
Syuzhet
Storyboard
42. A narrative - visual - or sound element that refers viewers to other films or works of art
Intertextual reference
Standard shot pattern
Tracking shot
Iris out
43. Projecting a series of frames of film with the same image - which appears to stop the action
Color timing
Medium long shot
Eyeline match
Freeze frame
44. An optical effect whereby the human eye fills in gaps between closely spaced objects - so that two light bulbs flashing on and off are understood as one light moving back and forth
Speed
Mixing
Phi phenomenon
Neutral-density filter
45. Dense accumulation of detail conveyed in the opening moments of a film
Exposition
Grain
Recursive action
Rack focus
46. A film that fuses the conventions of two or more genres
Hollywood Blacklist
Post-production
Hybrid
Studio system
47. The use of editing techniques - such as a fade or dissolve - to indicate the end of one scene and the beginning of another
Shot transition
Wide film
Exposure latitude
Bleach bypass
48. 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
Underexposure
Subtext
Long shot
Vertical integration
49. 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
Speed
Exposure latitude
Point-of-view shot
Masking
50. Also called 'rushes.' Footage exposed and developed quickly so that the director can assess the day's work
Exposure
Dailies
Figure placement and movement
Third-person narration