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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 short screen appearance by a celebrity - playing himself or herself
Kuleshov effect
Cameo
Vertical integration
Third-person narration
2. The non-chronological insertion of events from the past into the present day of the story world
Flashback
Synthespian
Tracking shot
Neutral-density filter
3. A term for film stock used in early cinema that was insensitive to red hues
Hue
Orthochromatic
Reverse shot
Scene
4. A continuity editing technique that preserves spatial continuity by using a character's line of vision as motivation for a cut
Medium shot
Eyeline match
Dye coupler
Jump cut
5. A device attached to the film camera that records videotape of what has been filmed - allowing the director immediate access to video footage
Fast
Chiaroscuro
Video assist
Trombone shot
6. Devices that attach to actors' faces and/or bodies to change their appearance
Prosthesis
Frozen time moment
Tilt
Forced perspective
7. 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
Direct cinema
Product placement
Storyboard
Cutaway
8. A technician responsible for splicing and assembling the film negative to the editor's specifications
Take
Studio system
Negative cutter
Charge coupler device
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.
Pixilation
Pixel
Average shot length
Restricted narration
10. 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
Time-lapse photography
Out-take
Exposition
Vertical integration
11. A musical in which some or all musical numbers are not motivated by the narrative; for example - characters sing and dance throughout the film but at least some performances are not staged for an onscreen audience. Examples include Oklahoma - The umb
Genre
Syuzhet
Integrated musical
Wide-angle lens
12. 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
Pulling
Screenplay
Wireframe
Episodic
13. A consistent style - theme - and subject matter developed over the course of a director's body of work
Soft light
Tinting
Oeuvre
Computer-generated imagery (CGI)
14. An action film cycle of the late 1960s and early 1970s that featured bold - rebellious African American characters
Handheld shot
Anime
Blaxploitation
Eyeline match
15. The conclusion of the film wraps up - all loose ends in a form of resolution - though not necessarily with a happy ending.
Closure
Fog filter
Product placement
Genre conventions
16. Then Hollywood writers and directors cited for Contempt of Congress for refusing to cooperate with the House Committee on Un-American Activities' attempts to root out Communists in the film industry
Re-establishing shot
Hollywood Ten
Flashing
Undercranking
17. An optical technique that divides the screen into two or more frames
Omniscient narration
Split screen
Narrative
Extra
18. A production crew responsible not for shooting the primary footage but - instead - for remote location shooting and B-roll. See also B-roll
Second unit
Lightning mix
Hollywood Blacklist
Forced development
19. A shot transition that emphasizes the visual similarities between two consecutive shots
Runaway production
Extreme close-up
Graphic match
Rear projection
20. A pan executed so quickly that it produces a blurred image - indicated rapid activity or - sometimes - the passage of time
Swish pan
Grain
Persistence of vision
Direct cinema
21. The individual arrangement of lighting and camera placement used for each shot
Rear projection
Set-up
Scene
Offscreen space
22. A picture element - a measure of image density. There are approximately 18 million pixels in a frame of 35mm film and 300000-400000 in a video image
Pixel
Vertical integration
Figure placement and movement
Trailer
23. A format that uses a larger film stock than standard 35mm. IMAX - Omnimax - and Showscan are shot on 70mm film
Blaxploitation
Blue screen
Wide film
Digital compositing
24. The visual arrangement of objects - actors - and space within the frame
Composition
Flashing
Trailer
Voice-over
25. A documentary or occasionally - a narrative film that presents only one side of an argument or one approach to a subject
Propaganda film
Aerial Shot
Neutral-density filter
Diegesis
26. A crew member whose job is to maintain consistency in visual details from one shot to the next
Continuity editor
Zoom in...
Interpretive claim
City symphony
27. The way an actor delivers a line of dialogue - including pauses - inflection - and emotion
Dailies
Line reading
Selective focus
Insert
28. Filters that increase color saturation and contrast in outdoor shots
Production values
Polarizing filters
Negative
Direct cinema
29. A property of older television monitors - where each frame was scanned as two fields: One consisting of all the odd numbered lines - the other all the even lines. If slowed down - the television image would appear to sweep down the screen one line at
Classical style
Post-production
Synthespian
Interlaced scanning
30. A digital technique developed by Industrial Light and Magic - which builds movement sequences from single frames of film
Hybrid
Go-motion
Letterboxing
Mockumentary
31. A type of film stock that is sensitive to (in other words - registers) all tones in the color spectrum
Star persona
Loose framing
Panchromatic
Available light
32. Glass filters whose surface is etched with spots that refract light - so they create the appearance of water droplets in the air
Fog filter
Classical style
Shutter
Storyboard
33. A non-standard narrative organization that assumes 'day in the life' quality rather than the highly structured three-act or four part narrative - and that features loose or indirect cause-effect relationships
Grain
Wide-angle lens
Episodic
Color consultant
34. Muted - washed out color that contains more white than a saturated color
Aperture
Analog Video
Front projection
Desaturated
35. Any narrative - visual - or sound element that is repeated and thereby acquires and reflects its significance to the story - characters - or themes of the film.
Motif
Aerial Shot
Bleach bypass
Three-point lighting
36. A series of related scene joined through elliptical editing that indicates the passage of time
Montage sequence
Travelling matte
Re-establishing shot
Prosthesis
37. A shot taken by a camera that is held manually rather than supported by a tripod - crane or Steadicam. Generally - such shots are shaky - owing to the motion of the camera operator
Protagonist
Handheld shot
Medium close-up
Hue
38. A short screen appearance by a celebrity - playing himself or herself
Long shot
Tinting
Morphing
Cameo
39. 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.
Green screen
Average shot length
Cameo
Auteur
40. 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.'
Digital cinema
Parellel editing
Hollywood Blacklist
Computer-generated imagery (CGI)
41. 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
Formalist style
Glass shot
Parellel editing
Telephoto lens
42. Also called 'rushes.' Footage exposed and developed quickly so that the director can assess the day's work
Natural-key lighting
Dailies
Score
Prosthesis
43. 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
Tinting
Promotion
Actualitas
Shot transition
44. Sound design that blends the speech of several characters talking simultaneously - used to create spontaneity - although it may also confuse the audience
Flashback
Normal lens
Digital compositing
Overlapping dialogue
45. Author; A term popularized by French film critics and refers to film directors with their own distinctive style
Offscreen space
Exposition
Auteur
Montage sequence
46. These filters bend the light coming into lens - softening and blurring the image
Orthochromatic
Newsreel
Diffusion filters
Evaluative claim
47. The distance that appears in focus in front of and behind the subject. It is determined by the aperture - distance and focal length of lens
On-the-nose dialogue
Gaffer
Depth of field
Reframing
48. A narrative - visual - or sound element that refers viewers to other films or works of art
Standard shot pattern
Blaxploitation
Brechtian distanciation
Intertextual reference
49. A film process that uses 35mm film stock but changes the orientation of the film so that the film moves through the camera horizontally instead of vertically. The larger image is of higher quality than standard 35mm processes
B-roll
Vista Vision
Hybrid
Tilt
50. Projecting a series of frames of film with the same image - which appears to stop the action
Underexposure
Freeze frame
Hollywood Blacklist
Hard light