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Film Vocab
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1. A scene filmed and processed but not selected to appear in the final version of the film
Out-take
Genre conventions
Overlapping dialogue
Anamorphic lens
2. A computer-generated actor that some speculate will replace flesh and blood actors in the not so distant future
Selective focus
Desaturated
Apparatus Theory
Synthespian
3. 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
Fast
Foley artist
Kuleshov effect
Backstage musical
4. The use of editing techniques - such as a fade or dissolve - to indicate the end of one scene and the beginning of another
Gaffer
Depth of field
Shot transition
Gauge
5. A shot taken from a camera position below the subject
Low-angle shot
Fabula
Cel
Third-person narration
6. A lens with a variable focal length that allows changes of focal length while keeping the subject in focus
Open-ended
Long take
Zoom lens
Block booking
7. A process of blending the three elements of the sound track (dialogue - music - and effects) in post-production
Mixing
Major studios
Synthespian
180-degree rule
8. A story narrated by one of the characters within the story - using the 'I' voice
Cameo
Toning
First-person narration
Bleach bypass
9. A narrative - visual - or sound element that refers viewers to other films or works of art
Plot summary
Double exposure
Scratching
Intertextual reference
10. A shot that interrupts a scene's master shot and may include character reactions
Flashback
Rear projection
Three-act structure
Insert
11. A series of related scene joined through elliptical editing that indicates the passage of time
Montage sequence
Zoom out
First-person narration
Intertextual reference
12. A crew member responsible for logging the details of each take on the set so as to ensure continuity
Extreme close-up
Matte
Pulling
Script supervisor
13. 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
Spec script
Available light
Academy Ratio
14. A film composed entirely of footage from other films.
Genre conventions
Mockumentary
Best boy
Compilation film
15. Non-diegetic; any element in the film that is not part of the imagined story world
Narrative sequencing
Diffusion filters
Aerial Shot
Extradiegetic
16. A film composed entirely of footage from other films.
Close-up
Brechtian distanciation
Compilation film
Match on action
17. A post-studio era Hollywood film designed to appeal to the broadest possible audience by fusing a simple story line with major movie stars and mounting a lavish marketing campaign
High concept film
Backstage musical
Extradiegetic
Parellel editing
18. 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
Normal lens
Digital set extension
Blocking
Exposure
19. A relatively long - uninterrupted sot - generally of a minute or more
Establishing shot
Revisionist
Speed
Long take
20. Images that originate from computer graphics technology - rather than photography
Interpellation
Computer-generated imagery (CGI)
Dolly
Evaluative claim
21. 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
Telecine
Close-up
Focus puller
Genre
22. 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
Montage sequence
Anime
Handheld shot
23. A chemical embedded in the emulsion layer of film stock that - when developed after exposure - releases a particular color dye (red - green - or blue)
Medium long shot
Swish pan
Scratching
Dye coupler
24. 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
Visual effects
Editor
Panchromatic
Screenplay
25. The length in minutes for a film to play in its entirety (for example - 120 minutes). Also referred to as 'screen time.'
Classical style
Film stock
Medium close-up
Running time
26. A scene transition in which the first frame of the incoming scene appears to push the last frame of the previous scene off the screen horizontally
Natural-key lighting
Studio system
Wipe
30-degree rule
27. A shot transition where shot A slowly disappears as the screen becomes black before shot B appears. A fade-in is the reverse of this process
Aspect Ratio
Average shot length
Fade-out
Panchromatic
28. A compositing method that allows cinematographers to combine live action and settings that are filmed or created separately. Actors are filmed against a green or blue background. During post-production - this background is filled in with an image thr
Assistant Editor
Green screen
Running time
Cut
29. The term for a film's spoken dialogue - as opposed to the underlying meaning contained in the subtext
B-roll
Plot summary
Dolly
Text
30. Devices that attach to actors' faces and/or bodies to change their appearance
Prosthesis
Animation
Propaganda film
Wide film
31. The practice of shooting during the day but using filters and underexposure to create the illusion of nighttime
Classical style
Day for night
Phi phenomenon
Medium long shot
32. 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
Widescreen
Omniscient narration
Third-person narration
Forced development
33. A film that fuses the conventions of two or more genres
Cel
Hybrid
Voice-over
Master shot
34. 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
Direct cinema
Handheld shot
Interlaced scanning
Actualitas
35. An animation technique that uses a computer program to interpolate frames to produce the effect of an object or creature changing gradually into something different. The program calculates the way the image must change in order for the first image to
Soviet montage
Interpretive claim
Text
Morphing
36. A production term denoting a single uninterrupted series of frames exposed by a motion picture or video camera between the time it is turned on and the time it is turned off. Filmmakers shoot several takes of any scene and the film editor selects the
Interpretive claim
Special visual effects
Dissolve
Take
37. An action film cycle of the late 1960s and early 1970s that featured bold - rebellious African American characters
Blaxploitation
Neutral-density filter
Selective focus
Medium long shot
38. A camera device that opens and closes to regulate the length of time the film is exposed to light
Line of action
Film stock
Shutter
Dissolve
39. A contemporary modification of the standard three-act structure that identifies a critical turning point at the halfway mark of most narrative films
Direct sound
Plot summary
Four-part structure
Script supervisor
40. A shot combining two kinds of movement: the camera tracks in toward the subject wile the lens zooms out
Fabula
Trombone shot
Chiaroscuro
Anime
41. A type of documentary film whose purpose is to present the way of life of a culture or subculture
Cut
Day for night
Ethnographic film
Composition in depth
42. 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
Forced development
Omniscient narration
Frozen time moment
Wide-angle lens
43. Secondary footage that is interspersed with master shots - sometimes in the form of footage shot for another production or archival footage
B-roll
Actualitas
Frozen time moment
Canted angle
44. The aspect ratio of 1.33:1 - standardized by the Academy of Motion Picture Art and Sciences until the development of widescreen formats in the 1950s
Academy Ratio
Day for night
Special visual effects
Morphing
45. A film style that - in contrast to the classical and formalist styles - focuses characters - place - and the spontaneity and digressiveness of life - rather than on highly structured stories or aesthetic abstraction
Tinting
Newsreel
Realist style
Denouement
46. Optical illusions created during production - including the use of matte paintings - glass shots - models - and prosthesis
On-the-nose dialogue
Star persona
Second unit
Special visual effects
47. The first step in the process of creating CGI. The wireframe is a three-dimensional computer model of an object - which is then rendered (producing the finished image) and animated (using simulated camera movement frame by frame)
Polarizing filters
Avant-garde film
Normal lens
Wireframe
48. A part of the story world implied by visual or sound techniques rather than being revealed by the camera
Pixilation
Offscreen space
Day for night
Gaffer
49. The non-chronological insertion of scenes of events yet to happen into the present day of the story world
Flashforward
Running time
Pan
Negative
50. 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
Filter
Anamorphic lens
Interpellation
Telephoto lens