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Film Vocab
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1. Individuals who were prevented from working in the film industry because of their suspected involvement with Communist interests
Score
Text
Day for night
Hollywood Blacklist
2. Images that originate from computer graphics technology - rather than photography
Flashforward
Computer-generated imagery (CGI)
Academy Ratio
Handheld shot
3. 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
Release prints
Zoom in...
Glass shot
Voice-over
4. 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
Release prints
Negative
Scene
Crab dolly
5. A technician responsible for splicing and assembling the film negative to the editor's specifications
Score
Standard shot pattern
Digital set extension
Negative cutter
6. A shot combining two kinds of movement: the camera tracks in toward the subject wile the lens zooms out
Composition
Roadshowing
Blockbuster
Trombone shot
7. Cinema verite; a documentary style in which the filmmaker attempts to remain as unobtrusive as possible - recording without obvious editorial comment
Emulsion
Backstage musical
Direct cinema
Mixing
8. Prefogging; a cinematographic technique that exposes raw film stock to light before - during - or after shooting - resulting in an image with reduced contrast. This effect can also be created using digital post-production techniques
Overexposure
Desaturated
High-angle shot
Flashing
9. A style associated with Hollywood filmmaking of the studio and post-studio era - in which efficient storytelling - rather than gritty realism or aesthetic innovation - is of paramount importance
Match on action
Classical style
Direct sound
Extreme wide-angle lens
10. A change of focus from one plane of depth to another. As the in-focus subject goes out of focus - another object - which has been blurry - comes into focus in either the background or the foreground
Rack focus
Blaxploitation
Dye coupler
Denouement
11. 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
Runaway production
Morphing
Toning
Green screen
12. A painting used on the set as a portion of the background
Digital cinema
Tinting
Matte painting
Compositing
13. A technique of exposing film frames - then rewinding the film and exposing it again - which results in an image that combines two shots in a single frame
Gaffer
Tableau shot
Double exposure
Pan
14. Any noticeable but unintended discrepancy from one shot to the next in costume - props - hairstyle - posture - etc.
Visual effects
Continuity error
Star filter
Interpellation
15. A technique of intentionally adding scratches in a film's emulsion layer for aesthetic purposes - such as to simulate home movie footage
Base
Overhead shot
Cel
Scratching
16. A painting used on the set as a portion of the background
Soviet montage
Iris out
High-key lighting
Matte painting
17. A short segment of film used to promote an upcoming release
Trailer
First-person narration
Canted angle
Continuity editing
18. The camera should move at least 30 degrees any time there is a cut within a scene
Post-production
30-degree rule
Canted angle
Saturation
19. The central cause(s) behind a character's actions
Lightning mix
Motivation
Director
Underexposure
20. Creating images during post-production by joining together photographic or CGI material shot or created at different times and places
Wide-angle lens
Eye-level shot
Compositing
Plot summary
21. A short documentary on current events - show in movie theaters along with cartoons and feature films beginning in the 1930s
Desaturated
Hybrid
Cutaway
Newsreel
22. 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
Hue
Mixing
Recursive action
Digital cinema
23. A videotape system that records images onto magnetic tape - using electronic signals
Analog Video
Blue screen
Major studios
Crane shot
24. A genre film that radically modifies accepted genre conventions for dramatic effect
Canted angle
Revisionist
Score
Negative cutter
25. Assists the editor with various tasks - including taking footage to the lab - checking the condition of the negative - cataloguing footage - and supervising optical effects - often produced by an outside company
Assistant Editor
Subtext
Master positive
Available light
26. The non-chronological insertion of events from the past into the present day of the story world
Master shot
Blockbuster
Flashback
Cameo
27. Smaller corporations that did not own distribution and/or exhibition companies in the studio era - including Universal - Columbia - and United Artists
Shot transition
Minor studios
City symphony
Polarizing filters
28. A shot that contains two characters within the frame
Direct sound
Two-shot
Academy Ratio
Avant-garde film
29. 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
Fog filter
Negative cutter
Outsourcing
Parellel
30. Dialogue that restates What is already obvious from images or action
Panning and scanning
On-the-nose dialogue
Cinerama
Product placement
31. A neutral account of the basic plot and style of a film - a part of a film - or a group of films
Focal length
Digital compositing
Descriptive claim
Hard light
32. 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
Progressive scanning
Blockbuster
Storyboard
Shooting script
33. 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
Cel
Studio system
Genre
Letterboxing
34. The period of time before principal photography during which actors are signed - sets and costumes designed - and locations scouted
Integrated musical
Pre-production
Scratching
Sound bridge
35. A scene transition wherein sound from one scene bleeds over into the ext scene - often resulting in a contrast between sound image
Low-key lighting
Sound bridge
Graphic match
Dolly
36. An effect created when too little light strikes the film during shooting. As a result the image will contain dark areas that appear very dense and dark (including shadows) and the overall contrast will be less than with a properly exposed image
Front projection
Day for night
Studio system
Underexposure
37. 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
Depth of field
Director
Pixilation
Realist style
38. A change of focus from one plane of depth to another. As the in-focus subject goes out of focus - another object - which has been blurry - comes into focus in either the background or the foreground
Rack focus
Saturation
Film stock
Speed
39. Optical illusions created during post-production
Visual effects
Saturation
Block booking
Narrative sequencing
40. A statement that presents an argument about a film's meaning and significance
Interpretive claim
Steadicam
Out-take
Special visual effects
41. The film medium's technological apparatus is inherently ideological
Apparatus Theory
Extra
Reframing
Script supervisor
42. 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
Color filter
Soundtrack
Promotion
Pre-production
43. A technique of overdeveloping exposed film stock (leaving it in the chemical bath longer than indicated) in order to increase density and contrast in the image
Digital compositing
Auteur
Pushing
German Expressionism
44. A shot taken from a camera position above the subject - looking down at it
Hollywood Blacklist
Hue
High-angle shot
B-roll
45. The building block of a scene; an uninterrupted sequence of frames that viewers experience as they watch a film - ending with a cut - fade - dissolve - etc. See also Take
Shot
Three-point lighting
Master positive
Figure placement and movement
46. The five vertically integrated corporations that exerted the greatest control over film production in the studio era: MGM - Warner Brothers - RKO - Twentieth Century Fox - and Paramount
Take
Major studios
Insert
Product placement
47. 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
Saturation
Release prints
Composition
Iris out
48. The length in minutes for a film to play in its entirety (for example - 120 minutes). Also referred to as 'screen time.'
Neutral-density filter
Lightning mix
Running time
Denouement
49. The plotline that surrounds an embedded tale. The frame narration may or may not be as fully developed as the embedded tale
Frame narration
Mockumentary
Foley artist
Blaxploitation
50. A form of shot transition - generally concluding a scene - where a circular mask constricts around the image until the entire frame is black
Iris in...
Reverse shot
Handheld shot
Narrative
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