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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. The width of the film stock - measured across the frame. Typical sizes are 8mm - 16mm - 35mm - and 70mm
Text
Gauge
Double exposure
Shutter
2. 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
Forced perspective
Underexposure
Wipe
Dailies
3. A technique of depicting two layered images simultaneously. Images from one frame or several frames of film are added to pre-existing images - using an optical printer - to produce the same effect as a double exposure
Major studios
Dye coupler
Superimposition
Focal length
4. A standard shot pattern that dictates that a shot of one character will be followed by a shot of another character - taken from the reverse angle of the first shot
Shot/reverse shot
Exposure latitude
Letterboxing
Eyeline match
5. The classical model of narrative form. The first act introduces characters and conflicts; the second act offers complication leading to a climax; the third act contains the danouement and resolution
Three-act structure
Travelling matte
Studio system
Long shot
6. An actor whose career rests on playing minor or secondary quirky characters rather than leading roles
Synthespian
Character actor
Lightning mix
Wide film
7. A specialist who monitors the processing of color on the se and in the film lab
Speed
Color consultant
Shot/reverse shot
Line of action
8. The selection and ordering of narrative events presented in a film
Exposure latitude
Syuzhet
Interpretive claim
Grain
9. 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
Typecasting
Line reading
Turning point
Digital cinema
10. A style of Japanese animation - distinguished primarily by the fact that it is not all geared for young audiences
Go-motion
Avant-garde film
Medium shot
Anime
11. A lens with a shorter focal length than a normal or telephoto lens (usually between 15-35mm). The subject appears smaller as a result - but the angle of vision is wider and an illusion is created of greater depth in the frame
Product placement
Mixing
Animation
Wide-angle lens
12. Exposed and developed film stock from which the master positive is struck. If projected - the negative would produce a reverse of the image - with dark areas appearing white and vice versa or - if color film - areas of color appearing as their comple
Cut
Overlapping dialogue
Negative
Natural-key lighting
13. A relatively long - uninterrupted sot - generally of a minute or more
High concept film
Undercranking
Long take
Desaturated
14. A series of individual drawings that provides a blueprint for the shooting of a scene
Depth of field
Gauge
Storyboard
Parellel
15. A shot taken from a camera position above the subject - looking down at it
Persistence of vision
High-angle shot
Mockumentary
Recursive action
16. 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
Focus puller
Bleach bypass
Set-up
Extradiegetic
17. Dense accumulation of detail conveyed in the opening moments of a film
Rack focus
Screenplay
Exposition
Shot
18. A camera device that opens and closes to regulate the length of time the film is exposed to light
Best boy
Close-up
Continuity editing
Shutter
19. 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
Method acting
Phi phenomenon
ADR
Genre
20. The person in charge of planning the style and look of the film with the production designer and director of photography - working with actors during principal photography - and collaborating with the editor on the final version
Director
Steadicam
Figure placement and movement
Superimposition
21. The person in charge of planning the style and look of the film with the production designer and director of photography - working with actors during principal photography - and collaborating with the editor on the final version
Academy Ratio
Overexposure
Director
Slow
22. The selection and ordering of narrative events presented in a film
Wide-angle lens
Iris out
Syuzhet
Digital set extension
23. 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
Denouement
Horizontal integration
Telephoto lens
City symphony
24. Also called 'full screen -' the technique of re-shooting a widescreen film in order to convert it to the original television aspect ration of 1.33 to 1. Rather than reproduce the original aspect ratio - as a letterboxed version does - a panned and sc
Major studios
Panning and scanning
Evaluative claim
Script supervisor
25. Projecting a series of frames of film with the same image - which appears to stop the action
Freeze frame
Evaluative claim
Video assist
Two-shot
26. Non-diegetic; any element in the film that is not part of the imagined story world
High concept film
Extradiegetic
Subtext
Syuzhet
27. A technique of 'pushing' the film (overdeveloping it) to correct problems of underexposure (resulting from insufficient light during shooting) by increasing image contrast
Progressive scanning
Genre conventions
Low-key lighting
Forced development
28. 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
Kuleshov effect
Fast motion
Flashback
29. Dutch angle; a shot resulting from a static camera that is tilted to the right or left - so that the subject in the frame appears at a diagonal
First-person narration
Flashback
Gauge
Canted angle
30. Smaller corporations that did not own distribution and/or exhibition companies in the studio era - including Universal - Columbia - and United Artists
Fast motion
Minor studios
Color filter
Soundtrack
31. A shot transition that emphasizes the visual similarities between two consecutive shots
Dolly
Episodic
Graphic match
Pulling
32. The visual arrangement of objects - actors - and space within the frame
30-degree rule
Kuleshov effect
Visual effects
Composition
33. 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
Third-person narration
Narrative sequencing
High-angle shot
34. Images that originate from computer graphics technology - rather than photography
Minor studios
Green screen
Low-angle shot
Computer-generated imagery (CGI)
35. A painting used on the set as a portion of the background
Matte painting
Emulsion
Genre conventions
Newsreel
36. The term for a film's spoken dialogue - as opposed to the underlying meaning contained in the subtext
Hybrid
Animation
Underexposure
Text
37. Color. The strength of a hue is measured by its saturation or desaturation
B-roll
Analog Video
Hue
Line of action
38. A story; a chain of events linked by cause-and-effect logic
Narrative
Persistence of vision
Travelling matte
Foley artist
39. A class or type of film - such as the Western or the horror movie. They share narrative - visual - and/or sound conventions
Realist style
Dailies
Underexposure
Genre
40. A shot taken from a level camera located approximately 5' to 6' from the ground - simulating the perspective of a person standing before the action presented
Runaway production
Sound bridge
Eye-level shot
Restricted narration
41. Filters that increase color saturation and contrast in outdoor shots
Release prints
Grain
Polarizing filters
30-degree rule
42. A measure of the visual and sound quality of a film. Low-budget films tend to have lower production values because they lack the resources to devote to expensive pre- and post-production activities
Protagonist
Computer-generated imagery (CGI)
High-key lighting
Production values
43. A technique of moving from the telephoto position to the wide-angle position of a zoom lens - which results in the subject appearing to become smaller within the frame - while remaining in focus
Hue
Interpellation
Dolly
Zoom out
44. The film medium's technological apparatus is inherently ideological
Two-shot
Superimposition
Apparatus Theory
Gaffer
45. Public identity created by marketing a film actor's performances - press coverage - and 'personal' information to fans as the star's personality
Hard light
Oeuvre
Star persona
Realist style
46. The classical model of narrative form. The first act introduces characters and conflicts; the second act offers complication leading to a climax; the third act contains the danouement and resolution
Bleach bypass
Oeuvre
Master positive
Three-act structure
47. A filter that simply reduces the amount of light entering the lens - without affecting the color characteristics
Avant-garde film
Masking
Reverse shot
Neutral-density filter
48. A type of documentary film whose purpose is to present the way of life of a culture or subculture
Soviet montage
Pre-production
Aspect Ratio
Ethnographic film
49. A shot taken from a camera mounted on a crane that moves three-dimensionally in a space
Crane shot
Overexposure
Extreme close-up
Wireframe
50. 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
Protagonist
Optical printer
Long take