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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. Assists the gaffer in managing lighting crews
Character actor
Extreme wide-angle lens
Best boy
Diffusion filters
2. Dialogue that restates What is already obvious from images or action
Steadicam
On-the-nose dialogue
Gaffer
Major studios
3. A long shot in which the film frame resembles the proscenium arch of the stage - distancing the audience
Tableau shot
Reframing
Zoom out
Dye coupler
4. 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
Underexposure
Frozen time moment
Slow
Green screen
5. A story; a chain of events linked by cause-and-effect logic
Green screen
Narrative
Color consultant
Soft light
6. The arrangement of actors on screen as a compositional element that suggests themes - character development - emotional content - and visual motifs
High-key lighting
Pre-production
Superimposition
Figure placement and movement
7. A consistent style - theme - and subject matter developed over the course of a director's body of work
Rotoscope
Zoom in...
Oeuvre
Four-part structure
8. A film composed entirely of footage from other films.
Depth of field
Compilation film
Vista Vision
Letterboxing
9. A technician responsible for splicing and assembling the film negative to the editor's specifications
Negative cutter
Normal lens
Digital video
Editor
10. A technique of moving the camera - on a specially built track. Such shots often trace character movement laterally across the frame or in and out of the depth of the frame
Tracking shot
Dissolve
Natural-key lighting
Pan
11. A production crew responsible not for shooting the primary footage but - instead - for remote location shooting and B-roll. See also B-roll
Overexposure
Second unit
Long shot
Pre-production
12. A technique of leaving empty space around the subject in the frame - in order to covey openness and continuity of visible space and to imply offscreen space
Hybrid
Best boy
Loose framing
Plot summary
13. 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)
Wireframe
Long shot
Narrative sequencing
Set-up
14. The shape of the image onscreen as determined by the width of the frame relative to its height
Medium shot
Aspect Ratio
Exposition
Compositing
15. A series of related scene joined through elliptical editing that indicates the passage of time
Hollywood Blacklist
Montage sequence
Frozen time moment
Frozen time moment
16. A series of individual drawings that provides a blueprint for the shooting of a scene
Shot/reverse shot
Slow motion
Storyboard
High-key lighting
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
Aspect Ratio
Formalist style
Exposure
Shutter
18. Live action is filmed in front of a blue screen and a matte. It's then joined with the background footage
Blue screen
Normal lens
Rack focus
Motif
19. An abrupt - inexplicable shift in time and place of an action not signaled by an appropriate shot transition
Jump cut
Promotion
Method acting
Master positive
20. The arrangement of actors on screen as a compositional element that suggests themes - character development - emotional content - and visual motifs
Figure placement and movement
Cinerama
Parellel
Eye-level shot
21. Individuals who were prevented from working in the film industry because of their suspected involvement with Communist interests
Zoom in...
Motivation
Tracking shot
Hollywood Blacklist
22. A crew member responsible for logging the details of each take on the set so as to ensure continuity
Dissolve
Lightning mix
Script supervisor
Star system
23. A shot taken fro a position directly above the action - also called a 'birds' eye shot'
Overhead shot
Panchromatic
Runaway production
Screenplay
24. A technique of leaving empty space around the subject in the frame - in order to covey openness and continuity of visible space and to imply offscreen space
Screenplay
Academy Ratio
Loose framing
Star filter
25. A style of stage acting developed from the teachings of Constantin Stanislavsky - which trains actors to get into character through the use of emotional memory
Method acting
Tinting
Voice-over
Extradiegetic
26. A part of the story world implied by visual or sound techniques rather than being revealed by the camera
Promotion
Go-motion
Day for night
Offscreen space
27. The plotline that surrounds an embedded tale. The frame narration may or may not be as fully developed as the embedded tale
Master shot
Frame narration
Medium close-up
Match on action
28. A crew member whose job is to maintain consistency in visual details from one shot to the next
Flashback
Auteur
Digital cinema
Continuity editor
29. A system for recording images on magnetic tape using a digital signal - that is - an electronic signal comprised of 0s and 1s
Digital video
Oeuvre
Antagonist
Jump cut
30. The plotline that surrounds an embedded tale. The frame narration may or may not be as fully developed as the embedded tale
Frame narration
Glass shot
Handheld shot
Typecasting
31. A group of films within a given genre that share their own specific set of conventions that differentiate them from other films in the genre. For example - the slasher film is a subgenre of the horror genre
Figure placement and movement
Open-ended
Subgenre
Cel
32. Dense accumulation of detail conveyed in the opening moments of a film
Parellel editing
Slow motion
Exposition
Progressive scanning
33. An action film cycle of the late 1960s and early 1970s that featured bold - rebellious African American characters
Actualitas
Blaxploitation
Rack focus
Wide-angle lens
34. A shot filmed from an airplane or helicopter
Blockbuster
Exposure latitude
Aerial Shot
Realist style
35. 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 long-shot
Fast
Extreme wide-angle lens
Natural-key lighting
36. A term used for any narrative sound - or visual element not contained in the story world. Also called 'extradiegetic'
Non-diegetic
Set-up
On-the-nose dialogue
Mixing
37. Also called 'stop motion photography.' A technique of photographing a scene one frame at a time and moving the model between each shot
Digital set extension
Open-ended
Rear projection
Pixilation
38. A marketing strategy of screening a blockbuster prior to general release only in premier theaters
Roadshowing
Film stock
Masking
Camera distance
39. 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
Grain
Freeze frame
Major studios
City symphony
40. Optical illusions created during post-production
Exposition
Ethnographic film
Visual effects
Forced development
41. A story narrated by one of the characters within the story - using the 'I' voice
First-person narration
Insert
Propaganda film
Antagonist
42. 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
Average shot length
Green screen
Time-lapse photography
Wireframe
43. A short screen appearance by a celebrity - playing himself or herself
Propaganda film
Cameo
Rear projection
Cinerama
44. Cinema verite; a documentary style in which the filmmaker attempts to remain as unobtrusive as possible - recording without obvious editorial comment
High-angle shot
Grain
Direct cinema
Normal lens
45. A device that projects photographs or footage onto glass so that images can be traced by hand to create animated images
Exposure latitude
Overhead shot
Rotoscope
Tilt
46. A format that uses a larger film stock than standard 35mm. IMAX - Omnimax - and Showscan are shot on 70mm film
Eyeline match
Insert
Wide film
Parellel
47. The practice or repeatedly casting actors in similar roles across different films
Montage sequence
Typecasting
Blocking
Digital video
48. A rule in continuity editing - which dictates that if a cut occurs while a character is in the midst of an action - the subsequent shot must begin so that audiences see the completion of that action
Average shot length
Match on action
Formalist style
Zoom out
49. 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
Progressive scanning
German Expressionism
Pushing
Base
50. A form of shot transition - generally concluding a scene - where a circular mask constricts around the image until the entire frame is black
Visual effects
Trailer
Cinerama
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