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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 shot that makes the human subject very small in relation to his or her environment. The entire figure from head to toe is onscreen and dwarfed by the surroundings
Genre
Flashforward
Extradiegetic
Extreme long-shot
2. A film's main characters - one whose conflicts and motives drive the story forward
Motif
Director
Plot summary
Protagonist
3. The non-chronological insertion of scenes of events yet to happen into the present day of the story world
Reverse shot
Flashforward
Available light
Toning
4. Creating the appearance of movement by drawing a series of frames that are projected sequentially - rather than photographing a series of still images
Fast motion
Extra
Text
Animation
5. Film productions shot outside the U.S. for economic reasons
Runaway production
On-the-nose dialogue
Offscreen space
Fabula
6. A shot taken from a camera mounted on a crane that moves three-dimensionally in a space
Reframing
Handheld shot
Crane shot
Narrative
7. 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
Non-diegetic
Pixel
Extreme close-up
Widescreen
8. The non-chronological insertion of events from the past into the present day of the story world
Digital set extension
Flashback
Plot summary
Closure
9. The practice of shooting during the day but using filters and underexposure to create the illusion of nighttime
Day for night
Slow motion
Motif
Extreme wide-angle lens
10. 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
Anamorphic lens
Special visual effects
Out-take
11. An uncredited actor - usually hired for crowd scenes
Compilation film
Post-production
Extra
Antagonist
12. 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
Syuzhet
Morphing
Diffusion filters
Visual effects
13. The details of a character's past that emerge as the film unfolds - and which often play a role in character motivation
Promotion
Backstory
Optical printer
Digital video
14. A measure of a film stock's sensitivity to light. 'Fast' refers to sensitive film stock - while slow film is relatively insensitive
Speed
Desaturated
Telecine
Text
15. An abrupt - inexplicable shift in time and place of an action not signaled by an appropriate shot transition
Diegesis
Base
Jump cut
Day for night
16. An action film cycle of the late 1960s and early 1970s that featured bold - rebellious African American characters
Runaway production
Fast motion
Blaxploitation
Loose framing
17. A shot taken fro a position directly above the action - also called a 'birds' eye shot'
Compilation film
Formalist style
Overhead shot
Negative
18. An early color process that replaced silver halide grains with colored salts
Cinerama
Toning
Shooting script
Wireframe
19. A digital technique developed by Industrial Light and Magic - which builds movement sequences from single frames of film
Product placement
Go-motion
Extreme close-up
Formalist style
20. A digital technique developed by Industrial Light and Magic - which builds movement sequences from single frames of film
Desaturated
Cutaway
Foley artist
Go-motion
21. A chemical coating on film stock containing light-sensitive grains
Emulsion
Runaway production
Neutral-density filter
Pre-production
22. A system initially developed for marketing films by creating and promoting stars as objects of admiration. The promotion of stars has now become an end in itself
Star system
Director
B-roll
Descriptive claim
23. 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
Travelling matte
Integrated musical
Fast motion
Shot
24. The measurement of how forgiving a film stock is. It determines whether an acceptable image will be produced when the film stock is exposed to too little or too much light
Episodic
Panchromatic
Exposure latitude
Product placement
25. The period of time before principal photography during which actors are signed - sets and costumes designed - and locations scouted
Flashing
Avant-garde film
Telecine
Pre-production
26. A technique of arranging the actors on the set to take advantage of deep focus cinematography - which allows for many planes of depth in the film frame to remain in focus
Backstage musical
Interpretive claim
Best boy
Composition in depth
27. Processes such as Cinemascope and Cinerama - developed during the 1950s to enhance film's size advantage over the smaller television image
Widescreen
Color filter
Backstory
Forced development
28. Early films that documented everyday events - such as workers leaving a factory
Selective focus
Actualitas
Studio system
Optical printer
29. A transparent sheet on which animation artists draw images.
Extreme wide-angle lens
Narrative
Cel
Diffusion filters
30. The chronological accounting of all events presented and suggested
Fabula
Crab dolly
Standard shot pattern
Charge coupler device
31. A cinematography technique that produces an image with many planes of depth in focus. It can be accomplished by using a small aperture - a large distance between camera and subject - and/or a lens of short focal length
Deep focus cinematography
Four-part structure
Color timing
Studio system
32. A shot transition that emphasizes the visual similarities between two consecutive shots
Digital set extension
Extradiegetic
Graphic match
Director
33. Light emitted from a relatively small source positioned close to the subject. It tends to be unflattering because it creates deep shadows and emphasizes surface imperfections
Genre conventions
Forced perspective
High concept film
Hard light
34. A shot taken when the camera is so close to a subject that it fills the frame. It is most commonly used for a shot that isolates and encompasses a single actor's face - to emphasize the expression of emotion
Tinting
Medium long shot
Eye-level shot
Close-up
35. A term used for any narrative sound - or visual element not contained in the story world. Also called 'extradiegetic'
Matte
Superimposition
Non-diegetic
Scratching
36. Experimental film; Underground cinema;
Two-shot
Avant-garde film
Point-of-view shot
Direct cinema
37. A film composed entirely of footage from other films.
Telecine
Compilation film
Hollywood Ten
Synthespian
38. A shot filmed from an airplane or helicopter
Continuity error
Handheld shot
Best boy
Aerial Shot
39. Creating images during post-production by joining together photographic or CGI material shot or created at different times and places
Backstage musical
Matte
Compositing
Focal length
40. A shot that focuses audience attention on precise details that may or may not be the focus of characters
180-degree rule
Cutaway
Charge coupler device
Out-take
41. A technique used to join live action with pre-recorded background images. A projector is aimed at a half-silvered mirror that reflects the background - which the camera records as being located behind the actors
Direct sound
Front projection
Hollywood Ten
Crane shot
42. Color. The strength of a hue is measured by its saturation or desaturation
Wipe
Flashback
Widescreen
Hue
43. A story narrated by one of the characters within the story - using the 'I' voice
Extra
First-person narration
Letterboxing
Omniscient narration
44. A visual effect achieved through the use of photography and digital techniques that appears to stop time and allow the viewer to travel around the subject and view it from a multitude of vantage points
Sound bridge
Frozen time moment
Classical style
Tilt
45. 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)
Aspect Ratio
Interpretive claim
Wireframe
Pixilation
46. 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
Voice-over
Wipe
Base
Release prints
47. 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
Continuity editor
Matte
Kuleshov effect
Flashing
48. 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
Classical style
Cameo
Fast
Rotoscope
49. 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
Shutter
Narrative
Academy Ratio
Aspect Ratio
50. A person responsible for putting a film together from a mass of developed footage - making decisions regarding pace - shot transitions - and which scenes and shots will be used
Time-lapse photography
Editor
Steadicam
Rotoscope