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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 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
Star system
Persistence of vision
Method acting
Director
2. Color. The strength of a hue is measured by its saturation or desaturation
Low-angle shot
Genre conventions
Hue
Antagonist
3. Devices that attach to actors' faces and/or bodies to change their appearance
Prosthesis
Composition in depth
Propaganda film
Take
4. A style of Japanese animation - distinguished primarily by the fact that it is not all geared for young audiences
Rack focus
Anime
Natural-key lighting
Montage sequence
5. A technique of underdeveloping exposed film stock (leaving it in a chemical batch a shorter amount of time than usual) in order to achieve the visual effect of reducing contrast
Pulling
Slow
Steadicam
Medium shot
6. The camera does not move across an imagined line drawn between two characters
Matte
Reframing
Continuity editing
180-degree rule
7. A part of the story world implied by visual or sound techniques rather than being revealed by the camera
Subgenre
Vertical integration
Blocking
Offscreen space
8. 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
Zoom in...
Film stock
Shot/reverse shot
Handheld shot
9. The first shot in a standard shot sequence. Its purpose is to provide a clear representation of the location of the action
Open-ended
Dolly
Establishing shot
Newsreel
10. A camera shot taken at a large distance from the subject. Using the human body as the subject - a long shot captures the entire human form
Long shot
Iris out
Cut
Flashing
11. An effect created when more light is required to produce an image strakes the film stock - so that the resulting image exhibits high contrast - glaring light - and washed out shadows. This effect ma or may not be intentional on the filmmaker's part
Overexposure
Superimposition
Direct sound
Freeze frame
12. Louis Althusser's term for the way in which a society creates its subjects/citizens through ideological (as opposed to repressive) state apparatuses - which include education - media - religion - and the family
Digital cinema
Star persona
Flashforward
Interpellation
13. An agreement made between filmmakers and those who license the use of commercial products to feature those products in films - generally as props used by characters
Product placement
Dye coupler
Running time
Third-person narration
14. A filter that simply reduces the amount of light entering the lens - without affecting the color characteristics
High-key lighting
Cut
Aperture
Neutral-density filter
15. 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
Cel
Method acting
Wide film
Star persona
16. Light emitted from a larger source that is scattered over a bigger area or reflected off a surface before it strikes the subject. Soft light minimizes facial details - including wrinkles
Vertical integration
Soft light
Post-production
Aerial Shot
17. A chemical embedded in the emulsion layer of film stock that - when developed after exposure - releases a particular color dye (red - green - or blue)
Neutral-density filter
Dye coupler
Running time
Exposure
18. Dense accumulation of detail conveyed in the opening moments of a film
Re-establishing shot
Voice-over
Natural-key lighting
Exposition
19. Sound recorded on a set - on location - or - for documentary film - at an actual real-world event - as opposed to dubbed in post-production through ADR or looping
Three-point lighting
Composition
Direct sound
Reverse shot
20. The conclusion of the film wraps up - all loose ends in a form of resolution - though not necessarily with a happy ending.
Speed
Shot transition
Color consultant
Closure
21. A non-standard narrative organization that assumes 'day in the life' quality rather than the highly structured three-act or four part narrative - and that features loose or indirect cause-effect relationships
Episodic
Glass shot
Matte painting
Non-diegetic
22. A consistent style - theme - and subject matter developed over the course of a director's body of work
Visual effects
Oeuvre
Low-angle shot
Composition
23. Glass filters whose surface is etched with spots that refract light - so they create the appearance of water droplets in the air
ADR
Fog filter
Hollywood Blacklist
Evaluative claim
24. 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
Propaganda film
Available light
Travelling matte
Morphing
25. 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
Superimposition
Score
Star system
Glass shot
26. The first print made from a film negative
Wipe
Composition
Master positive
Double exposure
27. Optical illusions created during post-production
Foley artist
Master positive
Line of action
Visual effects
28. 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
Zoom out
Exposition
Backstage musical
30-degree rule
29. 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
Sound bridge
Establishing shot
Morphing
Animation
30. 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
Fast motion
Extreme long-shot
Major studios
Depth of field
31. Literary narration from a viewpoint beyond that of any one individual character
Diffusion filters
Production values
Diegesis
Third-person narration
32. 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
Continuity editor
Widescreen
Overhead shot
33. A film process that uses 35mm film stock but changes the orientation of the film so that the film moves through the camera horizontally instead of vertically. The larger image is of higher quality than standard 35mm processes
Filter
Vista Vision
Compositing
Extreme wide-angle lens
34. A story narrated by one of the characters within the story - using the 'I' voice
Glass shot
First-person narration
City symphony
Dye coupler
35. 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
Zoom lens
Rear projection
Star persona
Compilation film
36. A direct vocal address to the audience - Which may emanate from a character or from a narrative voice apparently unrelated to the diegesis
Reframing
Base
Voice-over
Extreme long-shot
37. A technique of underdeveloping exposed film stock (leaving it in a chemical batch a shorter amount of time than usual) in order to achieve the visual effect of reducing contrast
Pulling
Forced development
Day for night
Medium close-up
38. A chemical coating on film stock containing light-sensitive grains
Diegesis
Director
Soft light
Emulsion
39. Cinema verite; a documentary style in which the filmmaker attempts to remain as unobtrusive as possible - recording without obvious editorial comment
Time-lapse photography
Editor
Direct cinema
Star filter
40. Suspended particles of silver in the film's emulsion - Which may become visible in the final image as dots
Method acting
Vista Vision
Animation
Grain
41. A description of film stock that is highly sensitive to light
Depth of field
Panning and scanning
Fast
Hard light
42. The film medium's technological apparatus is inherently ideological
Widescreen
Descriptive claim
Line of action
Apparatus Theory
43. The conclusion of the film wraps up - all loose ends in a form of resolution - though not necessarily with a happy ending.
Pulling
Roadshowing
Prosthesis
Closure
44. The first shot in a standard shot sequence. Its purpose is to provide a clear representation of the location of the action
Master shot
Tableau shot
Star persona
Establishing shot
45. The space between the camera and subject it is filming.
Speed
Mockumentary
Camera distance
Shot
46. 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
Denouement
Direct sound
Iris out
47. 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
Foley artist
Subgenre
Fast motion
Realist style
48. A scene filmed and processed but not selected to appear in the final version of the film
Star system
Negative cutter
Hollywood Blacklist
Out-take
49. Recording images at a slower speed than the speed of projection (24 frames per second). Before cameras were motorized - this was called undercranking. Fewer frames are exposed in one minute - so - when projected at 24 f.p.s. - that action takes less
Fast motion
Hybrid
Revisionist
Direct cinema
50. A narrative - visual - or sound element that refers viewers to other films or works of art
Non-diegetic
Formalist style
Intertextual reference
Lightning mix