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Film Vocab
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performing-arts
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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. Public identity created by marketing a film actor's performances - press coverage - and 'personal' information to fans as the star's personality
Montage sequence
Pan
Progressive scanning
Star persona
2. 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
Telephoto lens
Cut
Natural-key lighting
Four-part structure
3. A long shot in which the film frame resembles the proscenium arch of the stage - distancing the audience
Intertextual reference
Tableau shot
Close-up
Fabula
4. A scene transition wherein sound from one scene bleeds over into the ext scene - often resulting in a contrast between sound image
Tableau shot
Sound bridge
Optical printer
Cut
5. 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
Gaffer
Polarizing filters
Persistence of vision
Panning and scanning
6. A widescreen process that uses three cameras - three projectors - and a wide - curved screen
Roadshowing
Cinerama
Shot/reverse shot
Freeze frame
7. Experimental film; Underground cinema;
Lens
Extradiegetic
Medium close-up
Avant-garde film
8. A short documentary on current events - show in movie theaters along with cartoons and feature films beginning in the 1930s
Flashback
Newsreel
Omniscient narration
Vertical integration
9. The individual arrangement of lighting and camera placement used for each shot
Recursive action
Grain
Method acting
Set-up
10. 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
Star persona
Zoom lens
Front projection
Protagonist
11. Everything audiences hear when they watch a sound film. The soundtrack is the composite of all three elements of film sound: dialogue - music - and sound effects
Soundtrack
Foley artist
Composition in depth
Graphic match
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
Natural-key lighting
Omniscient narration
Syuzhet
Interpellation
13. The camera should move at least 30 degrees any time there is a cut within a scene
Hard light
Pixilation
Aperture
30-degree rule
14. Any lens with a focal length approximately equal to the diagonal of the frame. For 35mm filmmaking - a 35-50 mm lens does not distort the angle of vision or depth
Normal lens
Motif
Parellel editing
30-degree rule
15. A screenplay written and submitted to a studio or production company without a prior contract or agreement
Spec script
Overexposure
Visual effects
On-the-nose dialogue
16. 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
Typecasting
Classical style
Shot transition
Oeuvre
17. A technique of filming at a speed faster than projection - the projecting the footage at normal speed of 24 frames per second. Because fewer frames were recorded per second - the action appears to be speeded up
Color filter
Masking
Slow motion
Dye coupler
18. The conclusion of the film wraps up - all loose ends in a form of resolution - though not necessarily with a happy ending.
Closure
Motivation
Runaway production
Match on action
19. 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
Toning
Parellel
Bleach bypass
20. A neutral account of the basic plot and style of a film - a part of a film - or a group of films
Out-take
Mockumentary
Descriptive claim
Continuity editor
21. The non-chronological insertion of scenes of events yet to happen into the present day of the story world
Blaxploitation
Exposition
Flashforward
Intertextual reference
22. Cinema verite; a documentary style in which the filmmaker attempts to remain as unobtrusive as possible - recording without obvious editorial comment
Score
Pre-production
Direct cinema
Hue
23. The rules of character - setting - and narrative that films that belong to a genre - such as Westerns - horror films - and screwball comedies - generally obey.
Jump cut
Genre conventions
Deep focus cinematography
Evaluative claim
24. 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
Spec script
Composition in depth
Video assist
Recursive action
25. A film's main characters - one whose conflicts and motives drive the story forward
Protagonist
Establishing shot
Motivation
Special visual effects
26. 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
Loose framing
Release prints
Sound bridge
Shot/reverse shot
27. Drawing attention to the process of representation (including narrative and characterization) to break the theatrical illusion and elicit a distanced - intellectual response in the audience
Brechtian distanciation
Extreme long-shot
Pixel
Eye-level shot
28. 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
Frame narration
Telephoto lens
Pan
Superimposition
29. Then Hollywood writers and directors cited for Contempt of Congress for refusing to cooperate with the House Committee on Un-American Activities' attempts to root out Communists in the film industry
Hollywood Ten
Compilation film
Text
Hybrid
30. A description of film stock that is highly sensitive to light
Interpretive claim
Fast
First-person narration
Propaganda film
31. 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
Blue screen
Extreme wide-angle lens
Ethnographic film
Pan
32. Dense accumulation of detail conveyed in the opening moments of a film
Exposition
Cinerama
Star persona
Cameo
33. 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
Sound bridge
Fast motion
Narrative sequencing
Animation
34. A neutral account of the basic plot and style of a film - a part of a film - or a group of films
Animation
Descriptive claim
Long take
Trailer
35. A glass element on a camera that focuses light rays so that the image of the object appears on the surface of the film
Line of action
Matte painting
Parellel
Lens
36. A sound editing technique that links several scenes through parallel and overlapping sounds. Each sound is associated with one scene - unlike a sound bridge - where a sound from one scene bleeds into that of another
Hard light
Slow
Extreme wide-angle lens
Lightning mix
37. A machine used to create optical effects such as fades - dissolves - and superimpositions. Most are now created digitally
Negative
Medium shot
Parellel
Optical printer
38. A business model adopted by the major studios during the Hollywood studio era - in which studios controlled all aspects of the film business - from production to distribution and exhibition
Oeuvre
Vertical integration
Overlapping dialogue
Exposure latitude
39. 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
Frozen time moment
Fog filter
30-degree rule
Protagonist
40. A system of constructing and arranging buildings and objects on the set so that they diminish in size dramatically from foreground to background - which creates the illusion of depth
Soft light
Wipe
Forced perspective
Second unit
41. A term used for any narrative sound - or visual element not contained in the story world. Also called 'extradiegetic'
Best boy
Zoom lens
Double exposure
Non-diegetic
42. The first print made from a film negative
Master positive
Morphing
Interlaced scanning
Major studios
43. Film productions shot outside the U.S. for economic reasons
Composition in depth
Runaway production
Close-up
Line reading
44. 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
Panchromatic
Shot/reverse shot
Outsourcing
Flashforward
45. Using computer graphics to 'build' structures connected to the actual architecture on set or location
Set-up
Parellel editing
Digital set extension
Insert
46. A system for combining two separately filmed images in the same frame that involves create a matte (a black mask that covers a portion of the image) for a live action sequence and using it to block out a portion of the frame when filming the backgrou
Travelling matte
Realist style
Fast motion
Trombone shot
47. 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
Score
First-person narration
Overexposure
Forced development
48. A series of individual drawings that provides a blueprint for the shooting of a scene
Avant-garde film
Chiaroscuro
Medium shot
Storyboard
49. The chronological accounting of all events presented and suggested
Fabula
Recursive action
Out-take
Loose framing
50. A consistent style - theme - and subject matter developed over the course of a director's body of work
Narrative
Kuleshov effect
Oeuvre
Post-production