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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 crew member who reports to the Director of Photography (DP) and is in charge of tasks involving lighting and electrical needs
Character actor
B-roll
Gaffer
Color timing
2. The artful use of light and dark areas in the composition in black and white filmmaking
Reframing
Vertical integration
Swish pan
Chiaroscuro
3. The first print made from a film negative
Genre
Master positive
Promotion
Optical printer
4. A model of industrial organization in the film industry from about 1915 to 1946 - characterized by the development of major and minor studios that produced - distributed - and exhibited films - and held film actors - directors - art directors - and o
Continuity error
Studio system
Anime
Undercranking
5. Images that originate from computer graphics technology - rather than photography
Fabula
Computer-generated imagery (CGI)
Cinerama
Iris in...
6. A film that fuses the conventions of two or more genres
Product placement
Apparatus Theory
Hybrid
180-degree rule
7. The period after principal photography during which editing and looping take place - and special visual effects are added to the film
Post-production
Polarizing filters
Frame narration
Rear projection
8. A small - variable opening on a camera lens that regulates the amount of light entering the camera and striking the surface of the film
Dye coupler
Normal lens
Aperture
Tracking shot
9. 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
Slow motion
Rack focus
Eyeline match
Lightning mix
10. The written blueprint for a film - composed of three elements: dialogue - sluglines (setting the place and time of each scene) - and description. Feature-length screenplays typically run 90-130 pages
Screenplay
Ethnographic film
Motif
Normal lens
11. A mental phenomenon by which viewers derive more meaning from the interaction of two sequential shots than from a single shot in isolation
Script supervisor
Rack focus
Point-of-view shot
Kuleshov effect
12. A glass element on a camera that focuses light rays so that the image of the object appears on the surface of the film
Match on action
Fast motion
Tight framing
Lens
13. An abrupt - inexplicable shift in time and place of an action not signaled by an appropriate shot transition
Animation
Jump cut
Underexposure
Realist style
14. A production term referring to coordinating actors' movements with lines of dialogue
Film stock
Fast
Set-up
Blocking
15. 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
Cutaway
Composition
Animation
Major studios
16. 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
Color consultant
Mixing
Travelling matte
Pan
17. Suspended particles of silver in the film's emulsion - Which may become visible in the final image as dots
Zoom out
Cutaway
Pre-production
Grain
18. The reverse of Iris in: an iris expands outward until the next shot takes up the entire screen
Vista Vision
Iris out
Flashing
Pulling
19. A description of film stock that is highly sensitive to light
Genre conventions
Pan
Fast
Exposure
20. A fiction film (often a comedy) that uses documentary conventions on fictional rather than real-world subject matter
Mockumentary
Front projection
Storyboard
Overhead shot
21. A transparent sheet on which animation artists draw images.
Medium long shot
Fog filter
Director
Cel
22. 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
Video assist
Blockbuster
Polarizing filters
Composition in depth
23. 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
Phi phenomenon
Subgenre
Horizontal integration
Analog Video
24. Filters that increase color saturation and contrast in outdoor shots
Cinerama
Star persona
Polarizing filters
Lightning mix
25. A form of shot transition - generally concluding a scene - where a circular mask constricts around the image until the entire frame is black
Color consultant
Dailies
Iris in...
Camera distance
26. Secondary footage that is interspersed with master shots - sometimes in the form of footage shot for another production or archival footage
Continuity editing
Overlapping dialogue
B-roll
First-person narration
27. A process of transferring film to video tapes or DVDs so that the original aspect ratio of the film is preserved
Extradiegetic
Antagonist
Letterboxing
Tableau shot
28. Using computer graphics to 'build' structures connected to the actual architecture on set or location
Parellel
Desaturated
Tableau shot
Digital set extension
29. 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
Score
Formalist style
Direct sound
Filter
30. A flexible celluloid strip that - along with the emulsion layer - comprises 35mm film stock
Telecine
Zoom in...
Base
Charge coupler device
31. A device used to manipulate the amount and/or color of light entering the lens
Brechtian distanciation
Filter
Panchromatic
Close-up
32. The length in minutes for a film to play in its entirety (for example - 120 minutes). Also referred to as 'screen time.'
Slow motion
Evaluative claim
Running time
Speed
33. 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
Forced development
Soundtrack
On-the-nose dialogue
Deep focus cinematography
34. 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
Reframing
Academy Ratio
Subtext
Lightning mix
35. 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
Trailer
Orthochromatic
Intertextual reference
Pixel
36. A format that uses a larger film stock than standard 35mm. IMAX - Omnimax - and Showscan are shot on 70mm film
Star filter
Aerial Shot
Block booking
Wide film
37. A camera device that opens and closes to regulate the length of time the film is exposed to light
Mixing
Filter
Go-motion
Shutter
38. A crew member responsible for logging the details of each take on the set so as to ensure continuity
Academy Ratio
Script supervisor
Digital set extension
Tilt
39. 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
Steadicam
Actualitas
Soft light
Close-up
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
Exposition
Wide-angle lens
Running time
Eye-level shot
41. The details of a character's past that emerge as the film unfolds - and which often play a role in character motivation
Realist style
Spec script
Backstory
Re-establishing shot
42. Public identity created by marketing a film actor's performances - press coverage - and 'personal' information to fans as the star's personality
Post-production
Front projection
Star persona
Hollywood Blacklist
43. The measure of intensity or purity of a color. Saturated color is purer than desaturated color - which has more white in it and thus offers a washed-out - less intense version of a color
Insert
Three-act structure
Saturation
Pan
44. Assists the gaffer in managing lighting crews
Best boy
Overexposure
Matte
Widescreen
45. Optical illusions created during production - including the use of matte paintings - glass shots - models - and prosthesis
German Expressionism
Second unit
Flashing
Special visual effects
46. 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
Vista Vision
Slow motion
Establishing shot
Exposition
47. The film medium's technological apparatus is inherently ideological
Post-production
Progressive scanning
Apparatus Theory
Speed
48. A character who in some way opposes the protagonist - leading to protracted conflict
Runaway production
Negative cutter
Extradiegetic
Antagonist
49. 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
Insert
Script supervisor
Subgenre
Color filter
50. A narrative moment that signals an important shift of some kind in character or situation
Wide-angle lens
Turning point
Blocking
Long take