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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 technique of telling the story from an all-knowing character. Films that use restricted narration limit the audience's perception to what one particular character knows - but may insert moments of omniscience
Rack focus
Omniscient narration
Standard shot pattern
Three-point lighting
2. 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
Pushing
On-the-nose dialogue
Blocking
Method acting
3. Muted - washed out color that contains more white than a saturated color
Chiaroscuro
Speed
Desaturated
Filter
4. 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
Superimposition
Tilt
Natural-key lighting
Hollywood Ten
5. A film style that - in contrast to the classical and formalist styles - focuses characters - place - and the spontaneity and digressiveness of life - rather than on highly structured stories or aesthetic abstraction
Realist style
Loose framing
Integrated musical
Bleach bypass
6. The chronological accounting of all events presented and suggested
Direct cinema
Fabula
Wireframe
Iris in...
7. The arrangement of actors on screen as a compositional element that suggests themes - character development - emotional content - and visual motifs
Figure placement and movement
Telephoto lens
Classical style
Direct sound
8. A documentary or occasionally - a narrative film that presents only one side of an argument or one approach to a subject
Direct cinema
Take
Iris out
Propaganda film
9. Lighting design that provides an even illumination of the subject - with many facial details washed out. High-key lighting tends to create a hopeful mood - in contrast to low-key lighting
Product placement
High-key lighting
Vertical integration
Phi phenomenon
10. The non-chronological insertion of scenes of events yet to happen into the present day of the story world
Flashforward
B-roll
Interlaced scanning
Director
11. Also called 'd-cinema.' Not to be confused with digital cinematography (shooting movies on digital video) - this term refers to using digital technologies for exhibition
Turning point
Spec script
Time-lapse photography
Digital cinema
12. Author; A term popularized by French film critics and refers to film directors with their own distinctive style
Cel
Auteur
Out-take
Blocking
13. A brief chronological description of the basic events and characters in a film. It does not include interpretive or evaluative claims
Blockbuster
Motif
Speed
Plot summary
14. 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
Assistant Editor
Screenplay
Hard light
Low-key lighting
15. An outlawed studio era practice - where studios forced exhibitors to book groups of films at once - thus ensuring a market for their failures along with their successes
Chiaroscuro
Block booking
Digital video
Four-part structure
16. A shot that depicts a human body from the feet up
Block booking
Integrated musical
Medium long shot
Optical printer
17. A technique of cutting back and forth between action occurring in two different locations - which often creates the illusion that they are happening simultaneously. Also called 'cross cutting.'
Master shot
Cameo
Avant-garde film
Parellel editing
18. An alternative to continuity editing - this style of editing was developed in silent Soviet cinema - based on the theory that editing should exploit the difference between shots to generate intellectual and emotional responses in the audience
Double exposure
Tilt
Soviet montage
Persistence of vision
19. 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
Slow motion
Continuity editor
Establishing shot
Chiaroscuro
20. 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
Cameo
Propaganda film
Green screen
Fade-out
21. 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
Tilt
Masking
Minor studios
Eye-level shot
22. An abrupt shot transition that occurs when Shot A is instantaneously replaced by Shot B.
Oeuvre
Charge coupler device
Letterboxing
Cut
23. The distance in millimeters from the optical center of a lens to the lane where the sharpest image is formed while focusing on a distant object
Focal length
Antagonist
Analog Video
Offscreen space
24. Materials intentionally released by studios to attract public attention to films and their stars. Promotion differs from publicity - which is information that is not (or does not appear to be) intentionally disseminated by studios
Promotion
Optical printer
Soviet montage
Flashing
25. 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
Pan
Slow motion
Panning and scanning
Genre
26. The practice or repeatedly casting actors in similar roles across different films
Split screen
Mockumentary
High-key lighting
Typecasting
27. 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
Handheld shot
Frozen time moment
Polarizing filters
Standard shot pattern
28. Color. The strength of a hue is measured by its saturation or desaturation
Slow
Character actor
Fade-out
Hue
29. An actor whose career rests on playing minor or secondary quirky characters rather than leading roles
Anamorphic lens
Trombone shot
Backstage musical
Character actor
30. 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
Slow motion
Exposure
Motivation
Turning point
31. 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
Tracking shot
Diegesis
Major studios
Direct cinema
32. The artful use of light and dark areas in the composition in black and white filmmaking
Fast motion
Offscreen space
Chiaroscuro
Aperture
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
Line reading
Hard light
Special visual effects
Rack focus
34. A shot depicting the human body from the waist up
Focus puller
Grain
Medium shot
Focal length
35. 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
Dolly
Overexposure
Computer-generated imagery (CGI)
Composition in depth
36. Suspended particles of silver in the film's emulsion - Which may become visible in the final image as dots
Master positive
Grain
Optical printer
Panning and scanning
37. An optical effect whereby the eye continues to register a visual stimulus in the brain for a brief period after that stimulus has been removed
Extreme wide-angle lens
Neutral-density filter
Persistence of vision
Motif
38. A scene filmed and processed but not selected to appear in the final version of the film
Omniscient narration
Promotion
Out-take
Trailer
39. 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
Motivation
Pixel
Line reading
Interpellation
40. The rules of character - setting - and narrative that films that belong to a genre - such as Westerns - horror films - and screwball comedies - generally obey.
Vista Vision
Genre conventions
Line reading
Typecasting
41. 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
Shot
Tilt
Saturation
Day for night
42. A mental phenomenon by which viewers derive more meaning from the interaction of two sequential shots than from a single shot in isolation
180-degree rule
Blaxploitation
Kuleshov effect
Apparatus Theory
43. 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
Scratching
Direct sound
Digital set extension
Vista Vision
44. Non-diegetic; any element in the film that is not part of the imagined story world
Insert
Extradiegetic
Denouement
Normal lens
45. The period after principal photography during which editing and looping take place - and special visual effects are added to the film
Roadshowing
Propaganda film
Post-production
Episodic
46. Exposed and developed film stock from which the master positive is struck. If projected - the negative would produce a reverse of the image - with dark areas appearing white and vice versa or - if color film - areas of color appearing as their comple
Hue
Negative
Fade-out
Wide-angle lens
47. A filter that simply reduces the amount of light entering the lens - without affecting the color characteristics
Long take
Neutral-density filter
Panning and scanning
Tableau shot
48. Cinema verite; a documentary style in which the filmmaker attempts to remain as unobtrusive as possible - recording without obvious editorial comment
Outsourcing
Running time
Direct cinema
Emulsion
49. 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
Hybrid
Rack focus
Shooting script
Extreme wide-angle lens
50. A pan executed so quickly that it produces a blurred image - indicated rapid activity or - sometimes - the passage of time
Voice-over
Swish pan
Dissolve
Screenplay