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Film Vocab
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1. The reverse of Iris in: an iris expands outward until the next shot takes up the entire screen
Split screen
Iris out
Steadicam
Animation
2. A machine used to create optical effects such as fades - dissolves - and superimpositions. Most are now created digitally
Day for night
Matte
Optical printer
Long take
3. A screenplay written and submitted to a studio or production company without a prior contract or agreement
Spec script
Masking
Forced development
High-angle shot
4. A musical in which some or all musical numbers are not motivated by the narrative; for example - characters sing and dance throughout the film but at least some performances are not staged for an onscreen audience. Examples include Oklahoma - The umb
Roadshowing
Director
Composition in depth
Integrated musical
5. A scene transition wherein sound from one scene bleeds over into the ext scene - often resulting in a contrast between sound image
Sound bridge
Extreme wide-angle lens
Iris in...
Classical style
6. A filter that simply reduces the amount of light entering the lens - without affecting the color characteristics
First-person narration
Animation
Neutral-density filter
Star system
7. The average length in seconds of a series of shots - covering a portion of a film or an entire film; a measure of pace within a scene or in the film as a whole.
Best boy
Shot
Travelling matte
Average shot length
8. Smaller corporations that did not own distribution and/or exhibition companies in the studio era - including Universal - Columbia - and United Artists
Extra
Minor studios
Cut
Digital compositing
9. A musical accompaniment written specifically for a film
Actualitas
Cameo
Roadshowing
Score
10. A complete narrative unit within a film - with its own beginning - middle - and end. Often scenes are unified - and distinguished from one another - by time and setting
Lightning mix
Scene
Analog Video
Standard shot pattern
11. Smaller corporations that did not own distribution and/or exhibition companies in the studio era - including Universal - Columbia - and United Artists
Vista Vision
Minor studios
Genre conventions
Standard shot pattern
12. The non-chronological insertion of scenes of events yet to happen into the present day of the story world
Flashforward
Special visual effects
Genre conventions
Tight framing
13. 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
Voice-over
Average shot length
Telephoto lens
Direct sound
14. 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
Scene
Best boy
Brechtian distanciation
Hard light
15. 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
Point-of-view shot
Auteur
Omniscient narration
Split screen
16. The arrangement of images to depict a unified storyline
Dye coupler
Narrative sequencing
Base
Blaxploitation
17. 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
Composition in depth
Letterboxing
Eyeline match
Tracking shot
18. 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
Intertextual reference
Low-key lighting
Double exposure
19. A rule in continuity editing - which dictates that if a cut occurs while a character is in the midst of an action - the subsequent shot must begin so that audiences see the completion of that action
Orthochromatic
Pan
Match on action
Horizontal integration
20. A technique of exposing film frames - then rewinding the film and exposing it again - which results in an image that combines two shots in a single frame
Mockumentary
Front projection
Four-part structure
Double exposure
21. Optical illusions created during post-production
Establishing shot
Visual effects
Composition
Natural-key lighting
22. 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
Continuity editor
Overexposure
Panchromatic
Digital cinema
23. 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
Descriptive claim
Hue
Promotion
Cinerama
24. A series of individual drawings that provides a blueprint for the shooting of a scene
Storyboard
Forced development
Widescreen
Low-angle shot
25. A device used to manipulate the amount and/or color of light entering the lens
Brechtian distanciation
Filter
Standard shot pattern
Montage sequence
26. A technique of shooting a scene at a very high speed (96 frames per second) - then adding and subtracting frames in post-production - 'fanning out' the action through the overlapping images
Recursive action
Direct cinema
Green screen
Realist style
27. A large-budget film whose strategy is to swamp the competition through market saturation
Blockbuster
Visual effects
Tracking shot
Flashing
28. An abrupt shot transition that occurs when Shot A is instantaneously replaced by Shot B.
Telecine
Typecasting
Cut
Iris in...
29. The plotline that surrounds an embedded tale. The frame narration may or may not be as fully developed as the embedded tale
Telecine
Production values
Frame narration
Animation
30. 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
Open-ended
High-key lighting
Telephoto lens
Hue
31. The shape of the image onscreen as determined by the width of the frame relative to its height
Shot transition
Classical style
Interlaced scanning
Aspect Ratio
32. 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
Long take
Release prints
Matte
Soviet montage
33. The individual arrangement of lighting and camera placement used for each shot
B-roll
Exposure
Set-up
Dailies
34. 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
Classical style
Superimposition
Progressive scanning
35. The plotline that surrounds an embedded tale. The frame narration may or may not be as fully developed as the embedded tale
Focal length
Subgenre
Frame narration
Graphic match
36. 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
ADR
Denouement
Superimposition
Progressive scanning
37. A production term referring to coordinating actors' movements with lines of dialogue
Blocking
Low-key lighting
Star system
Chiaroscuro
38. Assists the gaffer in managing lighting crews
Letterboxing
Wide film
Best boy
Oeuvre
39. The arrangement of actors on screen as a compositional element that suggests themes - character development - emotional content - and visual motifs
Figure placement and movement
Aperture
Frame narration
Horizontal integration
40. A shot in a sequence that is taken from the reverse angle of the shot previous to it
Swish pan
Reverse shot
Forced perspective
Saturation
41. 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
Product placement
Realist style
Bleach bypass
Overhead shot
42. 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
Antagonist
Frozen time moment
Scratching
Zoom out
43. A chemical embedded in the emulsion layer of film stock that - when developed after exposure - releases a particular color dye (red - green - or blue)
Dye coupler
Star system
Orthochromatic
Overexposure
44. A long shot in which the film frame resembles the proscenium arch of the stage - distancing the audience
Dolly
Tableau shot
Glass shot
Cinerama
45. A statement that asserts a judgment that a given film or group of films is good or bad - based on specific criteria - Which may or may not be stated
Mixing
Split screen
Crane shot
Evaluative claim
46. 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.'
Parellel editing
Hollywood Blacklist
Point-of-view shot
Motivation
47. 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
Blockbuster
Interlaced scanning
Sound bridge
Pulling
48. A musical in which some or all musical numbers are not motivated by the narrative; for example - characters sing and dance throughout the film but at least some performances are not staged for an onscreen audience. Examples include Oklahoma - The umb
Panchromatic
Integrated musical
Motivation
Lens
49. 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
Studio system
Close-up
Crab dolly
Chiaroscuro
50. The artful use of light and dark areas in the composition in black and white filmmaking
On-the-nose dialogue
Iris in...
Chiaroscuro
Charge coupler device
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