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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 person responsible for putting a film together from a mass of developed footage - making decisions regarding pace - shot transitions - and which scenes and shots will be used
Mockumentary
Digital cinema
Editor
Pixilation
2. Reels of film that are shipped to movie theaters for exhibition. Digital cinema - which can be distributed via satellite - broadband - or on media such as DVDs - may soon replace film prints because the latter are expensive to create - copy - and dis
Reverse shot
Focus puller
Release prints
Toning
3. The conclusion of the film wraps up - all loose ends in a form of resolution - though not necessarily with a happy ending.
30-degree rule
Non-diegetic
Wide-angle lens
Closure
4. 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
Graphic match
Recursive action
Swish pan
Match on action
5. 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
Scene
Minor studios
Rear projection
Animation
6. A measure of the visual and sound quality of a film. Low-budget films tend to have lower production values because they lack the resources to devote to expensive pre- and post-production activities
Vertical integration
Dissolve
Tableau shot
Production values
7. 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
Extreme wide-angle lens
Scratching
Insert
Soviet montage
8. Wheeled platform with wheels that rotate - so the dolly can change direction
Crab dolly
Extreme wide-angle lens
Line of action
Overexposure
9. The imagined world of the story
Hard light
Block booking
Diegesis
ADR
10. The aspect ratio of 1.33:1 - standardized by the Academy of Motion Picture Art and Sciences until the development of widescreen formats in the 1950s
Pre-production
Apparatus Theory
Academy Ratio
Extra
11. A long shot in which the film frame resembles the proscenium arch of the stage - distancing the audience
Tableau shot
Point-of-view shot
Backstage musical
Character actor
12. A painting used on the set as a portion of the background
Propaganda film
Second unit
Matte painting
Normal lens
13. 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
Script supervisor
Loose framing
Composition in depth
Steadicam
14. A pan executed so quickly that it produces a blurred image - indicated rapid activity or - sometimes - the passage of time
Hybrid
Soft light
Swish pan
Assistant Editor
15. Smaller corporations that did not own distribution and/or exhibition companies in the studio era - including Universal - Columbia - and United Artists
Editor
Fabula
Minor studios
Subtext
16. A glass element on a camera that focuses light rays so that the image of the object appears on the surface of the film
Spec script
Runaway production
Lens
Iris out
17. A crew member who works in post-production in a specially equipped studio to create the sounds of the story world - such as the shuffling of shoes on various surfaces for footsteps
Foley artist
Aerial Shot
Compilation film
Depth of field
18. A large-budget film whose strategy is to swamp the competition through market saturation
Extreme wide-angle lens
Jump cut
Blockbuster
Tight framing
19. A type of documentary film whose purpose is to present the way of life of a culture or subculture
Ethnographic film
Star system
Plot summary
Narrative sequencing
20. A shot in a sequence that is taken from the reverse angle of the shot previous to it
Long take
Reverse shot
Extra
Turning point
21. A scene filmed and processed but not selected to appear in the final version of the film
Long take
Tracking shot
Set-up
Out-take
22. The arrangement of actors on screen as a compositional element that suggests themes - character development - emotional content - and visual motifs
Interpellation
Figure placement and movement
Medium shot
Hybrid
23. An uncredited actor - usually hired for crowd scenes
Handheld shot
Compositing
Extra
Extradiegetic
24. 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
Block booking
Soft light
Letterboxing
25. A transparent sheet on which animation artists draw images.
Interpellation
30-degree rule
Cel
Neutral-density filter
26. An early color process - involving bathing lengths of processed film in dye one scene at a time
Freeze frame
Overhead shot
Tinting
Fade-out
27. Filters that increase color saturation and contrast in outdoor shots
Diegesis
Dye coupler
Text
Polarizing filters
28. An action film cycle of the late 1960s and early 1970s that featured bold - rebellious African American characters
Assistant Editor
Persistence of vision
Direct cinema
Blaxploitation
29. A process of blending the three elements of the sound track (dialogue - music - and effects) in post-production
Matte
Two-shot
Mixing
180-degree rule
30. The camera should move at least 30 degrees any time there is a cut within a scene
Product placement
Typecasting
30-degree rule
Go-motion
31. 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
Lightning mix
Digital compositing
Undercranking
Fade-out
32. 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
Block booking
Cinerama
Lens
Split screen
33. 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
Color timing
Front projection
Foley artist
Non-diegetic
34. The practice or repeatedly casting actors in similar roles across different films
Second unit
Subgenre
Compilation film
Typecasting
35. A visual effect created when the subject in the frame is restricted by the objects or the physical properties of the set
Interlaced scanning
Tight framing
Base
Scratching
36. The rules of character - setting - and narrative that films that belong to a genre - such as Westerns - horror films - and screwball comedies - generally obey.
Gaffer
Genre conventions
Overexposure
Charge coupler device
37. A type of matte shot - created by positioning a pane of optically flawless glass with a painting on it between the camera and the scene to be photographed. This combines the painting on the glass with the set or location - seen through the glass - be
Denouement
Extreme long-shot
Reverse shot
Glass shot
38. A scene transition in which the first frame of the incoming scene appears to push the last frame of the previous scene off the screen horizontally
Green screen
Star persona
Wide-angle lens
Wipe
39. A specialist who monitors the processing of color on the se and in the film lab
Jump cut
Front projection
Blue screen
Color consultant
40. 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.
Analog Video
Average shot length
Roadshowing
Medium shot
41. 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
Medium shot
Episodic
Studio system
Animation
42. A person responsible for putting a film together from a mass of developed footage - making decisions regarding pace - shot transitions - and which scenes and shots will be used
Editor
Text
Insert
Master positive
43. 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
Subtext
Pulling
Line of action
Exposure latitude
44. 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
Normal lens
Restricted narration
Extreme long-shot
Diegesis
45. Muted - washed out color that contains more white than a saturated color
Chiaroscuro
Desaturated
Block booking
Reframing
46. The period of time before principal photography during which actors are signed - sets and costumes designed - and locations scouted
Panchromatic
Cut
Editor
Pre-production
47. A story narrated by one of the characters within the story - using the 'I' voice
Composition in depth
First-person narration
Digital video
Integrated musical
48. 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
Freeze frame
Soft light
City symphony
Continuity editing
49. A shot that appears during or near the end of a scene and reorients viewers to the setting
Tight framing
Digital compositing
Re-establishing shot
Gaffer
50. A statement that presents an argument about a film's meaning and significance
Blocking
Actualitas
Interpretive claim
Wipe