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Film Vocab
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1. Individuals who were prevented from working in the film industry because of their suspected involvement with Communist interests
Iris in...
Hollywood Blacklist
Master positive
Compilation film
2. 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
Subtext
Digital cinema
Star filter
Orthochromatic
3. 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
Evaluative claim
Extreme wide-angle lens
Flashforward
Telecine
4. A direct vocal address to the audience - Which may emanate from a character or from a narrative voice apparently unrelated to the diegesis
Voice-over
Mixing
Pre-production
Reframing
5. An uncredited actor - usually hired for crowd scenes
Digital set extension
Wide-angle lens
Turning point
Extra
6. Assists the editor with various tasks - including taking footage to the lab - checking the condition of the negative - cataloguing footage - and supervising optical effects - often produced by an outside company
Major studios
Backstage musical
Assistant Editor
Roadshowing
7. Invisible editing; a system devised to minimize the audience's awareness of shot transitions - especially cuts - in order to improve the flow of the story and avoid interrupting the viewer's immersion it in
On-the-nose dialogue
Continuity editing
Standard shot pattern
Rack focus
8. Optical illusions created during post-production
Visual effects
Score
Non-diegetic
Dolly
9. The use of editing techniques - such as a fade or dissolve - to indicate the end of one scene and the beginning of another
Take
Trailer
Loose framing
Shot transition
10. The artful use of light and dark areas in the composition in black and white filmmaking
Chiaroscuro
Classical style
Post-production
Color timing
11. A shot taken fro a position directly above the action - also called a 'birds' eye shot'
Overhead shot
Tight framing
Four-part structure
Go-motion
12. A digital technique developed by Industrial Light and Magic - which builds movement sequences from single frames of film
Go-motion
Editor
Long shot
Canted angle
13. 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
Negative
Take
Digital set extension
Extreme close-up
14. A film that fuses the conventions of two or more genres
Canted angle
Extreme wide-angle lens
Hybrid
Scene
15. The details of a character's past that emerge as the film unfolds - and which often play a role in character motivation
Motivation
Backstory
Extradiegetic
Runaway production
16. A mental phenomenon by which viewers derive more meaning from the interaction of two sequential shots than from a single shot in isolation
Charge coupler device
Star system
Minor studios
Kuleshov effect
17. The first shot in a standard shot sequence. Its purpose is to provide a clear representation of the location of the action
Fade-out
Horizontal integration
Undercranking
Establishing shot
18. 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
Low-key lighting
Brechtian distanciation
Academy Ratio
Morphing
19. A series of related scene joined through elliptical editing that indicates the passage of time
Pushing
Montage sequence
Computer-generated imagery (CGI)
High-key lighting
20. The non-chronological insertion of events from the past into the present day of the story world
High-key lighting
Analog Video
Flashback
Day for night
21. A screenplay written and submitted to a studio or production company without a prior contract or agreement
Running time
Spec script
Blaxploitation
Minor studios
22. 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
Glass shot
Anamorphic lens
Horizontal integration
Tracking shot
23. The film medium's technological apparatus is inherently ideological
Apparatus Theory
Horizontal integration
Composition in depth
Extra
24. The person in charge of planning the style and look of the film with the production designer and director of photography - working with actors during principal photography - and collaborating with the editor on the final version
Runaway production
Desaturated
Canted angle
Director
25. A continuity editing technique that preserves spatial continuity by using a character's line of vision as motivation for a cut
Vista Vision
Exposure
Eyeline match
Masking
26. A camera shot taken at a large distance from the subject. Using the human body as the subject - a long shot captures the entire human form
Long shot
Recursive action
Low-angle shot
Visual effects
27. Live action is filmed in front of a blue screen and a matte. It's then joined with the background footage
Subtext
Reverse shot
Compositing
Blue screen
28. A narrative - visual - or sound element that refers viewers to other films or works of art
Scratching
Exposure
Diffusion filters
Intertextual reference
29. 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
Narrative
Frame narration
Running time
Green screen
30. A musical film in which each song and dance number is narratively motivated by a plot that situates characters in performance contexts
Backstage musical
Extra
Panning and scanning
Scratching
31. An abrupt shot transition that occurs when Shot A is instantaneously replaced by Shot B.
Color timing
Parellel
Cut
Denouement
32. A widescreen process that uses three cameras - three projectors - and a wide - curved screen
Chiaroscuro
Cinerama
Available light
Wide-angle lens
33. Devices that attach to actors' faces and/or bodies to change their appearance
Emulsion
Prosthesis
Flashforward
Star filter
34. 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
30-degree rule
Realist style
Pulling
Anamorphic lens
35. 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
Academy Ratio
Figure placement and movement
Lens
Roadshowing
36. A narrative moment that signals an important shift of some kind in character or situation
Superimposition
Star filter
Visual effects
Turning point
37. The non-chronological insertion of scenes of events yet to happen into the present day of the story world
Double exposure
Natural-key lighting
Flashforward
Release prints
38. The distance that appears in focus in front of and behind the subject. It is determined by the aperture - distance and focal length of lens
Depth of field
Iris in...
Matte painting
Digital set extension
39. 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
Production values
Tinting
Interpellation
Prosthesis
40. Squeezes the image at a ratio of 2:1 horizontally onto a standard film frame. On the projector - it unsqueezes the image - creating a widescreen aspect ratio during presentation
Crab dolly
Color consultant
Digital video
Anamorphic lens
41. A type of filter that absorbs certain wavelength but leave others unaffected. On black and white film - color filters lighten or darken tones. On color film - they can produce a range of effects
Animation
Star persona
Shot transition
Color filter
42. 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
Star system
Major studios
Shutter
30-degree rule
43. A shot that contains two characters within the frame
Slow
Double exposure
Flashback
Two-shot
44. 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
Scene
Hard light
Travelling matte
Descriptive claim
45. A machine used to create optical effects such as fades - dissolves - and superimpositions. Most are now created digitally
Offscreen space
Blocking
Set-up
Optical printer
46. Thin - flexible material comprised of base and emulsion layers - onto which light rays are focused and which is processed in chemicals to produce film images
Animation
Extreme close-up
Focus puller
Film stock
47. 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
Screenplay
Medium close-up
Release prints
Negative
48. Lighting design where the key light is somewhat more intense than the fill light - so the fill does not eliminate every shadow. The effect is generally less cheerful than high-key lighting - but not as gloomy as low-key lighting
Filter
Natural-key lighting
Classical style
Pixilation
49. The arrangement of actors on screen as a compositional element that suggests themes - character development - emotional content - and visual motifs
Open-ended
Production values
Trombone shot
Figure placement and movement
50. A type of film stock that is sensitive to (in other words - registers) all tones in the color spectrum
Oeuvre
Blaxploitation
Panchromatic
Sound bridge