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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. Muted - washed out color that contains more white than a saturated color
First-person narration
Desaturated
Graphic match
Point-of-view shot
2. A glass element on a camera that focuses light rays so that the image of the object appears on the surface of the film
Lens
Point-of-view shot
Pushing
Bleach bypass
3. The way an actor delivers a line of dialogue - including pauses - inflection - and emotion
Rear projection
Line reading
Horizontal integration
Aerial Shot
4. An animation technique that uses a computer program to interpolate frames to produce the effect of an object or creature changing gradually into something different. The program calculates the way the image must change in order for the first image to
Eyeline match
Deep focus cinematography
Morphing
Soft light
5. A method for producing a widescreen image without special lenses or equipment - using standard film stock and blocking out the top and bottom of the frame to achieve an aspect ration of 1.85:1
Masking
City symphony
High concept film
Dye coupler
6. A painting used on the set as a portion of the background
Matte painting
Minor studios
Dailies
Formalist style
7. 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
Three-point lighting
Slow
Soft light
Pushing
8. The chronological accounting of all events presented and suggested
Cut
Low-angle shot
Fabula
Eye-level shot
9. A technique used to join live action with a pre-recorded background image. A projector is placed behind a screen and projects an image onto it. Actors stand in front of the screen and the camera records them in front of the projected background
Pre-production
Wide-angle lens
Canted angle
Rear projection
10. 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
Oeuvre
Blue screen
Typecasting
Method acting
11. A term for film stock used in early cinema that was insensitive to red hues
Orthochromatic
Selective focus
Script supervisor
Backstage musical
12. An abrupt shot transition that occurs when Shot A is instantaneously replaced by Shot B.
Subtext
Standard shot pattern
Special visual effects
Cut
13. The first print made from a film negative
Storyboard
Cut
Master positive
Classical style
14. The details of a character's past that emerge as the film unfolds - and which often play a role in character motivation
Backstory
Diegesis
Video assist
Rear projection
15. Creating an image by combining several elements created separately using computer graphics rather than photographic means
Scratching
Digital compositing
Re-establishing shot
Genre
16. The non-chronological insertion of events from the past into the present day of the story world
Undercranking
Oeuvre
Loose framing
Flashback
17. Processes such as Cinemascope and Cinerama - developed during the 1950s to enhance film's size advantage over the smaller television image
Formalist style
Auteur
Widescreen
Star system
18. The first shot in a standard shot sequence. Its purpose is to provide a clear representation of the location of the action
Establishing shot
Video assist
Scene
Release prints
19. A widescreen process that uses three cameras - three projectors - and a wide - curved screen
High concept film
Cinerama
Product placement
Widescreen
20. 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
Pan
Take
Compilation film
Frozen time moment
21. 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
Two-shot
Medium shot
Restricted narration
Shot/reverse shot
22. 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
Medium shot
Depth of field
Pixel
Split screen
23. A lens with a shorter focal length than a normal or telephoto lens (usually between 15-35mm). The subject appears smaller as a result - but the angle of vision is wider and an illusion is created of greater depth in the frame
Extreme long-shot
Loose framing
Anime
Wide-angle lens
24. An early color process that replaced silver halide grains with colored salts
Forced perspective
Toning
Diffusion filters
Long take
25. A short documentary on current events - show in movie theaters along with cartoons and feature films beginning in the 1930s
Newsreel
Cut
Long take
Dye coupler
26. Recording images at a slower speed than the speed of projection (24 frames per second). Before cameras were motorized - this was called undercranking. Fewer frames are exposed in one minute - so - when projected at 24 f.p.s. - that action takes less
Front projection
Take
Diffusion filters
Fast motion
27. Author; A term popularized by French film critics and refers to film directors with their own distinctive style
Forced perspective
Voice-over
Closure
Auteur
28. A flexible celluloid strip that - along with the emulsion layer - comprises 35mm film stock
Base
Neutral-density filter
Go-motion
Genre conventions
29. 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
Iris out
Best boy
Continuity editing
Long shot
30. An early color process - involving bathing lengths of processed film in dye one scene at a time
Bleach bypass
Match on action
Tinting
Shutter
31. A narrative moment that signals an important shift of some kind in character or situation
Block booking
Masking
Turning point
Filter
32. Optical illusions created during production - including the use of matte paintings - glass shots - models - and prosthesis
Pixel
30-degree rule
Focal length
Special visual effects
33. A term that refers to the organization of an industry wherein one type of corporation also owns corporations in allied industries - for example - film production and video games
Horizontal integration
Shot transition
Genre
Medium long shot
34. An uncredited actor - usually hired for crowd scenes
Superimposition
Wide film
Camera distance
Extra
35. A technique of moving the camera - on a specially built track. Such shots often trace character movement laterally across the frame or in and out of the depth of the frame
Steadicam
Speed
Subtext
Tracking shot
36. A painting used on the set as a portion of the background
Widescreen
City symphony
Matte painting
180-degree rule
37. The horizontal turning movement of an otherwise immobile camera across a scene from left to right or vice versa
Pan
Wireframe
Roadshowing
On-the-nose dialogue
38. A shot filmed from an airplane or helicopter
Studio system
Cinerama
Aerial Shot
Desaturated
39. The practice of shooting during the day but using filters and underexposure to create the illusion of nighttime
Non-diegetic
Day for night
Rear projection
Protagonist
40. A shot filmed from an airplane or helicopter
Panning and scanning
Aerial Shot
Vertical integration
Crab dolly
41. Dutch angle; a shot resulting from a static camera that is tilted to the right or left - so that the subject in the frame appears at a diagonal
Descriptive claim
Blue screen
Canted angle
Two-shot
42. 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
Saturation
Jump cut
Bleach bypass
Color consultant
43. Assists the gaffer in managing lighting crews
Master shot
Parellel editing
Antagonist
Best boy
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
Star filter
Re-establishing shot
Restricted narration
Cel
45. Film productions shot outside the U.S. for economic reasons
Runaway production
Digital video
Parellel editing
Grain
46. A part of the story world implied by visual or sound techniques rather than being revealed by the camera
Wide-angle lens
Offscreen space
Tight framing
Master shot
47. 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
Script supervisor
Iris out
Negative
Pan
48. Recording images at a slower speed than the speed of projection (24 frames per second). Before cameras were motorized - this was called undercranking. Fewer frames are exposed in one minute - so - when projected at 24 f.p.s. - that action takes less
Apparatus Theory
Low-angle shot
Actualitas
Fast motion
49. A production crew responsible not for shooting the primary footage but - instead - for remote location shooting and B-roll. See also B-roll
Grain
Flashforward
Color timing
Second unit
50. A filter that creates points of light that streak outward from a light source
Undercranking
Blue screen
Motivation
Star filter