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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. Creating an image by combining several elements created separately using computer graphics rather than photographic means
Reverse shot
Compilation film
Digital compositing
Travelling matte
2. Smaller corporations that did not own distribution and/or exhibition companies in the studio era - including Universal - Columbia - and United Artists
Normal lens
Shutter
Aspect Ratio
Minor studios
3. A long shot in which the film frame resembles the proscenium arch of the stage - distancing the audience
Tableau shot
High concept film
Reverse shot
Camera distance
4. A shot combining two kinds of movement: the camera tracks in toward the subject wile the lens zooms out
Subtext
Trombone shot
Gauge
Take
5. A shot transition that involves the gradual disappearance of the image at the same time that a new image gradually comes into view
Dissolve
Panchromatic
Panning and scanning
Turning point
6. (Automatic dialogue replacement) recording synchronized dialogue in post-production - cutting several identical lengths of developed film and having actors record the dialogue repeatedly
Hollywood Blacklist
ADR
Actualitas
Parellel editing
7. A pan executed so quickly that it produces a blurred image - indicated rapid activity or - sometimes - the passage of time
Medium shot
Green screen
Swish pan
Eyeline match
8. The narrative path of the main or supporting characters - also called a plotline. Complex films may have several lines of action
Aperture
Overlapping dialogue
Line of action
Bleach bypass
9. Dialogue that restates What is already obvious from images or action
Backstory
Narrative
Analog Video
On-the-nose dialogue
10. A shot that interrupts a scene's master shot and may include character reactions
Hue
Focus puller
Line reading
Insert
11. The practice of Hollywood studios contracting out post-production work to individuals or firms outside the U.S.
Wide-angle lens
Spec script
Outsourcing
Genre conventions
12. A process of blending the three elements of the sound track (dialogue - music - and effects) in post-production
Soundtrack
Mixing
Dye coupler
Matte painting
13. A story narrated by one of the characters within the story - using the 'I' voice
Soft light
30-degree rule
Canted angle
First-person narration
14. The chip in a video camera that converts the incoming light to an electronic signal
Charge coupler device
Telephoto lens
Soviet montage
Handheld shot
15. 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
Genre conventions
Parellel
Telephoto lens
High-angle shot
16. 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
Persistence of vision
Actualitas
Overexposure
Screenplay
17. Then Hollywood writers and directors cited for Contempt of Congress for refusing to cooperate with the House Committee on Un-American Activities' attempts to root out Communists in the film industry
Script supervisor
Hollywood Ten
Exposure
Out-take
18. A technique of shifting the camera angle - height - or distance to take into account the motion of actors or objects within the frame
Extra
Reframing
Hollywood Ten
Overhead shot
19. The rules of character - setting - and narrative that films that belong to a genre - such as Westerns - horror films - and screwball comedies - generally obey.
Matte
Genre conventions
Lightning mix
Character actor
20. A scene transition wherein sound from one scene bleeds over into the ext scene - often resulting in a contrast between sound image
Offscreen space
Sound bridge
Average shot length
Product placement
21. Non-diegetic; any element in the film that is not part of the imagined story world
Extradiegetic
Anime
Depth of field
City symphony
22. Any narrative - visual - or sound element that is repeated and thereby acquires and reflects its significance to the story - characters - or themes of the film.
Motif
Genre
Fade-out
Fog filter
23. A fiction film (often a comedy) that uses documentary conventions on fictional rather than real-world subject matter
Mockumentary
Block booking
Crane shot
Trailer
24. The way an actor delivers a line of dialogue - including pauses - inflection - and emotion
Take
Line reading
Diffusion filters
Interlaced scanning
25. A shot that focuses audience attention on precise details that may or may not be the focus of characters
Cutaway
Intertextual reference
Speed
Plot summary
26. Experimental film; Underground cinema;
Line of action
Avant-garde film
Graphic match
Direct cinema
27. A group of films within a given genre that share their own specific set of conventions that differentiate them from other films in the genre. For example - the slasher film is a subgenre of the horror genre
Visual effects
Saturation
Flashing
Subgenre
28. A technique of manipulating focus to direct the viewer's attention
Typecasting
Negative cutter
Selective focus
Cameo
29. Also called 'stop motion photography.' A technique of photographing a scene one frame at a time and moving the model between each shot
Normal lens
Forced development
Pixilation
Brechtian distanciation
30. A visual effect created when the subject in the frame is restricted by the objects or the physical properties of the set
Montage sequence
Tight framing
Master positive
Blocking
31. A shot that makes the human subject very small in relation to his or her environment. The entire figure from head to toe is onscreen and dwarfed by the surroundings
Voice-over
Extreme long-shot
Newsreel
Master shot
32. Author; A term popularized by French film critics and refers to film directors with their own distinctive style
Cel
Telephoto lens
Auteur
Cut
33. Also called 'rushes.' Footage exposed and developed quickly so that the director can assess the day's work
Dailies
Hard light
Director
Underexposure
34. Early films that documented everyday events - such as workers leaving a factory
Go-motion
Extreme wide-angle lens
Actualitas
Loose framing
35. 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
Freeze frame
Realist style
Panning and scanning
Average shot length
36. A film's main characters - one whose conflicts and motives drive the story forward
Cinerama
Star persona
Zoom lens
Protagonist
37. The width of the film stock - measured across the frame. Typical sizes are 8mm - 16mm - 35mm - and 70mm
Neutral-density filter
Continuity editing
Gauge
Intertextual reference
38. A continuity editing technique that preserves spatial continuity by using a character's line of vision as motivation for a cut
Widescreen
Vertical integration
Eyeline match
Anime
39. 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
Fabula
Montage sequence
Restricted narration
Script supervisor
40. A flexible celluloid strip that - along with the emulsion layer - comprises 35mm film stock
Base
Interlaced scanning
Reverse shot
Ethnographic film
41. The film medium's technological apparatus is inherently ideological
Forced perspective
ADR
Interpellation
Apparatus Theory
42. A form of shot transition - generally concluding a scene - where a circular mask constricts around the image until the entire frame is black
Out-take
Aperture
Iris in...
Shooting script
43. A type of documentary film whose purpose is to present the way of life of a culture or subculture
Best boy
Charge coupler device
Academy Ratio
Ethnographic film
44. The camera should move at least 30 degrees any time there is a cut within a scene
High concept film
30-degree rule
Assistant Editor
Star persona
45. An unstated meaning that underlies and is implied by spoken dialogue
Fast motion
Base
Medium shot
Subtext
46. A shot taken from a camera position above the subject - looking down at it
High-angle shot
Green screen
Rear projection
Average shot length
47. Creating the appearance of movement by drawing a series of frames that are projected sequentially - rather than photographing a series of still images
Matte painting
Blue screen
Slow
Animation
48. A technique of running the motion picture camera at a speed slower than projection speed (24 frames per second) - in order to produce at a fast motion sequence when projected at normal speed. The term derives from early film cameras - which were cran
Shooting script
Deep focus cinematography
Aspect Ratio
Undercranking
49. 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
Cel
Extra
Recursive action
Scene
50. 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
First-person narration
Green screen
Swish pan
Direct sound