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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 musical accompaniment written specifically for a film
Match on action
Denouement
Score
Orthochromatic
2. A system for combining two separately filmed images in the same frame that involves create a matte (a black mask that covers a portion of the image) for a live action sequence and using it to block out a portion of the frame when filming the backgrou
Travelling matte
Color timing
Running time
Camera distance
3. A production crew responsible not for shooting the primary footage but - instead - for remote location shooting and B-roll. See also B-roll
Aperture
Wide film
Camera distance
Second unit
4. A fiction film (often a comedy) that uses documentary conventions on fictional rather than real-world subject matter
Digital cinema
Mockumentary
Newsreel
Diegesis
5. A single take that contains an entire scene
Direct cinema
Travelling matte
Promotion
Master shot
6. 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
Subtext
Motif
Method acting
Film stock
7. An optical effect whereby the human eye fills in gaps between closely spaced objects - so that two light bulbs flashing on and off are understood as one light moving back and forth
Hollywood Blacklist
Grain
Wide-angle lens
Phi phenomenon
8. A continuity editing technique that preserves spatial continuity by using a character's line of vision as motivation for a cut
180-degree rule
Eyeline match
Direct cinema
Normal lens
9. The practice of Hollywood studios contracting out post-production work to individuals or firms outside the U.S.
Soft light
Realist style
Outsourcing
Natural-key lighting
10. 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
Soviet montage
Three-act structure
Interpretive claim
Pan
11. A transparent sheet on which animation artists draw images.
Vista Vision
Cel
Visual effects
Spec script
12. A film's main characters - one whose conflicts and motives drive the story forward
Release prints
Lens
Protagonist
Shot/reverse shot
13. A shot that contains two characters within the frame
Shot
Freeze frame
Cinerama
Two-shot
14. A machine used to create optical effects such as fades - dissolves - and superimpositions. Most are now created digitally
Wide-angle lens
Tableau shot
Optical printer
Gauge
15. The measurement of how forgiving a film stock is. It determines whether an acceptable image will be produced when the film stock is exposed to too little or too much light
Cinerama
30-degree rule
Exposure latitude
Hybrid
16. The details of a character's past that emerge as the film unfolds - and which often play a role in character motivation
Diffusion filters
Cameo
Backstory
Cameo
17. The period of time before principal photography during which actors are signed - sets and costumes designed - and locations scouted
Pre-production
Swish pan
Hard light
Medium shot
18. A technique of leaving empty space around the subject in the frame - in order to covey openness and continuity of visible space and to imply offscreen space
Zoom out
30-degree rule
Split screen
Loose framing
19. A device attached to the film camera that records videotape of what has been filmed - allowing the director immediate access to video footage
Low-key lighting
Re-establishing shot
Brechtian distanciation
Video assist
20. The details of a character's past that emerge as the film unfolds - and which often play a role in character motivation
Tilt
Backstory
Continuity editing
Fabula
21. The practice of shooting during the day but using filters and underexposure to create the illusion of nighttime
Day for night
Morphing
Pixilation
Oeuvre
22. A fiction film (often a comedy) that uses documentary conventions on fictional rather than real-world subject matter
Director
Editor
Mockumentary
Soviet montage
23. Cinema verite; a documentary style in which the filmmaker attempts to remain as unobtrusive as possible - recording without obvious editorial comment
Shooting script
Direct cinema
Set-up
Zoom in...
24. A neutral account of the basic plot and style of a film - a part of a film - or a group of films
Exposure
Studio system
Kuleshov effect
Descriptive claim
25. A style of Japanese animation - distinguished primarily by the fact that it is not all geared for young audiences
Low-key lighting
On-the-nose dialogue
Anime
Voice-over
26. The plotline that surrounds an embedded tale. The frame narration may or may not be as fully developed as the embedded tale
Frame narration
Best boy
Genre
Major studios
27. A chemical coating on film stock containing light-sensitive grains
Composition
Emulsion
High-key lighting
Long shot
28. A process of transferring film to video tapes or DVDs so that the original aspect ratio of the film is preserved
Time-lapse photography
Academy Ratio
Wide-angle lens
Letterboxing
29. An actor whose career rests on playing minor or secondary quirky characters rather than leading roles
Character actor
Swish pan
Post-production
Take
30. A shot taken from a vantage point so close that only a part of the subject is visible. On an actor - it might show only an eye or a portion of the face
Master shot
Cutaway
Extreme close-up
Dye coupler
31. 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
Release prints
Long shot
Text
Character actor
32. 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
Parellel editing
Script supervisor
Establishing shot
33. Sound recorded on a set - on location - or - for documentary film - at an actual real-world event - as opposed to dubbed in post-production through ADR or looping
Loose framing
Direct sound
Method acting
Vista Vision
34. 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
Master positive
Letterboxing
Continuity editing
Frame narration
35. Using computer graphics to 'build' structures connected to the actual architecture on set or location
Frame narration
Set-up
Digital set extension
Loose framing
36. 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
Digital compositing
Frozen time moment
Outsourcing
Director
37. A technique of recording very few images over a long period of time - say - one frame per minute or per day
Morphing
Cut
Time-lapse photography
Character actor
38. 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
Out-take
Lightning mix
Saturation
Fade-out
39. A class or type of film - such as the Western or the horror movie. They share narrative - visual - and/or sound conventions
Soft light
Genre
Best boy
Four-part structure
40. A shot that focuses audience attention on precise details that may or may not be the focus of characters
Cutaway
Video assist
Progressive scanning
Standard shot pattern
41. A black masking device used to black out a portion of the frame - usually for the insertion of other images
Matte
Roadshowing
Pulling
Figure placement and movement
42. A shot depicting the human body from the waist up
Negative cutter
Line reading
Medium shot
Wireframe
43. The conclusion of the film wraps up - all loose ends in a form of resolution - though not necessarily with a happy ending.
Closure
Camera distance
Graphic match
Typecasting
44. A series of individual drawings that provides a blueprint for the shooting of a scene
Direct cinema
Three-point lighting
Motif
Storyboard
45. 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
First-person narration
Anamorphic lens
Glass shot
Assistant Editor
46. 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
Omniscient narration
Out-take
Episodic
Motivation
47. A crew member whose job is to maintain consistency in visual details from one shot to the next
Release prints
Time-lapse photography
Continuity editor
Motif
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
Director
Protagonist
Brechtian distanciation
Integrated musical
49. A production term denoting a single uninterrupted series of frames exposed by a motion picture or video camera between the time it is turned on and the time it is turned off. Filmmakers shoot several takes of any scene and the film editor selects the
Take
Shot
Wide-angle lens
Shooting script
50. 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
Realist style
Color filter
Product placement
Best boy