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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 technique of manipulating focus to direct the viewer's attention
Cel
On-the-nose dialogue
Pan
Selective focus
2. A film's main characters - one whose conflicts and motives drive the story forward
Cutaway
Blocking
Runaway production
Protagonist
3. Also called 'stop motion photography.' A technique of photographing a scene one frame at a time and moving the model between each shot
Star persona
Major studios
Pixilation
Flashforward
4. 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
Classical style
Exposure latitude
Panchromatic
Blocking
5. A shot that includes a human figure from the shoulders up
Widescreen
Medium close-up
Auteur
Motivation
6. A filter that creates points of light that streak outward from a light source
High-key lighting
Filter
Star filter
Overlapping dialogue
7. The arrangement of actors on screen as a compositional element that suggests themes - character development - emotional content - and visual motifs
Gaffer
Three-act structure
Figure placement and movement
Kuleshov effect
8. A genre film that radically modifies accepted genre conventions for dramatic effect
Genre
Go-motion
Revisionist
Split screen
9. The space between the camera and subject it is filming.
Camera distance
Tinting
Split screen
Crane shot
10. 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
Direct sound
Continuity editor
Travelling matte
Lens
11. A film process that uses 35mm film stock but changes the orientation of the film so that the film moves through the camera horizontally instead of vertically. The larger image is of higher quality than standard 35mm processes
High concept film
Evaluative claim
Subtext
Vista Vision
12. Optical illusions created during post-production
Product placement
Visual effects
Phi phenomenon
Direct cinema
13. A continuity editing technique that preserves spatial continuity by using a character's line of vision as motivation for a cut
Extradiegetic
Continuity editor
Eyeline match
Assistant Editor
14. 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.
Genre
Motif
Phi phenomenon
Offscreen space
15. A similarity established between two characters or situations that invites the audience to compare the two. It may involve visual - narrative - and/or sound elements
Front projection
Eye-level shot
Parellel
Gaffer
16. Louis Althusser's term for the way in which a society creates its subjects/citizens through ideological (as opposed to repressive) state apparatuses - which include education - media - religion - and the family
Interpellation
Apparatus Theory
Master shot
Diffusion filters
17. 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
Studio system
Dailies
Base
Horizontal integration
18. A shot taken from a camera position above the subject - looking down at it
Pan
High-angle shot
Steadicam
Shot/reverse shot
19. A shot taken from a level camera located approximately 5' to 6' from the ground - simulating the perspective of a person standing before the action presented
Zoom out
Eye-level shot
Storyboard
Swish pan
20. A digital technique developed by Industrial Light and Magic - which builds movement sequences from single frames of film
Go-motion
Digital video
Composition
Evaluative claim
21. Light striking the emulsion layer of the film - activating light-sensitive grains
Slow motion
Voice-over
Open-ended
Exposure
22. A production term referring to coordinating actors' movements with lines of dialogue
Re-establishing shot
Polarizing filters
Blocking
Wide film
23. A process of blending the three elements of the sound track (dialogue - music - and effects) in post-production
Point-of-view shot
Lens
Mixing
Eye-level shot
24. An optical technique that divides the screen into two or more frames
Protagonist
Wide film
Split screen
Blockbuster
25. A visual effect created when the subject in the frame is restricted by the objects or the physical properties of the set
Telecine
Vista Vision
Tight framing
Mockumentary
26. A direct vocal address to the audience - Which may emanate from a character or from a narrative voice apparently unrelated to the diegesis
Glass shot
Oeuvre
Diegesis
Voice-over
27. A technique of intentionally adding scratches in a film's emulsion layer for aesthetic purposes - such as to simulate home movie footage
Jump cut
Recursive action
Blockbuster
Scratching
28. A technique of moving from the telephoto position to the wide-angle position of a zoom lens - which results in the subject appearing to become smaller within the frame - while remaining in focus
Normal lens
Overlapping dialogue
Mixing
Zoom out
29. A crew member whose job is to measure the distance between the subject and the camera lens - marking the ring on the camera lens - and ensuring the ring is turned precisely so that the image is in focus
Wireframe
Hollywood Ten
Focus puller
Narrative
30. Dialogue that restates What is already obvious from images or action
On-the-nose dialogue
City symphony
Classical style
Actualitas
31. 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
Iris out
Mockumentary
Grain
Realist style
32. 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
Underexposure
Go-motion
Composition in depth
Restricted narration
33. Individuals who were prevented from working in the film industry because of their suspected involvement with Communist interests
Color timing
Outsourcing
Gauge
Hollywood Blacklist
34. A shot taken from a level camera located approximately 5' to 6' from the ground - simulating the perspective of a person standing before the action presented
Master positive
Fog filter
Eye-level shot
Editor
35. 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
Natural-key lighting
Point-of-view shot
Character actor
Direct sound
36. 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
High-angle shot
Screenplay
Narrative sequencing
Second unit
37. The individual arrangement of lighting and camera placement used for each shot
Montage sequence
Pan
Set-up
Desaturated
38. Because film stock is sensitive to the color of light - directors work with film labs in post-production to monitor the color scheme of each scene in a film - making adjustments for consistency and aesthetic effect
Soundtrack
Color timing
Script supervisor
Two-shot
39. A format that uses a larger film stock than standard 35mm. IMAX - Omnimax - and Showscan are shot on 70mm film
Wide film
Saturation
Dye coupler
Post-production
40. A chemical embedded in the emulsion layer of film stock that - when developed after exposure - releases a particular color dye (red - green - or blue)
Zoom in...
Second unit
Telephoto lens
Dye coupler
41. A short documentary on current events - show in movie theaters along with cartoons and feature films beginning in the 1930s
Newsreel
Assistant Editor
Morphing
Focus puller
42. 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
Rear projection
Aperture
Set-up
Vista Vision
43. A marketing strategy of screening a blockbuster prior to general release only in premier theaters
Roadshowing
Shot transition
Avant-garde film
Compilation film
44. Natural light; The process of suing sunlight rather than artificial studio lights when filming
Direct cinema
Rear projection
Available light
180-degree rule
45. The rules of character - setting - and narrative that films that belong to a genre - such as Westerns - horror films - and screwball comedies - generally obey.
Blocking
Blockbuster
Block booking
Genre conventions
46. The practice of shooting during the day but using filters and underexposure to create the illusion of nighttime
Motivation
Day for night
Overlapping dialogue
Extreme long-shot
47. A scene transition wherein sound from one scene bleeds over into the ext scene - often resulting in a contrast between sound image
Second unit
Roadshowing
Star system
Sound bridge
48. 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
Extreme long-shot
Letterboxing
Composition in depth
Fast
49. A type of film stock that is sensitive to (in other words - registers) all tones in the color spectrum
Split screen
Genre conventions
Shot transition
Panchromatic
50. The horizontal turning movement of an otherwise immobile camera across a scene from left to right or vice versa
Newsreel
Continuity editor
High concept film
Pan