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Film Vocab
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1. The non-chronological insertion of scenes of events yet to happen into the present day of the story world
Flashforward
Composition
Panning and scanning
Grain
2. 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
Medium shot
Director
30-degree rule
Formalist style
3. 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
Extreme wide-angle lens
Rear projection
Dye coupler
4. The visual arrangement of objects - actors - and space within the frame
ADR
Composition
Digital cinema
Pan
5. A technique of depicting two layered images simultaneously. Images from one frame or several frames of film are added to pre-existing images - using an optical printer - to produce the same effect as a double exposure
Superimposition
Release prints
Compositing
Canted angle
6. Assists the gaffer in managing lighting crews
Vista Vision
Three-point lighting
Best boy
Interpretive claim
7. A statement that presents an argument about a film's meaning and significance
Wipe
Interpretive claim
Episodic
Medium close-up
8. A pan executed so quickly that it produces a blurred image - indicated rapid activity or - sometimes - the passage of time
Denouement
Trombone shot
Swish pan
Camera distance
9. An outlawed studio era practice - where studios forced exhibitors to book groups of films at once - thus ensuring a market for their failures along with their successes
Block booking
Compilation film
Color filter
Backstory
10. The imagined world of the story
Shot/reverse shot
Diegesis
Plot summary
Anamorphic lens
11. Standard shot pattern: A sequence of shots designed to maintain spatial continuity. Scene begin with an establishing shot - then move to a series of individual shots depicting characters and action - before reestablishing shots re-orient viewers to t
Synthespian
Standard shot pattern
Outsourcing
Tableau shot
12. A type of documentary film whose purpose is to present the way of life of a culture or subculture
Ethnographic film
Progressive scanning
Video assist
Pixilation
13. 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
Base
Charge coupler device
Superimposition
Release prints
14. The chip in a video camera that converts the incoming light to an electronic signal
Charge coupler device
Pre-production
Speed
Extreme wide-angle lens
15. A character who in some way opposes the protagonist - leading to protracted conflict
Mixing
Rotoscope
Exposure latitude
Antagonist
16. The visual arrangement of objects - actors - and space within the frame
Composition
Glass shot
Frame narration
Second unit
17. 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
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Mixing
Persistence of vision
18. 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
Telephoto lens
Film stock
Out-take
Phi phenomenon
19. 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
ADR
Fast
Auteur
Continuity editing
20. A series of individual drawings that provides a blueprint for the shooting of a scene
Star system
Blaxploitation
Director
Storyboard
21. 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
Emulsion
Post-production
Frame narration
Soft light
22. 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
Normal lens
Fabula
Glass shot
23. A system initially developed for marketing films by creating and promoting stars as objects of admiration. The promotion of stars has now become an end in itself
Chiaroscuro
Star system
Lightning mix
Two-shot
24. 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
Close-up
Saturation
Available light
Release prints
25. A change of focus from one plane of depth to another. As the in-focus subject goes out of focus - another object - which has been blurry - comes into focus in either the background or the foreground
Trailer
Subtext
On-the-nose dialogue
Rack focus
26. Everything audiences hear when they watch a sound film. The soundtrack is the composite of all three elements of film sound: dialogue - music - and sound effects
Method acting
Soundtrack
Forced development
Dailies
27. 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
Letterboxing
Text
Tracking shot
Newsreel
28. Optical illusions created during post-production
Compositing
Block booking
Visual effects
Polarizing filters
29. 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
Antagonist
Text
Forced perspective
30. 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
Director
Widescreen
Pushing
Runaway production
31. A film composed entirely of footage from other films.
Oeuvre
Compilation film
Line reading
Academy Ratio
32. 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
Frame narration
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Best boy
33. 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
Revisionist
Visual effects
Wide-angle lens
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34. A technique used to join live action with pre-recorded background images. A projector is aimed at a half-silvered mirror that reflects the background - which the camera records as being located behind the actors
Open-ended
Mixing
Medium close-up
Front projection
35. A visual effect created when the subject in the frame is restricted by the objects or the physical properties of the set
High-angle shot
Pre-production
Tight framing
Rack focus
36. Optical illusions created during production - including the use of matte paintings - glass shots - models - and prosthesis
Aerial Shot
Special visual effects
Mixing
Wide-angle lens
37. A shot that appears during or near the end of a scene and reorients viewers to the setting
Shot transition
Re-establishing shot
Optical printer
Graphic match
38. The details of a character's past that emerge as the film unfolds - and which often play a role in character motivation
First-person narration
Tracking shot
Backstory
High concept film
39. 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
Fast
Progressive scanning
Eye-level shot
Negative
40. An action film cycle of the late 1960s and early 1970s that featured bold - rebellious African American characters
Persistence of vision
Out-take
Blaxploitation
Revisionist
41. Optical illusions created during production - including the use of matte paintings - glass shots - models - and prosthesis
Special visual effects
Post-production
Video assist
Base
42. A digital technique developed by Industrial Light and Magic - which builds movement sequences from single frames of film
Go-motion
Take
Lens
Ethnographic film
43. Lighting design that provides an even illumination of the subject - with many facial details washed out. High-key lighting tends to create a hopeful mood - in contrast to low-key lighting
Non-diegetic
Hollywood Blacklist
Hybrid
High-key lighting
44. A glass element on a camera that focuses light rays so that the image of the object appears on the surface of the film
Double exposure
Avant-garde film
Lens
Rear projection
45. The imagined world of the story
Diegesis
Color filter
Day for night
Three-point lighting
46. The individual arrangement of lighting and camera placement used for each shot
Set-up
Blocking
Syuzhet
Vista Vision
47. A device attached to the film camera that records videotape of what has been filmed - allowing the director immediate access to video footage
Handheld shot
Freeze frame
Video assist
Actualitas
48. A documentary or occasionally - a narrative film that presents only one side of an argument or one approach to a subject
Diffusion filters
Compositing
Character actor
Propaganda film
49. 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
Computer-generated imagery (CGI)
Pixel
Iris out
Spec script
50. A shot that includes a human figure from the shoulders up
Persistence of vision
Medium close-up
Backstage musical
Speed
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