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Film Vocab
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1. A videotape system that records images onto magnetic tape - using electronic signals
Analog Video
Special visual effects
Cel
Formalist style
2. 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
Wipe
Realist style
Master positive
Cutaway
3. An alternative to classical and realist styles - formalism is a self-consciously interventionist approach that explores ideas - abstraction - and aesthetics rather than focusing on storytelling (as in classical films) or everyday life (as in realist
Formalist style
Three-act structure
Point-of-view shot
Long take
4. A film style that emerged in the 1910s in Germany. It was heavily indebted to the Expressionist art movement of the time and influenced subsequent horror films and film noir
Blocking
Film stock
Extreme close-up
German Expressionism
5. Early films that documented everyday events - such as workers leaving a factory
Dolly
Bleach bypass
Actualitas
Saturation
6. Film productions shot outside the U.S. for economic reasons
Runaway production
Master positive
Studio system
Zoom in...
7. A shot in a sequence that is taken from the reverse angle of the shot previous to it
Analog Video
Panchromatic
Reverse shot
Speed
8. An optical effect whereby the eye continues to register a visual stimulus in the brain for a brief period after that stimulus has been removed
Persistence of vision
Rotoscope
High-angle shot
Rotoscope
9. A system for recording images on magnetic tape using a digital signal - that is - an electronic signal comprised of 0s and 1s
Avant-garde film
Figure placement and movement
Runaway production
Digital video
10. 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
Dissolve
Zoom out
Synthespian
Pan
11. A technique in which the audience temporarily shares the visual perspective of a character or a group of characters. The camera points in the directions the character looks - simulating the character's field of vision
Point-of-view shot
Rear projection
Cutaway
Panchromatic
12. A device used to manipulate the amount and/or color of light entering the lens
Filter
Speed
Antagonist
Star filter
13. 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
Standard shot pattern
Charge coupler device
Widescreen
Product placement
14. The artful use of light and dark areas in the composition in black and white filmmaking
Chiaroscuro
Zoom in...
Deep focus cinematography
Production values
15. 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
Blockbuster
Omniscient narration
Star persona
16. 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
Focus puller
Propaganda film
Studio system
Shot/reverse shot
17. 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
Fade-out
Undercranking
Canted angle
On-the-nose dialogue
18. The first step in the process of creating CGI. The wireframe is a three-dimensional computer model of an object - which is then rendered (producing the finished image) and animated (using simulated camera movement frame by frame)
Star system
Wireframe
Oeuvre
Dailies
19. A machine used to create optical effects such as fades - dissolves - and superimpositions. Most are now created digitally
Graphic match
Tinting
Shot
Optical printer
20. Dialogue that restates What is already obvious from images or action
Three-act structure
Classical style
Vertical integration
On-the-nose dialogue
21. The aspect ratio of 1.33:1 - standardized by the Academy of Motion Picture Art and Sciences until the development of widescreen formats in the 1950s
Auteur
Director
Academy Ratio
Natural-key lighting
22. Also called 'full screen -' the technique of re-shooting a widescreen film in order to convert it to the original television aspect ration of 1.33 to 1. Rather than reproduce the original aspect ratio - as a letterboxed version does - a panned and sc
On-the-nose dialogue
Panning and scanning
Iris out
Emulsion
23. An uncredited actor - usually hired for crowd scenes
Hybrid
Restricted narration
Phi phenomenon
Extra
24. A technique of moving a zoom lens from a wide-angle position to a telephoto position - which results in a magnification of the subject within the frame - and keeps the subject in focus
Zoom in...
Set-up
High-key lighting
Screenplay
25. An efficient system developed for film lighting. In a standard lighting set-up - the key light illuminates the subject - the fill light eliminates shadows cast by the key light - and the back light separates the subject from the background
Three-point lighting
Saturation
Text
Pulling
26. Processes such as Cinemascope and Cinerama - developed during the 1950s to enhance film's size advantage over the smaller television image
Method acting
Anime
Widescreen
Re-establishing shot
27. The width of the film stock - measured across the frame. Typical sizes are 8mm - 16mm - 35mm - and 70mm
Panchromatic
Synthespian
Polarizing filters
Gauge
28. 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
Shot/reverse shot
Line reading
Horizontal integration
Rear projection
29. Creating an image by combining several elements created separately using computer graphics rather than photographic means
Composition in depth
Handheld shot
Digital compositing
Restricted narration
30. Using computer graphics to 'build' structures connected to the actual architecture on set or location
Hard light
Iris out
Digital set extension
Morphing
31. 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
Minor studios
Natural-key lighting
Assistant Editor
Green screen
32. The reverse of Iris in: an iris expands outward until the next shot takes up the entire screen
Soft light
Iris out
Composition in depth
Formalist style
33. The camera does not move across an imagined line drawn between two characters
Aspect Ratio
Tilt
Reframing
180-degree rule
34. A technique of exposing film frames - then rewinding the film and exposing it again - which results in an image that combines two shots in a single frame
Double exposure
Normal lens
Descriptive claim
Protagonist
35. A device attached to the film camera that records videotape of what has been filmed - allowing the director immediate access to video footage
Trailer
Double exposure
Front projection
Video assist
36. A technique of exposing film frames - then rewinding the film and exposing it again - which results in an image that combines two shots in a single frame
Persistence of vision
Double exposure
Runaway production
Assistant Editor
37. The falling or unraveling action after the climax of a narrative that leads to resolution
Establishing shot
Flashback
Denouement
Time-lapse photography
38. A visual effect created when the subject in the frame is restricted by the objects or the physical properties of the set
Rack focus
Blocking
Tight framing
Prosthesis
39. A statement that presents an argument about a film's meaning and significance
Recursive action
Brechtian distanciation
Interpretive claim
Overhead shot
40. A platform on wheels - used for mobile camera shots
Dolly
Telephoto lens
Parellel
Tableau shot
41. 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
Plot summary
Release prints
Fade-out
Pixel
42. A continuity editing technique that preserves spatial continuity by using a character's line of vision as motivation for a cut
Chiaroscuro
Soviet montage
Eyeline match
Mixing
43. A technique of arranging the actors on the set to take advantage of deep focus cinematography - which allows for many planes of depth in the film frame to remain in focus
Wireframe
Computer-generated imagery (CGI)
Composition in depth
Narrative
44. A marketing strategy of screening a blockbuster prior to general release only in premier theaters
Roadshowing
Editor
Rotoscope
Brechtian distanciation
45. A device used to manipulate the amount and/or color of light entering the lens
Brechtian distanciation
Composition
Four-part structure
Filter
46. The plotline that surrounds an embedded tale. The frame narration may or may not be as fully developed as the embedded tale
Subgenre
Set-up
Prosthesis
Frame narration
47. A format that uses a larger film stock than standard 35mm. IMAX - Omnimax - and Showscan are shot on 70mm film
Set-up
Gauge
Wide film
Iris in...
48. An optical technique that divides the screen into two or more frames
Rear projection
Split screen
Character actor
Color timing
49. A shot combining two kinds of movement: the camera tracks in toward the subject wile the lens zooms out
Parellel editing
Trombone shot
Matte painting
Take
50. A small - variable opening on a camera lens that regulates the amount of light entering the camera and striking the surface of the film
Aperture
Parellel editing
Turning point
Hard light
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