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Film Vocab
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performing-arts
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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 platform on wheels - used for mobile camera shots
Establishing shot
Speed
Dolly
Canted angle
2. 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
Interlaced scanning
Production values
Eye-level shot
3. Experimental film; Underground cinema;
Medium shot
Lens
Morphing
Avant-garde film
4. A non-standard narrative organization that assumes 'day in the life' quality rather than the highly structured three-act or four part narrative - and that features loose or indirect cause-effect relationships
Pre-production
Episodic
Omniscient narration
Master shot
5. 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
Diegesis
Depth of field
Hollywood Ten
Dolly
6. 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
Editor
Freeze frame
Overlapping dialogue
Glass shot
7. Devices that attach to actors' faces and/or bodies to change their appearance
Block booking
City symphony
Minor studios
Prosthesis
8. 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
Vista Vision
Cinerama
Special visual effects
Tilt
9. Lighting design where the key light is somewhat more intense than the fill light - so the fill does not eliminate every shadow. The effect is generally less cheerful than high-key lighting - but not as gloomy as low-key lighting
Dailies
Slow motion
Natural-key lighting
Underexposure
10. A process of blending the three elements of the sound track (dialogue - music - and effects) in post-production
Mixing
Vertical integration
Double exposure
City symphony
11. A scene transition wherein sound from one scene bleeds over into the ext scene - often resulting in a contrast between sound image
Sound bridge
Diffusion filters
Telephoto lens
Wireframe
12. An abrupt - inexplicable shift in time and place of an action not signaled by an appropriate shot transition
Jump cut
Out-take
Kuleshov effect
Academy Ratio
13. Also called 'stop motion photography.' A technique of photographing a scene one frame at a time and moving the model between each shot
Digital cinema
Overlapping dialogue
Wide-angle lens
Pixilation
14. Lighting design in which the greater intensity of the key light makes it impossible for the fill to eliminate shadows - producing a high-contrast image (with many grades of light and dark) - a number of shadows - and a somber mood
Low-key lighting
Front projection
Depth of field
Frozen time moment
15. The chip in a video camera that converts the incoming light to an electronic signal
Charge coupler device
Filter
High-key lighting
Release prints
16. An optical technique that divides the screen into two or more frames
Split screen
Tight framing
Letterboxing
Camera distance
17. 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
Long take
Digital video
Restricted narration
Subgenre
18. A short screen appearance by a celebrity - playing himself or herself
Focal length
Cameo
Reverse shot
Star system
19. The falling or unraveling action after the climax of a narrative that leads to resolution
Double exposure
Aerial Shot
Composition in depth
Denouement
20. 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
Charge coupler device
Camera distance
Negative cutter
Block booking
21. A technique of filming at a speed faster than projection - the projecting the footage at normal speed of 24 frames per second. Because fewer frames were recorded per second - the action appears to be speeded up
Studio system
Revisionist
Re-establishing shot
Slow motion
22. A lens with a variable focal length that allows changes of focal length while keeping the subject in focus
Focal length
Crab dolly
Blocking
Zoom lens
23. A story narrated by one of the characters within the story - using the 'I' voice
Hard light
Aperture
Masking
First-person narration
24. The distance that appears in focus in front of and behind the subject. It is determined by the aperture - distance and focal length of lens
Iris in...
Speed
Fast motion
Depth of field
25. The chronological accounting of all events presented and suggested
Voice-over
Undercranking
Fabula
Brechtian distanciation
26. A system of constructing and arranging buildings and objects on the set so that they diminish in size dramatically from foreground to background - which creates the illusion of depth
Color consultant
Aerial Shot
Propaganda film
Forced perspective
27. A documentary or occasionally - a narrative film that presents only one side of an argument or one approach to a subject
Propaganda film
First-person narration
Text
Fog filter
28. A chemical embedded in the emulsion layer of film stock that - when developed after exposure - releases a particular color dye (red - green - or blue)
Negative cutter
First-person narration
Grain
Dye coupler
29. Light emitted from a relatively small source positioned close to the subject. It tends to be unflattering because it creates deep shadows and emphasizes surface imperfections
Bleach bypass
Long shot
Hard light
Day for night
30. 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.
Negative cutter
Synthespian
Motif
Product placement
31. The width of the film stock - measured across the frame. Typical sizes are 8mm - 16mm - 35mm - and 70mm
Denouement
Masking
Gauge
Computer-generated imagery (CGI)
32. A format that uses a larger film stock than standard 35mm. IMAX - Omnimax - and Showscan are shot on 70mm film
Brechtian distanciation
Interpellation
Continuity editing
Wide film
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
Reverse shot
Direct sound
First-person narration
Undercranking
34. A crew member whose job is to maintain consistency in visual details from one shot to the next
Master shot
Loose framing
Continuity editor
Selective focus
35. The first print made from a film negative
Line reading
Master positive
Long shot
Pixilation
36. The narrative path of the main or supporting characters - also called a plotline. Complex films may have several lines of action
Insert
Negative cutter
Line of action
Outsourcing
37. A specialist who monitors the processing of color on the se and in the film lab
Avant-garde film
Analog Video
Color timing
Color consultant
38. A statement that asserts a judgment that a given film or group of films is good or bad - based on specific criteria - Which may or may not be stated
Pushing
Plot summary
Motif
Evaluative claim
39. The reverse of Iris in: an iris expands outward until the next shot takes up the entire screen
Omniscient narration
Recursive action
Iris out
Formalist style
40. 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
Plot summary
Deep focus cinematography
Phi phenomenon
Ethnographic film
41. Natural light; The process of suing sunlight rather than artificial studio lights when filming
Descriptive claim
Reverse shot
Available light
Production values
42. The imagined world of the story
30-degree rule
Auteur
Two-shot
Diegesis
43. 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
Selective focus
German Expressionism
Time-lapse photography
Composition
44. A shot filmed from an airplane or helicopter
Fast motion
Analog Video
Underexposure
Aerial Shot
45. A term for film stock used in early cinema that was insensitive to red hues
Computer-generated imagery (CGI)
Orthochromatic
High-key lighting
Available light
46. Muted - washed out color that contains more white than a saturated color
Color filter
Desaturated
Horizontal integration
Extreme close-up
47. A marketing strategy of screening a blockbuster prior to general release only in premier theaters
Exposition
Gaffer
Roadshowing
Syuzhet
48. 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
Split screen
Release prints
Loose framing
High-key lighting
49. Leaving the silver grains in the emulsion rather than bleaching them out - which produces desaturated color
Gaffer
Dissolve
Auteur
Bleach bypass
50. Lighting design in which the greater intensity of the key light makes it impossible for the fill to eliminate shadows - producing a high-contrast image (with many grades of light and dark) - a number of shadows - and a somber mood
Formalist style
Low-key lighting
Mixing
Morphing