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Film Vocab
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1. A style of Japanese animation - distinguished primarily by the fact that it is not all geared for young audiences
Motif
Motif
Forced perspective
Anime
2. 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
Freeze frame
Major studios
Minor studios
3. 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
Natural-key lighting
Charge coupler device
Eye-level shot
Screenplay
4. 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
Computer-generated imagery (CGI)
Third-person narration
Anime
Glass shot
5. A type of documentary film whose purpose is to present the way of life of a culture or subculture
Gaffer
Ethnographic film
Major studios
City symphony
6. A class or type of film - such as the Western or the horror movie. They share narrative - visual - and/or sound conventions
Classical style
Star filter
Genre
Color timing
7. A machine that converts film prints to videotape format
Filter
Telecine
Extra
Cel
8. A device used to manipulate the amount and/or color of light entering the lens
Synthespian
Filter
Pulling
Fast motion
9. These filters bend the light coming into lens - softening and blurring the image
Runaway production
Master shot
Diffusion filters
Panchromatic
10. A shot transition that involves the gradual disappearance of the image at the same time that a new image gradually comes into view
Dissolve
Swish pan
Extreme wide-angle lens
Shot
11. 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
Set-up
Score
Phi phenomenon
Script supervisor
12. The non-chronological insertion of events from the past into the present day of the story world
Flashback
Desaturated
Crab dolly
Fog filter
13. 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
Hybrid
Subgenre
Interpellation
Best boy
14. 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
Frozen time moment
Focus puller
Soundtrack
Text
15. 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
Foley artist
Screenplay
Forced perspective
Avant-garde film
16. A production crew responsible not for shooting the primary footage but - instead - for remote location shooting and B-roll. See also B-roll
Promotion
Depth of field
Digital video
Second unit
17. The first print made from a film negative
Tinting
Interpellation
Master positive
Hollywood Ten
18. A filter that simply reduces the amount of light entering the lens - without affecting the color characteristics
Anime
Film stock
Neutral-density filter
Subgenre
19. 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
Academy Ratio
Scene
Go-motion
Hard light
20. Smaller corporations that did not own distribution and/or exhibition companies in the studio era - including Universal - Columbia - and United Artists
Filter
Minor studios
Narrative sequencing
Promotion
21. 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
Typecasting
Post-production
Synthespian
Forced perspective
22. An effect created when more light is required to produce an image strakes the film stock - so that the resulting image exhibits high contrast - glaring light - and washed out shadows. This effect ma or may not be intentional on the filmmaker's part
Frozen time moment
Blockbuster
Overexposure
Omniscient narration
23. 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
Continuity editing
Cutaway
Exposure latitude
Frame narration
24. A relatively long - uninterrupted sot - generally of a minute or more
Zoom in...
Long take
Point-of-view shot
Re-establishing shot
25. Literary narration from a viewpoint beyond that of any one individual character
Take
Third-person narration
Orthochromatic
Digital video
26. A format that uses a larger film stock than standard 35mm. IMAX - Omnimax - and Showscan are shot on 70mm film
High-angle shot
Sound bridge
Wide film
Three-act structure
27. An animation technique that uses a computer program to interpolate frames to produce the effect of an object or creature changing gradually into something different. The program calculates the way the image must change in order for the first image to
Morphing
Master positive
Foley artist
Pixilation
28. A shot that focuses audience attention on precise details that may or may not be the focus of characters
Newsreel
Screenplay
Cel
Cutaway
29. Film productions shot outside the U.S. for economic reasons
High-angle shot
Superimposition
Runaway production
Extra
30. 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
Scratching
Hybrid
Roadshowing
Wide-angle lens
31. 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
Fog filter
Exposure latitude
Genre conventions
Soft light
32. 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
Apparatus Theory
High-key lighting
Major studios
Genre
33. A technique of recording very few images over a long period of time - say - one frame per minute or per day
Computer-generated imagery (CGI)
Time-lapse photography
Turning point
Soundtrack
34. 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
Available light
Panning and scanning
Three-point lighting
Master shot
35. A shot taken fro a position directly above the action - also called a 'birds' eye shot'
On-the-nose dialogue
Overhead shot
Episodic
Superimposition
36. The building block of a scene; an uninterrupted sequence of frames that viewers experience as they watch a film - ending with a cut - fade - dissolve - etc. See also Take
Shot/reverse shot
Shot
Canted angle
Standard shot pattern
37. 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
Integrated musical
Take
Iris in...
Soviet montage
38. A device worn by a camera operator that holds the motion picture camera - allowing it glide smoothly through spaces unreachable by camera mounted on a crane or other apparatus
Vertical integration
Backstage musical
Steadicam
Scratching
39. A film's main characters - one whose conflicts and motives drive the story forward
Crab dolly
Crane shot
Protagonist
Pixilation
40. 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
Extreme long-shot
Matte
Evaluative claim
Fog filter
41. The artful use of light and dark areas in the composition in black and white filmmaking
Chiaroscuro
Shot transition
Base
Descriptive claim
42. The falling or unraveling action after the climax of a narrative that leads to resolution
Digital cinema
Trombone shot
Denouement
Flashforward
43. A computer-generated actor that some speculate will replace flesh and blood actors in the not so distant future
Synthespian
Soviet montage
Pulling
Letterboxing
44. A technique of running the motion picture camera at a speed slower than projection speed (24 frames per second) - in order to produce at a fast motion sequence when projected at normal speed. The term derives from early film cameras - which were cran
Undercranking
Phi phenomenon
Slow motion
Pre-production
45. 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
Post-production
Canted angle
Production values
Chiaroscuro
46. Color. The strength of a hue is measured by its saturation or desaturation
Hue
Color timing
Shot transition
Telecine
47. The selection and ordering of narrative events presented in a film
Syuzhet
Assistant Editor
B-roll
Trombone shot
48. The visual arrangement of objects - actors - and space within the frame
Four-part structure
Backstory
B-roll
Composition
49. A scene transition wherein sound from one scene bleeds over into the ext scene - often resulting in a contrast between sound image
Emulsion
Denouement
Director
Sound bridge
50. A pan executed so quickly that it produces a blurred image - indicated rapid activity or - sometimes - the passage of time
Episodic
Assistant Editor
Direct sound
Swish pan