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Film Vocab
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1. 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
Orthochromatic
Normal lens
30-degree rule
Overexposure
2. A production term referring to coordinating actors' movements with lines of dialogue
Pan
Pixel
Blocking
Offscreen space
3. 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
Tracking shot
Release prints
Interpretive claim
Progressive scanning
4. Non-diegetic; any element in the film that is not part of the imagined story world
Tinting
Open-ended
Extradiegetic
Color consultant
5. A film composed entirely of footage from other films.
Anime
Kuleshov effect
Compilation film
Fabula
6. A form of shot transition - generally concluding a scene - where a circular mask constricts around the image until the entire frame is black
Orthochromatic
Extreme long-shot
Iris in...
Major studios
7. Also called 'rushes.' Footage exposed and developed quickly so that the director can assess the day's work
Green screen
Diegesis
Dailies
Aspect Ratio
8. A crew member who works in post-production in a specially equipped studio to create the sounds of the story world - such as the shuffling of shoes on various surfaces for footsteps
Eyeline match
Insert
Foley artist
Mixing
9. Any lens with a focal length approximately equal to the diagonal of the frame. For 35mm filmmaking - a 35-50 mm lens does not distort the angle of vision or depth
Underexposure
Synthespian
Normal lens
Available light
10. 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
Deep focus cinematography
Runaway production
Negative
Forced development
11. 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
Screenplay
Spec script
Method acting
Motivation
12. 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
Continuity editor
Academy Ratio
Jump cut
Tracking shot
13. Optical illusions created during post-production
Lens
Vertical integration
Medium long shot
Visual effects
14. A term applied to film stock that is relatively insensitive to light. This stock will not yield acceptable images unless the amount of light can be carefully controlled
Extreme wide-angle lens
Apparatus Theory
ADR
Slow
15. A shot taken by a camera that is held manually rather than supported by a tripod - crane or Steadicam. Generally - such shots are shaky - owing to the motion of the camera operator
Fabula
Set-up
Handheld shot
Scratching
16. The shape of the image onscreen as determined by the width of the frame relative to its height
Cut
Video assist
Neutral-density filter
Aspect Ratio
17. A technique of manipulating focus to direct the viewer's attention
Soviet montage
Pixel
Auteur
Selective focus
18. An optical technique that divides the screen into two or more frames
Minor studios
Split screen
Product placement
Telecine
19. A shot taken when the camera is so close to a subject that it fills the frame. It is most commonly used for a shot that isolates and encompasses a single actor's face - to emphasize the expression of emotion
Episodic
Close-up
Go-motion
Fog filter
20. A style of stage acting developed from the teachings of Constantin Stanislavsky - which trains actors to get into character through the use of emotional memory
Method acting
Propaganda film
Vista Vision
Shot/reverse shot
21. A contemporary modification of the standard three-act structure that identifies a critical turning point at the halfway mark of most narrative films
Digital video
Wide film
Slow
Four-part structure
22. A story narrated by one of the characters within the story - using the 'I' voice
Wide-angle lens
First-person narration
Graphic match
Master shot
23. The imagined world of the story
Travelling matte
Diegesis
Double exposure
Major studios
24. 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
Lightning mix
Assistant Editor
Forced perspective
Slow
25. 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)
Eyeline match
Composition
Telephoto lens
Wireframe
26. The distance in millimeters from the optical center of a lens to the lane where the sharpest image is formed while focusing on a distant object
Fabula
Focal length
Zoom out
Insert
27. 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
Phi phenomenon
Mixing
Second unit
Director
28. Recording images at a slower speed than the speed of projection (24 frames per second). Before cameras were motorized - this was called undercranking. Fewer frames are exposed in one minute - so - when projected at 24 f.p.s. - that action takes less
Classical style
Emulsion
Fast motion
High-angle shot
29. A crew member responsible for logging the details of each take on the set so as to ensure continuity
Lens
First-person narration
Script supervisor
Text
30. Public identity created by marketing a film actor's performances - press coverage - and 'personal' information to fans as the star's personality
Star persona
Forced perspective
Chiaroscuro
Non-diegetic
31. A method for producing a widescreen image without special lenses or equipment - using standard film stock and blocking out the top and bottom of the frame to achieve an aspect ration of 1.85:1
Horizontal integration
Fade-out
Exposure latitude
Masking
32. The arrangement of images to depict a unified storyline
Jump cut
Narrative sequencing
Fog filter
Eyeline match
33. A form of shot transition - generally concluding a scene - where a circular mask constricts around the image until the entire frame is black
Iris in...
Negative cutter
Mockumentary
Digital video
34. A shot depicting the human body from the waist up
Apparatus Theory
Montage sequence
Voice-over
Medium shot
35. A fiction film (often a comedy) that uses documentary conventions on fictional rather than real-world subject matter
City symphony
Forced development
Mockumentary
Narrative sequencing
36. A shot transition where shot A slowly disappears as the screen becomes black before shot B appears. A fade-in is the reverse of this process
Pixilation
Fade-out
Minor studios
Spec script
37. A shot taken from a camera mounted on a crane that moves three-dimensionally in a space
Charge coupler device
Masking
Crane shot
Ethnographic film
38. The arrangement of actors on screen as a compositional element that suggests themes - character development - emotional content - and visual motifs
Kuleshov effect
Actualitas
Figure placement and movement
Toning
39. A platform on wheels - used for mobile camera shots
Optical printer
Production values
Dolly
Re-establishing shot
40. A computer-generated actor that some speculate will replace flesh and blood actors in the not so distant future
Orthochromatic
Synthespian
Two-shot
Base
41. A shot that depicts a human body from the feet up
Split screen
Time-lapse photography
Non-diegetic
Medium long shot
42. Fish-eye lens; With a focal length of 15mm or less - this lens presents an extremely distorted image - where objects in the center of the frame appear to bulge toward the camera
Score
Lightning mix
Computer-generated imagery (CGI)
Extreme wide-angle lens
43. Individuals who were prevented from working in the film industry because of their suspected involvement with Communist interests
Four-part structure
Negative cutter
Hollywood Blacklist
Digital cinema
44. The chronological accounting of all events presented and suggested
Fabula
Handheld shot
Post-production
Synthespian
45. A story narrated by one of the characters within the story - using the 'I' voice
Special visual effects
Turning point
Major studios
First-person narration
46. A system for recording images on magnetic tape using a digital signal - that is - an electronic signal comprised of 0s and 1s
Digital video
Typecasting
Propaganda film
Focus puller
47. A style of stage acting developed from the teachings of Constantin Stanislavsky - which trains actors to get into character through the use of emotional memory
Backstory
Method acting
Underexposure
Three-act structure
48. The visual arrangement of objects - actors - and space within the frame
Filter
Widescreen
Composition
Neutral-density filter
49. The average length in seconds of a series of shots - covering a portion of a film or an entire film; a measure of pace within a scene or in the film as a whole.
Assistant Editor
German Expressionism
Average shot length
Dye coupler
50. The five vertically integrated corporations that exerted the greatest control over film production in the studio era: MGM - Warner Brothers - RKO - Twentieth Century Fox - and Paramount
Saturation
Major studios
Grain
Composition
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