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Film Vocab
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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. 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
Glass shot
Interlaced scanning
Formalist style
Brechtian distanciation
2. 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
Soundtrack
Video assist
Episodic
Master positive
3. Images that originate from computer graphics technology - rather than photography
Standard shot pattern
Computer-generated imagery (CGI)
Pixel
Line of action
4. A musical accompaniment written specifically for a film
Backstory
Score
Letterboxing
Promotion
5. 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
Major studios
Double exposure
Analog Video
Aspect Ratio
6. A story; a chain of events linked by cause-and-effect logic
Narrative
Propaganda film
Toning
Anime
7. A scene transition in which the first frame of the incoming scene appears to push the last frame of the previous scene off the screen horizontally
Negative cutter
Digital video
Negative
Wipe
8. 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
Third-person narration
Fade-out
Episodic
Color timing
9. A brief chronological description of the basic events and characters in a film. It does not include interpretive or evaluative claims
Zoom lens
Cel
Plot summary
Front projection
10. A system for recording images on magnetic tape using a digital signal - that is - an electronic signal comprised of 0s and 1s
Set-up
Scratching
Loose framing
Digital video
11. 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
Match on action
Establishing shot
Cutaway
Horizontal integration
12. Assists the gaffer in managing lighting crews
Fabula
Soundtrack
Best boy
Wipe
13. A documentary or occasionally - a narrative film that presents only one side of an argument or one approach to a subject
Front projection
Computer-generated imagery (CGI)
Propaganda film
Major studios
14. A character who in some way opposes the protagonist - leading to protracted conflict
Antagonist
Graphic match
Digital video
Glass shot
15. Devices that attach to actors' faces and/or bodies to change their appearance
Prosthesis
Backstory
Director
Toning
16. A measure of a film stock's sensitivity to light. 'Fast' refers to sensitive film stock - while slow film is relatively insensitive
Text
Digital cinema
Speed
Typecasting
17. A crew member who reports to the Director of Photography (DP) and is in charge of tasks involving lighting and electrical needs
Gaffer
Set-up
Color filter
Line reading
18. 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
Visual effects
Hollywood Ten
City symphony
19. An early color process - involving bathing lengths of processed film in dye one scene at a time
Running time
Text
Tinting
Deep focus cinematography
20. 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
Rear projection
Point-of-view shot
Genre conventions
Sound bridge
21. A film composed entirely of footage from other films.
Spec script
Compilation film
Blue screen
Take
22. A sound editing technique that links several scenes through parallel and overlapping sounds. Each sound is associated with one scene - unlike a sound bridge - where a sound from one scene bleeds into that of another
High-angle shot
Establishing shot
ADR
Lightning mix
23. 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
Motivation
German Expressionism
Zoom in...
Visual effects
24. An early color process that replaced silver halide grains with colored salts
Dailies
Extreme long-shot
Assistant Editor
Toning
25. 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
Exposure latitude
Motif
Hard light
Editor
26. A visual effect created when the subject in the frame is restricted by the objects or the physical properties of the set
Text
Tight framing
Production values
Rotoscope
27. A shot that interrupts a scene's master shot and may include character reactions
Sound bridge
Insert
Anime
Lens
28. A property of older television monitors - where each frame was scanned as two fields: One consisting of all the odd numbered lines - the other all the even lines. If slowed down - the television image would appear to sweep down the screen one line at
Composition in depth
Interlaced scanning
Lightning mix
Running time
29. A glass element on a camera that focuses light rays so that the image of the object appears on the surface of the film
Fabula
Character actor
Lens
Tinting
30. 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
Matte painting
Cel
Normal lens
Time-lapse photography
31. These filters bend the light coming into lens - softening and blurring the image
Diffusion filters
Minor studios
Base
Blaxploitation
32. Non-diegetic; any element in the film that is not part of the imagined story world
Depth of field
ADR
Soft light
Extradiegetic
33. Glass filters whose surface is etched with spots that refract light - so they create the appearance of water droplets in the air
Shot transition
Fog filter
Aspect Ratio
Restricted narration
34. A crew member who reports to the Director of Photography (DP) and is in charge of tasks involving lighting and electrical needs
Gaffer
Wide film
Animation
Medium shot
35. The non-chronological insertion of events from the past into the present day of the story world
Flashback
Composition
Voice-over
Overhead shot
36. A continuity editing technique that preserves spatial continuity by using a character's line of vision as motivation for a cut
Release prints
Fast
Frame narration
Eyeline match
37. A continuity editing technique that preserves spatial continuity by using a character's line of vision as motivation for a cut
Foley artist
Base
Eyeline match
Dailies
38. An early color process - involving bathing lengths of processed film in dye one scene at a time
Long take
Auteur
Out-take
Tinting
39. A brief chronological description of the basic events and characters in a film. It does not include interpretive or evaluative claims
Sound bridge
Special visual effects
Plot summary
Parellel
40. 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
Lens
Block booking
Promotion
Gaffer
41. A widescreen process that uses three cameras - three projectors - and a wide - curved screen
Classical style
Time-lapse photography
Cinerama
Eyeline match
42. A visual effect achieved through the use of photography and digital techniques that appears to stop time and allow the viewer to travel around the subject and view it from a multitude of vantage points
Saturation
Frozen time moment
Vista Vision
Special visual effects
43. A technique of recording very few images over a long period of time - say - one frame per minute or per day
Vista Vision
Time-lapse photography
Offscreen space
Tableau shot
44. A sound editing technique that links several scenes through parallel and overlapping sounds. Each sound is associated with one scene - unlike a sound bridge - where a sound from one scene bleeds into that of another
Backstory
Exposure
Lightning mix
Closure
45. A technique of manipulating focus to direct the viewer's attention
Focal length
Shot transition
Rack focus
Selective focus
46. 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
Slow motion
Masking
Normal lens
Anime
47. Literary narration from a viewpoint beyond that of any one individual character
Revisionist
Evaluative claim
Third-person narration
Extreme long-shot
48. A scene filmed and processed but not selected to appear in the final version of the film
Non-diegetic
Out-take
Shot
Offscreen space
49. A shot that depicts a human body from the feet up
Matte painting
Aspect Ratio
Take
Medium long shot
50. 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
Extreme wide-angle lens
Aperture
Saturation
Line reading