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Film Vocab
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1. Secondary footage that is interspersed with master shots - sometimes in the form of footage shot for another production or archival footage
Lens
Shot
Editor
B-roll
2. Creating an image by combining several elements created separately using computer graphics rather than photographic means
Digital compositing
Star filter
Slow motion
Academy Ratio
3. A measure of the visual and sound quality of a film. Low-budget films tend to have lower production values because they lack the resources to devote to expensive pre- and post-production activities
Video assist
Pulling
Production values
Medium shot
4. A technique of shooting a scene at a very high speed (96 frames per second) - then adding and subtracting frames in post-production - 'fanning out' the action through the overlapping images
Extreme close-up
Star persona
Major studios
Recursive action
5. 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
Backstage musical
Double exposure
ADR
Iris in...
6. 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
Overexposure
Shutter
Take
Digital cinema
7. Prefogging; a cinematographic technique that exposes raw film stock to light before - during - or after shooting - resulting in an image with reduced contrast. This effect can also be created using digital post-production techniques
Base
Standard shot pattern
Ethnographic film
Flashing
8. 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
Camera distance
Integrated musical
Matte painting
Color filter
9. A technique of 'pushing' the film (overdeveloping it) to correct problems of underexposure (resulting from insufficient light during shooting) by increasing image contrast
Fast motion
Release prints
Forced development
Digital video
10. 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
Close-up
Apparatus Theory
Cinerama
Slow
11. A shot transition that involves the gradual disappearance of the image at the same time that a new image gradually comes into view
Dye coupler
Pulling
Handheld shot
Dissolve
12. Using computer graphics to 'build' structures connected to the actual architecture on set or location
Close-up
Turning point
Digital set extension
Go-motion
13. Author; A term popularized by French film critics and refers to film directors with their own distinctive style
Auteur
Episodic
Four-part structure
Digital video
14. Dense accumulation of detail conveyed in the opening moments of a film
Exposition
Episodic
Gauge
Take
15. A scene filmed and processed but not selected to appear in the final version of the film
Glass shot
Out-take
Extradiegetic
Blaxploitation
16. The conclusion of the film wraps up - all loose ends in a form of resolution - though not necessarily with a happy ending.
Eyeline match
Morphing
Zoom out
Closure
17. A production term referring to coordinating actors' movements with lines of dialogue
Soundtrack
Blocking
Persistence of vision
Anime
18. A term for film stock used in early cinema that was insensitive to red hues
Pushing
Orthochromatic
Release prints
Selective focus
19. A black masking device used to black out a portion of the frame - usually for the insertion of other images
Mockumentary
Open-ended
Matte
Saturation
20. The width of the film stock - measured across the frame. Typical sizes are 8mm - 16mm - 35mm - and 70mm
Chiaroscuro
Best boy
Gauge
Matte
21. A business model adopted by the major studios during the Hollywood studio era - in which studios controlled all aspects of the film business - from production to distribution and exhibition
Vertical integration
Three-point lighting
Establishing shot
Crab dolly
22. A black masking device used to black out a portion of the frame - usually for the insertion of other images
High-key lighting
Exposure latitude
Matte
Running time
23. A continuity editing technique that preserves spatial continuity by using a character's line of vision as motivation for a cut
Blue screen
Rear projection
Travelling matte
Eyeline match
24. Non-diegetic; any element in the film that is not part of the imagined story world
High concept film
Dissolve
Soft light
Extradiegetic
25. Leaving the silver grains in the emulsion rather than bleaching them out - which produces desaturated color
Letterboxing
Bleach bypass
Pulling
Standard shot pattern
26. A similarity established between two characters or situations that invites the audience to compare the two. It may involve visual - narrative - and/or sound elements
Swish pan
Pixilation
Parellel
Turning point
27. A person responsible for putting a film together from a mass of developed footage - making decisions regarding pace - shot transitions - and which scenes and shots will be used
Tight framing
Editor
Subtext
Point-of-view shot
28. 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
Foley artist
Exposure latitude
Natural-key lighting
Shot/reverse shot
29. The artful use of light and dark areas in the composition in black and white filmmaking
Saturation
Chiaroscuro
Long shot
Tracking shot
30. A picture element - a measure of image density. There are approximately 18 million pixels in a frame of 35mm film and 300000-400000 in a video image
Anamorphic lens
Pulling
Pixel
Extreme wide-angle lens
31. 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
Extreme long-shot
Turning point
Bleach bypass
32. The narrative path of the main or supporting characters - also called a plotline. Complex films may have several lines of action
Tight framing
Line of action
Color timing
Aperture
33. The length in minutes for a film to play in its entirety (for example - 120 minutes). Also referred to as 'screen time.'
Turning point
Brechtian distanciation
Average shot length
Running time
34. A direct vocal address to the audience - Which may emanate from a character or from a narrative voice apparently unrelated to the diegesis
Telecine
Voice-over
High-key lighting
Swish pan
35. A genre film that radically modifies accepted genre conventions for dramatic effect
Second unit
Revisionist
Trailer
Exposure latitude
36. A technique of leaving empty space around the subject in the frame - in order to covey openness and continuity of visible space and to imply offscreen space
Studio system
Video assist
Loose framing
Turning point
37. Using computer graphics to 'build' structures connected to the actual architecture on set or location
Cameo
Tinting
Digital set extension
Long shot
38. A filter that creates points of light that streak outward from a light source
Star filter
Anime
Prosthesis
Recursive action
39. A lens with a variable focal length that allows changes of focal length while keeping the subject in focus
Continuity editor
Star filter
Shot/reverse shot
Zoom lens
40. A shot that includes a human figure from the shoulders up
High-angle shot
Medium close-up
Vertical integration
Overexposure
41. The annotated script - containing information about set-ups used during shooting
Shooting script
City symphony
Mockumentary
Three-act structure
42. 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
Newsreel
Direct cinema
Interpellation
Iris out
43. A pan executed so quickly that it produces a blurred image - indicated rapid activity or - sometimes - the passage of time
Rotoscope
Cel
Swish pan
Two-shot
44. A term describing a conclusion that does not answer all the questions raised regarding characters or storylines - nor tie up all loose ends
Telephoto lens
Turning point
Open-ended
Focus puller
45. A filter that simply reduces the amount of light entering the lens - without affecting the color characteristics
Auteur
Neutral-density filter
Canted angle
Cut
46. 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
Morphing
Emulsion
Major studios
180-degree rule
47. A term for film stock used in early cinema that was insensitive to red hues
Studio system
Optical printer
Orthochromatic
Iris in...
48. 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
Negative
Three-point lighting
Tracking shot
Block booking
49. A short documentary on current events - show in movie theaters along with cartoons and feature films beginning in the 1930s
Shot
Canted angle
Newsreel
Depth of field
50. An abrupt shot transition that occurs when Shot A is instantaneously replaced by Shot B.
Shot
Fast
Line of action
Cut
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