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Film Vocab
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1. A shot that focuses audience attention on precise details that may or may not be the focus of characters
Cutaway
Zoom out
Wide film
Color consultant
2. A technique of depicting two layered images simultaneously. Images from one frame or several frames of film are added to pre-existing images - using an optical printer - to produce the same effect as a double exposure
Extreme wide-angle lens
Interpretive claim
Superimposition
Non-diegetic
3. A technique of recording very few images over a long period of time - say - one frame per minute or per day
Runaway production
Shutter
Jump cut
Time-lapse photography
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
Fabula
Bleach bypass
Shot transition
Episodic
5. A device used to manipulate the amount and/or color of light entering the lens
Genre conventions
Steadicam
Filter
Flashforward
6. 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
Blockbuster
Steadicam
Point-of-view shot
High-angle shot
7. A shot taken from a camera mounted on a crane that moves three-dimensionally in a space
Superimposition
Crane shot
Focal length
Pulling
8. Also called 'rushes.' Footage exposed and developed quickly so that the director can assess the day's work
Dailies
Cinerama
Spec script
Best boy
9. 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
Extreme close-up
Scene
30-degree rule
Close-up
10. 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
Denouement
Continuity editing
Computer-generated imagery (CGI)
Pre-production
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
Extreme close-up
Hybrid
Product placement
12. 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
180-degree rule
Vertical integration
Composition in depth
Motif
13. A technique of 'pushing' the film (overdeveloping it) to correct problems of underexposure (resulting from insufficient light during shooting) by increasing image contrast
Exposure latitude
Academy Ratio
Forced development
Travelling matte
14. Any noticeable but unintended discrepancy from one shot to the next in costume - props - hairstyle - posture - etc.
Zoom out
Continuity error
Insert
Phi phenomenon
15. A contemporary modification of the standard three-act structure that identifies a critical turning point at the halfway mark of most narrative films
Closure
Runaway production
Flashback
Four-part structure
16. 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
Selective focus
Hybrid
Letterboxing
Production values
17. 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
Dye coupler
Digital set extension
Natural-key lighting
Mixing
18. A genre film that radically modifies accepted genre conventions for dramatic effect
Revisionist
Three-point lighting
Medium long shot
Pulling
19. A process of transferring film to video tapes or DVDs so that the original aspect ratio of the film is preserved
Figure placement and movement
Fast motion
Color filter
Letterboxing
20. Secondary footage that is interspersed with master shots - sometimes in the form of footage shot for another production or archival footage
Analog Video
Long take
Dissolve
B-roll
21. A brief chronological description of the basic events and characters in a film. It does not include interpretive or evaluative claims
Plot summary
Natural-key lighting
Editor
Filter
22. The visual arrangement of objects - actors - and space within the frame
Script supervisor
Composition
Vista Vision
Reframing
23. A shot that makes the human subject very small in relation to his or her environment. The entire figure from head to toe is onscreen and dwarfed by the surroundings
Two-shot
Chiaroscuro
Extreme long-shot
Tight framing
24. A black masking device used to black out a portion of the frame - usually for the insertion of other images
Oeuvre
Parellel
Reframing
Matte
25. The person in charge of planning the style and look of the film with the production designer and director of photography - working with actors during principal photography - and collaborating with the editor on the final version
Director
Offscreen space
First-person narration
Color filter
26. 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
Outsourcing
Handheld shot
Continuity editing
Double exposure
27. A consistent style - theme - and subject matter developed over the course of a director's body of work
Oeuvre
Subgenre
Handheld shot
Rack focus
28. A film style that - in contrast to the classical and formalist styles - focuses characters - place - and the spontaneity and digressiveness of life - rather than on highly structured stories or aesthetic abstraction
Horizontal integration
Polarizing filters
Realist style
Long shot
29. A marketing strategy of screening a blockbuster prior to general release only in premier theaters
Widescreen
Roadshowing
Close-up
Iris out
30. Leaving the silver grains in the emulsion rather than bleaching them out - which produces desaturated color
Montage sequence
Bleach bypass
Fabula
Point-of-view shot
31. A shot taken from a level camera located approximately 5' to 6' from the ground - simulating the perspective of a person standing before the action presented
Eye-level shot
Narrative
Line reading
Horizontal integration
32. Live action is filmed in front of a blue screen and a matte. It's then joined with the background footage
Handheld shot
Blue screen
Hollywood Blacklist
Voice-over
33. The chip in a video camera that converts the incoming light to an electronic signal
Newsreel
Take
Anime
Charge coupler device
34. The falling or unraveling action after the climax of a narrative that leads to resolution
Lightning mix
Focus puller
Denouement
Crane shot
35. A technique used to join live action with pre-recorded background images. A projector is aimed at a half-silvered mirror that reflects the background - which the camera records as being located behind the actors
Front projection
Negative cutter
Extreme wide-angle lens
Medium close-up
36. A complete narrative unit within a film - with its own beginning - middle - and end. Often scenes are unified - and distinguished from one another - by time and setting
Match on action
Scene
Grain
Freeze frame
37. 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
Match on action
Assistant Editor
Cut
38. 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)
Pulling
Wireframe
Morphing
Go-motion
39. A term for film stock used in early cinema that was insensitive to red hues
High-key lighting
Loose framing
Negative
Orthochromatic
40. 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
Steadicam
Three-point lighting
Anamorphic lens
Depth of field
41. A standard shot pattern that dictates that a shot of one character will be followed by a shot of another character - taken from the reverse angle of the first shot
Studio system
Actualitas
Shot/reverse shot
Shooting script
42. An optical technique that divides the screen into two or more frames
Lens
Split screen
Extradiegetic
ADR
43. Light striking the emulsion layer of the film - activating light-sensitive grains
Exposure
Shot
Screenplay
Wireframe
44. A type of filter that absorbs certain wavelength but leave others unaffected. On black and white film - color filters lighten or darken tones. On color film - they can produce a range of effects
Motif
Continuity editor
Take
Color filter
45. A shot taken from a camera mounted on a crane that moves three-dimensionally in a space
Syuzhet
Crane shot
Iris out
Screenplay
46. Non-diegetic; any element in the film that is not part of the imagined story world
Telephoto lens
Extradiegetic
Minor studios
Star filter
47. 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
Loose framing
Iris out
Soundtrack
Flashing
48. A technician responsible for splicing and assembling the film negative to the editor's specifications
Speed
Matte
Negative cutter
Low-angle shot
49. 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
Master positive
Best boy
Optical printer
German Expressionism
50. 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
Low-angle shot
Focal length
Crane shot
Motif