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Film Vocab
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Match each statement with the correct term.
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1. 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
Green screen
Foley artist
Parellel
Narrative
2. 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
Antagonist
Shot
Medium close-up
Flashing
3. A camera shot taken at a large distance from the subject. Using the human body as the subject - a long shot captures the entire human form
Minor studios
Closure
Episodic
Long shot
4. An attribute of newer television monitors - where each frame is scanned by the electron beam as a single field. If slowed down - each frame would appear on the monitor in its entirety on the screen - rather than line by line - as is the case with int
Glass shot
Restricted narration
Progressive scanning
Establishing shot
5. An alternative to continuity editing - this style of editing was developed in silent Soviet cinema - based on the theory that editing should exploit the difference between shots to generate intellectual and emotional responses in the audience
Intertextual reference
Forced perspective
High-key lighting
Soviet montage
6. A continuity editing technique that preserves spatial continuity by using a character's line of vision as motivation for a cut
Eyeline match
Open-ended
Matte painting
Normal lens
7. 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
Hard light
Character actor
Handheld shot
Block booking
8. Sound recorded on a set - on location - or - for documentary film - at an actual real-world event - as opposed to dubbed in post-production through ADR or looping
Aerial Shot
Direct sound
Shooting script
Orthochromatic
9. The annotated script - containing information about set-ups used during shooting
Line reading
Shooting script
Extreme wide-angle lens
Toning
10. Assists the gaffer in managing lighting crews
Freeze frame
Brechtian distanciation
Continuity error
Best boy
11. Non-diegetic; any element in the film that is not part of the imagined story world
Depth of field
Panchromatic
Voice-over
Extradiegetic
12. Lighting design in which the greater intensity of the key light makes it impossible for the fill to eliminate shadows - producing a high-contrast image (with many grades of light and dark) - a number of shadows - and a somber mood
Motivation
Syuzhet
Long take
Low-key lighting
13. A crew member whose job is to maintain consistency in visual details from one shot to the next
Soft light
Continuity editor
Soviet montage
Overhead shot
14. The practice or repeatedly casting actors in similar roles across different films
Academy Ratio
Progressive scanning
Loose framing
Typecasting
15. A process of blending the three elements of the sound track (dialogue - music - and effects) in post-production
Orthochromatic
Neutral-density filter
Hybrid
Mixing
16. A scene transition wherein sound from one scene bleeds over into the ext scene - often resulting in a contrast between sound image
Revisionist
Sound bridge
Vertical integration
Pulling
17. A story; a chain of events linked by cause-and-effect logic
Subtext
Narrative
Reverse shot
Backstage musical
18. A machine that converts film prints to videotape format
Blue screen
Classical style
Major studios
Telecine
19. 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
Superimposition
Genre
Mixing
Cameo
20. An attribute of newer television monitors - where each frame is scanned by the electron beam as a single field. If slowed down - each frame would appear on the monitor in its entirety on the screen - rather than line by line - as is the case with int
Progressive scanning
Brechtian distanciation
Anime
Line reading
21. Live action is filmed in front of a blue screen and a matte. It's then joined with the background footage
Rear projection
Blue screen
Pixilation
Script supervisor
22. Also called 'rushes.' Footage exposed and developed quickly so that the director can assess the day's work
Desaturated
Composition in depth
Dailies
Extreme close-up
23. Dense accumulation of detail conveyed in the opening moments of a film
Visual effects
Frozen time moment
Continuity editing
Exposition
24. 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
Ethnographic film
Shooting script
Horizontal integration
Diegesis
25. A short documentary on current events - show in movie theaters along with cartoons and feature films beginning in the 1930s
Newsreel
Take
Parellel editing
Master shot
26. The space between the camera and subject it is filming.
Frozen time moment
Extradiegetic
Revisionist
Camera distance
27. A model of industrial organization in the film industry from about 1915 to 1946 - characterized by the development of major and minor studios that produced - distributed - and exhibited films - and held film actors - directors - art directors - and o
B-roll
Letterboxing
Studio system
Three-point lighting
28. 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
Cut
Integrated musical
Trailer
Director
29. An optical technique that divides the screen into two or more frames
Aerial Shot
Split screen
Spec script
Canted angle
30. A technique of intentionally adding scratches in a film's emulsion layer for aesthetic purposes - such as to simulate home movie footage
Speed
Scratching
Classical style
Set-up
31. 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
German Expressionism
Reframing
Saturation
Overlapping dialogue
32. 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
Aspect Ratio
Bleach bypass
Superimposition
Extreme close-up
33. The first print made from a film negative
Master positive
Point-of-view shot
Descriptive claim
Insert
34. 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.
Extreme wide-angle lens
Average shot length
Depth of field
Aspect Ratio
35. Also called 'rushes.' Footage exposed and developed quickly so that the director can assess the day's work
Turning point
Dailies
Panchromatic
Set-up
36. 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
Letterboxing
Double exposure
Subtext
37. The film medium's technological apparatus is inherently ideological
Rack focus
Apparatus Theory
Point-of-view shot
Masking
38. Any noticeable but unintended discrepancy from one shot to the next in costume - props - hairstyle - posture - etc.
Double exposure
Continuity error
Digital set extension
Anamorphic lens
39. Filters that increase color saturation and contrast in outdoor shots
Tableau shot
Digital video
Canted angle
Polarizing filters
40. A film composed entirely of footage from other films.
Matte painting
Compilation film
Hybrid
Director
41. The narrative path of the main or supporting characters - also called a plotline. Complex films may have several lines of action
B-roll
Line of action
Diffusion filters
Selective focus
42. A marketing strategy of screening a blockbuster prior to general release only in premier theaters
Propaganda film
Roadshowing
Backstage musical
Set-up
43. Experimental film; Underground cinema;
Avant-garde film
Narrative sequencing
Orthochromatic
Wireframe
44. A shot depicting the human body from the waist up
Canted angle
Medium shot
Auteur
Speed
45. A shot taken fro a position directly above the action - also called a 'birds' eye shot'
Typecasting
Overhead shot
Progressive scanning
On-the-nose dialogue
46. The practice of Hollywood studios contracting out post-production work to individuals or firms outside the U.S.
Parellel
Zoom lens
Crane shot
Outsourcing
47. The narrative path of the main or supporting characters - also called a plotline. Complex films may have several lines of action
Frame narration
Line of action
Normal lens
Plot summary
48. 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
Negative
Wireframe
Flashing
Take
49. A device that projects photographs or footage onto glass so that images can be traced by hand to create animated images
Evaluative claim
Second unit
Rotoscope
Camera distance
50. Individuals who were prevented from working in the film industry because of their suspected involvement with Communist interests
Blockbuster
Go-motion
Hollywood Blacklist
Depth of field