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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. 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
Promotion
Pre-production
Go-motion
Low-key lighting
2. 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
Blockbuster
Long shot
Formalist style
Motif
3. Using computer graphics to 'build' structures connected to the actual architecture on set or location
Third-person narration
Studio system
Digital set extension
Color consultant
4. A filter that simply reduces the amount of light entering the lens - without affecting the color characteristics
Intertextual reference
Base
Neutral-density filter
Reverse shot
5. Also called 'stop motion photography.' A technique of photographing a scene one frame at a time and moving the model between each shot
Hollywood Blacklist
Product placement
Pixilation
Promotion
6. A device that projects photographs or footage onto glass so that images can be traced by hand to create animated images
Descriptive claim
Rotoscope
Low-angle shot
Cutaway
7. 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
Shot transition
Low-key lighting
Gaffer
8. A story narrated by one of the characters within the story - using the 'I' voice
First-person narration
B-roll
Extreme close-up
Offscreen space
9. 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
Rear projection
Soft light
Natural-key lighting
Wireframe
10. A technique of underdeveloping exposed film stock (leaving it in a chemical batch a shorter amount of time than usual) in order to achieve the visual effect of reducing contrast
Interpellation
Open-ended
Pulling
Superimposition
11. The practice or repeatedly casting actors in similar roles across different films
Double exposure
B-roll
Crane shot
Typecasting
12. A musical accompaniment written specifically for a film
Chiaroscuro
Rack focus
Score
Average shot length
13. An optical effect whereby the eye continues to register a visual stimulus in the brain for a brief period after that stimulus has been removed
Spec script
Superimposition
Anamorphic lens
Persistence of vision
14. 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
Close-up
Blaxploitation
Matte painting
Undercranking
15. Materials intentionally released by studios to attract public attention to films and their stars. Promotion differs from publicity - which is information that is not (or does not appear to be) intentionally disseminated by studios
Two-shot
Score
Promotion
Motif
16. The non-chronological insertion of scenes of events yet to happen into the present day of the story world
Flashforward
Double exposure
Open-ended
Digital set extension
17. Also called 'd-cinema.' Not to be confused with digital cinematography (shooting movies on digital video) - this term refers to using digital technologies for exhibition
Focus puller
Medium long shot
Panchromatic
Digital cinema
18. The film medium's technological apparatus is inherently ideological
Color filter
Apparatus Theory
Oeuvre
Continuity editor
19. A genre film that radically modifies accepted genre conventions for dramatic effect
Cinerama
Revisionist
Negative
Interlaced scanning
20. A technique of shifting the camera angle - height - or distance to take into account the motion of actors or objects within the frame
Open-ended
Flashing
Reframing
Forced perspective
21. An actor whose career rests on playing minor or secondary quirky characters rather than leading roles
Camera distance
Character actor
Color filter
Classical style
22. A statement that presents an argument about a film's meaning and significance
Out-take
Overlapping dialogue
Interpretive claim
Composition in depth
23. A musical accompaniment written specifically for a film
180-degree rule
Subtext
Negative cutter
Score
24. A story narrated by one of the characters within the story - using the 'I' voice
Crab dolly
Time-lapse photography
First-person narration
Swish pan
25. A continuity editing technique that preserves spatial continuity by using a character's line of vision as motivation for a cut
Telephoto lens
Eyeline match
Progressive scanning
Steadicam
26. The imagined world of the story
Script supervisor
Avant-garde film
Lightning mix
Diegesis
27. 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
Ethnographic film
Fast motion
Post-production
Green screen
28. A screenplay written and submitted to a studio or production company without a prior contract or agreement
Panning and scanning
Wide-angle lens
Spec script
Bleach bypass
29. The period of time before principal photography during which actors are signed - sets and costumes designed - and locations scouted
Pre-production
Slow motion
Backstage musical
Foley artist
30. An actor whose career rests on playing minor or secondary quirky characters rather than leading roles
Eyeline match
Dye coupler
Intertextual reference
Character actor
31. The practice of Hollywood studios contracting out post-production work to individuals or firms outside the U.S.
Outsourcing
Low-key lighting
Subgenre
Composition in depth
32. The use of editing techniques - such as a fade or dissolve - to indicate the end of one scene and the beginning of another
Shot transition
Telecine
Letterboxing
Restricted narration
33. An effect created when too little light strikes the film during shooting. As a result the image will contain dark areas that appear very dense and dark (including shadows) and the overall contrast will be less than with a properly exposed image
Episodic
Backstory
Day for night
Underexposure
34. Muted - washed out color that contains more white than a saturated color
Shot transition
Desaturated
Iris out
Cel
35. A technique of cutting back and forth between action occurring in two different locations - which often creates the illusion that they are happening simultaneously. Also called 'cross cutting.'
Third-person narration
Parellel editing
Offscreen space
Cutaway
36. Optical illusions created during production - including the use of matte paintings - glass shots - models - and prosthesis
Optical printer
Special visual effects
Color consultant
Direct sound
37. 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
Film stock
Panchromatic
Rear projection
Academy Ratio
38. A transparent sheet on which animation artists draw images.
Text
Cel
Score
Masking
39. An abrupt - inexplicable shift in time and place of an action not signaled by an appropriate shot transition
Pixel
Matte painting
Jump cut
Film stock
40. An optical effect whereby the eye continues to register a visual stimulus in the brain for a brief period after that stimulus has been removed
Shutter
Persistence of vision
Loose framing
Wide film
41. 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...
Director
Hollywood Ten
Zoom in...
42. A technique of moving from the telephoto position to the wide-angle position of a zoom lens - which results in the subject appearing to become smaller within the frame - while remaining in focus
Spec script
Video assist
Zoom out
High-key lighting
43. A machine that converts film prints to videotape format
Aspect Ratio
Eye-level shot
Average shot length
Telecine
44. Projecting a series of frames of film with the same image - which appears to stop the action
Take
Freeze frame
Dye coupler
Double exposure
45. The measurement of how forgiving a film stock is. It determines whether an acceptable image will be produced when the film stock is exposed to too little or too much light
Pre-production
Pan
Phi phenomenon
Exposure latitude
46. 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
Rotoscope
Realist style
Zoom lens
Eye-level shot
47. A film that fuses the conventions of two or more genres
Loose framing
Video assist
Avant-garde film
Hybrid
48. A machine used to create optical effects such as fades - dissolves - and superimpositions. Most are now created digitally
Trombone shot
Negative cutter
Optical printer
ADR
49. A musical film in which each song and dance number is narratively motivated by a plot that situates characters in performance contexts
Dye coupler
Backstage musical
Motif
Product placement
50. The camera should move at least 30 degrees any time there is a cut within a scene
Realist style
Formalist style
30-degree rule
Subtext