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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. A crew member who reports to the Director of Photography (DP) and is in charge of tasks involving lighting and electrical needs
Mixing
Gaffer
Runaway production
Typecasting
2. The details of a character's past that emerge as the film unfolds - and which often play a role in character motivation
Dissolve
Backstory
Undercranking
Best boy
3. 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
Wipe
Canted angle
Hollywood Blacklist
Lens
4. Then Hollywood writers and directors cited for Contempt of Congress for refusing to cooperate with the House Committee on Un-American Activities' attempts to root out Communists in the film industry
Exposition
Non-diegetic
Hollywood Ten
Rear projection
5. A shot that appears during or near the end of a scene and reorients viewers to the setting
On-the-nose dialogue
Re-establishing shot
Aspect Ratio
Loose framing
6. 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
Wireframe
Blocking
Zoom out
Studio system
7. Also called 'full screen -' the technique of re-shooting a widescreen film in order to convert it to the original television aspect ration of 1.33 to 1. Rather than reproduce the original aspect ratio - as a letterboxed version does - a panned and sc
Line reading
Soviet montage
Panning and scanning
Bleach bypass
8. A production crew responsible not for shooting the primary footage but - instead - for remote location shooting and B-roll. See also B-roll
Text
Auteur
Low-key lighting
Second unit
9. A shot combining two kinds of movement: the camera tracks in toward the subject wile the lens zooms out
Shot/reverse shot
Trombone shot
Widescreen
Base
10. A shot taken by a camera that is held manually rather than supported by a tripod - crane or Steadicam. Generally - such shots are shaky - owing to the motion of the camera operator
Three-act structure
Classical style
Handheld shot
Flashback
11. A type of short film that blends elements of documentary and avant-garde film to document and often to celebrate the wonder of the modern city
Orthochromatic
Motif
City symphony
Roadshowing
12. 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
Video assist
Synthespian
Parellel
Normal lens
13. The annotated script - containing information about set-ups used during shooting
Shooting script
Score
Color filter
Digital cinema
14. Film productions shot outside the U.S. for economic reasons
Runaway production
Available light
Loose framing
Matte
15. A system initially developed for marketing films by creating and promoting stars as objects of admiration. The promotion of stars has now become an end in itself
Plot summary
Star system
Out-take
Extreme close-up
16. Public identity created by marketing a film actor's performances - press coverage - and 'personal' information to fans as the star's personality
Star persona
Shooting script
Dye coupler
Exposure latitude
17. The space between the camera and subject it is filming.
Flashing
Camera distance
Tilt
Glass shot
18. An action film cycle of the late 1960s and early 1970s that featured bold - rebellious African American characters
Shutter
Blaxploitation
Time-lapse photography
Color consultant
19. Glass filters whose surface is etched with spots that refract light - so they create the appearance of water droplets in the air
Fog filter
Standard shot pattern
ADR
Trombone shot
20. A genre film that radically modifies accepted genre conventions for dramatic effect
Revisionist
Editor
Horizontal integration
Release prints
21. A lens with a focal length greater than 50 mm (usually between 80mm and 20mm) - which provides a larger image of the subject than a normal or wide-angle lens but which narrows the angle of vision and flattens the depth of the image relative to normal
High-angle shot
Telephoto lens
Steadicam
Oeuvre
22. 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.'
Parellel editing
Intertextual reference
Interlaced scanning
Loose framing
23. A shot that interrupts a scene's master shot and may include character reactions
Insert
Oeuvre
Outsourcing
Vista Vision
24. The first shot in a standard shot sequence. Its purpose is to provide a clear representation of the location of the action
Scene
Star filter
Flashing
Establishing shot
25. Film productions shot outside the U.S. for economic reasons
Saturation
Soundtrack
Runaway production
Studio system
26. A system for recording images on magnetic tape using a digital signal - that is - an electronic signal comprised of 0s and 1s
Revisionist
Digital video
Actualitas
Rack focus
27. A narrative moment that signals an important shift of some kind in character or situation
Turning point
Genre
Continuity editing
Color timing
28. The artful use of light and dark areas in the composition in black and white filmmaking
Chiaroscuro
Digital compositing
Outsourcing
Interpellation
29. A filter that simply reduces the amount of light entering the lens - without affecting the color characteristics
Digital set extension
Neutral-density filter
Medium long shot
Master shot
30. A technician responsible for splicing and assembling the film negative to the editor's specifications
Hollywood Blacklist
Negative cutter
Syuzhet
Synthespian
31. 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
Best boy
Dissolve
Major studios
Steadicam
32. A long shot in which the film frame resembles the proscenium arch of the stage - distancing the audience
Set-up
Tableau shot
Pre-production
Underexposure
33. Standard shot pattern: A sequence of shots designed to maintain spatial continuity. Scene begin with an establishing shot - then move to a series of individual shots depicting characters and action - before reestablishing shots re-orient viewers to t
Standard shot pattern
Realist style
Digital video
Dye coupler
34. An agreement made between filmmakers and those who license the use of commercial products to feature those products in films - generally as props used by characters
Auteur
Desaturated
Product placement
Chiaroscuro
35. A technique of intentionally adding scratches in a film's emulsion layer for aesthetic purposes - such as to simulate home movie footage
Scratching
Montage sequence
Negative cutter
Best boy
36. A crew member whose job is to measure the distance between the subject and the camera lens - marking the ring on the camera lens - and ensuring the ring is turned precisely so that the image is in focus
Green screen
Focus puller
Script supervisor
Anamorphic lens
37. A neutral account of the basic plot and style of a film - a part of a film - or a group of films
Slow motion
Descriptive claim
Auteur
Re-establishing shot
38. A device that projects photographs or footage onto glass so that images can be traced by hand to create animated images
Foley artist
Narrative sequencing
Color timing
Rotoscope
39. A shot taken from a camera position below the subject
Telecine
Low-angle shot
Film stock
Negative
40. Muted - washed out color that contains more white than a saturated color
Pulling
Frozen time moment
Continuity editor
Desaturated
41. 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
Frozen time moment
Undercranking
Hollywood Ten
Analog Video
42. 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
Color timing
Long shot
Split screen
Dailies
43. 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
Direct sound
Visual effects
Open-ended
Aerial Shot
44. (Automatic dialogue replacement) recording synchronized dialogue in post-production - cutting several identical lengths of developed film and having actors record the dialogue repeatedly
Ethnographic film
Flashing
Charge coupler device
ADR
45. A camera device that opens and closes to regulate the length of time the film is exposed to light
Shutter
Charge coupler device
Emulsion
Overexposure
46. A short documentary on current events - show in movie theaters along with cartoons and feature films beginning in the 1930s
Point-of-view shot
Three-act structure
Newsreel
Rear projection
47. A musical film in which each song and dance number is narratively motivated by a plot that situates characters in performance contexts
Newsreel
Masking
Extra
Backstage musical
48. A shot transition where shot A slowly disappears as the screen becomes black before shot B appears. A fade-in is the reverse of this process
Fade-out
Cameo
Compilation film
Extreme close-up
49. 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
Tinting
Pushing
Integrated musical
Assistant Editor
50. The width of the film stock - measured across the frame. Typical sizes are 8mm - 16mm - 35mm - and 70mm
Hue
Promotion
30-degree rule
Gauge