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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. Film productions shot outside the U.S. for economic reasons
Protagonist
Front projection
Line reading
Runaway production
2. An action film cycle of the late 1960s and early 1970s that featured bold - rebellious African American characters
Telephoto lens
Script supervisor
Blaxploitation
Base
3. A narrative moment that signals an important shift of some kind in character or situation
Shutter
Composition in depth
Turning point
Extreme wide-angle lens
4. A visual effect created when the subject in the frame is restricted by the objects or the physical properties of the set
Score
Best boy
Figure placement and movement
Tight framing
5. 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
Interlaced scanning
Scene
Figure placement and movement
Focus puller
6. Secondary footage that is interspersed with master shots - sometimes in the form of footage shot for another production or archival footage
Master shot
Glass shot
Diffusion filters
B-roll
7. 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
Persistence of vision
Panning and scanning
Foley artist
Day for night
8. A rule in continuity editing - which dictates that if a cut occurs while a character is in the midst of an action - the subsequent shot must begin so that audiences see the completion of that action
Match on action
Iris in...
Figure placement and movement
Overlapping dialogue
9. Devices that attach to actors' faces and/or bodies to change their appearance
Prosthesis
Gaffer
Three-act structure
Parellel editing
10. A shot taken from a camera position below the subject
Recursive action
Low-angle shot
Four-part structure
Digital video
11. A pan executed so quickly that it produces a blurred image - indicated rapid activity or - sometimes - the passage of time
Mixing
Low-angle shot
Out-take
Swish pan
12. The individual arrangement of lighting and camera placement used for each shot
Zoom in...
Set-up
Digital video
Genre conventions
13. A shot transition that involves the gradual disappearance of the image at the same time that a new image gradually comes into view
Steadicam
Dissolve
Motif
Reverse shot
14. Light emitted from a relatively small source positioned close to the subject. It tends to be unflattering because it creates deep shadows and emphasizes surface imperfections
Exposure latitude
Hard light
Prosthesis
Horizontal integration
15. 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
Gaffer
Loose framing
Recursive action
Orthochromatic
16. A film process that uses 35mm film stock but changes the orientation of the film so that the film moves through the camera horizontally instead of vertically. The larger image is of higher quality than standard 35mm processes
Text
On-the-nose dialogue
Release prints
Vista Vision
17. 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
Cel
Morphing
Cinerama
Underexposure
18. A crew member responsible for logging the details of each take on the set so as to ensure continuity
First-person narration
Saturation
Script supervisor
Overexposure
19. 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
Toning
Eye-level shot
Overexposure
Extreme long-shot
20. Any lens with a focal length approximately equal to the diagonal of the frame. For 35mm filmmaking - a 35-50 mm lens does not distort the angle of vision or depth
Integrated musical
Fade-out
Normal lens
Glass shot
21. The horizontal turning movement of an otherwise immobile camera across a scene from left to right or vice versa
Star system
Compositing
Undercranking
Pan
22. The artful use of light and dark areas in the composition in black and white filmmaking
Narrative sequencing
Glass shot
Narrative sequencing
Chiaroscuro
23. 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
Interpellation
Video assist
Blaxploitation
Telephoto lens
24. 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
Medium close-up
Roadshowing
Realist style
Continuity editing
25. 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
Lens
Deep focus cinematography
Bleach bypass
Studio system
26. A shot taken from a camera mounted on a crane that moves three-dimensionally in a space
Extreme long-shot
Compilation film
Narrative sequencing
Crane shot
27. 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
Composition in depth
Close-up
Re-establishing shot
Overlapping dialogue
28. 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
Panchromatic
Exposure latitude
Loose framing
29. A shot taken from a camera position below the subject
Widescreen
Parellel editing
Low-angle shot
Major studios
30. Natural light; The process of suing sunlight rather than artificial studio lights when filming
Available light
Gaffer
Ethnographic film
Masking
31. The first shot in a standard shot sequence. Its purpose is to provide a clear representation of the location of the action
Pre-production
Interpretive claim
Four-part structure
Establishing shot
32. A description of film stock that is highly sensitive to light
Editor
First-person narration
Fast
30-degree rule
33. A pan executed so quickly that it produces a blurred image - indicated rapid activity or - sometimes - the passage of time
180-degree rule
Superimposition
Swish pan
Reframing
34. A consistent style - theme - and subject matter developed over the course of a director's body of work
Mockumentary
Line of action
Realist style
Oeuvre
35. 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
Close-up
Three-act structure
Focal length
36. Dutch angle; a shot resulting from a static camera that is tilted to the right or left - so that the subject in the frame appears at a diagonal
Canted angle
Composition
Fast motion
ADR
37. A technician responsible for splicing and assembling the film negative to the editor's specifications
Negative cutter
Pulling
Exposure
Composition in depth
38. A computer-generated actor that some speculate will replace flesh and blood actors in the not so distant future
Evaluative claim
Telecine
Synthespian
Shot
39. Glass filters whose surface is etched with spots that refract light - so they create the appearance of water droplets in the air
Non-diegetic
Flashforward
Editor
Fog filter
40. A style of Japanese animation - distinguished primarily by the fact that it is not all geared for young audiences
Long take
Canted angle
Anime
Eyeline match
41. 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
Scratching
Release prints
Negative
Close-up
42. A system of constructing and arranging buildings and objects on the set so that they diminish in size dramatically from foreground to background - which creates the illusion of depth
Color timing
Synthespian
Forced perspective
Revisionist
43. 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
Panning and scanning
Production values
Shooting script
Eye-level shot
44. The distance that appears in focus in front of and behind the subject. It is determined by the aperture - distance and focal length of lens
Depth of field
Animation
Eye-level shot
Insert
45. A crew member whose job is to maintain consistency in visual details from one shot to the next
Continuity editor
Iris out
Eye-level shot
Overlapping dialogue
46. A digital technique developed by Industrial Light and Magic - which builds movement sequences from single frames of film
Script supervisor
Editor
Eyeline match
Go-motion
47. An early color process - involving bathing lengths of processed film in dye one scene at a time
Tinting
Mixing
Tableau shot
Interpellation
48. A method for producing a widescreen image without special lenses or equipment - using standard film stock and blocking out the top and bottom of the frame to achieve an aspect ration of 1.85:1
Re-establishing shot
Masking
Aperture
30-degree rule
49. A relatively long - uninterrupted sot - generally of a minute or more
Eyeline match
Hollywood Blacklist
Extreme wide-angle lens
Long take
50. 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
Recursive action
Panchromatic
Filter
Horizontal integration