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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. Exposed and developed film stock from which the master positive is struck. If projected - the negative would produce a reverse of the image - with dark areas appearing white and vice versa or - if color film - areas of color appearing as their comple
Backstage musical
Dye coupler
Figure placement and movement
Negative
2. Reels of film that are shipped to movie theaters for exhibition. Digital cinema - which can be distributed via satellite - broadband - or on media such as DVDs - may soon replace film prints because the latter are expensive to create - copy - and dis
Loose framing
Spec script
Visual effects
Release prints
3. A large-budget film whose strategy is to swamp the competition through market saturation
Blockbuster
Scene
Hollywood Blacklist
Director
4. The length in minutes for a film to play in its entirety (for example - 120 minutes). Also referred to as 'screen time.'
Running time
Synthespian
Establishing shot
Three-point lighting
5. 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
Fast
Lens
Interpellation
Canted angle
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
Overhead shot
Freeze frame
Steadicam
Prosthesis
7. The practice of shooting during the day but using filters and underexposure to create the illusion of nighttime
Interlaced scanning
Day for night
Natural-key lighting
Extreme long-shot
8. A narrative approach that limits the audience's view of events to that of the main character(s) in the film. Occasional moments of omniscient narration may give viewers more information than the character shave at specific points in the narrative
Video assist
Superimposition
Turning point
Restricted narration
9. The artful use of light and dark areas in the composition in black and white filmmaking
180-degree rule
Chiaroscuro
Two-shot
Focal length
10. A type of film stock that is sensitive to (in other words - registers) all tones in the color spectrum
Focus puller
Double exposure
Outsourcing
Panchromatic
11. 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
Three-point lighting
Neutral-density filter
Chiaroscuro
Intertextual reference
12. Thin - flexible material comprised of base and emulsion layers - onto which light rays are focused and which is processed in chemicals to produce film images
Film stock
Widescreen
Polarizing filters
Score
13. A measure of a film stock's sensitivity to light. 'Fast' refers to sensitive film stock - while slow film is relatively insensitive
Speed
Video assist
Composition in depth
Subgenre
14. A group of films within a given genre that share their own specific set of conventions that differentiate them from other films in the genre. For example - the slasher film is a subgenre of the horror genre
Video assist
Continuity error
Hybrid
Subgenre
15. The way an actor delivers a line of dialogue - including pauses - inflection - and emotion
Line reading
Cel
Base
Extradiegetic
16. A scene transition wherein sound from one scene bleeds over into the ext scene - often resulting in a contrast between sound image
Production values
Digital set extension
Sound bridge
Fast motion
17. A style of stage acting developed from the teachings of Constantin Stanislavsky - which trains actors to get into character through the use of emotional memory
Method acting
Aerial Shot
Wide-angle lens
Pulling
18. 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
Frozen time moment
Morphing
Episodic
Digital set extension
19. These filters bend the light coming into lens - softening and blurring the image
Formalist style
Lens
Diffusion filters
Outsourcing
20. The camera does not move across an imagined line drawn between two characters
Pixilation
Overexposure
180-degree rule
Star filter
21. A term used for any narrative sound - or visual element not contained in the story world. Also called 'extradiegetic'
Non-diegetic
Line of action
Synthespian
Neutral-density filter
22. A part of the story world implied by visual or sound techniques rather than being revealed by the camera
Blocking
Animation
Offscreen space
Morphing
23. A visual effect created when the subject in the frame is restricted by the objects or the physical properties of the set
Blaxploitation
30-degree rule
Tableau shot
Tight framing
24. Also called 'rushes.' Footage exposed and developed quickly so that the director can assess the day's work
Standard shot pattern
Dailies
Hue
Line reading
25. 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
Phi phenomenon
Running time
Promotion
Scene
26. 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
Voice-over
Direct cinema
Morphing
Front projection
27. 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
Glass shot
Text
Major studios
Tracking shot
28. The reverse of Iris in: an iris expands outward until the next shot takes up the entire screen
Iris out
Syuzhet
Genre conventions
B-roll
29. Muted - washed out color that contains more white than a saturated color
Compositing
Desaturated
Fabula
Low-angle shot
30. A painting used on the set as a portion of the background
Digital video
Blaxploitation
Low-key lighting
Matte painting
31. 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
Match on action
Studio system
Outsourcing
Medium long shot
32. A digital technique developed by Industrial Light and Magic - which builds movement sequences from single frames of film
Turning point
Narrative
Go-motion
Handheld shot
33. Filters that increase color saturation and contrast in outdoor shots
Establishing shot
Polarizing filters
Letterboxing
Base
34. 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
Jump cut
Soviet montage
Hollywood Ten
35. A narrative - visual - or sound element that refers viewers to other films or works of art
Soundtrack
Intertextual reference
Diffusion filters
Eyeline match
36. An unstated meaning that underlies and is implied by spoken dialogue
Trailer
Subtext
Reverse shot
Compilation film
37. Public identity created by marketing a film actor's performances - press coverage - and 'personal' information to fans as the star's personality
Oeuvre
Mixing
Star persona
Animation
38. A part of the story world implied by visual or sound techniques rather than being revealed by the camera
Composition in depth
Camera distance
German Expressionism
Offscreen space
39. Leaving the silver grains in the emulsion rather than bleaching them out - which produces desaturated color
Major studios
Bleach bypass
Interlaced scanning
Double exposure
40. A shot in a sequence that is taken from the reverse angle of the shot previous to it
Blocking
Diffusion filters
Video assist
Reverse shot
41. The details of a character's past that emerge as the film unfolds - and which often play a role in character motivation
Backstory
Telephoto lens
German Expressionism
Major studios
42. Smaller corporations that did not own distribution and/or exhibition companies in the studio era - including Universal - Columbia - and United Artists
Hard light
Negative
Zoom out
Minor studios
43. A shot that depicts a human body from the feet up
Medium long shot
Digital cinema
Selective focus
Open-ended
44. A picture element - a measure of image density. There are approximately 18 million pixels in a frame of 35mm film and 300000-400000 in a video image
Extradiegetic
Third-person narration
Pixel
Method acting
45. 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
Kuleshov effect
Formalist style
Product placement
Flashing
46. A scene filmed and processed but not selected to appear in the final version of the film
Zoom lens
Out-take
Zoom out
Kuleshov effect
47. Literary narration from a viewpoint beyond that of any one individual character
Third-person narration
Low-key lighting
Fog filter
Lens
48. A production term referring to coordinating actors' movements with lines of dialogue
Blocking
Fade-out
Line of action
Character actor
49. A person responsible for putting a film together from a mass of developed footage - making decisions regarding pace - shot transitions - and which scenes and shots will be used
Emulsion
Focus puller
Normal lens
Editor
50. A crew member responsible for logging the details of each take on the set so as to ensure continuity
Flashback
High concept film
Script supervisor
Match on action