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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. The classical model of narrative form. The first act introduces characters and conflicts; the second act offers complication leading to a climax; the third act contains the danouement and resolution
Persistence of vision
Continuity editor
Three-act structure
Intertextual reference
2. The chronological accounting of all events presented and suggested
Pre-production
Two-shot
Fabula
Double exposure
3. 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
Studio system
Blaxploitation
Scene
Standard shot pattern
4. The film medium's technological apparatus is inherently ideological
Post-production
Letterboxing
Exposure latitude
Apparatus Theory
5. The first print made from a film negative
Two-shot
Master positive
Flashback
Turning point
6. A musical accompaniment written specifically for a film
Four-part structure
Chiaroscuro
Medium close-up
Score
7. A genre film that radically modifies accepted genre conventions for dramatic effect
Morphing
Soft light
Revisionist
Zoom lens
8. A crew member who reports to the Director of Photography (DP) and is in charge of tasks involving lighting and electrical needs
Speed
Gaffer
Turning point
Fade-out
9. A pan executed so quickly that it produces a blurred image - indicated rapid activity or - sometimes - the passage of time
Shutter
Zoom lens
Swish pan
Reframing
10. A machine used to create optical effects such as fades - dissolves - and superimpositions. Most are now created digitally
Composition in depth
Descriptive claim
Optical printer
Soviet montage
11. A style of Japanese animation - distinguished primarily by the fact that it is not all geared for young audiences
Continuity editing
Interpretive claim
Rack focus
Anime
12. A shot transition that involves the gradual disappearance of the image at the same time that a new image gradually comes into view
Zoom lens
Scene
Dissolve
Parellel
13. A digital technique developed by Industrial Light and Magic - which builds movement sequences from single frames of film
Digital cinema
City symphony
Go-motion
Four-part structure
14. 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
Close-up
Hybrid
Extreme wide-angle lens
Continuity editing
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
Protagonist
Matte painting
Re-establishing shot
Promotion
16. The horizontal turning movement of an otherwise immobile camera across a scene from left to right or vice versa
Special visual effects
Pan
Low-angle shot
Propaganda film
17. Light emitted from a larger source that is scattered over a bigger area or reflected off a surface before it strikes the subject. Soft light minimizes facial details - including wrinkles
Point-of-view shot
Soft light
Syuzhet
Montage sequence
18. Filters that increase color saturation and contrast in outdoor shots
Studio system
Shot/reverse shot
Polarizing filters
Post-production
19. A shot that interrupts a scene's master shot and may include character reactions
Optical printer
Continuity editing
Insert
Cutaway
20. 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
Gaffer
Morphing
Composition in depth
Crab dolly
21. An abrupt shot transition that occurs when Shot A is instantaneously replaced by Shot B.
Oeuvre
Negative
Cut
Fast motion
22. A system for recording images on magnetic tape using a digital signal - that is - an electronic signal comprised of 0s and 1s
Digital video
Four-part structure
Hybrid
Star system
23. The chip in a video camera that converts the incoming light to an electronic signal
Charge coupler device
Flashforward
German Expressionism
Iris out
24. A short documentary on current events - show in movie theaters along with cartoons and feature films beginning in the 1930s
Newsreel
Establishing shot
Wireframe
Wipe
25. A compositing method that allows cinematographers to combine live action and settings that are filmed or created separately. Actors are filmed against a green or blue background. During post-production - this background is filled in with an image thr
Green screen
Flashforward
Scratching
Foley artist
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
Swish pan
Roadshowing
Morphing
Best boy
27. A change of focus from one plane of depth to another. As the in-focus subject goes out of focus - another object - which has been blurry - comes into focus in either the background or the foreground
Rack focus
Character actor
Day for night
Establishing shot
28. 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
Typecasting
Digital cinema
Front projection
Star filter
29. A widescreen process that uses three cameras - three projectors - and a wide - curved screen
Cinerama
Compositing
Chiaroscuro
Wide-angle lens
30. A process of blending the three elements of the sound track (dialogue - music - and effects) in post-production
Ethnographic film
Mixing
Pushing
Dissolve
31. A form of shot transition - generally concluding a scene - where a circular mask constricts around the image until the entire frame is black
Pulling
Re-establishing shot
Crab dolly
Iris in...
32. The length in minutes for a film to play in its entirety (for example - 120 minutes). Also referred to as 'screen time.'
Interpretive claim
Running time
Shot
Fade-out
33. A technique of moving the camera - on a specially built track. Such shots often trace character movement laterally across the frame or in and out of the depth of the frame
Figure placement and movement
Tracking shot
Medium shot
Two-shot
34. A class or type of film - such as the Western or the horror movie. They share narrative - visual - and/or sound conventions
Genre
Masking
Superimposition
Omniscient narration
35. A technique of overdeveloping exposed film stock (leaving it in the chemical bath longer than indicated) in order to increase density and contrast in the image
Split screen
Emulsion
Panning and scanning
Pushing
36. A shot taken from a camera mounted on a crane that moves three-dimensionally in a space
Score
High concept film
Analog Video
Crane shot
37. A mental phenomenon by which viewers derive more meaning from the interaction of two sequential shots than from a single shot in isolation
Progressive scanning
Kuleshov effect
Revisionist
Typecasting
38. Muted - washed out color that contains more white than a saturated color
Scratching
Desaturated
Blue screen
Computer-generated imagery (CGI)
39. Assists the gaffer in managing lighting crews
Narrative sequencing
Continuity editor
Best boy
Propaganda film
40. A sound editing technique that links several scenes through parallel and overlapping sounds. Each sound is associated with one scene - unlike a sound bridge - where a sound from one scene bleeds into that of another
Lightning mix
Product placement
Subgenre
Dolly
41. A process of transferring film to video tapes or DVDs so that the original aspect ratio of the film is preserved
Brechtian distanciation
Outsourcing
Letterboxing
Grain
42. Secondary footage that is interspersed with master shots - sometimes in the form of footage shot for another production or archival footage
Runaway production
Interlaced scanning
Voice-over
B-roll
43. A shot transition that emphasizes the visual similarities between two consecutive shots
Graphic match
Zoom lens
Cut
Major studios
44. A shot that contains two characters within the frame
Two-shot
Pushing
Pulling
Soviet montage
45. 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
Promotion
Shot transition
Script supervisor
Post-production
46. The details of a character's past that emerge as the film unfolds - and which often play a role in character motivation
Tilt
Tracking shot
Narrative sequencing
Backstory
47. 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
City symphony
Camera distance
Outsourcing
Set-up
48. Glass filters whose surface is etched with spots that refract light - so they create the appearance of water droplets in the air
Fog filter
Digital cinema
Master positive
Auteur
49. A chemical embedded in the emulsion layer of film stock that - when developed after exposure - releases a particular color dye (red - green - or blue)
Rear projection
Reframing
Montage sequence
Dye coupler
50. 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
Foley artist
Orthochromatic
Composition