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Film Vocab
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Match each statement with the correct term.
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1. A short documentary on current events - show in movie theaters along with cartoons and feature films beginning in the 1930s
Recursive action
Newsreel
Restricted narration
Time-lapse photography
2. A contemporary modification of the standard three-act structure that identifies a critical turning point at the halfway mark of most narrative films
Four-part structure
Tableau shot
Product placement
Time-lapse photography
3. Assists the editor with various tasks - including taking footage to the lab - checking the condition of the negative - cataloguing footage - and supervising optical effects - often produced by an outside company
German Expressionism
Digital compositing
Assistant Editor
Figure placement and movement
4. The details of a character's past that emerge as the film unfolds - and which often play a role in character motivation
Backstory
Normal lens
Flashforward
Lens
5. Assists the gaffer in managing lighting crews
Zoom lens
Best boy
Emulsion
Antagonist
6. A technique used to join live action with pre-recorded background images. A projector is aimed at a half-silvered mirror that reflects the background - which the camera records as being located behind the actors
Front projection
Text
Re-establishing shot
Spec script
7. A film style that emerged in the 1910s in Germany. It was heavily indebted to the Expressionist art movement of the time and influenced subsequent horror films and film noir
German Expressionism
Focal length
180-degree rule
Fade-out
8. 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
Blaxploitation
Natural-key lighting
German Expressionism
Pixel
9. A technique of exposing film frames - then rewinding the film and exposing it again - which results in an image that combines two shots in a single frame
Narrative sequencing
Pushing
Restricted narration
Double exposure
10. Using computer graphics to 'build' structures connected to the actual architecture on set or location
Letterboxing
Digital set extension
Running time
Scratching
11. A term for film stock used in early cinema that was insensitive to red hues
Horizontal integration
Orthochromatic
Genre conventions
Lens
12. 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
Episodic
Fast motion
City symphony
Slow
13. 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
Studio system
Closure
Script supervisor
Iris out
14. Film productions shot outside the U.S. for economic reasons
Runaway production
Base
Vertical integration
B-roll
15. 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
Medium close-up
Compositing
Natural-key lighting
Undercranking
16. Invisible editing; a system devised to minimize the audience's awareness of shot transitions - especially cuts - in order to improve the flow of the story and avoid interrupting the viewer's immersion it in
Continuity editing
Tracking shot
Close-up
Star filter
17. The artful use of light and dark areas in the composition in black and white filmmaking
Chiaroscuro
Open-ended
Special visual effects
Deep focus cinematography
18. A cinematography technique that produces an image with many planes of depth in focus. It can be accomplished by using a small aperture - a large distance between camera and subject - and/or a lens of short focal length
Deep focus cinematography
Shot transition
Focus puller
Two-shot
19. A shot that depicts a human body from the feet up
Special visual effects
Character actor
Diegesis
Medium long shot
20. Drawing attention to the process of representation (including narrative and characterization) to break the theatrical illusion and elicit a distanced - intellectual response in the audience
Line of action
Brechtian distanciation
Cinerama
Undercranking
21. 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
Flashback
Dolly
Re-establishing shot
Underexposure
22. A description of film stock that is highly sensitive to light
Screenplay
Storyboard
Fast
Digital video
23. The shape of the image onscreen as determined by the width of the frame relative to its height
Medium close-up
Emulsion
Horizontal integration
Aspect Ratio
24. Lighting design that provides an even illumination of the subject - with many facial details washed out. High-key lighting tends to create a hopeful mood - in contrast to low-key lighting
High-key lighting
City symphony
Classical style
30-degree rule
25. An unstated meaning that underlies and is implied by spoken dialogue
Cut
Selective focus
Wide-angle lens
Subtext
26. A mental phenomenon by which viewers derive more meaning from the interaction of two sequential shots than from a single shot in isolation
High-angle shot
Roadshowing
Anime
Kuleshov effect
27. A technique of 'pushing' the film (overdeveloping it) to correct problems of underexposure (resulting from insufficient light during shooting) by increasing image contrast
Forced development
Character actor
Dolly
Avant-garde film
28. A shot that interrupts a scene's master shot and may include character reactions
Restricted narration
Cameo
Compilation film
Insert
29. The distance in millimeters from the optical center of a lens to the lane where the sharpest image is formed while focusing on a distant object
Method acting
Script supervisor
Digital set extension
Focal length
30. 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
Narrative sequencing
Major studios
Hard light
Average shot length
31. The reverse of Iris in: an iris expands outward until the next shot takes up the entire screen
Interpellation
Exposure latitude
Iris out
Eye-level shot
32. Early films that documented everyday events - such as workers leaving a factory
Cutaway
Average shot length
Actualitas
Underexposure
33. A production crew responsible not for shooting the primary footage but - instead - for remote location shooting and B-roll. See also B-roll
Second unit
Split screen
Minor studios
Soft light
34. Muted - washed out color that contains more white than a saturated color
Desaturated
Speed
Fade-out
Fabula
35. 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
Exposition
Flashing
Handheld shot
Medium shot
36. A technique of intentionally adding scratches in a film's emulsion layer for aesthetic purposes - such as to simulate home movie footage
Scratching
Computer-generated imagery (CGI)
180-degree rule
Extradiegetic
37. The film medium's technological apparatus is inherently ideological
Cutaway
High concept film
Apparatus Theory
Ethnographic film
38. 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
High concept film
Episodic
Close-up
Closure
39. A lens with a shorter focal length than a normal or telephoto lens (usually between 15-35mm). The subject appears smaller as a result - but the angle of vision is wider and an illusion is created of greater depth in the frame
Wide-angle lens
Graphic match
Split screen
Tight framing
40. Secondary footage that is interspersed with master shots - sometimes in the form of footage shot for another production or archival footage
Figure placement and movement
Aerial Shot
B-roll
Digital set extension
41. The measure of intensity or purity of a color. Saturated color is purer than desaturated color - which has more white in it and thus offers a washed-out - less intense version of a color
Saturation
Emulsion
Zoom in...
Realist style
42. A technique of depicting two layered images simultaneously. Images from one frame or several frames of film are added to pre-existing images - using an optical printer - to produce the same effect as a double exposure
Forced development
Superimposition
Backstage musical
High-key lighting
43. A flexible celluloid strip that - along with the emulsion layer - comprises 35mm film stock
Gaffer
Base
Go-motion
Undercranking
44. A specialist who monitors the processing of color on the se and in the film lab
Zoom lens
Master positive
Gauge
Color consultant
45. A continuity editing technique that preserves spatial continuity by using a character's line of vision as motivation for a cut
Product placement
Interpellation
Eyeline match
Star filter
46. A short segment of film used to promote an upcoming release
Trailer
Extra
Film stock
Studio system
47. 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
Shot transition
Zoom in...
Hollywood Ten
Lens
48. 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
Tilt
Low-key lighting
Hollywood Blacklist
Insert
49. A machine that converts film prints to videotape format
Backstory
Telecine
Freeze frame
Shooting script
50. A machine used to create optical effects such as fades - dissolves - and superimpositions. Most are now created digitally
Classical style
Optical printer
Screenplay
Eye-level shot