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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 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
Formalist style
Non-diegetic
Integrated musical
Rack focus
2. A camera device that opens and closes to regulate the length of time the film is exposed to light
Shutter
Iris in...
Crab dolly
Long take
3. A system for recording images on magnetic tape using a digital signal - that is - an electronic signal comprised of 0s and 1s
Intertextual reference
Blaxploitation
Saturation
Digital video
4. A continuity editing technique that preserves spatial continuity by using a character's line of vision as motivation for a cut
Eyeline match
Exposition
Mixing
Swish pan
5. A shot that contains two characters within the frame
Two-shot
Motivation
Foley artist
Matte
6. The plotline that surrounds an embedded tale. The frame narration may or may not be as fully developed as the embedded tale
Computer-generated imagery (CGI)
Cutaway
Frame narration
Restricted narration
7. An action film cycle of the late 1960s and early 1970s that featured bold - rebellious African American characters
Blaxploitation
Telecine
Toning
Compilation film
8. A shot transition that emphasizes the visual similarities between two consecutive shots
Graphic match
Line reading
Soft light
Flashforward
9. 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
Master shot
Spec script
Product placement
Masking
10. Wheeled platform with wheels that rotate - so the dolly can change direction
Crab dolly
Day for night
German Expressionism
Hollywood Blacklist
11. A shot that depicts a human body from the feet up
Medium long shot
Color filter
Overexposure
Matte
12. The written blueprint for a film - composed of three elements: dialogue - sluglines (setting the place and time of each scene) - and description. Feature-length screenplays typically run 90-130 pages
Screenplay
Day for night
Direct sound
Prosthesis
13. 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
Pulling
Extreme long-shot
Release prints
Close-up
14. The narrative path of the main or supporting characters - also called a plotline. Complex films may have several lines of action
Line of action
Speed
Production values
Evaluative claim
15. 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
Master shot
Green screen
Wide-angle lens
Auteur
16. A technique in which the audience temporarily shares the visual perspective of a character or a group of characters. The camera points in the directions the character looks - simulating the character's field of vision
Continuity editing
Low-angle shot
Point-of-view shot
Focal length
17. A contemporary modification of the standard three-act structure that identifies a critical turning point at the halfway mark of most narrative films
Extreme long-shot
Overlapping dialogue
Four-part structure
Subgenre
18. A platform on wheels - used for mobile camera shots
Dolly
Turning point
180-degree rule
Rear projection
19. A process of transferring film to video tapes or DVDs so that the original aspect ratio of the film is preserved
Overlapping dialogue
Letterboxing
Overexposure
German Expressionism
20. 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
Extreme close-up
Editor
Pan
Depth of field
21. 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
B-roll
Assistant Editor
Masking
Exposure latitude
22. An alternative to classical and realist styles - formalism is a self-consciously interventionist approach that explores ideas - abstraction - and aesthetics rather than focusing on storytelling (as in classical films) or everyday life (as in realist
Formalist style
Blue screen
German Expressionism
Parellel
23. A consistent style - theme - and subject matter developed over the course of a director's body of work
Propaganda film
Lightning mix
Jump cut
Oeuvre
24. 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
Composition
Speed
Foley artist
Underexposure
25. A technique of underdeveloping exposed film stock (leaving it in a chemical batch a shorter amount of time than usual) in order to achieve the visual effect of reducing contrast
Masking
Analog Video
Pulling
Trailer
26. The imagined world of the story
Digital cinema
Eye-level shot
Diegesis
Handheld shot
27. (Automatic dialogue replacement) recording synchronized dialogue in post-production - cutting several identical lengths of developed film and having actors record the dialogue repeatedly
Four-part structure
Extra
Low-key lighting
ADR
28. A term describing a conclusion that does not answer all the questions raised regarding characters or storylines - nor tie up all loose ends
Third-person narration
Open-ended
Underexposure
Avant-garde film
29. An alternative to classical and realist styles - formalism is a self-consciously interventionist approach that explores ideas - abstraction - and aesthetics rather than focusing on storytelling (as in classical films) or everyday life (as in realist
Omniscient narration
Steadicam
Formalist style
Trailer
30. A property of older television monitors - where each frame was scanned as two fields: One consisting of all the odd numbered lines - the other all the even lines. If slowed down - the television image would appear to sweep down the screen one line at
Propaganda film
Interlaced scanning
Cut
Dolly
31. Also called 'stop motion photography.' A technique of photographing a scene one frame at a time and moving the model between each shot
Pixilation
Digital set extension
Shutter
Roadshowing
32. 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
Gaffer
Telephoto lens
Fast
Continuity editing
33. 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
Continuity editing
Chiaroscuro
Soft light
Rotoscope
34. Smaller corporations that did not own distribution and/or exhibition companies in the studio era - including Universal - Columbia - and United Artists
Negative cutter
Progressive scanning
Overhead shot
Minor studios
35. 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
Second unit
Studio system
Loose framing
Cut
36. The first print made from a film negative
Filter
Phi phenomenon
Crab dolly
Master positive
37. Fish-eye lens; With a focal length of 15mm or less - this lens presents an extremely distorted image - where objects in the center of the frame appear to bulge toward the camera
Film stock
Extreme wide-angle lens
Speed
Loose framing
38. 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
Jump cut
Gaffer
Apparatus Theory
Foley artist
39. 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
Syuzhet
Horizontal integration
Gaffer
Text
40. A device used to manipulate the amount and/or color of light entering the lens
Letterboxing
Non-diegetic
Natural-key lighting
Filter
41. 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
Editor
Major studios
Matte painting
Lightning mix
42. The plotline that surrounds an embedded tale. The frame narration may or may not be as fully developed as the embedded tale
High-key lighting
Standard shot pattern
Offscreen space
Frame narration
43. A shot transition that involves the gradual disappearance of the image at the same time that a new image gradually comes into view
Dissolve
Synthespian
Continuity editor
Star system
44. A short screen appearance by a celebrity - playing himself or herself
Star persona
Horizontal integration
Cameo
Charge coupler device
45. A story narrated by one of the characters within the story - using the 'I' voice
First-person narration
Avant-garde film
Forced perspective
Shooting script
46. A short documentary on current events - show in movie theaters along with cartoons and feature films beginning in the 1930s
Newsreel
Syuzhet
Omniscient narration
Overexposure
47. The use of editing techniques - such as a fade or dissolve - to indicate the end of one scene and the beginning of another
Overlapping dialogue
180-degree rule
Shot transition
Narrative sequencing
48. A film composed entirely of footage from other films.
Compilation film
Offscreen space
Studio system
Dissolve
49. A style of Japanese animation - distinguished primarily by the fact that it is not all geared for young audiences
Cut
Anime
Wide-angle lens
Green screen
50. A production crew responsible not for shooting the primary footage but - instead - for remote location shooting and B-roll. See also B-roll
Motif
Film stock
Second unit
Gauge