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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 practice or repeatedly casting actors in similar roles across different films
Promotion
Typecasting
Deep focus cinematography
Method acting
2. A pan executed so quickly that it produces a blurred image - indicated rapid activity or - sometimes - the passage of time
Swish pan
Scratching
Soft light
Mockumentary
3. A shot transition that involves the gradual disappearance of the image at the same time that a new image gradually comes into view
Brechtian distanciation
Soviet montage
Flashing
Dissolve
4. 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
Hybrid
Focal length
Subgenre
Motivation
5. An action film cycle of the late 1960s and early 1970s that featured bold - rebellious African American characters
Blaxploitation
Telephoto lens
Integrated musical
Morphing
6. Sound design that blends the speech of several characters talking simultaneously - used to create spontaneity - although it may also confuse the audience
Interlaced scanning
Promotion
Overhead shot
Overlapping dialogue
7. The plotline that surrounds an embedded tale. The frame narration may or may not be as fully developed as the embedded tale
Extreme wide-angle lens
Frame narration
Hollywood Blacklist
Green screen
8. A contemporary modification of the standard three-act structure that identifies a critical turning point at the halfway mark of most narrative films
Long take
Digital video
Typecasting
Four-part structure
9. A system for recording images on magnetic tape using a digital signal - that is - an electronic signal comprised of 0s and 1s
Graphic match
Spec script
Soundtrack
Digital video
10. An early color process that replaced silver halide grains with colored salts
Figure placement and movement
Toning
Narrative sequencing
Camera distance
11. Projecting a series of frames of film with the same image - which appears to stop the action
Zoom in...
Medium close-up
Freeze frame
Flashforward
12. Natural light; The process of suing sunlight rather than artificial studio lights when filming
Available light
Telephoto lens
Integrated musical
Color timing
13. A screenplay written and submitted to a studio or production company without a prior contract or agreement
Spec script
Fog filter
Video assist
Parellel editing
14. Also called 'stop motion photography.' A technique of photographing a scene one frame at a time and moving the model between each shot
ADR
Animation
Interlaced scanning
Pixilation
15. Processes such as Cinemascope and Cinerama - developed during the 1950s to enhance film's size advantage over the smaller television image
Non-diegetic
Chiaroscuro
Widescreen
Undercranking
16. A chemical coating on film stock containing light-sensitive grains
Ethnographic film
Medium shot
Tracking shot
Emulsion
17. An action film cycle of the late 1960s and early 1970s that featured bold - rebellious African American characters
Slow motion
Spec script
Blaxploitation
Front projection
18. A machine that converts film prints to videotape format
Telecine
Panchromatic
High-angle shot
Subtext
19. Light striking the emulsion layer of the film - activating light-sensitive grains
Major studios
Wipe
Exposure
Screenplay
20. 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
Compilation film
Pulling
Hollywood Ten
Outsourcing
21. A type of matte shot - created by positioning a pane of optically flawless glass with a painting on it between the camera and the scene to be photographed. This combines the painting on the glass with the set or location - seen through the glass - be
Blocking
Glass shot
Continuity editor
Soundtrack
22. A shot that depicts a human body from the feet up
Medium long shot
Slow motion
Aspect Ratio
Tilt
23. A shot that focuses audience attention on precise details that may or may not be the focus of characters
Cutaway
Rack focus
Crab dolly
Long take
24. 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
Eye-level shot
Zoom out
Hollywood Ten
Interlaced scanning
25. A shot taken fro a position directly above the action - also called a 'birds' eye shot'
Morphing
Anamorphic lens
Overhead shot
Tilt
26. The technique of telling the story from an all-knowing character. Films that use restricted narration limit the audience's perception to what one particular character knows - but may insert moments of omniscience
Digital video
Tinting
Flashforward
Omniscient narration
27. A measure of a film stock's sensitivity to light. 'Fast' refers to sensitive film stock - while slow film is relatively insensitive
Wide-angle lens
Speed
Crab dolly
Focus puller
28. A shot that includes a human figure from the shoulders up
Medium close-up
Long shot
Outsourcing
Eye-level shot
29. 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
Exposure
Master shot
Trombone shot
Deep focus cinematography
30. Everything audiences hear when they watch a sound film. The soundtrack is the composite of all three elements of film sound: dialogue - music - and sound effects
Tinting
Storyboard
Soundtrack
Pushing
31. Muted - washed out color that contains more white than a saturated color
Desaturated
Digital video
Exposition
Camera distance
32. Individuals who were prevented from working in the film industry because of their suspected involvement with Communist interests
Hollywood Blacklist
Tableau shot
Line of action
Computer-generated imagery (CGI)
33. The period after principal photography during which editing and looping take place - and special visual effects are added to the film
Post-production
Turning point
Release prints
Omniscient narration
34. The technique of telling the story from an all-knowing character. Films that use restricted narration limit the audience's perception to what one particular character knows - but may insert moments of omniscience
Omniscient narration
Telephoto lens
Dye coupler
Master positive
35. The first print made from a film negative
Three-act structure
Phi phenomenon
Wide-angle lens
Master positive
36. An uncredited actor - usually hired for crowd scenes
Filter
Extra
Zoom lens
Medium shot
37. An abrupt shot transition that occurs when Shot A is instantaneously replaced by Shot B.
Flashforward
Shutter
Cut
Panchromatic
38. An effect created when more light is required to produce an image strakes the film stock - so that the resulting image exhibits high contrast - glaring light - and washed out shadows. This effect ma or may not be intentional on the filmmaker's part
Aspect Ratio
Overexposure
Screenplay
Hybrid
39. A shot taken by a camera that is held manually rather than supported by a tripod - crane or Steadicam. Generally - such shots are shaky - owing to the motion of the camera operator
Color timing
Analog Video
Insert
Handheld shot
40. A mental phenomenon by which viewers derive more meaning from the interaction of two sequential shots than from a single shot in isolation
Kuleshov effect
ADR
Filter
Score
41. 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
Glass shot
Overlapping dialogue
Iris in...
Masking
42. 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
Vista Vision
Iris out
Lightning mix
Front projection
43. A post-studio era Hollywood film designed to appeal to the broadest possible audience by fusing a simple story line with major movie stars and mounting a lavish marketing campaign
Figure placement and movement
High concept film
Eyeline match
Apparatus Theory
44. A technique of moving a zoom lens from a wide-angle position to a telephoto position - which results in a magnification of the subject within the frame - and keeps the subject in focus
Take
Zoom in...
Freeze frame
Voice-over
45. The camera should move at least 30 degrees any time there is a cut within a scene
Integrated musical
Zoom out
30-degree rule
Color timing
46. A widescreen process that uses three cameras - three projectors - and a wide - curved screen
Fast
Soft light
Cinerama
Turning point
47. A videotape system that records images onto magnetic tape - using electronic signals
Analog Video
Script supervisor
Three-point lighting
Avant-garde film
48. Also called 'full screen -' the technique of re-shooting a widescreen film in order to convert it to the original television aspect ration of 1.33 to 1. Rather than reproduce the original aspect ratio - as a letterboxed version does - a panned and sc
Filter
Shot transition
Panning and scanning
Hollywood Blacklist
49. Public identity created by marketing a film actor's performances - press coverage - and 'personal' information to fans as the star's personality
Establishing shot
Loose framing
Star persona
Voice-over
50. The camera does not move across an imagined line drawn between two characters
180-degree rule
German Expressionism
Out-take
Compilation film