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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 technique of shifting the camera angle - height - or distance to take into account the motion of actors or objects within the frame
Reframing
Composition
Academy Ratio
Blaxploitation
2. The non-chronological insertion of scenes of events yet to happen into the present day of the story world
Roadshowing
Director
Green screen
Flashforward
3. The selection and ordering of narrative events presented in a film
Hue
Syuzhet
Continuity error
Underexposure
4. Using computer graphics to 'build' structures connected to the actual architecture on set or location
Dye coupler
Chiaroscuro
Star system
Digital set extension
5. A film's main characters - one whose conflicts and motives drive the story forward
Charge coupler device
Lens
Protagonist
Polarizing filters
6. A shot taken from a camera position above the subject - looking down at it
Wireframe
High-angle shot
Phi phenomenon
Tight framing
7. A transparent sheet on which animation artists draw images.
Front projection
Third-person narration
Cel
Narrative sequencing
8. The reverse of Iris in: an iris expands outward until the next shot takes up the entire screen
Hue
Overexposure
Compositing
Iris out
9. A style of Japanese animation - distinguished primarily by the fact that it is not all geared for young audiences
Cutaway
Graphic match
Anime
Narrative sequencing
10. A series of individual drawings that provides a blueprint for the shooting of a scene
Storyboard
Blue screen
Integrated musical
Glass shot
11. A relatively long - uninterrupted sot - generally of a minute or more
Grain
Chiaroscuro
Take
Long take
12. An abrupt - inexplicable shift in time and place of an action not signaled by an appropriate shot transition
Dye coupler
Jump cut
Cutaway
Descriptive claim
13. 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
Line reading
Masking
Diegesis
Tracking shot
14. 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
Widescreen
Gaffer
Extradiegetic
Formalist style
15. 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
Hollywood Ten
Post-production
Slow motion
Long take
16. 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
Second unit
Episodic
Crab dolly
Out-take
17. 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
Overlapping dialogue
Director
Handheld shot
High-key lighting
18. Author; A term popularized by French film critics and refers to film directors with their own distinctive style
Base
Fast motion
Auteur
Shot
19. The practice of Hollywood studios contracting out post-production work to individuals or firms outside the U.S.
Outsourcing
Color consultant
Denouement
Frozen time moment
20. 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
Day for night
Steadicam
Polarizing filters
Medium shot
21. A shot that includes a human figure from the shoulders up
Undercranking
Medium close-up
Genre conventions
Frozen time moment
22. A production crew responsible not for shooting the primary footage but - instead - for remote location shooting and B-roll. See also B-roll
Direct sound
Genre conventions
Second unit
Pan
23. A relatively long - uninterrupted sot - generally of a minute or more
Emulsion
Long take
Motivation
Color consultant
24. 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
Compositing
Extreme wide-angle lens
Best boy
Oeuvre
25. A rule in continuity editing - which dictates that if a cut occurs while a character is in the midst of an action - the subsequent shot must begin so that audiences see the completion of that action
30-degree rule
Match on action
Interpellation
Narrative sequencing
26. 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
Parellel
Undercranking
Typecasting
Close-up
27. A mental phenomenon by which viewers derive more meaning from the interaction of two sequential shots than from a single shot in isolation
Slow
Direct cinema
Kuleshov effect
Open-ended
28. 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
Academy Ratio
Cutaway
Overlapping dialogue
Subgenre
29. Color. The strength of a hue is measured by its saturation or desaturation
Hue
Orthochromatic
Widescreen
Cameo
30. Wheeled platform with wheels that rotate - so the dolly can change direction
Natural-key lighting
Handheld shot
Lens
Crab dolly
31. Any lens with a focal length approximately equal to the diagonal of the frame. For 35mm filmmaking - a 35-50 mm lens does not distort the angle of vision or depth
Interpretive claim
Normal lens
Hollywood Blacklist
Rack focus
32. Light striking the emulsion layer of the film - activating light-sensitive grains
Tight framing
Exposure
Promotion
Restricted narration
33. Creating the appearance of movement by drawing a series of frames that are projected sequentially - rather than photographing a series of still images
Reverse shot
Blocking
Propaganda film
Animation
34. A film style that - in contrast to the classical and formalist styles - focuses characters - place - and the spontaneity and digressiveness of life - rather than on highly structured stories or aesthetic abstraction
Optical printer
Available light
Compositing
Realist style
35. The length in minutes for a film to play in its entirety (for example - 120 minutes). Also referred to as 'screen time.'
Gaffer
Digital cinema
Forced development
Running time
36. A technician responsible for splicing and assembling the film negative to the editor's specifications
Composition in depth
Crane shot
Negative cutter
Soft light
37. 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
Anamorphic lens
Focal length
Point-of-view shot
Rack focus
38. (Automatic dialogue replacement) recording synchronized dialogue in post-production - cutting several identical lengths of developed film and having actors record the dialogue repeatedly
ADR
Actualitas
Insert
Chiaroscuro
39. A technique used to join live action with a pre-recorded background image. A projector is placed behind a screen and projects an image onto it. Actors stand in front of the screen and the camera records them in front of the projected background
Cameo
Focal length
Rear projection
Two-shot
40. 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
Pixel
Interpellation
Double exposure
Travelling matte
41. The practice or repeatedly casting actors in similar roles across different films
Classical style
Digital compositing
Typecasting
Special visual effects
42. A device attached to the film camera that records videotape of what has been filmed - allowing the director immediate access to video footage
Video assist
Fast
Evaluative claim
Montage sequence
43. A production term denoting a single uninterrupted series of frames exposed by a motion picture or video camera between the time it is turned on and the time it is turned off. Filmmakers shoot several takes of any scene and the film editor selects the
Shooting script
Medium shot
Take
Motivation
44. A series of related scene joined through elliptical editing that indicates the passage of time
Zoom in...
Montage sequence
Forced perspective
Oeuvre
45. An outlawed studio era practice - where studios forced exhibitors to book groups of films at once - thus ensuring a market for their failures along with their successes
Persistence of vision
Block booking
Director
Normal lens
46. 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
Flashing
Promotion
Major studios
Telecine
47. 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
Zoom in...
Digital set extension
Special visual effects
48. The reverse of Iris in: an iris expands outward until the next shot takes up the entire screen
Iris out
Offscreen space
Script supervisor
Composition
49. 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
Outsourcing
Release prints
Wireframe
Digital set extension
50. Using computer graphics to 'build' structures connected to the actual architecture on set or location
Panning and scanning
Syuzhet
Digital set extension
Frame narration