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Film Vocab
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. 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
Forced development
Vista Vision
Low-key lighting
Syuzhet
2. A shot taken from a camera position below the subject
Rotoscope
Low-angle shot
Flashback
Line reading
3. Secondary footage that is interspersed with master shots - sometimes in the form of footage shot for another production or archival footage
Direct cinema
Overhead shot
Crane shot
B-roll
4. An abrupt shot transition that occurs when Shot A is instantaneously replaced by Shot B.
Cut
Tracking shot
Fabula
Persistence of vision
5. 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
Rear projection
Apparatus Theory
Foley artist
Denouement
6. A single take that contains an entire scene
Master shot
Realist style
Subtext
Eyeline match
7. The term for a film's spoken dialogue - as opposed to the underlying meaning contained in the subtext
Available light
Slow
Text
Ethnographic film
8. A painting used on the set as a portion of the background
Runaway production
Mixing
Tableau shot
Matte painting
9. The term for a film's spoken dialogue - as opposed to the underlying meaning contained in the subtext
Text
High-angle shot
Scene
Focus puller
10. A shot that interrupts a scene's master shot and may include character reactions
Omniscient narration
Star system
Aperture
Insert
11. Author; A term popularized by French film critics and refers to film directors with their own distinctive style
Auteur
Anime
Forced development
Hollywood Blacklist
12. Dense accumulation of detail conveyed in the opening moments of a film
German Expressionism
Exposition
Intertextual reference
Closure
13. 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
Color timing
Telephoto lens
Hollywood Ten
Brechtian distanciation
14. The rules of character - setting - and narrative that films that belong to a genre - such as Westerns - horror films - and screwball comedies - generally obey.
Genre conventions
Dailies
Line of action
Toning
15. 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
Letterboxing
Aperture
Compositing
16. 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
Continuity error
Foley artist
Low-angle shot
Pulling
17. A visual effect created when the subject in the frame is restricted by the objects or the physical properties of the set
Tight framing
ADR
Lightning mix
Roadshowing
18. Any noticeable but unintended discrepancy from one shot to the next in costume - props - hairstyle - posture - etc.
Apparatus Theory
Continuity error
Editor
On-the-nose dialogue
19. A machine that converts film prints to videotape format
Telecine
Lightning mix
Figure placement and movement
Montage sequence
20. The arrangement of images to depict a unified storyline
Tracking shot
Pulling
Genre
Narrative sequencing
21. A business model adopted by the major studios during the Hollywood studio era - in which studios controlled all aspects of the film business - from production to distribution and exhibition
Mixing
Low-key lighting
Gauge
Vertical integration
22. The plotline that surrounds an embedded tale. The frame narration may or may not be as fully developed as the embedded tale
Blocking
Two-shot
Frame narration
Fabula
23. 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
Superimposition
Kuleshov effect
Shot
Typecasting
24. A type of documentary film whose purpose is to present the way of life of a culture or subculture
Ethnographic film
Genre conventions
Pushing
Shooting script
25. A style associated with Hollywood filmmaking of the studio and post-studio era - in which efficient storytelling - rather than gritty realism or aesthetic innovation - is of paramount importance
Classical style
Cinerama
Medium close-up
Production values
26. Live action is filmed in front of a blue screen and a matte. It's then joined with the background footage
Blue screen
Shutter
Plot summary
Low-key lighting
27. 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
Promotion
Extreme wide-angle lens
Take
Day for night
28. Suspended particles of silver in the film's emulsion - Which may become visible in the final image as dots
Closure
Grain
Prosthesis
Pixel
29. These filters bend the light coming into lens - softening and blurring the image
Diffusion filters
Pixilation
Toning
Hue
30. 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
Double exposure
Plot summary
Masking
Screenplay
31. 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
Digital set extension
Descriptive claim
Crab dolly
Subgenre
32. Cinema verite; a documentary style in which the filmmaker attempts to remain as unobtrusive as possible - recording without obvious editorial comment
City symphony
Direct cinema
Score
Telephoto lens
33. Creating an image by combining several elements created separately using computer graphics rather than photographic means
Digital compositing
Soundtrack
Apparatus Theory
Fast
34. A brief chronological description of the basic events and characters in a film. It does not include interpretive or evaluative claims
Anime
Method acting
Wide film
Plot summary
35. Live action is filmed in front of a blue screen and a matte. It's then joined with the background footage
Pixel
Closure
Line reading
Blue screen
36. Glass filters whose surface is etched with spots that refract light - so they create the appearance of water droplets in the air
Special visual effects
Canted angle
Fog filter
On-the-nose dialogue
37. A business model adopted by the major studios during the Hollywood studio era - in which studios controlled all aspects of the film business - from production to distribution and exhibition
Forced development
Roadshowing
Vertical integration
Fast motion
38. A marketing strategy of screening a blockbuster prior to general release only in premier theaters
Production values
Roadshowing
Split screen
Cutaway
39. 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
Star system
Brechtian distanciation
First-person narration
40. The falling or unraveling action after the climax of a narrative that leads to resolution
Focal length
Genre
Denouement
Revisionist
41. 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
Double exposure
Visual effects
Optical printer
German Expressionism
42. The practice of shooting during the day but using filters and underexposure to create the illusion of nighttime
Figure placement and movement
Two-shot
Day for night
Plot summary
43. Any noticeable but unintended discrepancy from one shot to the next in costume - props - hairstyle - posture - etc.
Extradiegetic
Continuity error
Polarizing filters
Scene
44. (Automatic dialogue replacement) recording synchronized dialogue in post-production - cutting several identical lengths of developed film and having actors record the dialogue repeatedly
Flashback
ADR
Prosthesis
Day for night
45. A complete narrative unit within a film - with its own beginning - middle - and end. Often scenes are unified - and distinguished from one another - by time and setting
Aspect Ratio
Frozen time moment
Scene
Shot
46. A shot taken fro a position directly above the action - also called a 'birds' eye shot'
ADR
Cinerama
Swish pan
Overhead shot
47. A lens with a variable focal length that allows changes of focal length while keeping the subject in focus
Interlaced scanning
Apparatus Theory
Zoom lens
Eye-level shot
48. 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
Tinting
Rear projection
Turning point
Point-of-view shot
49. Smaller corporations that did not own distribution and/or exhibition companies in the studio era - including Universal - Columbia - and United Artists
Steadicam
Minor studios
Color filter
Progressive scanning
50. The practice or repeatedly casting actors in similar roles across different films
Shooting script
Establishing shot
Slow motion
Typecasting