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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. Sound recorded on a set - on location - or - for documentary film - at an actual real-world event - as opposed to dubbed in post-production through ADR or looping
Direct sound
Propaganda film
Production values
Ethnographic film
2. 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
Take
Telephoto lens
Medium long shot
Cut
3. The annotated script - containing information about set-ups used during shooting
Shooting script
Narrative
Normal lens
Four-part structure
4. 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
Genre
Wide-angle lens
Foley artist
Propaganda film
5. A musical accompaniment written specifically for a film
Score
Gaffer
Iris in...
Green screen
6. 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
Flashing
Vertical integration
Closure
Backstage musical
7. The film medium's technological apparatus is inherently ideological
Undercranking
Apparatus Theory
Propaganda film
Extreme long-shot
8. Exposed and developed film stock from which the master positive is struck. If projected - the negative would produce a reverse of the image - with dark areas appearing white and vice versa or - if color film - areas of color appearing as their comple
Scratching
Negative
Travelling matte
Slow
9. A shot in a sequence that is taken from the reverse angle of the shot previous to it
Natural-key lighting
Reverse shot
Screenplay
Release prints
10. These filters bend the light coming into lens - softening and blurring the image
Shooting script
Time-lapse photography
Diffusion filters
Third-person narration
11. 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
Soundtrack
Telephoto lens
Interpretive claim
Toning
12. The width of the film stock - measured across the frame. Typical sizes are 8mm - 16mm - 35mm - and 70mm
Best boy
B-roll
Gauge
Continuity editing
13. 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
Negative cutter
Progressive scanning
Extreme wide-angle lens
Runaway production
14. The individual arrangement of lighting and camera placement used for each shot
Set-up
Tracking shot
Sound bridge
Synthespian
15. 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
Evaluative claim
Crab dolly
Editor
Eye-level shot
16. A system of constructing and arranging buildings and objects on the set so that they diminish in size dramatically from foreground to background - which creates the illusion of depth
Exposition
Forced perspective
Extreme close-up
Gauge
17. The shape of the image onscreen as determined by the width of the frame relative to its height
Toning
Digital set extension
Aspect Ratio
Time-lapse photography
18. Because film stock is sensitive to the color of light - directors work with film labs in post-production to monitor the color scheme of each scene in a film - making adjustments for consistency and aesthetic effect
180-degree rule
Out-take
Outsourcing
Color timing
19. The period of time before principal photography during which actors are signed - sets and costumes designed - and locations scouted
Cinerama
Pre-production
Revisionist
Digital set extension
20. The camera should move at least 30 degrees any time there is a cut within a scene
Dailies
Second unit
Master shot
30-degree rule
21. Early films that documented everyday events - such as workers leaving a factory
Oeuvre
Animation
Base
Actualitas
22. 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
Forced development
Block booking
Interpellation
High-angle shot
23. 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
Progressive scanning
Cel
Cinerama
Glass shot
24. A screenplay written and submitted to a studio or production company without a prior contract or agreement
Forced perspective
Digital video
Spec script
Prosthesis
25. A production term referring to coordinating actors' movements with lines of dialogue
Episodic
Blocking
Oeuvre
Star system
26. Recording images at a slower speed than the speed of projection (24 frames per second). Before cameras were motorized - this was called undercranking. Fewer frames are exposed in one minute - so - when projected at 24 f.p.s. - that action takes less
Anamorphic lens
Toning
Fast motion
Voice-over
27. 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
Cutaway
Average shot length
Backstory
28. 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
Hollywood Blacklist
Shutter
High-key lighting
Green screen
29. The imagined world of the story
Sound bridge
Medium close-up
Diegesis
Exposure latitude
30. A crew member whose job is to maintain consistency in visual details from one shot to the next
Blue screen
Blockbuster
Continuity editor
Interlaced scanning
31. The chip in a video camera that converts the incoming light to an electronic signal
Montage sequence
Charge coupler device
Syuzhet
City symphony
32. 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
Parellel
Undercranking
Speed
33. A form of shot transition - generally concluding a scene - where a circular mask constricts around the image until the entire frame is black
Star system
Iris in...
Tilt
Camera distance
34. A style of Japanese animation - distinguished primarily by the fact that it is not all geared for young audiences
Low-key lighting
Dailies
Special visual effects
Anime
35. The space between the camera and subject it is filming.
Hue
Camera distance
Narrative sequencing
Wide film
36. A technique of moving the camera - on a specially built track. Such shots often trace character movement laterally across the frame or in and out of the depth of the frame
Running time
Tracking shot
Revisionist
Tight framing
37. A shot taken from a camera position below the subject
Aperture
Tight framing
Interpretive claim
Low-angle shot
38. 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
Avant-garde film
Pixel
Compilation film
Telecine
39. An abrupt - inexplicable shift in time and place of an action not signaled by an appropriate shot transition
Superimposition
Sound bridge
Jump cut
Post-production
40. A visual effect achieved through the use of photography and digital techniques that appears to stop time and allow the viewer to travel around the subject and view it from a multitude of vantage points
Prosthesis
Blaxploitation
Color consultant
Frozen time moment
41. A shot taken from a camera position below the subject
Star persona
Video assist
Loose framing
Low-angle shot
42. A fiction film (often a comedy) that uses documentary conventions on fictional rather than real-world subject matter
Offscreen space
Mockumentary
Loose framing
Film stock
43. The plotline that surrounds an embedded tale. The frame narration may or may not be as fully developed as the embedded tale
Orthochromatic
Frame narration
Extradiegetic
Medium shot
44. A production crew responsible not for shooting the primary footage but - instead - for remote location shooting and B-roll. See also B-roll
Zoom lens
Second unit
Vista Vision
Medium shot
45. A measure of a film stock's sensitivity to light. 'Fast' refers to sensitive film stock - while slow film is relatively insensitive
Travelling matte
Speed
Production values
Natural-key lighting
46. 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
Backstage musical
High concept film
Scratching
Three-point lighting
47. A system for combining two separately filmed images in the same frame that involves create a matte (a black mask that covers a portion of the image) for a live action sequence and using it to block out a portion of the frame when filming the backgrou
Hybrid
Lens
Open-ended
Travelling matte
48. A computer-generated actor that some speculate will replace flesh and blood actors in the not so distant future
Shooting script
Set-up
Point-of-view shot
Synthespian
49. A device that projects photographs or footage onto glass so that images can be traced by hand to create animated images
Saturation
Tilt
Rotoscope
Blocking
50. 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
Three-point lighting
Brechtian distanciation
Backstory
Academy Ratio