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Film Vocab
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1. A musical film in which each song and dance number is narratively motivated by a plot that situates characters in performance contexts
Backstage musical
German Expressionism
Matte
Direct cinema
2. Non-diegetic; any element in the film that is not part of the imagined story world
Scene
Actualitas
Extradiegetic
Overlapping dialogue
3. 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
Focus puller
Focal length
Tracking shot
Three-act structure
4. A technique of manipulating focus to direct the viewer's attention
Wide film
Grain
High-angle shot
Selective focus
5. The measure of intensity or purity of a color. Saturated color is purer than desaturated color - which has more white in it and thus offers a washed-out - less intense version of a color
Handheld shot
Antagonist
Saturation
Sound bridge
6. Optical illusions created during production - including the use of matte paintings - glass shots - models - and prosthesis
Exposure
Post-production
Special visual effects
Scene
7. A short segment of film used to promote an upcoming release
High-angle shot
Figure placement and movement
Trailer
Realist style
8. Squeezes the image at a ratio of 2:1 horizontally onto a standard film frame. On the projector - it unsqueezes the image - creating a widescreen aspect ratio during presentation
Soft light
Syuzhet
Anamorphic lens
Double exposure
9. 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
Pre-production
Establishing shot
Normal lens
Matte painting
10. A chemical embedded in the emulsion layer of film stock that - when developed after exposure - releases a particular color dye (red - green - or blue)
Average shot length
Dye coupler
Morphing
Avant-garde film
11. A type of filter that absorbs certain wavelength but leave others unaffected. On black and white film - color filters lighten or darken tones. On color film - they can produce a range of effects
Open-ended
Interpretive claim
Focal length
Color filter
12. 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
Minor studios
Panchromatic
Gauge
13. The first print made from a film negative
Master positive
Aspect Ratio
Descriptive claim
Text
14. A story; a chain of events linked by cause-and-effect logic
Shutter
Oeuvre
High concept film
Narrative
15. 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
Kuleshov effect
Aerial Shot
Block booking
German Expressionism
16. A system for recording images on magnetic tape using a digital signal - that is - an electronic signal comprised of 0s and 1s
Assistant Editor
Turning point
Digital video
City symphony
17. The first step in the process of creating CGI. The wireframe is a three-dimensional computer model of an object - which is then rendered (producing the finished image) and animated (using simulated camera movement frame by frame)
Wireframe
Computer-generated imagery (CGI)
Toning
ADR
18. A scene filmed and processed but not selected to appear in the final version of the film
Out-take
Shutter
Outsourcing
Medium shot
19. Squeezes the image at a ratio of 2:1 horizontally onto a standard film frame. On the projector - it unsqueezes the image - creating a widescreen aspect ratio during presentation
Shot transition
Average shot length
Anamorphic lens
Backstage musical
20. 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
Medium long shot
Frozen time moment
Fade-out
Shot transition
21. 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
B-roll
Hollywood Blacklist
Cameo
22. 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
Reframing
Film stock
Glass shot
Foley artist
23. 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
First-person narration
Undercranking
Promotion
High concept film
24. 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
German Expressionism
Anamorphic lens
Depth of field
Emulsion
25. Processes such as Cinemascope and Cinerama - developed during the 1950s to enhance film's size advantage over the smaller television image
Widescreen
Outsourcing
Optical printer
Episodic
26. A type of filter that absorbs certain wavelength but leave others unaffected. On black and white film - color filters lighten or darken tones. On color film - they can produce a range of effects
Color filter
Lightning mix
Restricted narration
Cameo
27. A technique of shifting the camera angle - height - or distance to take into account the motion of actors or objects within the frame
Panchromatic
Digital compositing
Double exposure
Reframing
28. A type of documentary film whose purpose is to present the way of life of a culture or subculture
Digital set extension
Ethnographic film
Depth of field
Narrative sequencing
29. Also called 'rushes.' Footage exposed and developed quickly so that the director can assess the day's work
Blue screen
Digital set extension
Tracking shot
Dailies
30. 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
Propaganda film
Shot transition
Telephoto lens
Persistence of vision
31. 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
Three-point lighting
Shot/reverse shot
Continuity error
Extreme wide-angle lens
32. 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
Script supervisor
Block booking
Interpellation
33. 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
Aperture
Protagonist
Fast
34. A filter that creates points of light that streak outward from a light source
Star filter
Mockumentary
Cutaway
Widescreen
35. The length in minutes for a film to play in its entirety (for example - 120 minutes). Also referred to as 'screen time.'
Running time
Blocking
Studio system
Protagonist
36. A digital technique developed by Industrial Light and Magic - which builds movement sequences from single frames of film
Three-point lighting
Letterboxing
Frozen time moment
Go-motion
37. A scene transition wherein sound from one scene bleeds over into the ext scene - often resulting in a contrast between sound image
Non-diegetic
Voice-over
Sound bridge
Exposure latitude
38. A shot taken from a camera mounted on a crane that moves three-dimensionally in a space
Iris in...
Crane shot
Closure
Lightning mix
39. 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
Offscreen space
Available light
Realist style
Interlaced scanning
40. A shot combining two kinds of movement: the camera tracks in toward the subject wile the lens zooms out
Lens
Trombone shot
Revisionist
Animation
41. A form of shot transition - generally concluding a scene - where a circular mask constricts around the image until the entire frame is black
Iris in...
Chiaroscuro
Wireframe
Forced perspective
42. A shot that appears during or near the end of a scene and reorients viewers to the setting
Parellel editing
Re-establishing shot
Iris out
Long take
43. A chemical embedded in the emulsion layer of film stock that - when developed after exposure - releases a particular color dye (red - green - or blue)
Base
Telephoto lens
Dye coupler
Forced development
44. 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
Negative
Flashing
Steadicam
Scratching
45. An actor whose career rests on playing minor or secondary quirky characters rather than leading roles
Scratching
Character actor
Extradiegetic
Denouement
46. 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
Pixilation
Filter
Toning
Episodic
47. A shot transition that involves the gradual disappearance of the image at the same time that a new image gradually comes into view
Genre conventions
Aperture
Dissolve
Three-point lighting
48. The practice of shooting during the day but using filters and underexposure to create the illusion of nighttime
Forced development
Dye coupler
Aerial Shot
Day for night
49. A crew member responsible for logging the details of each take on the set so as to ensure continuity
Point-of-view shot
Script supervisor
Diffusion filters
Assistant Editor
50. A style of Japanese animation - distinguished primarily by the fact that it is not all geared for young audiences
Take
Widescreen
High concept film
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