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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 chemical coating on film stock containing light-sensitive grains
Double exposure
Long shot
Blocking
Emulsion
2. A shot taken from a camera mounted on a crane that moves three-dimensionally in a space
Wipe
Crane shot
Iris in...
Interpellation
3. The shape of the image onscreen as determined by the width of the frame relative to its height
Exposure
Actualitas
Aspect Ratio
Prosthesis
4. Devices that attach to actors' faces and/or bodies to change their appearance
Prosthesis
Production values
Three-point lighting
Zoom lens
5. A production term referring to coordinating actors' movements with lines of dialogue
Flashing
Digital compositing
Blocking
Point-of-view shot
6. Lighting design that provides an even illumination of the subject - with many facial details washed out. High-key lighting tends to create a hopeful mood - in contrast to low-key lighting
180-degree rule
High-key lighting
Glass shot
Extra
7. The length in minutes for a film to play in its entirety (for example - 120 minutes). Also referred to as 'screen time.'
Extreme close-up
Running time
Genre conventions
Interpretive claim
8. 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
Cut
Wide film
Matte painting
9. An agreement made between filmmakers and those who license the use of commercial products to feature those products in films - generally as props used by characters
Cinerama
Product placement
Parellel editing
Letterboxing
10. 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
Release prints
Roadshowing
Travelling matte
Digital set extension
11. A scene transition wherein sound from one scene bleeds over into the ext scene - often resulting in a contrast between sound image
Direct cinema
Studio system
Sound bridge
Shot transition
12. A consistent style - theme - and subject matter developed over the course of a director's body of work
Medium shot
Oeuvre
Anime
Third-person narration
13. Literary narration from a viewpoint beyond that of any one individual character
Third-person narration
Re-establishing shot
Digital compositing
Evaluative claim
14. A narrative approach that limits the audience's view of events to that of the main character(s) in the film. Occasional moments of omniscient narration may give viewers more information than the character shave at specific points in the narrative
Long shot
180-degree rule
Restricted narration
Zoom in...
15. The reverse of Iris in: an iris expands outward until the next shot takes up the entire screen
Long take
Blockbuster
Iris out
Extreme close-up
16. 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
Toning
Assistant Editor
Scene
Three-act structure
17. A technician responsible for splicing and assembling the film negative to the editor's specifications
Panning and scanning
Negative cutter
Gauge
Frame narration
18. A digital technique developed by Industrial Light and Magic - which builds movement sequences from single frames of film
Go-motion
Intertextual reference
Letterboxing
Integrated musical
19. 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
Formalist style
Widescreen
Extreme long-shot
Panning and scanning
20. A machine used to create optical effects such as fades - dissolves - and superimpositions. Most are now created digitally
Wide film
Iris in...
Low-key lighting
Optical printer
21. 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
Classical style
Three-point lighting
Text
Interlaced scanning
22. A shot taken from a camera position below the subject
Animation
Composition in depth
Method acting
Low-angle shot
23. Images that originate from computer graphics technology - rather than photography
Letterboxing
Computer-generated imagery (CGI)
Rack focus
Oeuvre
24. A technique of recording very few images over a long period of time - say - one frame per minute or per day
Parellel
Mockumentary
Time-lapse photography
Screenplay
25. The visual arrangement of objects - actors - and space within the frame
Matte painting
Composition
Descriptive claim
Interpellation
26. Invisible editing; a system devised to minimize the audience's awareness of shot transitions - especially cuts - in order to improve the flow of the story and avoid interrupting the viewer's immersion it in
Continuity editing
Color consultant
Base
Mockumentary
27. An animation technique that uses a computer program to interpolate frames to produce the effect of an object or creature changing gradually into something different. The program calculates the way the image must change in order for the first image to
Travelling matte
Progressive scanning
Compilation film
Morphing
28. 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
Dolly
Interpellation
Soundtrack
Pixel
29. The person in charge of planning the style and look of the film with the production designer and director of photography - working with actors during principal photography - and collaborating with the editor on the final version
Director
Tight framing
Apparatus Theory
Speed
30. The selection and ordering of narrative events presented in a film
Syuzhet
Diegesis
Undercranking
Speed
31. A shot that focuses audience attention on precise details that may or may not be the focus of characters
Extreme long-shot
Cutaway
Shutter
Genre conventions
32. A shot that focuses audience attention on precise details that may or may not be the focus of characters
Cutaway
Genre
Actualitas
Iris out
33. The camera does not move across an imagined line drawn between two characters
Overexposure
Cameo
Extradiegetic
180-degree rule
34. An early color process that replaced silver halide grains with colored salts
Flashing
Toning
Hard light
Trombone shot
35. 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
Pushing
Typecasting
Rack focus
Direct sound
36. A visual effect created when the subject in the frame is restricted by the objects or the physical properties of the set
Day for night
Product placement
Tight framing
Long shot
37. A shot transition that involves the gradual disappearance of the image at the same time that a new image gradually comes into view
Overlapping dialogue
Persistence of vision
Dissolve
Narrative
38. 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
Storyboard
Motif
Color consultant
39. The measurement of how forgiving a film stock is. It determines whether an acceptable image will be produced when the film stock is exposed to too little or too much light
Exposure latitude
Depth of field
Orthochromatic
Hue
40. A black masking device used to black out a portion of the frame - usually for the insertion of other images
Deep focus cinematography
Assistant Editor
Close-up
Matte
41. Muted - washed out color that contains more white than a saturated color
Desaturated
Motivation
High concept film
Protagonist
42. The visual arrangement of objects - actors - and space within the frame
Composition
Production values
Denouement
Medium shot
43. A pan executed so quickly that it produces a blurred image - indicated rapid activity or - sometimes - the passage of time
Swish pan
Focal length
Studio system
Script supervisor
44. A shot transition that emphasizes the visual similarities between two consecutive shots
Prosthesis
Green screen
Match on action
Graphic match
45. A shot that makes the human subject very small in relation to his or her environment. The entire figure from head to toe is onscreen and dwarfed by the surroundings
Studio system
Extreme long-shot
Available light
Horizontal integration
46. Thin - flexible material comprised of base and emulsion layers - onto which light rays are focused and which is processed in chemicals to produce film images
Slow
Medium shot
Film stock
Tableau shot
47. The non-chronological insertion of events from the past into the present day of the story world
Neutral-density filter
Syuzhet
Flashback
Morphing
48. The practice or repeatedly casting actors in similar roles across different films
Composition
Iris in...
Narrative sequencing
Typecasting
49. Optical illusions created during post-production
Blocking
Visual effects
Anime
Lens
50. A long shot in which the film frame resembles the proscenium arch of the stage - distancing the audience
Typecasting
Tableau shot
Vista Vision
Morphing