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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 series of individual drawings that provides a blueprint for the shooting of a scene
Three-act structure
Overexposure
Available light
Storyboard
2. A transparent sheet on which animation artists draw images.
Cel
Double exposure
Re-establishing shot
Interpretive claim
3. An optical effect whereby the human eye fills in gaps between closely spaced objects - so that two light bulbs flashing on and off are understood as one light moving back and forth
Phi phenomenon
Graphic match
Close-up
Gaffer
4. Any narrative - visual - or sound element that is repeated and thereby acquires and reflects its significance to the story - characters - or themes of the film.
Director
Reverse shot
Motif
Average shot length
5. 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
Typecasting
Studio system
Release prints
Grain
6. A machine used to create optical effects such as fades - dissolves - and superimpositions. Most are now created digitally
Minor studios
Motivation
Turning point
Optical printer
7. The arrangement of actors on screen as a compositional element that suggests themes - character development - emotional content - and visual motifs
Figure placement and movement
Focus puller
Set-up
Medium close-up
8. 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
Subtext
Flashing
Low-key lighting
Flashforward
9. 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
Plot summary
Blocking
Iris out
Film stock
10. The chronological accounting of all events presented and suggested
Vertical integration
Digital cinema
Propaganda film
Fabula
11. The central cause(s) behind a character's actions
Negative
Motivation
Fog filter
B-roll
12. 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
Rotoscope
Slow
Vista Vision
Negative
13. A single take that contains an entire scene
First-person narration
Digital video
Promotion
Master shot
14. A term used for any narrative sound - or visual element not contained in the story world. Also called 'extradiegetic'
Spec script
Exposure latitude
Two-shot
Non-diegetic
15. The individual arrangement of lighting and camera placement used for each shot
Digital compositing
Set-up
Time-lapse photography
Crane shot
16. 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
Director
Compositing
Extreme wide-angle lens
Fabula
17. A style of stage acting developed from the teachings of Constantin Stanislavsky - which trains actors to get into character through the use of emotional memory
Method acting
Medium long shot
Integrated musical
Recursive action
18. 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
Loose framing
Trailer
Low-key lighting
Genre conventions
19. These filters bend the light coming into lens - softening and blurring the image
Extreme close-up
Diffusion filters
Cutaway
Chiaroscuro
20. A transparent sheet on which animation artists draw images.
Average shot length
Cel
Neutral-density filter
Average shot length
21. A person responsible for putting a film together from a mass of developed footage - making decisions regarding pace - shot transitions - and which scenes and shots will be used
Editor
City symphony
Major studios
Overexposure
22. The period after principal photography during which editing and looping take place - and special visual effects are added to the film
Normal lens
Outsourcing
Revisionist
Post-production
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
Orthochromatic
High concept film
Undercranking
Cel
24. Using computer graphics to 'build' structures connected to the actual architecture on set or location
Digital set extension
Slow motion
Match on action
Master shot
25. A standard shot pattern that dictates that a shot of one character will be followed by a shot of another character - taken from the reverse angle of the first shot
Shot/reverse shot
Color filter
Rack focus
Continuity error
26. Devices that attach to actors' faces and/or bodies to change their appearance
Go-motion
Prosthesis
Zoom in...
Cutaway
27. Secondary footage that is interspersed with master shots - sometimes in the form of footage shot for another production or archival footage
B-roll
Vista Vision
Star filter
Syuzhet
28. 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
Panning and scanning
Undercranking
Optical printer
Morphing
29. A style of Japanese animation - distinguished primarily by the fact that it is not all geared for young audiences
Formalist style
Two-shot
Take
Anime
30. 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
Digital set extension
Blockbuster
Hollywood Ten
Blue screen
31. A technique of overdeveloping exposed film stock (leaving it in the chemical bath longer than indicated) in order to increase density and contrast in the image
Figure placement and movement
Pushing
Pre-production
Telecine
32. A film's main characters - one whose conflicts and motives drive the story forward
Chiaroscuro
Trailer
Protagonist
Formalist style
33. 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
Iris out
Green screen
Scene
Tableau shot
34. An alternative to continuity editing - this style of editing was developed in silent Soviet cinema - based on the theory that editing should exploit the difference between shots to generate intellectual and emotional responses in the audience
Actualitas
Slow motion
Soviet montage
Best boy
35. A technician responsible for splicing and assembling the film negative to the editor's specifications
Revisionist
Negative cutter
Flashback
Pan
36. 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
Synthespian
Eyeline match
Anamorphic lens
Anime
37. The visual arrangement of objects - actors - and space within the frame
Composition
Deep focus cinematography
Soft light
Editor
38. A cinematography technique that produces an image with many planes of depth in focus. It can be accomplished by using a small aperture - a large distance between camera and subject - and/or a lens of short focal length
Sound bridge
Low-angle shot
Deep focus cinematography
Open-ended
39. A shot taken from a vantage point so close that only a part of the subject is visible. On an actor - it might show only an eye or a portion of the face
Interlaced scanning
Graphic match
Negative cutter
Extreme close-up
40. 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
Cutaway
Rotoscope
Match on action
Fade-out
41. A type of documentary film whose purpose is to present the way of life of a culture or subculture
Ethnographic film
Offscreen space
Computer-generated imagery (CGI)
Selective focus
42. A format that uses a larger film stock than standard 35mm. IMAX - Omnimax - and Showscan are shot on 70mm film
Cut
Wide film
Handheld shot
Computer-generated imagery (CGI)
43. The artful use of light and dark areas in the composition in black and white filmmaking
Kuleshov effect
Chiaroscuro
Tilt
Sound bridge
44. A platform on wheels - used for mobile camera shots
City symphony
Hybrid
Dolly
Editor
45. 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
High-key lighting
Extreme wide-angle lens
Interlaced scanning
Realist style
46. A film composed entirely of footage from other films.
Shot
Compilation film
Bleach bypass
Overexposure
47. A shot taken from a vantage point so close that only a part of the subject is visible. On an actor - it might show only an eye or a portion of the face
Jump cut
Overexposure
Reverse shot
Extreme close-up
48. A shot that appears during or near the end of a scene and reorients viewers to the setting
Scratching
Descriptive claim
Re-establishing shot
Apparatus Theory
49. Filters that increase color saturation and contrast in outdoor shots
Polarizing filters
Newsreel
Film stock
Product placement
50. A camera device that opens and closes to regulate the length of time the film is exposed to light
Wide-angle lens
Trailer
Shutter
Canted angle