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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 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
Shot
Phi phenomenon
Green screen
2. 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
Forced perspective
Line of action
Tracking shot
180-degree rule
3. A widescreen process that uses three cameras - three projectors - and a wide - curved screen
Blockbuster
Cinerama
Extreme close-up
Parellel
4. 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
Star persona
Cutaway
Director
30-degree rule
5. Early films that documented everyday events - such as workers leaving a factory
Script supervisor
Actualitas
High concept film
Point-of-view shot
6. The shape of the image onscreen as determined by the width of the frame relative to its height
Composition
Aspect Ratio
Fabula
Director
7. 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
Match on action
Continuity editor
Script supervisor
Fade-out
8. A shot taken from a camera mounted on a crane that moves three-dimensionally in a space
Crane shot
Steadicam
Mixing
Actualitas
9. A shot in a sequence that is taken from the reverse angle of the shot previous to it
Desaturated
Interlaced scanning
Compilation film
Reverse shot
10. The horizontal turning movement of an otherwise immobile camera across a scene from left to right or vice versa
Pan
Spec script
Restricted narration
Aerial Shot
11. 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
Animation
Realist style
Negative
Episodic
12. An effect created when more light is required to produce an image strakes the film stock - so that the resulting image exhibits high contrast - glaring light - and washed out shadows. This effect ma or may not be intentional on the filmmaker's part
Diegesis
Continuity editing
Overexposure
Direct sound
13. A film composed entirely of footage from other films.
Compilation film
Visual effects
Product placement
Blocking
14. A technique of shooting a scene at a very high speed (96 frames per second) - then adding and subtracting frames in post-production - 'fanning out' the action through the overlapping images
Focal length
Overhead shot
Dye coupler
Recursive action
15. The plotline that surrounds an embedded tale. The frame narration may or may not be as fully developed as the embedded tale
Frame narration
Selective focus
Continuity error
Post-production
16. 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
Fast motion
Master shot
Negative
Subtext
17. The individual arrangement of lighting and camera placement used for each shot
Set-up
Forced development
Available light
Reframing
18. A computer-generated actor that some speculate will replace flesh and blood actors in the not so distant future
Eye-level shot
Focus puller
Synthespian
Telephoto lens
19. Projecting a series of frames of film with the same image - which appears to stop the action
Shutter
Long take
Freeze frame
Film stock
20. Materials intentionally released by studios to attract public attention to films and their stars. Promotion differs from publicity - which is information that is not (or does not appear to be) intentionally disseminated by studios
Parellel
Persistence of vision
Promotion
Bleach bypass
21. A shot combining two kinds of movement: the camera tracks in toward the subject wile the lens zooms out
Trombone shot
High-angle shot
Blockbuster
Flashback
22. The first shot in a standard shot sequence. Its purpose is to provide a clear representation of the location of the action
Academy Ratio
Insert
Production values
Establishing shot
23. Images that originate from computer graphics technology - rather than photography
Intertextual reference
Masking
Computer-generated imagery (CGI)
Camera distance
24. 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
Trailer
Vertical integration
Post-production
Scratching
25. Cinema verite; a documentary style in which the filmmaker attempts to remain as unobtrusive as possible - recording without obvious editorial comment
Hard light
Animation
Academy Ratio
Direct cinema
26. 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
Pushing
Crab dolly
Glass shot
Star system
27. 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
Scene
Extreme long-shot
Tinting
Anamorphic lens
28. The details of a character's past that emerge as the film unfolds - and which often play a role in character motivation
Four-part structure
Re-establishing shot
Backstory
Underexposure
29. A shot taken fro a position directly above the action - also called a 'birds' eye shot'
Overhead shot
Spec script
Turning point
Rack focus
30. A short documentary on current events - show in movie theaters along with cartoons and feature films beginning in the 1930s
Newsreel
Flashback
Match on action
Genre
31. A term for film stock used in early cinema that was insensitive to red hues
Establishing shot
Focus puller
Promotion
Orthochromatic
32. The classical model of narrative form. The first act introduces characters and conflicts; the second act offers complication leading to a climax; the third act contains the danouement and resolution
High concept film
Three-act structure
Exposure
Handheld shot
33. A term that refers to the organization of an industry wherein one type of corporation also owns corporations in allied industries - for example - film production and video games
Superimposition
Exposition
Horizontal integration
Cel
34. A part of the story world implied by visual or sound techniques rather than being revealed by the camera
Continuity editor
Editor
Protagonist
Offscreen space
35. A small - variable opening on a camera lens that regulates the amount of light entering the camera and striking the surface of the film
City symphony
Shot/reverse shot
Aperture
Restricted narration
36. 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
Line of action
Non-diegetic
Continuity error
Subgenre
37. A crew member responsible for logging the details of each take on the set so as to ensure continuity
Actualitas
Offscreen space
Script supervisor
Soft light
38. Dense accumulation of detail conveyed in the opening moments of a film
Crane shot
Blockbuster
Exposition
Plot summary
39. 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
Soundtrack
Hard light
Parellel editing
Method acting
40. Louis Althusser's term for the way in which a society creates its subjects/citizens through ideological (as opposed to repressive) state apparatuses - which include education - media - religion - and the family
Trombone shot
Production values
Subtext
Interpellation
41. A visual effect created when the subject in the frame is restricted by the objects or the physical properties of the set
Overexposure
Pushing
Tight framing
Flashforward
42. A film's main characters - one whose conflicts and motives drive the story forward
Protagonist
Product placement
Wide-angle lens
Minor studios
43. The average length in seconds of a series of shots - covering a portion of a film or an entire film; a measure of pace within a scene or in the film as a whole.
Chiaroscuro
Trailer
Average shot length
Panning and scanning
44. 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
Horizontal integration
Promotion
Re-establishing shot
45. 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
Montage sequence
Continuity error
Exposure latitude
Running time
46. The visual arrangement of objects - actors - and space within the frame
Standard shot pattern
Composition
Protagonist
Rotoscope
47. Creating an image by combining several elements created separately using computer graphics rather than photographic means
Digital compositing
Panchromatic
Backstory
Fade-out
48. A machine used to create optical effects such as fades - dissolves - and superimpositions. Most are now created digitally
Optical printer
Post-production
Major studios
Motif
49. A lens with a shorter focal length than a normal or telephoto lens (usually between 15-35mm). The subject appears smaller as a result - but the angle of vision is wider and an illusion is created of greater depth in the frame
Mockumentary
Protagonist
Wide-angle lens
Interpretive claim
50. Optical illusions created during post-production
Undercranking
Visual effects
B-roll
Omniscient narration