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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 device used to manipulate the amount and/or color of light entering the lens
Bleach bypass
Long take
Depth of field
Filter
2. Creating an image by combining several elements created separately using computer graphics rather than photographic means
Extreme close-up
Digital compositing
Tight framing
Aspect Ratio
3. The narrative path of the main or supporting characters - also called a plotline. Complex films may have several lines of action
Screenplay
Line of action
Overhead shot
Hard light
4. The arrangement of actors on screen as a compositional element that suggests themes - character development - emotional content - and visual motifs
Camera distance
Figure placement and movement
Character actor
Horizontal integration
5. A short documentary on current events - show in movie theaters along with cartoons and feature films beginning in the 1930s
Turning point
Vertical integration
Slow motion
Newsreel
6. A widescreen process that uses three cameras - three projectors - and a wide - curved screen
Motif
Out-take
Interpretive claim
Cinerama
7. 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
Anamorphic lens
Cameo
Composition
Rear projection
8. The non-chronological insertion of scenes of events yet to happen into the present day of the story world
Flashforward
Color timing
City symphony
Motivation
9. 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
Special visual effects
Third-person narration
Depth of field
Recursive action
10. 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
High concept film
Sound bridge
Exposure latitude
City symphony
11. The practice of shooting during the day but using filters and underexposure to create the illusion of nighttime
Vista Vision
Day for night
Camera distance
Brechtian distanciation
12. A musical in which some or all musical numbers are not motivated by the narrative; for example - characters sing and dance throughout the film but at least some performances are not staged for an onscreen audience. Examples include Oklahoma - The umb
Integrated musical
Analog Video
Master positive
Aperture
13. The artful use of light and dark areas in the composition in black and white filmmaking
Flashback
High-angle shot
Undercranking
Chiaroscuro
14. 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.
Protagonist
Pan
Motif
Glass shot
15. A consistent style - theme - and subject matter developed over the course of a director's body of work
Oeuvre
Motif
Outsourcing
Negative cutter
16. An optical technique that divides the screen into two or more frames
Split screen
Aspect Ratio
Spec script
Descriptive claim
17. 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
Horizontal integration
Split screen
Analog Video
Crane shot
18. A small - variable opening on a camera lens that regulates the amount of light entering the camera and striking the surface of the film
Aperture
Revisionist
Extreme long-shot
Dissolve
19. A marketing strategy of screening a blockbuster prior to general release only in premier theaters
Camera distance
German Expressionism
Direct cinema
Roadshowing
20. Individuals who were prevented from working in the film industry because of their suspected involvement with Communist interests
Soviet montage
Hollywood Blacklist
Interpretive claim
Fast
21. A shot combining two kinds of movement: the camera tracks in toward the subject wile the lens zooms out
Trombone shot
Computer-generated imagery (CGI)
Horizontal integration
Spec script
22. An uncredited actor - usually hired for crowd scenes
Digital cinema
Extra
Medium shot
Revisionist
23. Optical illusions created during production - including the use of matte paintings - glass shots - models - and prosthesis
Matte
Special visual effects
Overlapping dialogue
Shooting script
24. 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
Parellel editing
Studio system
Crab dolly
Split screen
25. 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
Day for night
Morphing
Continuity editor
Base
26. A production crew responsible not for shooting the primary footage but - instead - for remote location shooting and B-roll. See also B-roll
Gaffer
Score
Film stock
Second unit
27. Prefogging; a cinematographic technique that exposes raw film stock to light before - during - or after shooting - resulting in an image with reduced contrast. This effect can also be created using digital post-production techniques
Continuity error
Flashing
Cinerama
Offscreen space
28. A consistent style - theme - and subject matter developed over the course of a director's body of work
Actualitas
Oeuvre
Orthochromatic
Dye coupler
29. 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
Take
Runaway production
Production values
Exposure latitude
30. A shot in a sequence that is taken from the reverse angle of the shot previous to it
Telephoto lens
Persistence of vision
High concept film
Reverse shot
31. A technique in which the audience temporarily shares the visual perspective of a character or a group of characters. The camera points in the directions the character looks - simulating the character's field of vision
Soundtrack
Tracking shot
Point-of-view shot
Overlapping dialogue
32. Dense accumulation of detail conveyed in the opening moments of a film
Exposition
180-degree rule
Split screen
Best boy
33. A similarity established between two characters or situations that invites the audience to compare the two. It may involve visual - narrative - and/or sound elements
Running time
Parellel
Cutaway
Best boy
34. A character who in some way opposes the protagonist - leading to protracted conflict
Syuzhet
Aspect Ratio
Antagonist
Soundtrack
35. 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
Steadicam
Hollywood Ten
Extreme wide-angle lens
Continuity editing
36. A scene transition in which the first frame of the incoming scene appears to push the last frame of the previous scene off the screen horizontally
Wipe
Go-motion
Frozen time moment
Front projection
37. 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.
Digital video
Average shot length
Flashforward
Motif
38. An early color process that replaced silver halide grains with colored salts
Toning
Wipe
Overhead shot
Analog Video
39. 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
Time-lapse photography
Eye-level shot
Descriptive claim
Scene
40. A shot filmed from an airplane or helicopter
Aspect Ratio
Aerial Shot
Front projection
Dailies
41. The non-chronological insertion of events from the past into the present day of the story world
Overexposure
Masking
Flashback
Trombone shot
42. A film's main characters - one whose conflicts and motives drive the story forward
Blue screen
Protagonist
Set-up
Motif
43. A videotape system that records images onto magnetic tape - using electronic signals
German Expressionism
Phi phenomenon
Analog Video
Out-take
44. A machine that converts film prints to videotape format
Telecine
Aspect Ratio
Video assist
Foley artist
45. Individuals who were prevented from working in the film industry because of their suspected involvement with Communist interests
Apparatus Theory
Green screen
Trombone shot
Hollywood Blacklist
46. A term for film stock used in early cinema that was insensitive to red hues
Screenplay
Grain
Superimposition
Orthochromatic
47. A filter that simply reduces the amount of light entering the lens - without affecting the color characteristics
Neutral-density filter
Undercranking
Frame narration
Pulling
48. 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
Product placement
Overhead shot
Master shot
Fog filter
49. The film medium's technological apparatus is inherently ideological
Sound bridge
Flashing
Apparatus Theory
Travelling matte
50. The details of a character's past that emerge as the film unfolds - and which often play a role in character motivation
Day for night
Focus puller
Panchromatic
Backstory