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Film Vocab
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1. The five vertically integrated corporations that exerted the greatest control over film production in the studio era: MGM - Warner Brothers - RKO - Twentieth Century Fox - and Paramount
Horizontal integration
Wide film
Major studios
Newsreel
2. An optical effect whereby the eye continues to register a visual stimulus in the brain for a brief period after that stimulus has been removed
Lens
Persistence of vision
Four-part structure
Brechtian distanciation
3. An abrupt - inexplicable shift in time and place of an action not signaled by an appropriate shot transition
Compilation film
Third-person narration
Analog Video
Jump cut
4. A technique of filming at a speed faster than projection - the projecting the footage at normal speed of 24 frames per second. Because fewer frames were recorded per second - the action appears to be speeded up
Actualitas
Four-part structure
Pulling
Slow motion
5. A visual effect created when the subject in the frame is restricted by the objects or the physical properties of the set
Color consultant
Tight framing
Hollywood Ten
Compositing
6. Experimental film; Underground cinema;
Prosthesis
Turning point
Avant-garde film
Line of action
7. A shot filmed from an airplane or helicopter
Undercranking
Auteur
Aerial Shot
Pre-production
8. A technique used to join live action with pre-recorded background images. A projector is aimed at a half-silvered mirror that reflects the background - which the camera records as being located behind the actors
Front projection
Undercranking
Product placement
Master shot
9. A picture element - a measure of image density. There are approximately 18 million pixels in a frame of 35mm film and 300000-400000 in a video image
Grain
Episodic
Pixel
Cinerama
10. The film medium's technological apparatus is inherently ideological
Major studios
Backstory
Iris out
Apparatus Theory
11. Non-diegetic; any element in the film that is not part of the imagined story world
Direct cinema
Vista Vision
Slow motion
Extradiegetic
12. A relatively long - uninterrupted sot - generally of a minute or more
Long take
Forced development
Crane shot
Letterboxing
13. A screenplay written and submitted to a studio or production company without a prior contract or agreement
Grain
Matte painting
Storyboard
Spec script
14. A flexible celluloid strip that - along with the emulsion layer - comprises 35mm film stock
Base
Chiaroscuro
Major studios
Ethnographic film
15. A large-budget film whose strategy is to swamp the competition through market saturation
Orthochromatic
Crane shot
Classical style
Blockbuster
16. An unstated meaning that underlies and is implied by spoken dialogue
Subtext
Flashforward
Direct sound
Soundtrack
17. 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
Double exposure
Deep focus cinematography
Recursive action
Composition
18. The imagined world of the story
Star system
Diegesis
Telecine
Mixing
19. A long shot in which the film frame resembles the proscenium arch of the stage - distancing the audience
Apparatus Theory
Continuity editing
Minor studios
Tableau shot
20. An effect created when too little light strikes the film during shooting. As a result the image will contain dark areas that appear very dense and dark (including shadows) and the overall contrast will be less than with a properly exposed image
Underexposure
Soundtrack
Realist style
Grain
21. Also called 'd-cinema.' Not to be confused with digital cinematography (shooting movies on digital video) - this term refers to using digital technologies for exhibition
Omniscient narration
Digital cinema
Best boy
Overhead shot
22. Dialogue that restates What is already obvious from images or action
Base
Lightning mix
On-the-nose dialogue
Color timing
23. A large-budget film whose strategy is to swamp the competition through market saturation
Minor studios
Exposition
Vista Vision
Blockbuster
24. The shape of the image onscreen as determined by the width of the frame relative to its height
Long take
Aspect Ratio
Three-point lighting
Star persona
25. A crew member whose job is to maintain consistency in visual details from one shot to the next
Dye coupler
Continuity editor
Fade-out
Script supervisor
26. A narrative moment that signals an important shift of some kind in character or situation
Available light
Studio system
Intertextual reference
Turning point
27. An uncredited actor - usually hired for crowd scenes
Fast motion
Loose framing
Extra
Pushing
28. Live action is filmed in front of a blue screen and a matte. It's then joined with the background footage
Dye coupler
Close-up
Blue screen
Hybrid
29. 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
Telecine
Running time
Hybrid
Telephoto lens
30. A shot taken from a camera mounted on a crane that moves three-dimensionally in a space
Average shot length
Match on action
Descriptive claim
Crane shot
31. A mental phenomenon by which viewers derive more meaning from the interaction of two sequential shots than from a single shot in isolation
Go-motion
Double exposure
Actualitas
Kuleshov effect
32. Creating images during post-production by joining together photographic or CGI material shot or created at different times and places
On-the-nose dialogue
Double exposure
Compositing
Voice-over
33. A relatively long - uninterrupted sot - generally of a minute or more
Fade-out
Recursive action
Long take
Long shot
34. A contemporary modification of the standard three-act structure that identifies a critical turning point at the halfway mark of most narrative films
Telecine
Lightning mix
Soviet montage
Four-part structure
35. The practice of shooting during the day but using filters and underexposure to create the illusion of nighttime
Horizontal integration
Continuity error
Day for night
Exposition
36. The practice of Hollywood studios contracting out post-production work to individuals or firms outside the U.S.
Hue
Outsourcing
Descriptive claim
Extra
37. Assists the gaffer in managing lighting crews
Re-establishing shot
Gaffer
Deep focus cinematography
Best boy
38. A shot that includes a human figure from the shoulders up
Aspect Ratio
Flashforward
Voice-over
Medium close-up
39. Film productions shot outside the U.S. for economic reasons
Runaway production
Jump cut
Assistant Editor
Desaturated
40. 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
Orthochromatic
Syuzhet
Parellel
Glass shot
41. A film process that uses 35mm film stock but changes the orientation of the film so that the film moves through the camera horizontally instead of vertically. The larger image is of higher quality than standard 35mm processes
Reverse shot
Film stock
Front projection
Vista Vision
42. A technique of recording very few images over a long period of time - say - one frame per minute or per day
Non-diegetic
Match on action
Tracking shot
Time-lapse photography
43. Public identity created by marketing a film actor's performances - press coverage - and 'personal' information to fans as the star's personality
Star persona
Descriptive claim
Negative cutter
Color consultant
44. A digital technique developed by Industrial Light and Magic - which builds movement sequences from single frames of film
Soundtrack
Montage sequence
Spec script
Go-motion
45. A term for film stock used in early cinema that was insensitive to red hues
Parellel
Undercranking
Orthochromatic
Master positive
46. A camera device that opens and closes to regulate the length of time the film is exposed to light
Promotion
Shutter
Revisionist
Slow
47. An early color process - involving bathing lengths of processed film in dye one scene at a time
First-person narration
Insert
Soft light
Tinting
48. Light striking the emulsion layer of the film - activating light-sensitive grains
Matte
Set-up
Exposure
Low-angle shot
49. 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
Compositing
Shot/reverse shot
B-roll
50. A visual effect created when the subject in the frame is restricted by the objects or the physical properties of the set
Tight framing
30-degree rule
Avant-garde film
Negative