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Film Vocab
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1. A device attached to the film camera that records videotape of what has been filmed - allowing the director immediate access to video footage
Shot
Video assist
Rotoscope
Exposition
2. Creating images during post-production by joining together photographic or CGI material shot or created at different times and places
Normal lens
Extreme long-shot
Compositing
Medium shot
3. 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
Second unit
High concept film
Dailies
4. A camera device that opens and closes to regulate the length of time the film is exposed to light
Narrative sequencing
Emulsion
Toning
Shutter
5. A term for film stock used in early cinema that was insensitive to red hues
Overlapping dialogue
Orthochromatic
Double exposure
Steadicam
6. A shot that interrupts a scene's master shot and may include character reactions
Progressive scanning
Backstory
Desaturated
Insert
7. Devices that attach to actors' faces and/or bodies to change their appearance
Prosthesis
Standard shot pattern
Subtext
Best boy
8. Live action is filmed in front of a blue screen and a matte. It's then joined with the background footage
Natural-key lighting
Rear projection
Widescreen
Blue screen
9. An uncredited actor - usually hired for crowd scenes
Tableau shot
Extra
Pan
Formalist style
10. A technician responsible for splicing and assembling the film negative to the editor's specifications
Gauge
Line reading
Cut
Negative cutter
11. Because film stock is sensitive to the color of light - directors work with film labs in post-production to monitor the color scheme of each scene in a film - making adjustments for consistency and aesthetic effect
Color timing
Pushing
Narrative sequencing
Overlapping dialogue
12. A shot taken from a camera position above the subject - looking down at it
Loose framing
Pixel
High-angle shot
Integrated musical
13. 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
Slow motion
Superimposition
Continuity editor
Video assist
14. A glass element on a camera that focuses light rays so that the image of the object appears on the surface of the film
Lens
Analog Video
Widescreen
Low-angle shot
15. A machine used to create optical effects such as fades - dissolves - and superimpositions. Most are now created digitally
Iris out
Optical printer
Persistence of vision
Analog Video
16. The individual arrangement of lighting and camera placement used for each shot
Omniscient narration
Block booking
Narrative
Set-up
17. The camera does not move across an imagined line drawn between two characters
180-degree rule
Grain
Persistence of vision
Brechtian distanciation
18. A chemical coating on film stock containing light-sensitive grains
Dolly
Emulsion
Major studios
Filter
19. A process of transferring film to video tapes or DVDs so that the original aspect ratio of the film is preserved
Letterboxing
Montage sequence
Lens
Focal length
20. A widescreen process that uses three cameras - three projectors - and a wide - curved screen
Cinerama
Scene
Production values
Frozen time moment
21. Natural light; The process of suing sunlight rather than artificial studio lights when filming
Focus puller
Low-angle shot
Available light
Master positive
22. Individuals who were prevented from working in the film industry because of their suspected involvement with Communist interests
Hollywood Blacklist
Chiaroscuro
Charge coupler device
Evaluative claim
23. A machine that converts film prints to videotape format
Newsreel
Eye-level shot
Telecine
Pre-production
24. Any noticeable but unintended discrepancy from one shot to the next in costume - props - hairstyle - posture - etc.
Avant-garde film
ADR
Continuity error
Method acting
25. A lens with a variable focal length that allows changes of focal length while keeping the subject in focus
Zoom lens
Aerial Shot
Cut
Extra
26. A shot taken when the camera is so close to a subject that it fills the frame. It is most commonly used for a shot that isolates and encompasses a single actor's face - to emphasize the expression of emotion
Cut
Close-up
Crane shot
Assistant Editor
27. A shot transition that emphasizes the visual similarities between two consecutive shots
Graphic match
Interpretive claim
Negative cutter
Newsreel
28. An actor whose career rests on playing minor or secondary quirky characters rather than leading roles
Extreme close-up
Hard light
Character actor
Filter
29. A device attached to the film camera that records videotape of what has been filmed - allowing the director immediate access to video footage
Non-diegetic
Video assist
Digital set extension
Compositing
30. A term applied to film stock that is relatively insensitive to light. This stock will not yield acceptable images unless the amount of light can be carefully controlled
Exposure
Animation
Protagonist
Slow
31. A shot taken from a camera position below the subject
Low-angle shot
On-the-nose dialogue
Prosthesis
Forced perspective
32. 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
High concept film
Descriptive claim
Studio system
Slow
33. 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
Wide-angle lens
Academy Ratio
Dailies
Lightning mix
34. An attribute of newer television monitors - where each frame is scanned by the electron beam as a single field. If slowed down - each frame would appear on the monitor in its entirety on the screen - rather than line by line - as is the case with int
Animation
Saturation
Progressive scanning
Sound bridge
35. 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
German Expressionism
Go-motion
Pushing
Rack focus
36. A technique of exposing film frames - then rewinding the film and exposing it again - which results in an image that combines two shots in a single frame
Turning point
Double exposure
Eyeline match
Blocking
37. A genre film that radically modifies accepted genre conventions for dramatic effect
Available light
Revisionist
Wireframe
Horizontal integration
38. A shot transition that emphasizes the visual similarities between two consecutive shots
Average shot length
Avant-garde film
Antagonist
Graphic match
39. A technique of exposing film frames - then rewinding the film and exposing it again - which results in an image that combines two shots in a single frame
Syuzhet
Double exposure
Synthespian
Forced development
40. The horizontal turning movement of an otherwise immobile camera across a scene from left to right or vice versa
Available light
Go-motion
Ethnographic film
Pan
41. Non-diegetic; any element in the film that is not part of the imagined story world
Extradiegetic
Synthespian
Matte
Zoom in...
42. A musical accompaniment written specifically for a film
Parellel
Method acting
Score
Reframing
43. Processes such as Cinemascope and Cinerama - developed during the 1950s to enhance film's size advantage over the smaller television image
Studio system
Runaway production
Direct cinema
Widescreen
44. 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
Script supervisor
Negative
Motif
Diffusion filters
45. The non-chronological insertion of events from the past into the present day of the story world
Green screen
Flashback
Wide-angle lens
Motif
46. A technique of cutting back and forth between action occurring in two different locations - which often creates the illusion that they are happening simultaneously. Also called 'cross cutting.'
Diffusion filters
Narrative
Parellel editing
Color timing
47. A statement that asserts a judgment that a given film or group of films is good or bad - based on specific criteria - Which may or may not be stated
Tracking shot
Second unit
Fast
Evaluative claim
48. 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
Overexposure
Tableau shot
Sound bridge
Open-ended
49. A series of individual drawings that provides a blueprint for the shooting of a scene
Superimposition
Tinting
High-key lighting
Storyboard
50. 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
Hybrid
Polarizing filters
Computer-generated imagery (CGI)
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