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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 filter that simply reduces the amount of light entering the lens - without affecting the color characteristics
Neutral-density filter
Subtext
Wide-angle lens
Vista Vision
2. A narrative - visual - or sound element that refers viewers to other films or works of art
Genre
Intertextual reference
Minor studios
Outsourcing
3. A pan executed so quickly that it produces a blurred image - indicated rapid activity or - sometimes - the passage of time
Academy Ratio
City symphony
Swish pan
Star system
4. The space between the camera and subject it is filming.
Flashforward
Camera distance
Protagonist
Rack focus
5. A statement that presents an argument about a film's meaning and significance
Interpretive claim
Video assist
Compositing
Undercranking
6. 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
Continuity error
Pixel
Eye-level shot
Shooting script
7. A screenplay written and submitted to a studio or production company without a prior contract or agreement
Base
Compilation film
Subgenre
Spec script
8. A short documentary on current events - show in movie theaters along with cartoons and feature films beginning in the 1930s
Newsreel
Actualitas
Anime
Director
9. The way an actor delivers a line of dialogue - including pauses - inflection - and emotion
Line reading
Scene
Special visual effects
Dissolve
10. A device used to manipulate the amount and/or color of light entering the lens
Saturation
Blocking
Iris in...
Filter
11. 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
Low-angle shot
Exposure
Wide film
12. A technique of recording very few images over a long period of time - say - one frame per minute or per day
Time-lapse photography
Aperture
Montage sequence
Iris out
13. A shot transition where shot A slowly disappears as the screen becomes black before shot B appears. A fade-in is the reverse of this process
Kuleshov effect
Digital cinema
Pre-production
Fade-out
14. 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
Script supervisor
Restricted narration
Backstage musical
15. A platform on wheels - used for mobile camera shots
Zoom in...
Blockbuster
Zoom in...
Dolly
16. A series of individual drawings that provides a blueprint for the shooting of a scene
Freeze frame
Tracking shot
Digital set extension
Storyboard
17. Secondary footage that is interspersed with master shots - sometimes in the form of footage shot for another production or archival footage
B-roll
Studio system
Zoom out
Shot/reverse shot
18. A musical film in which each song and dance number is narratively motivated by a plot that situates characters in performance contexts
Establishing shot
Two-shot
Backstage musical
Tracking shot
19. The aspect ratio of 1.33:1 - standardized by the Academy of Motion Picture Art and Sciences until the development of widescreen formats in the 1950s
Episodic
Studio system
Animation
Academy Ratio
20. A technique of moving from the telephoto position to the wide-angle position of a zoom lens - which results in the subject appearing to become smaller within the frame - while remaining in focus
Shot
Emulsion
Zoom out
Gauge
21. A large-budget film whose strategy is to swamp the competition through market saturation
Filter
Blockbuster
Cel
Avant-garde film
22. 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
Storyboard
Recursive action
Double exposure
Negative
23. The practice or repeatedly casting actors in similar roles across different films
Script supervisor
Syuzhet
Auteur
Typecasting
24. The measure of intensity or purity of a color. Saturated color is purer than desaturated color - which has more white in it and thus offers a washed-out - less intense version of a color
Saturation
Eyeline match
Direct cinema
Omniscient narration
25. 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
Soviet montage
Phi phenomenon
Integrated musical
30-degree rule
26. The rules of character - setting - and narrative that films that belong to a genre - such as Westerns - horror films - and screwball comedies - generally obey.
Cutaway
Genre conventions
Backstage musical
Shooting script
27. The practice of Hollywood studios contracting out post-production work to individuals or firms outside the U.S.
Base
Outsourcing
Genre
Method acting
28. A character who in some way opposes the protagonist - leading to protracted conflict
Eye-level shot
Antagonist
First-person narration
Graphic match
29. A documentary or occasionally - a narrative film that presents only one side of an argument or one approach to a subject
Method acting
Superimposition
Roadshowing
Propaganda film
30. A flexible celluloid strip that - along with the emulsion layer - comprises 35mm film stock
Hybrid
Forced development
Base
Superimposition
31. The narrative path of the main or supporting characters - also called a plotline. Complex films may have several lines of action
Line of action
First-person narration
Descriptive claim
Dye coupler
32. The non-chronological insertion of events from the past into the present day of the story world
Actualitas
Two-shot
Flashback
Star system
33. A technique of leaving empty space around the subject in the frame - in order to covey openness and continuity of visible space and to imply offscreen space
Mockumentary
Descriptive claim
Phi phenomenon
Loose framing
34. Processes such as Cinemascope and Cinerama - developed during the 1950s to enhance film's size advantage over the smaller television image
Widescreen
Cutaway
Pixel
Diffusion filters
35. A technique of manipulating focus to direct the viewer's attention
Wipe
Selective focus
Insert
Star system
36. Filters that increase color saturation and contrast in outdoor shots
Blaxploitation
Emulsion
Loose framing
Polarizing filters
37. A shot that depicts a human body from the feet up
Vista Vision
Tableau shot
Medium long shot
Visual effects
38. A filter that simply reduces the amount of light entering the lens - without affecting the color characteristics
Tight framing
Compilation film
Protagonist
Neutral-density filter
39. 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
Montage sequence
Film stock
Backstage musical
Product placement
40. 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
Star system
Soundtrack
City symphony
Handheld shot
41. A type of short film that blends elements of documentary and avant-garde film to document and often to celebrate the wonder of the modern city
Formalist style
Gaffer
City symphony
Shot transition
42. An outlawed studio era practice - where studios forced exhibitors to book groups of films at once - thus ensuring a market for their failures along with their successes
Color consultant
Continuity error
Dailies
Block booking
43. A production crew responsible not for shooting the primary footage but - instead - for remote location shooting and B-roll. See also B-roll
Method acting
Subgenre
Second unit
Non-diegetic
44. 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
Shot
Eyeline match
Underexposure
Slow motion
45. Assists the editor with various tasks - including taking footage to the lab - checking the condition of the negative - cataloguing footage - and supervising optical effects - often produced by an outside company
Assistant Editor
Focal length
Digital cinema
Digital cinema
46. The measure of intensity or purity of a color. Saturated color is purer than desaturated color - which has more white in it and thus offers a washed-out - less intense version of a color
Propaganda film
Saturation
Eye-level shot
Exposure
47. 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.
Parellel
Non-diegetic
Phi phenomenon
Average shot length
48. An efficient system developed for film lighting. In a standard lighting set-up - the key light illuminates the subject - the fill light eliminates shadows cast by the key light - and the back light separates the subject from the background
Aperture
Superimposition
Zoom out
Three-point lighting
49. A type of filter that absorbs certain wavelength but leave others unaffected. On black and white film - color filters lighten or darken tones. On color film - they can produce a range of effects
Best boy
Scene
Denouement
Color filter
50. 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
Progressive scanning
Fog filter
Overhead shot
Flashing