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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. The written blueprint for a film - composed of three elements: dialogue - sluglines (setting the place and time of each scene) - and description. Feature-length screenplays typically run 90-130 pages
Double exposure
Negative
Prosthesis
Screenplay
2. A shot that contains two characters within the frame
Master positive
Desaturated
Two-shot
Masking
3. A non-standard narrative organization that assumes 'day in the life' quality rather than the highly structured three-act or four part narrative - and that features loose or indirect cause-effect relationships
Promotion
Assistant Editor
Episodic
Dissolve
4. An early color process that replaced silver halide grains with colored salts
Close-up
Character actor
Toning
Episodic
5. A visual effect achieved through the use of photography and digital techniques that appears to stop time and allow the viewer to travel around the subject and view it from a multitude of vantage points
Deep focus cinematography
Four-part structure
Negative
Frozen time moment
6. Lighting design that provides an even illumination of the subject - with many facial details washed out. High-key lighting tends to create a hopeful mood - in contrast to low-key lighting
Apparatus Theory
High-key lighting
Bleach bypass
Saturation
7. A technique of depicting two layered images simultaneously. Images from one frame or several frames of film are added to pre-existing images - using an optical printer - to produce the same effect as a double exposure
Composition in depth
Superimposition
Extra
Low-key lighting
8. An early color process - involving bathing lengths of processed film in dye one scene at a time
Tinting
Apparatus Theory
Character actor
Flashback
9. The distance that appears in focus in front of and behind the subject. It is determined by the aperture - distance and focal length of lens
Block booking
Depth of field
Voice-over
Zoom out
10. The horizontal turning movement of an otherwise immobile camera across a scene from left to right or vice versa
Aerial Shot
Prosthesis
Pan
Realist style
11. A short screen appearance by a celebrity - playing himself or herself
Composition
Sound bridge
Cameo
Cutaway
12. Muted - washed out color that contains more white than a saturated color
Desaturated
Establishing shot
Crab dolly
Tilt
13. Live action is filmed in front of a blue screen and a matte. It's then joined with the background footage
Direct cinema
Frame narration
Blue screen
Promotion
14. A visual effect achieved through the use of photography and digital techniques that appears to stop time and allow the viewer to travel around the subject and view it from a multitude of vantage points
Neutral-density filter
Mockumentary
Frozen time moment
Available light
15. A filter that creates points of light that streak outward from a light source
180-degree rule
Available light
Star filter
Brechtian distanciation
16. 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
Flashback
Negative
Master shot
Production values
17. The non-chronological insertion of scenes of events yet to happen into the present day of the story world
Newsreel
Flashforward
Digital compositing
Soviet montage
18. Optical illusions created during post-production
Pre-production
High-angle shot
Visual effects
Anamorphic lens
19. A continuity editing technique that preserves spatial continuity by using a character's line of vision as motivation for a cut
Hybrid
Major studios
Eyeline match
Extra
20. A crew member responsible for logging the details of each take on the set so as to ensure continuity
Focal length
Color filter
Extra
Script supervisor
21. A technician responsible for splicing and assembling the film negative to the editor's specifications
Negative cutter
B-roll
Reverse shot
Hue
22. A technique of intentionally adding scratches in a film's emulsion layer for aesthetic purposes - such as to simulate home movie footage
Scratching
Genre conventions
Color consultant
Recursive action
23. The written blueprint for a film - composed of three elements: dialogue - sluglines (setting the place and time of each scene) - and description. Feature-length screenplays typically run 90-130 pages
Screenplay
Canted angle
Tinting
Cut
24. The period of time before principal photography during which actors are signed - sets and costumes designed - and locations scouted
Split screen
Pre-production
Promotion
Digital cinema
25. 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
Letterboxing
Genre
Double exposure
Handheld shot
26. A documentary or occasionally - a narrative film that presents only one side of an argument or one approach to a subject
Propaganda film
Diffusion filters
Superimposition
Plot summary
27. A narrative approach that limits the audience's view of events to that of the main character(s) in the film. Occasional moments of omniscient narration may give viewers more information than the character shave at specific points in the narrative
Genre
Restricted narration
Trombone shot
Running time
28. 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
Major studios
Protagonist
Fast
Outsourcing
29. A musical accompaniment written specifically for a film
Score
Screenplay
Mockumentary
Bleach bypass
30. A neutral account of the basic plot and style of a film - a part of a film - or a group of films
Oeuvre
Descriptive claim
Montage sequence
Shutter
31. A marketing strategy of screening a blockbuster prior to general release only in premier theaters
Deep focus cinematography
Roadshowing
Mockumentary
Morphing
32. A style of Japanese animation - distinguished primarily by the fact that it is not all geared for young audiences
City symphony
Extreme close-up
Emulsion
Anime
33. The details of a character's past that emerge as the film unfolds - and which often play a role in character motivation
Progressive scanning
Master shot
Backstory
Flashing
34. A technique of manipulating focus to direct the viewer's attention
Rear projection
Shot/reverse shot
Major studios
Selective focus
35. The film medium's technological apparatus is inherently ideological
Canted angle
Analog Video
Apparatus Theory
Mixing
36. A musical film in which each song and dance number is narratively motivated by a plot that situates characters in performance contexts
Figure placement and movement
Wipe
Cut
Backstage musical
37. An action film cycle of the late 1960s and early 1970s that featured bold - rebellious African American characters
Studio system
Pushing
Blaxploitation
Tinting
38. A term describing a conclusion that does not answer all the questions raised regarding characters or storylines - nor tie up all loose ends
Aerial Shot
Pre-production
Open-ended
Double exposure
39. A transparent sheet on which animation artists draw images.
Cel
Tableau shot
Blockbuster
Foley artist
40. 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
Forced development
Revisionist
Evaluative claim
Fade-out
41. 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
Narrative sequencing
Mixing
Runaway production
42. Thin - flexible material comprised of base and emulsion layers - onto which light rays are focused and which is processed in chemicals to produce film images
Take
Subgenre
Tinting
Film stock
43. A scene transition wherein sound from one scene bleeds over into the ext scene - often resulting in a contrast between sound image
30-degree rule
Denouement
Apparatus Theory
Sound bridge
44. 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
Blaxploitation
Video assist
Director
45. 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
Crab dolly
Digital video
Continuity editing
Vista Vision
46. Processes such as Cinemascope and Cinerama - developed during the 1950s to enhance film's size advantage over the smaller television image
Long take
Outsourcing
Widescreen
Apparatus Theory
47. A technique of running the motion picture camera at a speed slower than projection speed (24 frames per second) - in order to produce at a fast motion sequence when projected at normal speed. The term derives from early film cameras - which were cran
Saturation
Polarizing filters
B-roll
Undercranking
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
Filter
Overexposure
Studio system
Third-person narration
49. A device worn by a camera operator that holds the motion picture camera - allowing it glide smoothly through spaces unreachable by camera mounted on a crane or other apparatus
Interlaced scanning
Long take
Crab dolly
Steadicam
50. The non-chronological insertion of events from the past into the present day of the story world
Flashback
Star persona
Swish pan
Telecine