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Film Vocab
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1. 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
Visual effects
Pan
On-the-nose dialogue
2. A short screen appearance by a celebrity - playing himself or herself
Gauge
Fast
Spec script
Cameo
3. A neutral account of the basic plot and style of a film - a part of a film - or a group of films
Master positive
Release prints
Descriptive claim
Trailer
4. A system initially developed for marketing films by creating and promoting stars as objects of admiration. The promotion of stars has now become an end in itself
Promotion
Parellel editing
Hard light
Star system
5. 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
Ethnographic film
Cutaway
Master positive
6. 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
Pushing
Star system
Figure placement and movement
Realist style
7. Dialogue that restates What is already obvious from images or action
On-the-nose dialogue
Desaturated
Pan
Travelling matte
8. Lighting design in which the greater intensity of the key light makes it impossible for the fill to eliminate shadows - producing a high-contrast image (with many grades of light and dark) - a number of shadows - and a somber mood
Low-key lighting
German Expressionism
Wide-angle lens
Blaxploitation
9. 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
Formalist style
Master shot
Storyboard
Wide-angle lens
10. A contemporary modification of the standard three-act structure that identifies a critical turning point at the halfway mark of most narrative films
Wipe
Panning and scanning
Extreme wide-angle lens
Four-part structure
11. An actor whose career rests on playing minor or secondary quirky characters rather than leading roles
Mockumentary
Character actor
Editor
Omniscient narration
12. A musical film in which each song and dance number is narratively motivated by a plot that situates characters in performance contexts
Fast
Natural-key lighting
Backstage musical
Typecasting
13. A shot combining two kinds of movement: the camera tracks in toward the subject wile the lens zooms out
Formalist style
Trombone shot
Hollywood Blacklist
Protagonist
14. A series of individual drawings that provides a blueprint for the shooting of a scene
Motivation
Direct sound
Mixing
Storyboard
15. 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
Four-part structure
Digital cinema
Voice-over
Pushing
16. A production term denoting a single uninterrupted series of frames exposed by a motion picture or video camera between the time it is turned on and the time it is turned off. Filmmakers shoot several takes of any scene and the film editor selects the
Wide film
Take
Soft light
Neutral-density filter
17. 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
Mixing
Average shot length
Color consultant
Evaluative claim
18. A film that fuses the conventions of two or more genres
Widescreen
Master positive
Syuzhet
Hybrid
19. The arrangement of actors on screen as a compositional element that suggests themes - character development - emotional content - and visual motifs
Digital set extension
Shot
Figure placement and movement
Widescreen
20. A flexible celluloid strip that - along with the emulsion layer - comprises 35mm film stock
Camera distance
Base
Re-establishing shot
Flashback
21. Fish-eye lens; With a focal length of 15mm or less - this lens presents an extremely distorted image - where objects in the center of the frame appear to bulge toward the camera
Extreme wide-angle lens
Scratching
Mockumentary
Shot/reverse shot
22. A sound editing technique that links several scenes through parallel and overlapping sounds. Each sound is associated with one scene - unlike a sound bridge - where a sound from one scene bleeds into that of another
Minor studios
Lightning mix
Speed
Compositing
23. A device used to manipulate the amount and/or color of light entering the lens
Prosthesis
Reverse shot
Continuity error
Filter
24. Suspended particles of silver in the film's emulsion - Which may become visible in the final image as dots
Tracking shot
Animation
Slow motion
Grain
25. The practice of Hollywood studios contracting out post-production work to individuals or firms outside the U.S.
Outsourcing
High-angle shot
Pre-production
Hard light
26. Secondary footage that is interspersed with master shots - sometimes in the form of footage shot for another production or archival footage
B-roll
Non-diegetic
Star filter
Composition in depth
27. The camera should move at least 30 degrees any time there is a cut within a scene
Panning and scanning
30-degree rule
Integrated musical
Exposure latitude
28. The period of time before principal photography during which actors are signed - sets and costumes designed - and locations scouted
Shooting script
Pre-production
Scratching
German Expressionism
29. (Automatic dialogue replacement) recording synchronized dialogue in post-production - cutting several identical lengths of developed film and having actors record the dialogue repeatedly
Selective focus
Panchromatic
Extreme wide-angle lens
ADR
30. A production term referring to coordinating actors' movements with lines of dialogue
Blocking
Pushing
Integrated musical
Freeze frame
31. 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
Persistence of vision
Line of action
Zoom in...
Camera distance
32. A camera shot taken at a large distance from the subject. Using the human body as the subject - a long shot captures the entire human form
Long shot
Video assist
Deep focus cinematography
Diegesis
33. 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
Second unit
Screenplay
Episodic
Day for night
34. A crew member who works in post-production in a specially equipped studio to create the sounds of the story world - such as the shuffling of shoes on various surfaces for footsteps
Foley artist
Runaway production
Natural-key lighting
Video assist
35. 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
Cut
Speed
Double exposure
Assistant Editor
36. A film style that emerged in the 1910s in Germany. It was heavily indebted to the Expressionist art movement of the time and influenced subsequent horror films and film noir
Score
Block booking
Special visual effects
German Expressionism
37. Also called 'full screen -' the technique of re-shooting a widescreen film in order to convert it to the original television aspect ration of 1.33 to 1. Rather than reproduce the original aspect ratio - as a letterboxed version does - a panned and sc
Backstory
Director
Panning and scanning
Star system
38. An abrupt shot transition that occurs when Shot A is instantaneously replaced by Shot B.
Loose framing
Star persona
Prosthesis
Cut
39. 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
Cameo
Hollywood Ten
180-degree rule
Backstory
40. 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
Overexposure
High-angle shot
Green screen
Saturation
41. 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
Three-act structure
Episodic
Brechtian distanciation
42. An uncredited actor - usually hired for crowd scenes
Extra
Wireframe
Set-up
Flashback
43. 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
Promotion
Academy Ratio
Cutaway
Insert
44. Drawing attention to the process of representation (including narrative and characterization) to break the theatrical illusion and elicit a distanced - intellectual response in the audience
Composition
Digital compositing
Brechtian distanciation
Special visual effects
45. A chemical coating on film stock containing light-sensitive grains
Iris out
Insert
Emulsion
Dailies
46. An early color process - involving bathing lengths of processed film in dye one scene at a time
Trailer
Progressive scanning
Zoom lens
Tinting
47. A film composed entirely of footage from other films.
Compilation film
Fabula
Motif
Score
48. A term for film stock used in early cinema that was insensitive to red hues
Pixilation
Focal length
Orthochromatic
Tableau shot
49. A short documentary on current events - show in movie theaters along with cartoons and feature films beginning in the 1930s
Propaganda film
Newsreel
Text
Wide film
50. An optical technique that divides the screen into two or more frames
Telephoto lens
Pan
Filter
Split screen
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