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Film Vocab
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1. A style of Japanese animation - distinguished primarily by the fact that it is not all geared for young audiences
Anime
Three-act structure
Color filter
High-angle shot
2. The arrangement of images to depict a unified storyline
Persistence of vision
Academy Ratio
Slow
Narrative sequencing
3. Optical illusions created during production - including the use of matte paintings - glass shots - models - and prosthesis
Script supervisor
Chiaroscuro
Fast
Special visual effects
4. Dialogue that restates What is already obvious from images or action
Average shot length
Blocking
Negative
On-the-nose dialogue
5. A complete narrative unit within a film - with its own beginning - middle - and end. Often scenes are unified - and distinguished from one another - by time and setting
Progressive scanning
Backstory
Scene
Gaffer
6. 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
Backstage musical
Trombone shot
Long shot
Matte
7. 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
Dye coupler
Classical style
Fast motion
Open-ended
8. 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
Normal lens
Set-up
Long take
Pixel
9. A small - variable opening on a camera lens that regulates the amount of light entering the camera and striking the surface of the film
Composition in depth
Production values
Selective focus
Aperture
10. 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
Point-of-view shot
Film stock
Color timing
Gauge
11. Film productions shot outside the U.S. for economic reasons
Runaway production
Low-angle shot
Filter
Long shot
12. Dense accumulation of detail conveyed in the opening moments of a film
Interpellation
Vista Vision
Exposition
Descriptive claim
13. A computer-generated actor that some speculate will replace flesh and blood actors in the not so distant future
Morphing
Front projection
Pan
Synthespian
14. 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
Three-act structure
Product placement
Revisionist
Progressive scanning
15. 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
Crab dolly
Hue
German Expressionism
Underexposure
16. An animation technique that uses a computer program to interpolate frames to produce the effect of an object or creature changing gradually into something different. The program calculates the way the image must change in order for the first image to
Shot
Morphing
Extreme long-shot
Flashing
17. A film style that - in contrast to the classical and formalist styles - focuses characters - place - and the spontaneity and digressiveness of life - rather than on highly structured stories or aesthetic abstraction
Extreme close-up
Cel
Realist style
Director
18. Louis Althusser's term for the way in which a society creates its subjects/citizens through ideological (as opposed to repressive) state apparatuses - which include education - media - religion - and the family
Handheld shot
Academy Ratio
Interpellation
Reverse shot
19. A form of shot transition - generally concluding a scene - where a circular mask constricts around the image until the entire frame is black
Iris in...
Evaluative claim
Negative
Open-ended
20. The falling or unraveling action after the climax of a narrative that leads to resolution
Denouement
Kuleshov effect
Lightning mix
Low-angle shot
21. The period after principal photography during which editing and looping take place - and special visual effects are added to the film
Promotion
Superimposition
Post-production
Two-shot
22. An abrupt - inexplicable shift in time and place of an action not signaled by an appropriate shot transition
First-person narration
Negative
Jump cut
Flashforward
23. The chronological accounting of all events presented and suggested
Fabula
Apparatus Theory
Bleach bypass
Outsourcing
24. The classical model of narrative form. The first act introduces characters and conflicts; the second act offers complication leading to a climax; the third act contains the danouement and resolution
Three-act structure
Revisionist
Line of action
Apparatus Theory
25. 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
Kuleshov effect
Overlapping dialogue
Academy Ratio
Protagonist
26. A form of shot transition - generally concluding a scene - where a circular mask constricts around the image until the entire frame is black
Three-act structure
Diegesis
Apparatus Theory
Iris in...
27. An action film cycle of the late 1960s and early 1970s that featured bold - rebellious African American characters
Masking
30-degree rule
Hybrid
Blaxploitation
28. An alternative to classical and realist styles - formalism is a self-consciously interventionist approach that explores ideas - abstraction - and aesthetics rather than focusing on storytelling (as in classical films) or everyday life (as in realist
Formalist style
Turning point
Natural-key lighting
Zoom out
29. Invisible editing; a system devised to minimize the audience's awareness of shot transitions - especially cuts - in order to improve the flow of the story and avoid interrupting the viewer's immersion it in
Continuity editing
Direct cinema
Compilation film
Master positive
30. A transparent sheet on which animation artists draw images.
Persistence of vision
Cel
Line reading
First-person narration
31. Early films that documented everyday events - such as workers leaving a factory
Average shot length
Diegesis
Slow
Actualitas
32. A pan executed so quickly that it produces a blurred image - indicated rapid activity or - sometimes - the passage of time
Swish pan
Plot summary
Outsourcing
Flashing
33. The first step in the process of creating CGI. The wireframe is a three-dimensional computer model of an object - which is then rendered (producing the finished image) and animated (using simulated camera movement frame by frame)
Motivation
Denouement
Wireframe
Flashback
34. An abrupt - inexplicable shift in time and place of an action not signaled by an appropriate shot transition
Aerial Shot
Wide-angle lens
Jump cut
Character actor
35. Individuals who were prevented from working in the film industry because of their suspected involvement with Communist interests
Animation
Backstory
Color consultant
Hollywood Blacklist
36. 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
Third-person narration
Animation
City symphony
Loose framing
37. A brief chronological description of the basic events and characters in a film. It does not include interpretive or evaluative claims
Typecasting
Plot summary
Green screen
Roadshowing
38. Live action is filmed in front of a blue screen and a matte. It's then joined with the background footage
Blue screen
Desaturated
Telephoto lens
Interlaced scanning
39. Louis Althusser's term for the way in which a society creates its subjects/citizens through ideological (as opposed to repressive) state apparatuses - which include education - media - religion - and the family
Pulling
Script supervisor
Interpellation
Roadshowing
40. A part of the story world implied by visual or sound techniques rather than being revealed by the camera
Direct cinema
Non-diegetic
Offscreen space
Anime
41. A pan executed so quickly that it produces a blurred image - indicated rapid activity or - sometimes - the passage of time
Swish pan
Panning and scanning
Orthochromatic
Composition
42. A shot depicting the human body from the waist up
Revisionist
Medium shot
Wireframe
Fabula
43. Glass filters whose surface is etched with spots that refract light - so they create the appearance of water droplets in the air
Chiaroscuro
Fog filter
Available light
Soundtrack
44. Sound recorded on a set - on location - or - for documentary film - at an actual real-world event - as opposed to dubbed in post-production through ADR or looping
Text
Long shot
Direct sound
30-degree rule
45. 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
Panning and scanning
Toning
Three-point lighting
46. 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
First-person narration
Blaxploitation
Anamorphic lens
47. Author; A term popularized by French film critics and refers to film directors with their own distinctive style
Pushing
Product placement
Auteur
Revisionist
48. 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
Steadicam
Digital video
Glass shot
Split screen
49. 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
Panchromatic
Point-of-view shot
Trailer
Episodic
50. A single take that contains an entire scene
Persistence of vision
ADR
Syuzhet
Master shot
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