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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. Lighting design where the key light is somewhat more intense than the fill light - so the fill does not eliminate every shadow. The effect is generally less cheerful than high-key lighting - but not as gloomy as low-key lighting
Hue
Natural-key lighting
Prosthesis
Blockbuster
2. A production term referring to coordinating actors' movements with lines of dialogue
Iris in...
Aperture
Focus puller
Blocking
3. The period of time before principal photography during which actors are signed - sets and costumes designed - and locations scouted
Pre-production
Interpretive claim
Scratching
Phi phenomenon
4. A filter that creates points of light that streak outward from a light source
Star filter
Digital video
Focal length
Avant-garde film
5. A system of constructing and arranging buildings and objects on the set so that they diminish in size dramatically from foreground to background - which creates the illusion of depth
Forced perspective
Pulling
Gauge
Typecasting
6. A similarity established between two characters or situations that invites the audience to compare the two. It may involve visual - narrative - and/or sound elements
Video assist
Parellel
Blockbuster
Master positive
7. Early films that documented everyday events - such as workers leaving a factory
Script supervisor
Narrative sequencing
Actualitas
Studio system
8. A rule in continuity editing - which dictates that if a cut occurs while a character is in the midst of an action - the subsequent shot must begin so that audiences see the completion of that action
Director
180-degree rule
Match on action
Star filter
9. A shot taken from a vantage point so close that only a part of the subject is visible. On an actor - it might show only an eye or a portion of the face
Cinerama
Assistant Editor
Extreme close-up
Iris in...
10. 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
Filter
Wide film
Prosthesis
Episodic
11. Experimental film; Underground cinema;
Kuleshov effect
Take
Avant-garde film
Continuity error
12. A short segment of film used to promote an upcoming release
Glass shot
Mixing
Trailer
Voice-over
13. Author; A term popularized by French film critics and refers to film directors with their own distinctive style
Auteur
Travelling matte
Extra
Omniscient narration
14. The practice of Hollywood studios contracting out post-production work to individuals or firms outside the U.S.
Fast
Gauge
Text
Outsourcing
15. A character who in some way opposes the protagonist - leading to protracted conflict
Antagonist
Apparatus Theory
Omniscient narration
Fast
16. A single take that contains an entire scene
Shutter
Morphing
Master shot
Desaturated
17. Glass filters whose surface is etched with spots that refract light - so they create the appearance of water droplets in the air
Hollywood Ten
Composition
Morphing
Fog filter
18. A production term referring to coordinating actors' movements with lines of dialogue
Blocking
Subtext
Split screen
Telephoto lens
19. The person in charge of planning the style and look of the film with the production designer and director of photography - working with actors during principal photography - and collaborating with the editor on the final version
Superimposition
Director
Production values
Omniscient narration
20. 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
Studio system
Flashing
Low-angle shot
Diegesis
21. Secondary footage that is interspersed with master shots - sometimes in the form of footage shot for another production or archival footage
Superimposition
Crab dolly
Wide film
B-roll
22. Dialogue that restates What is already obvious from images or action
Extra
Voice-over
On-the-nose dialogue
Tight framing
23. Public identity created by marketing a film actor's performances - press coverage - and 'personal' information to fans as the star's personality
Continuity error
Star persona
German Expressionism
Protagonist
24. Public identity created by marketing a film actor's performances - press coverage - and 'personal' information to fans as the star's personality
Star persona
Long take
Base
Forced perspective
25. 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
Hue
Continuity editing
Narrative
Brechtian distanciation
26. Reels of film that are shipped to movie theaters for exhibition. Digital cinema - which can be distributed via satellite - broadband - or on media such as DVDs - may soon replace film prints because the latter are expensive to create - copy - and dis
Release prints
Pan
First-person narration
Speed
27. A crew member whose job is to maintain consistency in visual details from one shot to the next
Typecasting
Underexposure
Interlaced scanning
Continuity editor
28. The details of a character's past that emerge as the film unfolds - and which often play a role in character motivation
Low-angle shot
Actualitas
Subgenre
Backstory
29. The length in minutes for a film to play in its entirety (for example - 120 minutes). Also referred to as 'screen time.'
Running time
Chiaroscuro
Close-up
Available light
30. A film composed entirely of footage from other films.
Oeuvre
Compilation film
Actualitas
Post-production
31. A process of blending the three elements of the sound track (dialogue - music - and effects) in post-production
Negative
Mixing
Polarizing filters
Dye coupler
32. A shot that contains two characters within the frame
Realist style
Method acting
Two-shot
Star filter
33. Projecting a series of frames of film with the same image - which appears to stop the action
Shot transition
Freeze frame
Reframing
Runaway production
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
Block booking
Auteur
Foley artist
Continuity editor
35. The reverse of Iris in: an iris expands outward until the next shot takes up the entire screen
Panchromatic
Two-shot
Synthespian
Iris out
36. The individual arrangement of lighting and camera placement used for each shot
Direct sound
Revisionist
Chiaroscuro
Set-up
37. A shot that includes a human figure from the shoulders up
Director
Set-up
Descriptive claim
Medium close-up
38. A short screen appearance by a celebrity - playing himself or herself
Subtext
Cameo
Typecasting
Line of action
39. A style of Japanese animation - distinguished primarily by the fact that it is not all geared for young audiences
Anime
Extreme long-shot
Running time
Letterboxing
40. The arrangement of images to depict a unified storyline
Iris in...
Narrative sequencing
Roadshowing
Film stock
41. 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
Filter
Morphing
Tableau shot
Exposure latitude
42. A format that uses a larger film stock than standard 35mm. IMAX - Omnimax - and Showscan are shot on 70mm film
Wide film
Color filter
Continuity error
Product placement
43. Projecting a series of frames of film with the same image - which appears to stop the action
Freeze frame
Mixing
Ethnographic film
Oeuvre
44. A transparent sheet on which animation artists draw images.
Cel
Wipe
Figure placement and movement
Selective focus
45. The annotated script - containing information about set-ups used during shooting
Progressive scanning
Hollywood Blacklist
Genre
Shooting script
46. A description of film stock that is highly sensitive to light
Fast
Cameo
Average shot length
Color consultant
47. A system for combining two separately filmed images in the same frame that involves create a matte (a black mask that covers a portion of the image) for a live action sequence and using it to block out a portion of the frame when filming the backgrou
Long take
Dailies
Travelling matte
Digital video
48. (Automatic dialogue replacement) recording synchronized dialogue in post-production - cutting several identical lengths of developed film and having actors record the dialogue repeatedly
ADR
First-person narration
Exposure
Master positive
49. A direct vocal address to the audience - Which may emanate from a character or from a narrative voice apparently unrelated to the diegesis
Voice-over
Grain
Block booking
Fast motion
50. Any lens with a focal length approximately equal to the diagonal of the frame. For 35mm filmmaking - a 35-50 mm lens does not distort the angle of vision or depth
Camera distance
Split screen
Wide-angle lens
Normal lens