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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. An early color process that replaced silver halide grains with colored salts
Trombone shot
Pushing
Toning
Best boy
2. Secondary footage that is interspersed with master shots - sometimes in the form of footage shot for another production or archival footage
Natural-key lighting
Plot summary
Focus puller
B-roll
3. A consistent style - theme - and subject matter developed over the course of a director's body of work
Oeuvre
Narrative sequencing
Direct sound
Tinting
4. A shot filmed from an airplane or helicopter
Apparatus Theory
Insert
Aerial Shot
Go-motion
5. 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
Intertextual reference
Three-act structure
Low-key lighting
Trombone shot
6. The reverse of Iris in: an iris expands outward until the next shot takes up the entire screen
Shutter
Iris out
Hollywood Ten
Wide film
7. A chemical embedded in the emulsion layer of film stock that - when developed after exposure - releases a particular color dye (red - green - or blue)
Dye coupler
Tinting
Cameo
Tilt
8. Creating an image by combining several elements created separately using computer graphics rather than photographic means
Evaluative claim
Digital compositing
Trailer
Panning and scanning
9. 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)
Wireframe
Swish pan
Aperture
Offscreen space
10. The artful use of light and dark areas in the composition in black and white filmmaking
Protagonist
Insert
Chiaroscuro
Text
11. Any narrative - visual - or sound element that is repeated and thereby acquires and reflects its significance to the story - characters - or themes of the film.
Color filter
Motif
Continuity editing
Color timing
12. The conclusion of the film wraps up - all loose ends in a form of resolution - though not necessarily with a happy ending.
Closure
Overexposure
Zoom out
Neutral-density filter
13. The falling or unraveling action after the climax of a narrative that leads to resolution
Focus puller
Minor studios
Denouement
Loose framing
14. A description of film stock that is highly sensitive to light
Chiaroscuro
Fast
Avant-garde film
Compilation film
15. A documentary or occasionally - a narrative film that presents only one side of an argument or one approach to a subject
Production values
Propaganda film
Bleach bypass
Jump cut
16. Experimental film; Underground cinema;
Syuzhet
Avant-garde film
Frame narration
Zoom in...
17. The practice or repeatedly casting actors in similar roles across different films
Studio system
Typecasting
Two-shot
Exposure latitude
18. A shot combining two kinds of movement: the camera tracks in toward the subject wile the lens zooms out
Front projection
Trombone shot
Canted angle
Gaffer
19. 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
Undercranking
Overlapping dialogue
Orthochromatic
20. A shot taken from a camera mounted on a crane that moves three-dimensionally in a space
Cinerama
Episodic
Crane shot
Continuity editing
21. A black masking device used to black out a portion of the frame - usually for the insertion of other images
Set-up
On-the-nose dialogue
Line reading
Matte
22. A black masking device used to black out a portion of the frame - usually for the insertion of other images
Rear projection
Speed
Matte
Base
23. Early films that documented everyday events - such as workers leaving a factory
Continuity editing
Camera distance
Match on action
Actualitas
24. The camera should move at least 30 degrees any time there is a cut within a scene
30-degree rule
Ethnographic film
Evaluative claim
Outsourcing
25. A term applied to film stock that is relatively insensitive to light. This stock will not yield acceptable images unless the amount of light can be carefully controlled
Travelling matte
Natural-key lighting
Extra
Slow
26. 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.
Persistence of vision
Fabula
Average shot length
Slow
27. A business model adopted by the major studios during the Hollywood studio era - in which studios controlled all aspects of the film business - from production to distribution and exhibition
Vertical integration
Speed
Slow
Pulling
28. 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
Aspect Ratio
Negative
Narrative sequencing
Standard shot pattern
29. 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
Close-up
Method acting
Flashback
Academy Ratio
30. A shot that appears during or near the end of a scene and reorients viewers to the setting
Actualitas
Lens
Re-establishing shot
Hue
31. 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
Establishing shot
Best boy
Travelling matte
Wide-angle lens
32. A relatively long - uninterrupted sot - generally of a minute or more
Split screen
Major studios
Long take
Recursive action
33. The imagined world of the story
Hybrid
Diegesis
Base
On-the-nose dialogue
34. A technique in which the audience temporarily shares the visual perspective of a character or a group of characters. The camera points in the directions the character looks - simulating the character's field of vision
Direct sound
Point-of-view shot
Forced perspective
Dye coupler
35. The period after principal photography during which editing and looping take place - and special visual effects are added to the film
Out-take
Zoom lens
Post-production
Scratching
36. A statement that presents an argument about a film's meaning and significance
High-angle shot
Interpretive claim
Outsourcing
Reframing
37. 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
Dye coupler
Take
Minor studios
Filter
38. The reverse of Iris in: an iris expands outward until the next shot takes up the entire screen
Superimposition
Exposure latitude
Iris out
Backstage musical
39. An alternative to continuity editing - this style of editing was developed in silent Soviet cinema - based on the theory that editing should exploit the difference between shots to generate intellectual and emotional responses in the audience
Digital video
Subtext
Toning
Soviet montage
40. A marketing strategy of screening a blockbuster prior to general release only in premier theaters
Focus puller
Roadshowing
Cel
Negative
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
Release prints
Denouement
Shot transition
42. A contemporary modification of the standard three-act structure that identifies a critical turning point at the halfway mark of most narrative films
Undercranking
Long shot
Four-part structure
Eyeline match
43. A shot depicting the human body from the waist up
Medium shot
Canted angle
Script supervisor
Tinting
44. A short segment of film used to promote an upcoming release
Tinting
Chiaroscuro
Trailer
Fade-out
45. A compositing method that allows cinematographers to combine live action and settings that are filmed or created separately. Actors are filmed against a green or blue background. During post-production - this background is filled in with an image thr
Hard light
Green screen
First-person narration
Restricted narration
46. An attribute of newer television monitors - where each frame is scanned by the electron beam as a single field. If slowed down - each frame would appear on the monitor in its entirety on the screen - rather than line by line - as is the case with int
Undercranking
Denouement
Aspect Ratio
Progressive scanning
47. A compositing method that allows cinematographers to combine live action and settings that are filmed or created separately. Actors are filmed against a green or blue background. During post-production - this background is filled in with an image thr
Green screen
Color consultant
Soviet montage
Interpretive claim
48. 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
Director
Long take
Hue
Ethnographic film
49. A crew member who reports to the Director of Photography (DP) and is in charge of tasks involving lighting and electrical needs
Frame narration
Gaffer
Exposition
Aerial Shot
50. A shot depicting the human body from the waist up
Academy Ratio
Selective focus
Medium shot
Shot/reverse shot