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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 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.
Average shot length
Special visual effects
Crane shot
Out-take
2. Cinema verite; a documentary style in which the filmmaker attempts to remain as unobtrusive as possible - recording without obvious editorial comment
Ethnographic film
Frozen time moment
Direct cinema
Deep focus cinematography
3. 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
Digital video
Rear projection
High concept film
Backstage musical
4. A shot taken from a level camera located approximately 5' to 6' from the ground - simulating the perspective of a person standing before the action presented
Slow motion
Vista Vision
Dye coupler
Eye-level shot
5. The camera does not move across an imagined line drawn between two characters
Tilt
Interlaced scanning
Widescreen
180-degree rule
6. A platform on wheels - used for mobile camera shots
Continuity error
Average shot length
Widescreen
Dolly
7. The artful use of light and dark areas in the composition in black and white filmmaking
Visual effects
30-degree rule
Slow motion
Chiaroscuro
8. The falling or unraveling action after the climax of a narrative that leads to resolution
Denouement
Hollywood Ten
Freeze frame
Polarizing filters
9. An outlawed studio era practice - where studios forced exhibitors to book groups of films at once - thus ensuring a market for their failures along with their successes
Focus puller
Method acting
Offscreen space
Block booking
10. A production term referring to coordinating actors' movements with lines of dialogue
Crane shot
Closure
Blocking
Motivation
11. 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
Travelling matte
Subtext
Exposure latitude
Intertextual reference
12. A film composed entirely of footage from other films.
Backstory
Polarizing filters
Crane shot
Compilation film
13. A technique of shooting a scene at a very high speed (96 frames per second) - then adding and subtracting frames in post-production - 'fanning out' the action through the overlapping images
Slow motion
Recursive action
Filter
Tilt
14. 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
Antagonist
Three-act structure
Screenplay
Hard light
15. 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
Continuity editing
Direct cinema
Realist style
Star persona
16. A shot that includes a human figure from the shoulders up
Overexposure
Medium close-up
Color filter
Color timing
17. 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
Open-ended
Undercranking
Composition
Normal lens
18. A shot depicting the human body from the waist up
Progressive scanning
Rear projection
Optical printer
Medium shot
19. A crew member whose job is to measure the distance between the subject and the camera lens - marking the ring on the camera lens - and ensuring the ring is turned precisely so that the image is in focus
Focus puller
Match on action
Panchromatic
Studio system
20. A camera device that opens and closes to regulate the length of time the film is exposed to light
Extreme close-up
Hybrid
Shutter
Forced perspective
21. Muted - washed out color that contains more white than a saturated color
Three-act structure
Motivation
Hard light
Desaturated
22. Film productions shot outside the U.S. for economic reasons
Voice-over
Diegesis
Runaway production
Analog Video
23. A scene filmed and processed but not selected to appear in the final version of the film
Out-take
Best boy
Fabula
Ethnographic film
24. The period after principal photography during which editing and looping take place - and special visual effects are added to the film
Direct sound
Post-production
Auteur
Telecine
25. Optical illusions created during post-production
Shot transition
Grain
Underexposure
Visual effects
26. The building block of a scene; an uninterrupted sequence of frames that viewers experience as they watch a film - ending with a cut - fade - dissolve - etc. See also Take
Crane shot
Shot
Overlapping dialogue
Digital cinema
27. 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
Auteur
Block booking
Synthespian
Progressive scanning
28. The space between the camera and subject it is filming.
Rear projection
Genre
Camera distance
Fast motion
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
Diffusion filters
Outsourcing
City symphony
Academy Ratio
30. 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
Video assist
High concept film
Zoom in...
Reverse shot
31. A shot that appears during or near the end of a scene and reorients viewers to the setting
Shot
Voice-over
Film stock
Re-establishing shot
32. A filter that simply reduces the amount of light entering the lens - without affecting the color characteristics
Visual effects
Neutral-density filter
Interpellation
Shot transition
33. A mental phenomenon by which viewers derive more meaning from the interaction of two sequential shots than from a single shot in isolation
Kuleshov effect
Bleach bypass
Continuity editor
Iris out
34. The annotated script - containing information about set-ups used during shooting
Shooting script
Second unit
Tilt
Shot/reverse shot
35. An optical technique that divides the screen into two or more frames
Focal length
Split screen
Montage sequence
Pixel
36. A narrative moment that signals an important shift of some kind in character or situation
Turning point
Rack focus
Toning
Focal length
37. 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
Extra
Negative cutter
Extreme wide-angle lens
Filter
38. A film's main characters - one whose conflicts and motives drive the story forward
Master positive
Protagonist
Open-ended
Narrative
39. 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
Filter
Continuity error
High-key lighting
Script supervisor
40. A long shot in which the film frame resembles the proscenium arch of the stage - distancing the audience
Morphing
Color consultant
Tableau shot
Studio system
41. 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
Iris out
Hollywood Ten
Cutaway
Brechtian distanciation
42. 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
Plot summary
Wide-angle lens
Block booking
43. The camera should move at least 30 degrees any time there is a cut within a scene
Graphic match
Third-person narration
30-degree rule
Figure placement and movement
44. A black masking device used to black out a portion of the frame - usually for the insertion of other images
Shutter
Glass shot
Matte
Polarizing filters
45. 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)
Available light
Wireframe
Slow motion
Pixel
46. A technique of moving from the telephoto position to the wide-angle position of a zoom lens - which results in the subject appearing to become smaller within the frame - while remaining in focus
Compositing
Wide film
Zoom out
Formalist style
47. A shot taken from a level camera located approximately 5' to 6' from the ground - simulating the perspective of a person standing before the action presented
180-degree rule
Travelling matte
Trailer
Eye-level shot
48. A scene transition wherein sound from one scene bleeds over into the ext scene - often resulting in a contrast between sound image
Star system
Glass shot
Sound bridge
Re-establishing shot
49. A device that projects photographs or footage onto glass so that images can be traced by hand to create animated images
Block booking
Closure
Rotoscope
Vertical integration
50. A standard shot pattern that dictates that a shot of one character will be followed by a shot of another character - taken from the reverse angle of the first shot
Shot/reverse shot
Extreme long-shot
Production values
Loose framing