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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. Processes such as Cinemascope and Cinerama - developed during the 1950s to enhance film's size advantage over the smaller television image
Widescreen
Release prints
Auteur
Match on action
2. The artful use of light and dark areas in the composition in black and white filmmaking
Tinting
Chiaroscuro
Product placement
Typecasting
3. A filter that simply reduces the amount of light entering the lens - without affecting the color characteristics
Orthochromatic
Neutral-density filter
Medium shot
Color timing
4. Filters that increase color saturation and contrast in outdoor shots
Polarizing filters
Color consultant
Travelling matte
Roadshowing
5. Thin - flexible material comprised of base and emulsion layers - onto which light rays are focused and which is processed in chemicals to produce film images
Selective focus
Slow motion
Tight framing
Film stock
6. A technique of filming at a speed faster than projection - the projecting the footage at normal speed of 24 frames per second. Because fewer frames were recorded per second - the action appears to be speeded up
Slow motion
Plot summary
Flashing
Panchromatic
7. 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
Figure placement and movement
Wide film
Editor
Realist style
8. 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
Reframing
Mockumentary
Morphing
Blocking
9. Dialogue that restates What is already obvious from images or action
On-the-nose dialogue
Digital video
Extreme wide-angle lens
Exposure
10. A musical in which some or all musical numbers are not motivated by the narrative; for example - characters sing and dance throughout the film but at least some performances are not staged for an onscreen audience. Examples include Oklahoma - The umb
Fast motion
Integrated musical
Auteur
Master shot
11. A technique of intentionally adding scratches in a film's emulsion layer for aesthetic purposes - such as to simulate home movie footage
Negative cutter
Scratching
Flashback
Trombone shot
12. Leaving the silver grains in the emulsion rather than bleaching them out - which produces desaturated color
Speed
Digital video
Bleach bypass
Syuzhet
13. A marketing strategy of screening a blockbuster prior to general release only in premier theaters
Camera distance
Canted angle
Roadshowing
Spec script
14. A musical accompaniment written specifically for a film
Ethnographic film
Editor
Dye coupler
Score
15. A system for recording images on magnetic tape using a digital signal - that is - an electronic signal comprised of 0s and 1s
Figure placement and movement
Promotion
Digital video
Dolly
16. 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
Zoom lens
Screenplay
Grain
Flashforward
17. A production term referring to coordinating actors' movements with lines of dialogue
Interpretive claim
Blocking
Visual effects
Exposure
18. A videotape system that records images onto magnetic tape - using electronic signals
Wipe
Runaway production
Tinting
Analog Video
19. The rules of character - setting - and narrative that films that belong to a genre - such as Westerns - horror films - and screwball comedies - generally obey.
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Script supervisor
On-the-nose dialogue
Genre conventions
20. 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
Frame narration
High concept film
Shot
Screenplay
21. The annotated script - containing information about set-ups used during shooting
Genre conventions
Closure
Shooting script
Production values
22. 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
Academy Ratio
Hard light
Emulsion
Base
23. A model of industrial organization in the film industry from about 1915 to 1946 - characterized by the development of major and minor studios that produced - distributed - and exhibited films - and held film actors - directors - art directors - and o
Blaxploitation
Four-part structure
Interlaced scanning
Studio system
24. A part of the story world implied by visual or sound techniques rather than being revealed by the camera
Fast motion
Crab dolly
Offscreen space
Foley artist
25. Secondary footage that is interspersed with master shots - sometimes in the form of footage shot for another production or archival footage
Pixel
B-roll
Animation
Panchromatic
26. The width of the film stock - measured across the frame. Typical sizes are 8mm - 16mm - 35mm - and 70mm
Progressive scanning
Gauge
Widescreen
Trailer
27. The individual arrangement of lighting and camera placement used for each shot
Set-up
Plot summary
Zoom lens
Undercranking
28. 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
Polarizing filters
Wide film
Anime
High-key lighting
29. Public identity created by marketing a film actor's performances - press coverage - and 'personal' information to fans as the star's personality
Persistence of vision
Closure
Widescreen
Star persona
30. A term used for any narrative sound - or visual element not contained in the story world. Also called 'extradiegetic'
First-person narration
Formalist style
Trombone shot
Non-diegetic
31. The visual arrangement of objects - actors - and space within the frame
Composition
Superimposition
Film stock
Time-lapse photography
32. A film's main characters - one whose conflicts and motives drive the story forward
Bleach bypass
Protagonist
Extreme long-shot
Open-ended
33. Devices that attach to actors' faces and/or bodies to change their appearance
Flashforward
Prosthesis
Cut
Storyboard
34. A change of focus from one plane of depth to another. As the in-focus subject goes out of focus - another object - which has been blurry - comes into focus in either the background or the foreground
Rack focus
Take
Zoom out
Forced development
35. A part of the story world implied by visual or sound techniques rather than being revealed by the camera
Pixel
Offscreen space
Block booking
Extradiegetic
36. Images that originate from computer graphics technology - rather than photography
Computer-generated imagery (CGI)
Product placement
Orthochromatic
Synthespian
37. 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
Eye-level shot
Minor studios
Vertical integration
Aerial Shot
38. 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
Natural-key lighting
Parellel
Roadshowing
Shot/reverse shot
39. 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
Emulsion
Color filter
Reframing
Steadicam
40. Creating the appearance of movement by drawing a series of frames that are projected sequentially - rather than photographing a series of still images
Shooting script
Animation
Subgenre
Blaxploitation
41. A type of filter that absorbs certain wavelength but leave others unaffected. On black and white film - color filters lighten or darken tones. On color film - they can produce a range of effects
Color filter
Low-angle shot
Underexposure
Lens
42. A character who in some way opposes the protagonist - leading to protracted conflict
Hybrid
Narrative
Intertextual reference
Antagonist
43. Author; A term popularized by French film critics and refers to film directors with their own distinctive style
Auteur
Blocking
Superimposition
Swish pan
44. A crew member responsible for logging the details of each take on the set so as to ensure continuity
Prosthesis
Script supervisor
Editor
Dailies
45. 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
Star filter
Medium close-up
Color timing
46. Smaller corporations that did not own distribution and/or exhibition companies in the studio era - including Universal - Columbia - and United Artists
Minor studios
Synthespian
Anamorphic lens
Freeze frame
47. 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
Frozen time moment
Director
Extreme wide-angle lens
Color filter
48. A genre film that radically modifies accepted genre conventions for dramatic effect
Exposure latitude
Telephoto lens
Close-up
Revisionist
49. A scene filmed and processed but not selected to appear in the final version of the film
Out-take
Frame narration
Revisionist
High-key lighting
50. A brief chronological description of the basic events and characters in a film. It does not include interpretive or evaluative claims
Slow motion
Plot summary
Fast motion
Three-point lighting