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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 details of a character's past that emerge as the film unfolds - and which often play a role in character motivation
Backstory
Low-angle shot
Pulling
Glass shot
2. 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
City symphony
Shot
Minor studios
Color timing
3. 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
Hollywood Ten
Blocking
German Expressionism
Continuity error
4. The shape of the image onscreen as determined by the width of the frame relative to its height
Shutter
Color timing
Aspect Ratio
Minor studios
5. Projecting a series of frames of film with the same image - which appears to stop the action
Set-up
Freeze frame
Composition in depth
Oeuvre
6. Creating an image by combining several elements created separately using computer graphics rather than photographic means
Digital compositing
Extreme wide-angle lens
Realist style
Selective focus
7. A narrative - visual - or sound element that refers viewers to other films or works of art
Focus puller
Progressive scanning
Plot summary
Intertextual reference
8. A genre film that radically modifies accepted genre conventions for dramatic effect
Revisionist
Day for night
Crane shot
Double exposure
9. 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
Negative
First-person narration
Eyeline match
Telecine
10. The chip in a video camera that converts the incoming light to an electronic signal
Charge coupler device
City symphony
Line reading
Flashing
11. The first print made from a film negative
Underexposure
Master positive
Open-ended
Visual effects
12. A shot taken from a camera mounted on a crane that moves three-dimensionally in a space
Crane shot
Runaway production
Vista Vision
Negative
13. Assists the gaffer in managing lighting crews
180-degree rule
Best boy
Establishing shot
Trailer
14. A technique of moving the camera - on a specially built track. Such shots often trace character movement laterally across the frame or in and out of the depth of the frame
Method acting
Score
Tracking shot
Pixel
15. A process of transferring film to video tapes or DVDs so that the original aspect ratio of the film is preserved
Narrative sequencing
Master positive
Apparatus Theory
Letterboxing
16. A production term referring to coordinating actors' movements with lines of dialogue
Special visual effects
Freeze frame
Narrative
Blocking
17. A film composed entirely of footage from other films.
Interlaced scanning
Compilation film
Classical style
Dissolve
18. A technician responsible for splicing and assembling the film negative to the editor's specifications
Screenplay
Negative cutter
Running time
Four-part structure
19. Suspended particles of silver in the film's emulsion - Which may become visible in the final image as dots
Flashforward
Spec script
Grain
Three-point lighting
20. A description of film stock that is highly sensitive to light
Ethnographic film
Second unit
Fast
Actualitas
21. A large-budget film whose strategy is to swamp the competition through market saturation
Visual effects
Frozen time moment
Score
Blockbuster
22. 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
Trailer
Avant-garde film
Slow motion
High-key lighting
23. A genre film that radically modifies accepted genre conventions for dramatic effect
Forced development
Neutral-density filter
Pre-production
Revisionist
24. A mental phenomenon by which viewers derive more meaning from the interaction of two sequential shots than from a single shot in isolation
Star persona
Kuleshov effect
Master positive
Turning point
25. The period after principal photography during which editing and looping take place - and special visual effects are added to the film
Slow motion
Post-production
Fog filter
Set-up
26. A documentary or occasionally - a narrative film that presents only one side of an argument or one approach to a subject
Propaganda film
Aerial Shot
Superimposition
Hard light
27. 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
Mockumentary
Widescreen
Plot summary
Green screen
28. 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
30-degree rule
Exposure latitude
Composition in depth
Syuzhet
29. The chip in a video camera that converts the incoming light to an electronic signal
Best boy
Interpellation
Charge coupler device
Score
30. A shot that interrupts a scene's master shot and may include character reactions
Master positive
Subtext
Revisionist
Insert
31. An optical effect whereby the human eye fills in gaps between closely spaced objects - so that two light bulbs flashing on and off are understood as one light moving back and forth
Parellel
Offscreen space
Academy Ratio
Phi phenomenon
32. Processes such as Cinemascope and Cinerama - developed during the 1950s to enhance film's size advantage over the smaller television image
Actualitas
Widescreen
Direct sound
Insert
33. 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
Anime
Post-production
Vertical integration
Selective focus
34. A consistent style - theme - and subject matter developed over the course of a director's body of work
Oeuvre
Pan
Tight framing
Reverse shot
35. These filters bend the light coming into lens - softening and blurring the image
Subtext
Flashing
Diffusion filters
Desaturated
36. A shot transition where shot A slowly disappears as the screen becomes black before shot B appears. A fade-in is the reverse of this process
Undercranking
Anime
Interpretive claim
Fade-out
37. The selection and ordering of narrative events presented in a film
Voice-over
Steadicam
Syuzhet
Mixing
38. A group of films within a given genre that share their own specific set of conventions that differentiate them from other films in the genre. For example - the slasher film is a subgenre of the horror genre
Subgenre
Color consultant
High-angle shot
Loose framing
39. Any noticeable but unintended discrepancy from one shot to the next in costume - props - hairstyle - posture - etc.
Digital set extension
Continuity editing
Front projection
Continuity error
40. Author; A term popularized by French film critics and refers to film directors with their own distinctive style
Wireframe
Auteur
Gaffer
Direct cinema
41. A technician responsible for splicing and assembling the film negative to the editor's specifications
Screenplay
Extradiegetic
Blocking
Negative cutter
42. The narrative path of the main or supporting characters - also called a plotline. Complex films may have several lines of action
Line of action
Diffusion filters
Star persona
High concept film
43. A narrative approach that limits the audience's view of events to that of the main character(s) in the film. Occasional moments of omniscient narration may give viewers more information than the character shave at specific points in the narrative
Motivation
Overhead shot
Director
Restricted narration
44. A visual effect achieved through the use of photography and digital techniques that appears to stop time and allow the viewer to travel around the subject and view it from a multitude of vantage points
Progressive scanning
Frozen time moment
Shutter
Continuity editor
45. A scene transition in which the first frame of the incoming scene appears to push the last frame of the previous scene off the screen horizontally
Frozen time moment
Wipe
City symphony
Montage sequence
46. 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
Minor studios
Turning point
Soundtrack
High-key lighting
47. 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
Overlapping dialogue
Color timing
Shot/reverse shot
Computer-generated imagery (CGI)
48. A continuity editing technique that preserves spatial continuity by using a character's line of vision as motivation for a cut
Hollywood Ten
Telephoto lens
Tight framing
Eyeline match
49. Leaving the silver grains in the emulsion rather than bleaching them out - which produces desaturated color
Shot transition
Bleach bypass
Green screen
Negative
50. 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
Charge coupler device
Forced development
Exposition
Negative