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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 distance that appears in focus in front of and behind the subject. It is determined by the aperture - distance and focal length of lens
Dissolve
Depth of field
Release prints
Underexposure
2. A musical accompaniment written specifically for a film
Green screen
Score
Freeze frame
Widescreen
3. 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
Low-angle shot
Integrated musical
Toning
Recursive action
4. A scene filmed and processed but not selected to appear in the final version of the film
Out-take
Integrated musical
Insert
Editor
5. 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
Cinerama
Direct cinema
Steadicam
Realist style
6. 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
Assistant Editor
Extra
Tracking shot
Parellel editing
7. The visual arrangement of objects - actors - and space within the frame
Prosthesis
Storyboard
Composition
Release prints
8. Light striking the emulsion layer of the film - activating light-sensitive grains
Exposure
Genre
Wide-angle lens
Film stock
9. 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
Extreme close-up
Brechtian distanciation
Eyeline match
Lightning mix
10. Dialogue that restates What is already obvious from images or action
Master positive
Genre
On-the-nose dialogue
Selective focus
11. 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
Second unit
Long shot
City symphony
Saturation
12. A consistent style - theme - and subject matter developed over the course of a director's body of work
Matte painting
Film stock
Oeuvre
Compositing
13. Glass filters whose surface is etched with spots that refract light - so they create the appearance of water droplets in the air
Color timing
Normal lens
Continuity editing
Fog filter
14. 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
Pushing
City symphony
Direct sound
Anime
15. The horizontal turning movement of an otherwise immobile camera across a scene from left to right or vice versa
Score
Pan
Restricted narration
Overhead shot
16. 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
Direct sound
Negative cutter
Soviet montage
30-degree rule
17. A technique of 'pushing' the film (overdeveloping it) to correct problems of underexposure (resulting from insufficient light during shooting) by increasing image contrast
Widescreen
Forced development
Graphic match
Two-shot
18. 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
Fast motion
Synthespian
Glass shot
Fade-out
19. 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
Interlaced scanning
Omniscient narration
Eyeline match
Natural-key lighting
20. A long shot in which the film frame resembles the proscenium arch of the stage - distancing the audience
Tableau shot
Animation
Newsreel
Base
21. Suspended particles of silver in the film's emulsion - Which may become visible in the final image as dots
Overlapping dialogue
Grain
Split screen
Denouement
22. Color. The strength of a hue is measured by its saturation or desaturation
Script supervisor
Overhead shot
Genre conventions
Hue
23. The shape of the image onscreen as determined by the width of the frame relative to its height
ADR
Aspect Ratio
Flashforward
Graphic match
24. An actor whose career rests on playing minor or secondary quirky characters rather than leading roles
Backstage musical
Post-production
Character actor
Color timing
25. A statement that presents an argument about a film's meaning and significance
Interpretive claim
Scratching
Close-up
Visual effects
26. A shot depicting the human body from the waist up
Medium shot
Synthespian
Long shot
Glass shot
27. An early color process - involving bathing lengths of processed film in dye one scene at a time
Kuleshov effect
Figure placement and movement
Motif
Tinting
28. The selection and ordering of narrative events presented in a film
Natural-key lighting
Out-take
Available light
Syuzhet
29. The length in minutes for a film to play in its entirety (for example - 120 minutes). Also referred to as 'screen time.'
Trailer
Running time
Fast
Soft light
30. A visual effect created when the subject in the frame is restricted by the objects or the physical properties of the set
First-person narration
Tight framing
Shot
Reframing
31. Any noticeable but unintended discrepancy from one shot to the next in costume - props - hairstyle - posture - etc.
Third-person narration
Trombone shot
Continuity error
Mockumentary
32. 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
Film stock
Scene
Widescreen
Hollywood Blacklist
33. A chemical coating on film stock containing light-sensitive grains
Emulsion
Extra
Screenplay
Antagonist
34. A technique of running the motion picture camera at a speed slower than projection speed (24 frames per second) - in order to produce at a fast motion sequence when projected at normal speed. The term derives from early film cameras - which were cran
Soundtrack
Polarizing filters
Progressive scanning
Undercranking
35. A crew member responsible for logging the details of each take on the set so as to ensure continuity
Four-part structure
Script supervisor
ADR
Eye-level shot
36. 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
Spec script
Star filter
Episodic
Omniscient narration
37. These filters bend the light coming into lens - softening and blurring the image
Continuity editor
Diffusion filters
Widescreen
Matte painting
38. A statement that asserts a judgment that a given film or group of films is good or bad - based on specific criteria - Which may or may not be stated
Exposure
Cut
Evaluative claim
Actualitas
39. A pan executed so quickly that it produces a blurred image - indicated rapid activity or - sometimes - the passage of time
Analog Video
Swish pan
Long take
Cinerama
40. 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
Flashing
Day for night
Masking
Intertextual reference
41. A contemporary modification of the standard three-act structure that identifies a critical turning point at the halfway mark of most narrative films
Parellel editing
Compositing
Four-part structure
Ethnographic film
42. The camera should move at least 30 degrees any time there is a cut within a scene
Undercranking
Cameo
30-degree rule
Digital cinema
43. Creating images during post-production by joining together photographic or CGI material shot or created at different times and places
Actualitas
Compositing
Brechtian distanciation
Desaturated
44. A direct vocal address to the audience - Which may emanate from a character or from a narrative voice apparently unrelated to the diegesis
Tinting
Blue screen
Hybrid
Voice-over
45. A marketing strategy of screening a blockbuster prior to general release only in premier theaters
Extradiegetic
Panchromatic
Line reading
Roadshowing
46. The reverse of Iris in: an iris expands outward until the next shot takes up the entire screen
Panning and scanning
Iris out
Computer-generated imagery (CGI)
Focus puller
47. A term that refers to the organization of an industry wherein one type of corporation also owns corporations in allied industries - for example - film production and video games
Horizontal integration
Composition
High-key lighting
Charge coupler device
48. The measure of intensity or purity of a color. Saturated color is purer than desaturated color - which has more white in it and thus offers a washed-out - less intense version of a color
Saturation
Available light
Shot/reverse shot
Go-motion
49. A series of individual drawings that provides a blueprint for the shooting of a scene
Cel
Matte painting
Storyboard
Cutaway
50. These filters bend the light coming into lens - softening and blurring the image
Zoom out
Two-shot
Diffusion filters
Script supervisor