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Film Vocab
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1. An optical technique that divides the screen into two or more frames
Exposition
Star persona
Split screen
Scene
2. 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
Screenplay
Out-take
Mixing
Analog Video
3. 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
Best boy
Composition
Flashing
Vista Vision
4. A person responsible for putting a film together from a mass of developed footage - making decisions regarding pace - shot transitions - and which scenes and shots will be used
Editor
Zoom in...
Optical printer
Product placement
5. The practice of Hollywood studios contracting out post-production work to individuals or firms outside the U.S.
Outsourcing
Trailer
Assistant Editor
Long shot
6. 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
Running time
Continuity editor
Travelling matte
Speed
7. Optical illusions created during production - including the use of matte paintings - glass shots - models - and prosthesis
Shot transition
Medium shot
Special visual effects
Steadicam
8. 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
Neutral-density filter
B-roll
Continuity editing
Depth of field
9. Color. The strength of a hue is measured by its saturation or desaturation
Selective focus
Negative cutter
Hue
Loose framing
10. The falling or unraveling action after the climax of a narrative that leads to resolution
Open-ended
Cinerama
Denouement
Freeze frame
11. 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
Dye coupler
Handheld shot
Matte painting
Exposure latitude
12. 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
Take
Omniscient narration
Negative cutter
Time-lapse photography
13. The annotated script - containing information about set-ups used during shooting
Shooting script
Gaffer
Flashing
Descriptive claim
14. Creating the appearance of movement by drawing a series of frames that are projected sequentially - rather than photographing a series of still images
Recursive action
Animation
Diegesis
Evaluative claim
15. 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
Shot
Steadicam
Exposure
Tilt
16. 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
B-roll
Block booking
Method acting
Iris in...
17. A production crew responsible not for shooting the primary footage but - instead - for remote location shooting and B-roll. See also B-roll
Graphic match
Three-point lighting
Offscreen space
Second unit
18. A system for recording images on magnetic tape using a digital signal - that is - an electronic signal comprised of 0s and 1s
Zoom in...
Digital video
Day for night
Scratching
19. Images that originate from computer graphics technology - rather than photography
Character actor
Protagonist
Computer-generated imagery (CGI)
Score
20. Dialogue that restates What is already obvious from images or action
Voice-over
Flashback
On-the-nose dialogue
Extra
21. Standard shot pattern: A sequence of shots designed to maintain spatial continuity. Scene begin with an establishing shot - then move to a series of individual shots depicting characters and action - before reestablishing shots re-orient viewers to t
Standard shot pattern
Iris in...
Soundtrack
Scene
22. The width of the film stock - measured across the frame. Typical sizes are 8mm - 16mm - 35mm - and 70mm
Rotoscope
Gauge
Shooting script
Gaffer
23. A vertical - up-and-down - motion of an otherwise stationary camera
Slow motion
Take
Tilt
Cutaway
24. 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
Widescreen
Continuity editor
Extreme long-shot
Realist style
25. 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
Block booking
Anime
Color filter
Dolly
26. A large-budget film whose strategy is to swamp the competition through market saturation
Blockbuster
Crab dolly
Text
Fog filter
27. (Automatic dialogue replacement) recording synchronized dialogue in post-production - cutting several identical lengths of developed film and having actors record the dialogue repeatedly
ADR
Continuity editor
Promotion
Oeuvre
28. A series of individual drawings that provides a blueprint for the shooting of a scene
Morphing
Storyboard
B-roll
Slow motion
29. A shot that depicts a human body from the feet up
Pre-production
Orthochromatic
Medium long shot
Trailer
30. A shot transition that involves the gradual disappearance of the image at the same time that a new image gradually comes into view
Avant-garde film
Dissolve
High concept film
Tilt
31. The narrative path of the main or supporting characters - also called a plotline. Complex films may have several lines of action
Master shot
Glass shot
Scene
Line of action
32. A genre film that radically modifies accepted genre conventions for dramatic effect
Spec script
Revisionist
Exposure latitude
Studio system
33. A form of shot transition - generally concluding a scene - where a circular mask constricts around the image until the entire frame is black
Iris in...
Offscreen space
Front projection
Cel
34. Light striking the emulsion layer of the film - activating light-sensitive grains
Normal lens
Medium long shot
City symphony
Exposure
35. A digital technique developed by Industrial Light and Magic - which builds movement sequences from single frames of film
Three-point lighting
Go-motion
Focal length
Dailies
36. A production term referring to coordinating actors' movements with lines of dialogue
Cut
Vista Vision
Blocking
Flashing
37. A glass element on a camera that focuses light rays so that the image of the object appears on the surface of the film
Interlaced scanning
Lens
Subtext
Descriptive claim
38. The individual arrangement of lighting and camera placement used for each shot
Set-up
Continuity error
Intertextual reference
Swish pan
39. A film's main characters - one whose conflicts and motives drive the story forward
Mockumentary
Tracking shot
Protagonist
Rotoscope
40. 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
Panning and scanning
Bleach bypass
Slow motion
Time-lapse photography
41. A machine used to create optical effects such as fades - dissolves - and superimpositions. Most are now created digitally
Digital cinema
Optical printer
Fast
Kuleshov effect
42. Light emitted from a larger source that is scattered over a bigger area or reflected off a surface before it strikes the subject. Soft light minimizes facial details - including wrinkles
Fade-out
Soft light
Filter
High-key lighting
43. A term for film stock used in early cinema that was insensitive to red hues
Anime
Realist style
Orthochromatic
Flashing
44. An efficient system developed for film lighting. In a standard lighting set-up - the key light illuminates the subject - the fill light eliminates shadows cast by the key light - and the back light separates the subject from the background
Three-point lighting
Blockbuster
Subgenre
Parellel editing
45. A rule in continuity editing - which dictates that if a cut occurs while a character is in the midst of an action - the subsequent shot must begin so that audiences see the completion of that action
Match on action
Oeuvre
Parellel
Masking
46. Assists the gaffer in managing lighting crews
Continuity editing
Zoom in...
Best boy
Average shot length
47. 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
Neutral-density filter
Medium close-up
Crab dolly
Flashing
48. An abrupt - inexplicable shift in time and place of an action not signaled by an appropriate shot transition
Protagonist
Canted angle
Jump cut
Director
49. 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
Recursive action
Continuity error
Shot/reverse shot
Narrative sequencing
50. Invisible editing; a system devised to minimize the audience's awareness of shot transitions - especially cuts - in order to improve the flow of the story and avoid interrupting the viewer's immersion it in
Steadicam
Cut
Continuity editing
Scene
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