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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. 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
Academy Ratio
Offscreen space
Compositing
Progressive scanning
2. The plotline that surrounds an embedded tale. The frame narration may or may not be as fully developed as the embedded tale
Narrative
Denouement
Intertextual reference
Frame narration
3. A shot that interrupts a scene's master shot and may include character reactions
Color filter
Roadshowing
Syuzhet
Insert
4. 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
Depth of field
Extra
Wipe
Swish pan
5. Glass filters whose surface is etched with spots that refract light - so they create the appearance of water droplets in the air
Fog filter
German Expressionism
Blockbuster
Shot/reverse shot
6. A type of matte shot - created by positioning a pane of optically flawless glass with a painting on it between the camera and the scene to be photographed. This combines the painting on the glass with the set or location - seen through the glass - be
Glass shot
Blockbuster
Natural-key lighting
Lightning mix
7. Sound recorded on a set - on location - or - for documentary film - at an actual real-world event - as opposed to dubbed in post-production through ADR or looping
Cel
Blaxploitation
Direct sound
Trailer
8. Creating the appearance of movement by drawing a series of frames that are projected sequentially - rather than photographing a series of still images
Intertextual reference
Animation
Tight framing
Zoom in...
9. A shot taken fro a position directly above the action - also called a 'birds' eye shot'
Overhead shot
Typecasting
Fast motion
Color consultant
10. Creating the appearance of movement by drawing a series of frames that are projected sequentially - rather than photographing a series of still images
Tight framing
Compositing
Release prints
Animation
11. An abrupt - inexplicable shift in time and place of an action not signaled by an appropriate shot transition
Vertical integration
Blockbuster
Jump cut
Slow
12. 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
Graphic match
Antagonist
Hollywood Ten
Fade-out
13. A production crew responsible not for shooting the primary footage but - instead - for remote location shooting and B-roll. See also B-roll
Mixing
Montage sequence
Desaturated
Second unit
14. A musical accompaniment written specifically for a film
Compilation film
Bleach bypass
Score
City symphony
15. 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
Motivation
Pan
Travelling matte
Interpellation
16. Natural light; The process of suing sunlight rather than artificial studio lights when filming
Available light
Storyboard
Promotion
Time-lapse photography
17. A series of related scene joined through elliptical editing that indicates the passage of time
Persistence of vision
Montage sequence
Anime
Shot
18. The conclusion of the film wraps up - all loose ends in a form of resolution - though not necessarily with a happy ending.
Closure
Best boy
Soundtrack
Typecasting
19. A picture element - a measure of image density. There are approximately 18 million pixels in a frame of 35mm film and 300000-400000 in a video image
Pixel
Realist style
Morphing
Tracking shot
20. The practice or repeatedly casting actors in similar roles across different films
Animation
Typecasting
Travelling matte
Outsourcing
21. An optical technique that divides the screen into two or more frames
Color consultant
Interpellation
Split screen
Score
22. The falling or unraveling action after the climax of a narrative that leads to resolution
Denouement
Reframing
Animation
Panchromatic
23. A crew member who works in post-production in a specially equipped studio to create the sounds of the story world - such as the shuffling of shoes on various surfaces for footsteps
Subgenre
Soundtrack
Foley artist
Kuleshov effect
24. Any noticeable but unintended discrepancy from one shot to the next in costume - props - hairstyle - posture - etc.
Anamorphic lens
Continuity error
Pre-production
Extreme long-shot
25. 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
Eye-level shot
30-degree rule
Compositing
Long shot
26. A technique of exposing film frames - then rewinding the film and exposing it again - which results in an image that combines two shots in a single frame
German Expressionism
Classical style
Sound bridge
Double exposure
27. 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
Post-production
Eye-level shot
Saturation
Major studios
28. A shot filmed from an airplane or helicopter
Avant-garde film
Aerial Shot
Extreme long-shot
Negative cutter
29. Processes such as Cinemascope and Cinerama - developed during the 1950s to enhance film's size advantage over the smaller television image
Widescreen
Standard shot pattern
Evaluative claim
Three-act structure
30. A style of Japanese animation - distinguished primarily by the fact that it is not all geared for young audiences
Mockumentary
Interlaced scanning
Charge coupler device
Anime
31. 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
Studio system
Continuity editor
Block booking
Insert
32. Materials intentionally released by studios to attract public attention to films and their stars. Promotion differs from publicity - which is information that is not (or does not appear to be) intentionally disseminated by studios
Promotion
Star persona
Motivation
Hard light
33. A property of older television monitors - where each frame was scanned as two fields: One consisting of all the odd numbered lines - the other all the even lines. If slowed down - the television image would appear to sweep down the screen one line at
Aerial Shot
Video assist
Three-point lighting
Interlaced scanning
34. A small - variable opening on a camera lens that regulates the amount of light entering the camera and striking the surface of the film
Aperture
Exposition
Crab dolly
Voice-over
35. Also called 'full screen -' the technique of re-shooting a widescreen film in order to convert it to the original television aspect ration of 1.33 to 1. Rather than reproduce the original aspect ratio - as a letterboxed version does - a panned and sc
Panning and scanning
Second unit
City symphony
Vista Vision
36. Leaving the silver grains in the emulsion rather than bleaching them out - which produces desaturated color
Interlaced scanning
Bleach bypass
Color consultant
Closure
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
Progressive scanning
Charge coupler device
Low-key lighting
Vertical integration
38. 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
30-degree rule
Fog filter
Flashback
Extreme wide-angle lens
39. A digital technique developed by Industrial Light and Magic - which builds movement sequences from single frames of film
Dye coupler
Go-motion
Academy Ratio
Frame narration
40. 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
Overhead shot
Rotoscope
Three-act structure
Point-of-view shot
41. A style associated with Hollywood filmmaking of the studio and post-studio era - in which efficient storytelling - rather than gritty realism or aesthetic innovation - is of paramount importance
Synthespian
Classical style
Denouement
Hollywood Blacklist
42. The artful use of light and dark areas in the composition in black and white filmmaking
Director
Video assist
Descriptive claim
Chiaroscuro
43. Smaller corporations that did not own distribution and/or exhibition companies in the studio era - including Universal - Columbia - and United Artists
Turning point
Interpellation
Minor studios
Wipe
44. Live action is filmed in front of a blue screen and a matte. It's then joined with the background footage
Blue screen
Film stock
Hollywood Ten
Flashforward
45. A film process that uses 35mm film stock but changes the orientation of the film so that the film moves through the camera horizontally instead of vertically. The larger image is of higher quality than standard 35mm processes
Open-ended
Vista Vision
180-degree rule
Turning point
46. 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
Base
Tracking shot
Antagonist
Base
47. A shot taken from a camera position below the subject
Flashforward
Motif
Low-angle shot
Score
48. A complete narrative unit within a film - with its own beginning - middle - and end. Often scenes are unified - and distinguished from one another - by time and setting
Scene
Foley artist
Star filter
Aspect Ratio
49. A production term referring to coordinating actors' movements with lines of dialogue
Blocking
City symphony
Video assist
Travelling matte
50. A shot that depicts a human body from the feet up
Medium long shot
On-the-nose dialogue
Soft light
Plot summary