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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. 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
Three-act structure
Scene
Studio system
Analog Video
2. A brief chronological description of the basic events and characters in a film. It does not include interpretive or evaluative claims
Plot summary
Screenplay
Roadshowing
Out-take
3. Muted - washed out color that contains more white than a saturated color
Desaturated
Digital cinema
Best boy
Time-lapse photography
4. A scene transition wherein sound from one scene bleeds over into the ext scene - often resulting in a contrast between sound image
Mixing
Extreme long-shot
Normal lens
Sound bridge
5. A class or type of film - such as the Western or the horror movie. They share narrative - visual - and/or sound conventions
Mixing
Genre
Time-lapse photography
Long take
6. A screenplay written and submitted to a studio or production company without a prior contract or agreement
Dailies
Emulsion
Spec script
High-key lighting
7. A system initially developed for marketing films by creating and promoting stars as objects of admiration. The promotion of stars has now become an end in itself
Second unit
Star system
Parellel
Camera distance
8. A direct vocal address to the audience - Which may emanate from a character or from a narrative voice apparently unrelated to the diegesis
ADR
Voice-over
Dye coupler
180-degree rule
9. Muted - washed out color that contains more white than a saturated color
High-angle shot
Motivation
Extreme wide-angle lens
Desaturated
10. A genre film that radically modifies accepted genre conventions for dramatic effect
Revisionist
Fast
Animation
Swish pan
11. Lighting design in which the greater intensity of the key light makes it impossible for the fill to eliminate shadows - producing a high-contrast image (with many grades of light and dark) - a number of shadows - and a somber mood
Brechtian distanciation
Low-key lighting
Master positive
Split screen
12. The chronological accounting of all events presented and suggested
Fabula
Deep focus cinematography
Persistence of vision
Soft light
13. Any lens with a focal length approximately equal to the diagonal of the frame. For 35mm filmmaking - a 35-50 mm lens does not distort the angle of vision or depth
Match on action
Normal lens
Available light
Script supervisor
14. A lens with a focal length greater than 50 mm (usually between 80mm and 20mm) - which provides a larger image of the subject than a normal or wide-angle lens but which narrows the angle of vision and flattens the depth of the image relative to normal
Voice-over
Slow
Telephoto lens
Animation
15. A long shot in which the film frame resembles the proscenium arch of the stage - distancing the audience
Star persona
Plot summary
Digital cinema
Tableau shot
16. Wheeled platform with wheels that rotate - so the dolly can change direction
Closure
Crab dolly
Pixel
High-key lighting
17. A system of constructing and arranging buildings and objects on the set so that they diminish in size dramatically from foreground to background - which creates the illusion of depth
German Expressionism
Forced perspective
Fabula
Cel
18. Glass filters whose surface is etched with spots that refract light - so they create the appearance of water droplets in the air
Forced development
Exposure latitude
Fog filter
Anime
19. A method for producing a widescreen image without special lenses or equipment - using standard film stock and blocking out the top and bottom of the frame to achieve an aspect ration of 1.85:1
Time-lapse photography
Blaxploitation
Underexposure
Masking
20. A style of Japanese animation - distinguished primarily by the fact that it is not all geared for young audiences
Insert
Tilt
Anime
Studio system
21. A technique used to join live action with pre-recorded background images. A projector is aimed at a half-silvered mirror that reflects the background - which the camera records as being located behind the actors
Blaxploitation
Take
Blaxploitation
Front projection
22. A post-studio era Hollywood film designed to appeal to the broadest possible audience by fusing a simple story line with major movie stars and mounting a lavish marketing campaign
Jump cut
Oeuvre
Subtext
High concept film
23. A similarity established between two characters or situations that invites the audience to compare the two. It may involve visual - narrative - and/or sound elements
Parellel
Pan
German Expressionism
Set-up
24. Projecting a series of frames of film with the same image - which appears to stop the action
Green screen
Neutral-density filter
Freeze frame
Shutter
25. Also called 'd-cinema.' Not to be confused with digital cinematography (shooting movies on digital video) - this term refers to using digital technologies for exhibition
Outsourcing
Travelling matte
Deep focus cinematography
Digital cinema
26. Filters that increase color saturation and contrast in outdoor shots
Oeuvre
Polarizing filters
Rear projection
Director
27. A process of blending the three elements of the sound track (dialogue - music - and effects) in post-production
Mixing
Rear projection
Script supervisor
Wide film
28. Creating an image by combining several elements created separately using computer graphics rather than photographic means
Blocking
Digital compositing
Saturation
On-the-nose dialogue
29. 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
Reframing
Widescreen
Travelling matte
30. A relatively long - uninterrupted sot - generally of a minute or more
Long take
Color timing
Day for night
Front projection
31. 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
Extra
Frozen time moment
Plot summary
Extreme long-shot
32. Squeezes the image at a ratio of 2:1 horizontally onto a standard film frame. On the projector - it unsqueezes the image - creating a widescreen aspect ratio during presentation
Star system
Anime
Anamorphic lens
Base
33. The plotline that surrounds an embedded tale. The frame narration may or may not be as fully developed as the embedded tale
Roadshowing
Neutral-density filter
Speed
Frame narration
34. The way an actor delivers a line of dialogue - including pauses - inflection - and emotion
Studio system
Open-ended
Line reading
Open-ended
35. 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
Vista Vision
Mockumentary
Backstage musical
36. A platform on wheels - used for mobile camera shots
Shooting script
Dolly
Revisionist
Minor studios
37. A painting used on the set as a portion of the background
Composition in depth
Matte painting
Medium long shot
Method acting
38. Dutch angle; a shot resulting from a static camera that is tilted to the right or left - so that the subject in the frame appears at a diagonal
City symphony
Zoom out
Canted angle
Frozen time moment
39. A system for recording images on magnetic tape using a digital signal - that is - an electronic signal comprised of 0s and 1s
Continuity error
Grain
ADR
Digital video
40. A shot taken fro a position directly above the action - also called a 'birds' eye shot'
Sound bridge
Continuity error
Overhead shot
Line of action
41. The falling or unraveling action after the climax of a narrative that leads to resolution
Insert
Outsourcing
Denouement
Episodic
42. 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
Orthochromatic
Interlaced scanning
Pixilation
Extreme close-up
43. The length in minutes for a film to play in its entirety (for example - 120 minutes). Also referred to as 'screen time.'
First-person narration
Iris out
Running time
Aperture
44. The term for a film's spoken dialogue - as opposed to the underlying meaning contained in the subtext
Text
Set-up
Iris in...
Block booking
45. A shot that includes a human figure from the shoulders up
Foley artist
Extreme close-up
Medium long shot
Medium close-up
46. The chip in a video camera that converts the incoming light to an electronic signal
Tracking shot
Dailies
Charge coupler device
Hollywood Ten
47. Louis Althusser's term for the way in which a society creates its subjects/citizens through ideological (as opposed to repressive) state apparatuses - which include education - media - religion - and the family
Parellel
Tinting
Interpellation
Post-production
48. A description of film stock that is highly sensitive to light
Fabula
Backstage musical
Fast
Evaluative claim
49. Optical illusions created during post-production
Point-of-view shot
Cel
Visual effects
Screenplay
50. Also called 'stop motion photography.' A technique of photographing a scene one frame at a time and moving the model between each shot
Soundtrack
Pixilation
Soviet montage
Optical printer