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Film Vocab
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1. 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
Undercranking
Available light
Fast
Continuity editing
2. 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
Scene
Pixel
Interlaced scanning
Classical style
3. A glass element on a camera that focuses light rays so that the image of the object appears on the surface of the film
Restricted narration
Lens
Rack focus
Digital compositing
4. 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
Shot/reverse shot
High-angle shot
City symphony
Synthespian
5. A technician responsible for splicing and assembling the film negative to the editor's specifications
Negative cutter
Reframing
Gauge
Flashback
6. 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
Forced perspective
Digital set extension
Medium long shot
Cinerama
7. Literary narration from a viewpoint beyond that of any one individual character
Third-person narration
Protagonist
Pixilation
Diffusion filters
8. An early color process - involving bathing lengths of processed film in dye one scene at a time
Tinting
Long take
Film stock
Minor studios
9. A continuity editing technique that preserves spatial continuity by using a character's line of vision as motivation for a cut
Eyeline match
Overexposure
Animation
Director
10. The chronological accounting of all events presented and suggested
Fabula
Omniscient narration
Matte
Normal lens
11. A technique of leaving empty space around the subject in the frame - in order to covey openness and continuity of visible space and to imply offscreen space
Matte
Loose framing
Actualitas
Gaffer
12. The width of the film stock - measured across the frame. Typical sizes are 8mm - 16mm - 35mm - and 70mm
Omniscient narration
Telecine
Gauge
Pushing
13. Sound design that blends the speech of several characters talking simultaneously - used to create spontaneity - although it may also confuse the audience
Out-take
Matte painting
Overlapping dialogue
Pushing
14. Creating an image by combining several elements created separately using computer graphics rather than photographic means
Scene
Digital compositing
Pre-production
Lightning mix
15. The selection and ordering of narrative events presented in a film
Frame narration
Syuzhet
Saturation
Descriptive claim
16. Any noticeable but unintended discrepancy from one shot to the next in costume - props - hairstyle - posture - etc.
Continuity error
Extra
High-key lighting
Vista Vision
17. A shot taken fro a position directly above the action - also called a 'birds' eye shot'
Director
Overhead shot
Best boy
Diffusion filters
18. A shot that includes a human figure from the shoulders up
Medium close-up
Major studios
Digital set extension
Lightning mix
19. A painting used on the set as a portion of the background
Storyboard
Matte painting
Panning and scanning
Letterboxing
20. A term used for any narrative sound - or visual element not contained in the story world. Also called 'extradiegetic'
Aerial Shot
Medium close-up
Non-diegetic
Steadicam
21. A shot depicting the human body from the waist up
Underexposure
Medium shot
City symphony
Animation
22. 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
Star system
Flashforward
Interpellation
Fast
23. A shot that appears during or near the end of a scene and reorients viewers to the setting
Newsreel
Offscreen space
Spec script
Re-establishing shot
24. A brief chronological description of the basic events and characters in a film. It does not include interpretive or evaluative claims
Soviet montage
Plot summary
Gauge
Medium long shot
25. The use of editing techniques - such as a fade or dissolve - to indicate the end of one scene and the beginning of another
Prosthesis
Rear projection
Shot transition
Match on action
26. A technique in which the audience temporarily shares the visual perspective of a character or a group of characters. The camera points in the directions the character looks - simulating the character's field of vision
Extreme close-up
Promotion
Day for night
Point-of-view shot
27. 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
Standard shot pattern
Shot
Close-up
Script supervisor
28. Non-diegetic; any element in the film that is not part of the imagined story world
Special visual effects
Extradiegetic
Digital video
Star system
29. Author; A term popularized by French film critics and refers to film directors with their own distinctive style
Underexposure
Director
Hollywood Ten
Auteur
30. An effect created when more light is required to produce an image strakes the film stock - so that the resulting image exhibits high contrast - glaring light - and washed out shadows. This effect ma or may not be intentional on the filmmaker's part
Recursive action
Negative cutter
Overexposure
Canted angle
31. A technique in which the audience temporarily shares the visual perspective of a character or a group of characters. The camera points in the directions the character looks - simulating the character's field of vision
Forced development
Tilt
Star filter
Point-of-view shot
32. The horizontal turning movement of an otherwise immobile camera across a scene from left to right or vice versa
Forced perspective
Saturation
Dolly
Pan
33. Any noticeable but unintended discrepancy from one shot to the next in costume - props - hairstyle - posture - etc.
Continuity error
Focal length
Letterboxing
Academy Ratio
34. 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
Rotoscope
Natural-key lighting
Optical printer
Soft light
35. A fiction film (often a comedy) that uses documentary conventions on fictional rather than real-world subject matter
Line of action
Cut
Color timing
Mockumentary
36. A series of related scene joined through elliptical editing that indicates the passage of time
Morphing
Cut
Montage sequence
Charge coupler device
37. Also called 'stop motion photography.' A technique of photographing a scene one frame at a time and moving the model between each shot
Eyeline match
Pixilation
Subgenre
Prosthesis
38. 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
Subtext
German Expressionism
Continuity editing
Three-act structure
39. Muted - washed out color that contains more white than a saturated color
Direct cinema
Interpretive claim
Medium shot
Desaturated
40. 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
Swish pan
Tracking shot
Omniscient narration
Fabula
41. A mental phenomenon by which viewers derive more meaning from the interaction of two sequential shots than from a single shot in isolation
Tableau shot
Flashback
Normal lens
Kuleshov effect
42. 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
Slow motion
Method acting
Runaway production
Forced perspective
43. A technique of cutting back and forth between action occurring in two different locations - which often creates the illusion that they are happening simultaneously. Also called 'cross cutting.'
Parellel editing
Long take
Typecasting
Three-act structure
44. A style of stage acting developed from the teachings of Constantin Stanislavsky - which trains actors to get into character through the use of emotional memory
Realist style
Overlapping dialogue
Tracking shot
Method acting
45. Any narrative - visual - or sound element that is repeated and thereby acquires and reflects its significance to the story - characters - or themes of the film.
Text
Motif
Pre-production
Swish pan
46. A platform on wheels - used for mobile camera shots
Overlapping dialogue
Diffusion filters
Dolly
Fade-out
47. Projecting a series of frames of film with the same image - which appears to stop the action
Freeze frame
Motif
Handheld shot
Mixing
48. An agreement made between filmmakers and those who license the use of commercial products to feature those products in films - generally as props used by characters
Runaway production
Loose framing
Product placement
Split screen
49. A flexible celluloid strip that - along with the emulsion layer - comprises 35mm film stock
Progressive scanning
Hollywood Blacklist
Continuity editor
Base
50. Early films that documented everyday events - such as workers leaving a factory
Actualitas
Rack focus
Available light
Polarizing filters