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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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This is a study tool. The 3 wrong answers for each question are randomly chosen from answers to other questions. So, you might find at times the answers obvious, but you will see it re-enforces your understanding as you take the test each time.
1. 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
Director
Genre conventions
Brechtian distanciation
Turning point
2. A series of individual drawings that provides a blueprint for the shooting of a scene
Storyboard
Revisionist
Lens
Go-motion
3. A technique used to join live action with a pre-recorded background image. A projector is placed behind a screen and projects an image onto it. Actors stand in front of the screen and the camera records them in front of the projected background
Best boy
Rear projection
First-person narration
High-key lighting
4. The horizontal turning movement of an otherwise immobile camera across a scene from left to right or vice versa
Pan
Insert
Cinerama
Frame narration
5. The plotline that surrounds an embedded tale. The frame narration may or may not be as fully developed as the embedded tale
Frame narration
Frozen time moment
Rotoscope
Morphing
6. The practice of shooting during the day but using filters and underexposure to create the illusion of nighttime
Day for night
Long take
Telephoto lens
Recursive action
7. A shot taken fro a position directly above the action - also called a 'birds' eye shot'
Overhead shot
Vista Vision
Mockumentary
Runaway production
8. A transparent sheet on which animation artists draw images.
Exposition
Formalist style
Cel
Trombone shot
9. A machine used to create optical effects such as fades - dissolves - and superimpositions. Most are now created digitally
Exposure
Zoom out
Tracking shot
Optical printer
10. Early films that documented everyday events - such as workers leaving a factory
Avant-garde film
Panning and scanning
Actualitas
Release prints
11. A shot that makes the human subject very small in relation to his or her environment. The entire figure from head to toe is onscreen and dwarfed by the surroundings
Panning and scanning
Lightning mix
Extreme long-shot
Insert
12. A shot taken from a camera mounted on a crane that moves three-dimensionally in a space
Closure
Base
Animation
Crane shot
13. The average length in seconds of a series of shots - covering a portion of a film or an entire film; a measure of pace within a scene or in the film as a whole.
Promotion
Cutaway
Recursive action
Average shot length
14. A filter that creates points of light that streak outward from a light source
Star filter
Phi phenomenon
Shot/reverse shot
Interpellation
15. A story narrated by one of the characters within the story - using the 'I' voice
Propaganda film
Front projection
Master positive
First-person narration
16. A process of blending the three elements of the sound track (dialogue - music - and effects) in post-production
Text
Mixing
Pushing
Medium shot
17. A narrative - visual - or sound element that refers viewers to other films or works of art
Open-ended
Canted angle
Propaganda film
Intertextual reference
18. A technique of shifting the camera angle - height - or distance to take into account the motion of actors or objects within the frame
Slow motion
Cut
Graphic match
Reframing
19. 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
Blocking
Orthochromatic
Front projection
Focus puller
20. Devices that attach to actors' faces and/or bodies to change their appearance
Prosthesis
Sound bridge
Hue
Fog filter
21. Wheeled platform with wheels that rotate - so the dolly can change direction
Reframing
Crab dolly
Matte
Fast
22. 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
Ethnographic film
Canted angle
Scene
Formalist style
23. A statement that presents an argument about a film's meaning and significance
Wide film
Backstage musical
Optical printer
Interpretive claim
24. 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
Telephoto lens
Master positive
Genre conventions
Wireframe
25. The use of editing techniques - such as a fade or dissolve - to indicate the end of one scene and the beginning of another
Shot transition
Video assist
Subtext
Turning point
26. A lens with a variable focal length that allows changes of focal length while keeping the subject in focus
Swish pan
Genre
Orthochromatic
Zoom lens
27. The chronological accounting of all events presented and suggested
Fabula
Steadicam
Auteur
Shooting script
28. 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
Hollywood Ten
Product placement
Omniscient narration
Narrative sequencing
29. A measure of the visual and sound quality of a film. Low-budget films tend to have lower production values because they lack the resources to devote to expensive pre- and post-production activities
Blaxploitation
Gauge
Production values
Plot summary
30. 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
Director
Rack focus
Direct cinema
High concept film
31. The artful use of light and dark areas in the composition in black and white filmmaking
Wide film
Subgenre
Pushing
Chiaroscuro
32. Live action is filmed in front of a blue screen and a matte. It's then joined with the background footage
Blue screen
Hard light
Offscreen space
Extreme long-shot
33. 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
Prosthesis
Crane shot
Slow motion
Voice-over
34. Film productions shot outside the U.S. for economic reasons
Scratching
Available light
Analog Video
Runaway production
35. A narrative moment that signals an important shift of some kind in character or situation
Cutaway
Subgenre
Turning point
Flashing
36. A short segment of film used to promote an upcoming release
Trailer
Dye coupler
Point-of-view shot
Reverse shot
37. Creating an image by combining several elements created separately using computer graphics rather than photographic means
Digital compositing
High concept film
Dailies
Masking
38. A technique of shooting a scene at a very high speed (96 frames per second) - then adding and subtracting frames in post-production - 'fanning out' the action through the overlapping images
Integrated musical
Parellel
Recursive action
Gaffer
39. The length in minutes for a film to play in its entirety (for example - 120 minutes). Also referred to as 'screen time.'
Superimposition
Fog filter
Soundtrack
Running time
40. A shot transition that involves the gradual disappearance of the image at the same time that a new image gradually comes into view
Trailer
Master positive
Dissolve
Score
41. The practice or repeatedly casting actors in similar roles across different films
Typecasting
Depth of field
Scene
Lens
42. 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
Pulling
Glass shot
Blocking
Pixel
43. A crew member whose job is to measure the distance between the subject and the camera lens - marking the ring on the camera lens - and ensuring the ring is turned precisely so that the image is in focus
Split screen
Digital cinema
Brechtian distanciation
Focus puller
44. 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
Exposure
Saturation
Offscreen space
Tableau shot
45. Everything audiences hear when they watch a sound film. The soundtrack is the composite of all three elements of film sound: dialogue - music - and sound effects
Voice-over
Focus puller
Soundtrack
Method acting
46. A genre film that radically modifies accepted genre conventions for dramatic effect
Overhead shot
Desaturated
Production values
Revisionist
47. A format that uses a larger film stock than standard 35mm. IMAX - Omnimax - and Showscan are shot on 70mm film
Wide film
Reframing
Glass shot
Scene
48. The distance in millimeters from the optical center of a lens to the lane where the sharpest image is formed while focusing on a distant object
Focal length
Tinting
Score
Star filter
49. 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
Episodic
Non-diegetic
Apparatus Theory
Blue screen
50. Because film stock is sensitive to the color of light - directors work with film labs in post-production to monitor the color scheme of each scene in a film - making adjustments for consistency and aesthetic effect
Continuity editor
Antagonist
Genre
Color timing