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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. The horizontal turning movement of an otherwise immobile camera across a scene from left to right or vice versa
Fast motion
Tinting
Pan
Production values
2. The person in charge of planning the style and look of the film with the production designer and director of photography - working with actors during principal photography - and collaborating with the editor on the final version
Trailer
Match on action
Narrative
Director
3. The term for a film's spoken dialogue - as opposed to the underlying meaning contained in the subtext
Text
Negative cutter
Synthespian
Medium long shot
4. The film medium's technological apparatus is inherently ideological
Gauge
On-the-nose dialogue
Narrative
Apparatus Theory
5. A statement that presents an argument about a film's meaning and significance
Cameo
Interpretive claim
First-person narration
Method acting
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
Color timing
Forced perspective
Overhead shot
Out-take
7. A cinematography technique that produces an image with many planes of depth in focus. It can be accomplished by using a small aperture - a large distance between camera and subject - and/or a lens of short focal length
Deep focus cinematography
Split screen
Soft light
Spec script
8. A lens with a variable focal length that allows changes of focal length while keeping the subject in focus
Foley artist
Pushing
Progressive scanning
Zoom lens
9. 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
Major studios
Underexposure
Evaluative claim
Slow motion
10. A technique of depicting two layered images simultaneously. Images from one frame or several frames of film are added to pre-existing images - using an optical printer - to produce the same effect as a double exposure
Superimposition
Deep focus cinematography
Freeze frame
Block booking
11. The width of the film stock - measured across the frame. Typical sizes are 8mm - 16mm - 35mm - and 70mm
Gauge
Fast
Syuzhet
Interpellation
12. A lens with a shorter focal length than a normal or telephoto lens (usually between 15-35mm). The subject appears smaller as a result - but the angle of vision is wider and an illusion is created of greater depth in the frame
Match on action
Match on action
Backstory
Wide-angle lens
13. A small - variable opening on a camera lens that regulates the amount of light entering the camera and striking the surface of the film
Matte
Antagonist
Aperture
Non-diegetic
14. 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
Method acting
Vertical integration
Masking
Interpellation
15. The space between the camera and subject it is filming.
Forced perspective
Long take
Long shot
Camera distance
16. 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.
Exposition
Soviet montage
Pixilation
Average shot length
17. A term applied to film stock that is relatively insensitive to light. This stock will not yield acceptable images unless the amount of light can be carefully controlled
Exposure
Slow
Plot summary
Out-take
18. The practice of shooting during the day but using filters and underexposure to create the illusion of nighttime
Blue screen
Exposure
Day for night
Flashforward
19. A relatively long - uninterrupted sot - generally of a minute or more
Three-act structure
Trombone shot
Natural-key lighting
Long take
20. A musical accompaniment written specifically for a film
Scratching
Average shot length
Score
Genre
21. An optical effect whereby the eye continues to register a visual stimulus in the brain for a brief period after that stimulus has been removed
Persistence of vision
Star filter
Filter
Tracking shot
22. The first shot in a standard shot sequence. Its purpose is to provide a clear representation of the location of the action
Antagonist
Establishing shot
Match on action
Tracking shot
23. Reels of film that are shipped to movie theaters for exhibition. Digital cinema - which can be distributed via satellite - broadband - or on media such as DVDs - may soon replace film prints because the latter are expensive to create - copy - and dis
Montage sequence
Slow motion
Text
Release prints
24. A technique of moving a zoom lens from a wide-angle position to a telephoto position - which results in a magnification of the subject within the frame - and keeps the subject in focus
Voice-over
Optical printer
Hollywood Ten
Zoom in...
25. A shot that depicts a human body from the feet up
Composition in depth
Fade-out
Medium long shot
Trailer
26. The shape of the image onscreen as determined by the width of the frame relative to its height
Foley artist
Emulsion
Letterboxing
Aspect Ratio
27. The practice of Hollywood studios contracting out post-production work to individuals or firms outside the U.S.
Animation
Outsourcing
Freeze frame
Method acting
28. 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
Matte painting
Aperture
Trailer
Studio system
29. A short segment of film used to promote an upcoming release
Go-motion
Telecine
Widescreen
Trailer
30. A technique of recording very few images over a long period of time - say - one frame per minute or per day
Figure placement and movement
Time-lapse photography
Exposure latitude
Offscreen space
31. Using computer graphics to 'build' structures connected to the actual architecture on set or location
Pixilation
Cel
Swish pan
Digital set extension
32. A visual effect created when the subject in the frame is restricted by the objects or the physical properties of the set
Fast
Tight framing
Wipe
German Expressionism
33. A mental phenomenon by which viewers derive more meaning from the interaction of two sequential shots than from a single shot in isolation
Tight framing
Kuleshov effect
Subgenre
Backstory
34. A story narrated by one of the characters within the story - using the 'I' voice
Rotoscope
Best boy
First-person narration
Gaffer
35. An effect created when too little light strikes the film during shooting. As a result the image will contain dark areas that appear very dense and dark (including shadows) and the overall contrast will be less than with a properly exposed image
Pan
Underexposure
Kuleshov effect
Overexposure
36. A device that projects photographs or footage onto glass so that images can be traced by hand to create animated images
Digital set extension
Rotoscope
Newsreel
Line of action
37. The camera should move at least 30 degrees any time there is a cut within a scene
30-degree rule
Freeze frame
Kuleshov effect
Non-diegetic
38. A shot that interrupts a scene's master shot and may include character reactions
Medium shot
Product placement
Insert
Filter
39. A device attached to the film camera that records videotape of what has been filmed - allowing the director immediate access to video footage
Backstage musical
Motivation
Screenplay
Video assist
40. 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
Fog filter
Swish pan
Anamorphic lens
Screenplay
41. An unstated meaning that underlies and is implied by spoken dialogue
Day for night
Montage sequence
Subtext
Letterboxing
42. A fiction film (often a comedy) that uses documentary conventions on fictional rather than real-world subject matter
Zoom in...
Mockumentary
Color filter
Score
43. A term used for any narrative sound - or visual element not contained in the story world. Also called 'extradiegetic'
Diffusion filters
Classical style
Undercranking
Non-diegetic
44. 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
German Expressionism
Rear projection
Mixing
45. A device used to manipulate the amount and/or color of light entering the lens
Matte
Filter
Shot/reverse shot
Newsreel
46. A technique of manipulating focus to direct the viewer's attention
Front projection
Selective focus
Long shot
Genre conventions
47. 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
Handheld shot
Two-shot
Progressive scanning
Orthochromatic
48. The narrative path of the main or supporting characters - also called a plotline. Complex films may have several lines of action
Brechtian distanciation
Film stock
Line of action
Green screen
49. The shape of the image onscreen as determined by the width of the frame relative to its height
Aspect Ratio
Star system
Medium close-up
Classical style
50. Light striking the emulsion layer of the film - activating light-sensitive grains
Runaway production
Blaxploitation
Exposure
Running time