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Film Vocab
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1. A shot taken from a camera position below the subject
Low-angle shot
Genre
Score
Negative cutter
2. The arrangement of actors on screen as a compositional element that suggests themes - character development - emotional content - and visual motifs
Tableau shot
Soviet montage
Figure placement and movement
Film stock
3. A short screen appearance by a celebrity - playing himself or herself
Closure
Pre-production
Canted angle
Cameo
4. 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
Vertical integration
Hard light
Crab dolly
Point-of-view shot
5. A rule in continuity editing - which dictates that if a cut occurs while a character is in the midst of an action - the subsequent shot must begin so that audiences see the completion of that action
Figure placement and movement
Four-part structure
Selective focus
Match on action
6. The narrative path of the main or supporting characters - also called a plotline. Complex films may have several lines of action
Soviet montage
Director
Line of action
Lightning mix
7. Images that originate from computer graphics technology - rather than photography
Computer-generated imagery (CGI)
Promotion
Genre conventions
Set-up
8. The imagined world of the story
Focal length
Diegesis
Flashing
Script supervisor
9. Processes such as Cinemascope and Cinerama - developed during the 1950s to enhance film's size advantage over the smaller television image
Base
Widescreen
Blue screen
Exposure
10. 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
High concept film
Iris out
Lightning mix
Dye coupler
11. The practice or repeatedly casting actors in similar roles across different films
Flashforward
Typecasting
Tinting
Pan
12. 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
Frozen time moment
Average shot length
Descriptive claim
Take
13. Images that originate from computer graphics technology - rather than photography
Computer-generated imagery (CGI)
Motivation
Lightning mix
Handheld shot
14. A term for film stock used in early cinema that was insensitive to red hues
Rotoscope
Depth of field
Orthochromatic
Hybrid
15. 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
Telephoto lens
Studio system
Speed
Forced development
16. The reverse of Iris in: an iris expands outward until the next shot takes up the entire screen
Eyeline match
Release prints
Iris out
Negative
17. Non-diegetic; any element in the film that is not part of the imagined story world
Soft light
Medium close-up
Extradiegetic
Extra
18. A crew member responsible for logging the details of each take on the set so as to ensure continuity
Script supervisor
Product placement
Denouement
Iris in...
19. 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
Character actor
Normal lens
Split screen
Diffusion filters
20. The conclusion of the film wraps up - all loose ends in a form of resolution - though not necessarily with a happy ending.
Closure
Blaxploitation
Fast motion
Extreme long-shot
21. Experimental film; Underground cinema;
Trombone shot
Avant-garde film
Jump cut
Zoom lens
22. A single take that contains an entire scene
Widescreen
Master shot
Non-diegetic
Negative cutter
23. A chemical coating on film stock containing light-sensitive grains
Tinting
Screenplay
Out-take
Emulsion
24. 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
Medium close-up
Low-key lighting
Out-take
25. 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
Iris in...
Shot/reverse shot
Cel
26. A platform on wheels - used for mobile camera shots
Split screen
Telecine
Dolly
Gauge
27. Live action is filmed in front of a blue screen and a matte. It's then joined with the background footage
Progressive scanning
Descriptive claim
Antagonist
Blue screen
28. The shape of the image onscreen as determined by the width of the frame relative to its height
Persistence of vision
Low-angle shot
Travelling matte
Aspect Ratio
29. 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
Direct cinema
Bleach bypass
Saturation
Reframing
30. 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
Avant-garde film
Exposure
Masking
Evaluative claim
31. A shot taken when the camera is so close to a subject that it fills the frame. It is most commonly used for a shot that isolates and encompasses a single actor's face - to emphasize the expression of emotion
Close-up
Cut
Video assist
Color consultant
32. A narrative approach that limits the audience's view of events to that of the main character(s) in the film. Occasional moments of omniscient narration may give viewers more information than the character shave at specific points in the narrative
Studio system
Time-lapse photography
Zoom out
Restricted narration
33. 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
Loose framing
Cel
Vista Vision
Editor
34. A term describing a conclusion that does not answer all the questions raised regarding characters or storylines - nor tie up all loose ends
Open-ended
Director
Block booking
Zoom out
35. 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
Wide-angle lens
Widescreen
Jump cut
Focal length
36. 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
Motivation
Post-production
Optical printer
37. 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
Lightning mix
Wireframe
Release prints
38. Natural light; The process of suing sunlight rather than artificial studio lights when filming
Re-establishing shot
Text
Available light
Zoom out
39. A film that fuses the conventions of two or more genres
Hybrid
Canted angle
Blaxploitation
Overlapping dialogue
40. Recording images at a slower speed than the speed of projection (24 frames per second). Before cameras were motorized - this was called undercranking. Fewer frames are exposed in one minute - so - when projected at 24 f.p.s. - that action takes less
Widescreen
Roadshowing
Special visual effects
Fast motion
41. A brief chronological description of the basic events and characters in a film. It does not include interpretive or evaluative claims
German Expressionism
Plot summary
Close-up
Subtext
42. A crew member who reports to the Director of Photography (DP) and is in charge of tasks involving lighting and electrical needs
Close-up
Gaffer
Kuleshov effect
Motif
43. 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
Four-part structure
Match on action
Extreme wide-angle lens
Continuity editing
44. A pan executed so quickly that it produces a blurred image - indicated rapid activity or - sometimes - the passage of time
Subgenre
Swish pan
Score
Narrative sequencing
45. 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
Vista Vision
Exposure latitude
Superimposition
Trombone shot
46. Using computer graphics to 'build' structures connected to the actual architecture on set or location
Backstage musical
Forced development
Scene
Digital set extension
47. 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
Travelling matte
Diegesis
Star system
Emulsion
48. A production term denoting a single uninterrupted series of frames exposed by a motion picture or video camera between the time it is turned on and the time it is turned off. Filmmakers shoot several takes of any scene and the film editor selects the
Prosthesis
Take
Digital cinema
Medium long shot
49. The film medium's technological apparatus is inherently ideological
Motivation
Apparatus Theory
Special visual effects
Rear projection
50. A sound editing technique that links several scenes through parallel and overlapping sounds. Each sound is associated with one scene - unlike a sound bridge - where a sound from one scene bleeds into that of another
Hollywood Ten
Animation
Lightning mix
Film stock
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