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Film Vocab
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performing-arts
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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 film's main characters - one whose conflicts and motives drive the story forward
Film stock
Blockbuster
Tracking shot
Protagonist
2. Exposed and developed film stock from which the master positive is struck. If projected - the negative would produce a reverse of the image - with dark areas appearing white and vice versa or - if color film - areas of color appearing as their comple
Interpretive claim
Reframing
Negative
Intertextual reference
3. A marketing strategy of screening a blockbuster prior to general release only in premier theaters
Tableau shot
Cameo
Roadshowing
Rear projection
4. A change of focus from one plane of depth to another. As the in-focus subject goes out of focus - another object - which has been blurry - comes into focus in either the background or the foreground
Long shot
Rack focus
Panning and scanning
Integrated musical
5. Suspended particles of silver in the film's emulsion - Which may become visible in the final image as dots
Grain
Parellel editing
Digital video
Cinerama
6. A lens with a variable focal length that allows changes of focal length while keeping the subject in focus
Exposure latitude
Two-shot
Zoom lens
Syuzhet
7. The practice of Hollywood studios contracting out post-production work to individuals or firms outside the U.S.
Closure
Outsourcing
Dye coupler
Figure placement and movement
8. A film style that - in contrast to the classical and formalist styles - focuses characters - place - and the spontaneity and digressiveness of life - rather than on highly structured stories or aesthetic abstraction
Realist style
Scene
Blockbuster
Wide-angle lens
9. An unstated meaning that underlies and is implied by spoken dialogue
Method acting
Subtext
Base
Cut
10. A shot transition where shot A slowly disappears as the screen becomes black before shot B appears. A fade-in is the reverse of this process
Wireframe
Out-take
Undercranking
Fade-out
11. 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
Freeze frame
Wide-angle lens
Day for night
Hollywood Ten
12. 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
Pre-production
Low-key lighting
Depth of field
Realist style
13. A technique of intentionally adding scratches in a film's emulsion layer for aesthetic purposes - such as to simulate home movie footage
Fabula
Front projection
Sound bridge
Scratching
14. A style of Japanese animation - distinguished primarily by the fact that it is not all geared for young audiences
Anime
Charge coupler device
180-degree rule
Letterboxing
15. 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
Selective focus
Promotion
Tilt
Exposition
16. Light emitted from a larger source that is scattered over a bigger area or reflected off a surface before it strikes the subject. Soft light minimizes facial details - including wrinkles
Product placement
Canted angle
Tilt
Soft light
17. A narrative moment that signals an important shift of some kind in character or situation
Extreme wide-angle lens
Turning point
Block booking
Phi phenomenon
18. 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
Interlaced scanning
Flashback
Episodic
Overlapping dialogue
19. 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
Medium shot
Split screen
Underexposure
Deep focus cinematography
20. An early color process - involving bathing lengths of processed film in dye one scene at a time
Third-person narration
Three-point lighting
Best boy
Tinting
21. 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
Mixing
Extreme close-up
Long shot
Vista Vision
22. Using computer graphics to 'build' structures connected to the actual architecture on set or location
Digital set extension
Screenplay
Green screen
Interpretive claim
23. A shot taken from a camera position below the subject
Low-angle shot
Polarizing filters
Overlapping dialogue
Interpellation
24. The period of time before principal photography during which actors are signed - sets and costumes designed - and locations scouted
Dye coupler
Color timing
Pre-production
Wipe
25. A crew member who works in post-production in a specially equipped studio to create the sounds of the story world - such as the shuffling of shoes on various surfaces for footsteps
Apparatus Theory
Third-person narration
Foley artist
Star persona
26. 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
Parellel editing
Soundtrack
Medium close-up
27. The chronological accounting of all events presented and suggested
Motif
Color consultant
Fabula
Forced perspective
28. A process of blending the three elements of the sound track (dialogue - music - and effects) in post-production
Standard shot pattern
Persistence of vision
Blockbuster
Mixing
29. Color. The strength of a hue is measured by its saturation or desaturation
Extra
Hue
Brechtian distanciation
Matte
30. The arrangement of images to depict a unified storyline
Figure placement and movement
Fade-out
Speed
Narrative sequencing
31. The imagined world of the story
Standard shot pattern
Aspect Ratio
Diegesis
Focus puller
32. The non-chronological insertion of scenes of events yet to happen into the present day of the story world
Blue screen
Avant-garde film
Running time
Flashforward
33. 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
Lightning mix
Hollywood Blacklist
Neutral-density filter
Fabula
34. 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
Storyboard
Point-of-view shot
Second unit
Anime
35. The selection and ordering of narrative events presented in a film
Cameo
Syuzhet
Charge coupler device
Soft light
36. The visual arrangement of objects - actors - and space within the frame
Outsourcing
Composition
Release prints
City symphony
37. 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
Star system
Forced perspective
Apparatus Theory
Foley artist
38. A device used to manipulate the amount and/or color of light entering the lens
Filter
180-degree rule
Digital compositing
Saturation
39. A small - variable opening on a camera lens that regulates the amount of light entering the camera and striking the surface of the film
Aperture
Cameo
Fast motion
Orthochromatic
40. 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
Overexposure
Ethnographic film
Rotoscope
Masking
41. A visual effect created when the subject in the frame is restricted by the objects or the physical properties of the set
Special visual effects
Star persona
Diffusion filters
Tight framing
42. A type of filter that absorbs certain wavelength but leave others unaffected. On black and white film - color filters lighten or darken tones. On color film - they can produce a range of effects
Syuzhet
Time-lapse photography
Color filter
Medium shot
43. A continuity editing technique that preserves spatial continuity by using a character's line of vision as motivation for a cut
Lens
Eyeline match
Insert
Medium long shot
44. A system for combining two separately filmed images in the same frame that involves create a matte (a black mask that covers a portion of the image) for a live action sequence and using it to block out a portion of the frame when filming the backgrou
Shooting script
Travelling matte
Subgenre
Syuzhet
45. 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
Backstage musical
Ethnographic film
Method acting
Saturation
46. The measurement of how forgiving a film stock is. It determines whether an acceptable image will be produced when the film stock is exposed to too little or too much light
Tinting
Exposure latitude
Narrative sequencing
Offscreen space
47. A story; a chain of events linked by cause-and-effect logic
Freeze frame
Graphic match
Narrative
Day for night
48. 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
Negative
Kuleshov effect
Progressive scanning
Out-take
49. A short documentary on current events - show in movie theaters along with cartoons and feature films beginning in the 1930s
Two-shot
Newsreel
Scene
Tight framing
50. 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
Persistence of vision
Blocking
Natural-key lighting
Compositing