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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. A crew member responsible for logging the details of each take on the set so as to ensure continuity
Script supervisor
Filter
Visual effects
ADR
2. A format that uses a larger film stock than standard 35mm. IMAX - Omnimax - and Showscan are shot on 70mm film
Wide film
Overlapping dialogue
Genre
Realist style
3. The horizontal turning movement of an otherwise immobile camera across a scene from left to right or vice versa
Pan
Character actor
Slow motion
Panning and scanning
4. The plotline that surrounds an embedded tale. The frame narration may or may not be as fully developed as the embedded tale
Frame narration
Medium long shot
Outsourcing
Standard shot pattern
5. 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
Negative cutter
Aerial Shot
Forced development
Shot/reverse shot
6. A shot filmed from an airplane or helicopter
Overhead shot
Fade-out
Cel
Aerial Shot
7. The reverse of Iris in: an iris expands outward until the next shot takes up the entire screen
Studio system
Iris out
180-degree rule
Rear projection
8. Live action is filmed in front of a blue screen and a matte. It's then joined with the background footage
Match on action
Average shot length
Blue screen
Blaxploitation
9. A shot that appears during or near the end of a scene and reorients viewers to the setting
Re-establishing shot
Screenplay
Auteur
Speed
10. A process of blending the three elements of the sound track (dialogue - music - and effects) in post-production
Telecine
Medium shot
Crab dolly
Mixing
11. The first print made from a film negative
Zoom in...
Re-establishing shot
Genre conventions
Master positive
12. These filters bend the light coming into lens - softening and blurring the image
Diffusion filters
German Expressionism
Shot
Soundtrack
13. 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
Lens
Diegesis
Interpellation
Intertextual reference
14. A specialist who monitors the processing of color on the se and in the film lab
Matte
First-person narration
Color consultant
Gaffer
15. 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
Running time
Double exposure
Undercranking
Widescreen
16. The five vertically integrated corporations that exerted the greatest control over film production in the studio era: MGM - Warner Brothers - RKO - Twentieth Century Fox - and Paramount
Polarizing filters
Four-part structure
Camera distance
Major studios
17. 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
Take
Medium long shot
Auteur
Post-production
18. 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
Camera distance
Exposure latitude
Rotoscope
Blockbuster
19. The rules of character - setting - and narrative that films that belong to a genre - such as Westerns - horror films - and screwball comedies - generally obey.
Genre conventions
First-person narration
Medium shot
Saturation
20. The arrangement of actors on screen as a compositional element that suggests themes - character development - emotional content - and visual motifs
Master shot
Script supervisor
Figure placement and movement
Shooting script
21. A technique of exposing film frames - then rewinding the film and exposing it again - which results in an image that combines two shots in a single frame
Parellel
Voice-over
Double exposure
Spec script
22. A screenplay written and submitted to a studio or production company without a prior contract or agreement
Telecine
Parellel
Spec script
Evaluative claim
23. 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
Foley artist
Hue
Kuleshov effect
Line of action
24. The imagined world of the story
Diegesis
Propaganda film
Foley artist
Classical style
25. A shot taken from a camera mounted on a crane that moves three-dimensionally in a space
First-person narration
Crane shot
Third-person narration
Restricted narration
26. The length in minutes for a film to play in its entirety (for example - 120 minutes). Also referred to as 'screen time.'
Foley artist
High concept film
Continuity editor
Running time
27. 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
Product placement
Animation
Outsourcing
Extreme wide-angle lens
28. A specialist who monitors the processing of color on the se and in the film lab
Soviet montage
Extra
Exposure latitude
Color consultant
29. A digital technique developed by Industrial Light and Magic - which builds movement sequences from single frames of film
Hard light
Ethnographic film
Go-motion
Voice-over
30. A shot taken by a camera that is held manually rather than supported by a tripod - crane or Steadicam. Generally - such shots are shaky - owing to the motion of the camera operator
Academy Ratio
Extreme wide-angle lens
Typecasting
Handheld shot
31. A technique of 'pushing' the film (overdeveloping it) to correct problems of underexposure (resulting from insufficient light during shooting) by increasing image contrast
Composition
Narrative
Overlapping dialogue
Forced development
32. Non-diegetic; any element in the film that is not part of the imagined story world
Rack focus
Extradiegetic
Panchromatic
Crane shot
33. A shot taken from a camera position below the subject
Undercranking
Low-angle shot
Focus puller
Color timing
34. A similarity established between two characters or situations that invites the audience to compare the two. It may involve visual - narrative - and/or sound elements
Recursive action
Tight framing
Parellel
Plot summary
35. A machine that converts film prints to videotape format
Telecine
Dailies
Classical style
Extreme wide-angle lens
36. 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
Crane shot
Offscreen space
Vista Vision
Double exposure
37. Dense accumulation of detail conveyed in the opening moments of a film
Evaluative claim
Soundtrack
Exposition
Tinting
38. Sound design that blends the speech of several characters talking simultaneously - used to create spontaneity - although it may also confuse the audience
Fast
Overlapping dialogue
Parellel editing
Subgenre
39. A widescreen process that uses three cameras - three projectors - and a wide - curved screen
Post-production
Medium long shot
Cinerama
Canted angle
40. The arrangement of actors on screen as a compositional element that suggests themes - character development - emotional content - and visual motifs
Release prints
Figure placement and movement
Character actor
Pan
41. 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
30-degree rule
Episodic
Take
Motivation
42. The use of editing techniques - such as a fade or dissolve - to indicate the end of one scene and the beginning of another
Three-point lighting
Base
Shot transition
Pushing
43. A shot in a sequence that is taken from the reverse angle of the shot previous to it
Reverse shot
Avant-garde film
Superimposition
Color timing
44. The period of time before principal photography during which actors are signed - sets and costumes designed - and locations scouted
Analog Video
Pre-production
Color filter
Graphic match
45. The practice of Hollywood studios contracting out post-production work to individuals or firms outside the U.S.
Pre-production
Exposure latitude
Outsourcing
Anamorphic lens
46. The period of time before principal photography during which actors are signed - sets and costumes designed - and locations scouted
Offscreen space
Blockbuster
Non-diegetic
Pre-production
47. The individual arrangement of lighting and camera placement used for each shot
Natural-key lighting
Loose framing
Major studios
Set-up
48. A direct vocal address to the audience - Which may emanate from a character or from a narrative voice apparently unrelated to the diegesis
Voice-over
Montage sequence
Foley artist
Underexposure
49. A genre film that radically modifies accepted genre conventions for dramatic effect
Extreme long-shot
Antagonist
Exposure latitude
Revisionist
50. A story; a chain of events linked by cause-and-effect logic
Emulsion
Normal lens
Star persona
Narrative