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Film Vocab
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performing-arts
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1. 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
Dissolve
Telecine
Selective focus
Forced perspective
2. 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
Dailies
Diegesis
Dailies
Focal length
3. A neutral account of the basic plot and style of a film - a part of a film - or a group of films
Iris out
Front projection
Descriptive claim
Out-take
4. Assists the editor with various tasks - including taking footage to the lab - checking the condition of the negative - cataloguing footage - and supervising optical effects - often produced by an outside company
Plot summary
Toning
Reverse shot
Assistant Editor
5. 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
Low-key lighting
Pushing
Color timing
Second unit
6. A shot that interrupts a scene's master shot and may include character reactions
Dolly
Blockbuster
Insert
Slow
7. A shot that depicts a human body from the feet up
Continuity editor
Medium long shot
Studio system
Color timing
8. 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
Standard shot pattern
Open-ended
Genre
Director
9. A film composed entirely of footage from other films.
Parellel
Diffusion filters
Diegesis
Compilation film
10. The width of the film stock - measured across the frame. Typical sizes are 8mm - 16mm - 35mm - and 70mm
Forced perspective
Orthochromatic
Hollywood Ten
Gauge
11. An agreement made between filmmakers and those who license the use of commercial products to feature those products in films - generally as props used by characters
Product placement
Star system
Compilation film
Glass shot
12. 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
Academy Ratio
Fade-out
German Expressionism
Scratching
13. 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
Post-production
Antagonist
Persistence of vision
Backstory
14. A long shot in which the film frame resembles the proscenium arch of the stage - distancing the audience
Tableau shot
Evaluative claim
Reframing
Wireframe
15. A mental phenomenon by which viewers derive more meaning from the interaction of two sequential shots than from a single shot in isolation
Scratching
Kuleshov effect
Deep focus cinematography
Video assist
16. A short documentary on current events - show in movie theaters along with cartoons and feature films beginning in the 1930s
Interpretive claim
Charge coupler device
Newsreel
Continuity error
17. The camera does not move across an imagined line drawn between two characters
Negative
180-degree rule
Screenplay
High-key lighting
18. A statement that presents an argument about a film's meaning and significance
Persistence of vision
Wipe
Interpretive claim
30-degree rule
19. A shot transition that involves the gradual disappearance of the image at the same time that a new image gradually comes into view
Pixel
Dissolve
Swish pan
Scratching
20. 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
Shooting script
Motif
Overexposure
Cel
21. Standard shot pattern: A sequence of shots designed to maintain spatial continuity. Scene begin with an establishing shot - then move to a series of individual shots depicting characters and action - before reestablishing shots re-orient viewers to t
Standard shot pattern
Turning point
Overhead shot
Wireframe
22. An outlawed studio era practice - where studios forced exhibitors to book groups of films at once - thus ensuring a market for their failures along with their successes
Block booking
Compositing
Zoom in...
Tinting
23. A scene filmed and processed but not selected to appear in the final version of the film
Out-take
Genre conventions
Grain
Crab dolly
24. 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
Out-take
Graphic match
Omniscient narration
25. 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
Diegesis
Superimposition
Director
Undercranking
26. A shot that includes a human figure from the shoulders up
Medium close-up
Wireframe
Fabula
Animation
27. A flexible celluloid strip that - along with the emulsion layer - comprises 35mm film stock
Syuzhet
Double exposure
Reframing
Base
28. A shot that appears during or near the end of a scene and reorients viewers to the setting
Vertical integration
Re-establishing shot
Pushing
Blocking
29. A filter that creates points of light that streak outward from a light source
Restricted narration
Intertextual reference
Star filter
Shot
30. Creating images during post-production by joining together photographic or CGI material shot or created at different times and places
Compositing
Steadicam
Green screen
Eye-level shot
31. Public identity created by marketing a film actor's performances - press coverage - and 'personal' information to fans as the star's personality
Extreme long-shot
Rack focus
Reverse shot
Star persona
32. 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
Subtext
Line of action
Scratching
Foley artist
33. A term that refers to the organization of an industry wherein one type of corporation also owns corporations in allied industries - for example - film production and video games
Horizontal integration
Canted angle
Exposure latitude
Figure placement and movement
34. Film productions shot outside the U.S. for economic reasons
Color filter
Release prints
Matte painting
Runaway production
35. A machine used to create optical effects such as fades - dissolves - and superimpositions. Most are now created digitally
Iris out
Optical printer
Fast
Standard shot pattern
36. A shot taken fro a position directly above the action - also called a 'birds' eye shot'
Tableau shot
Overhead shot
Kuleshov effect
Voice-over
37. 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
Promotion
Omniscient narration
Block booking
Color timing
38. 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
Telephoto lens
Color filter
Line of action
High concept film
39. A short screen appearance by a celebrity - playing himself or herself
Negative
Video assist
Widescreen
Cameo
40. 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
Blockbuster
Rear projection
Matte
Vista Vision
41. Dialogue that restates What is already obvious from images or action
Insert
Second unit
On-the-nose dialogue
Long shot
42. The camera does not move across an imagined line drawn between two characters
180-degree rule
Closure
Gaffer
Kuleshov effect
43. The chronological accounting of all events presented and suggested
Fabula
Matte
Turning point
Four-part structure
44. An unstated meaning that underlies and is implied by spoken dialogue
Eye-level shot
Subtext
Tight framing
High-key lighting
45. The shape of the image onscreen as determined by the width of the frame relative to its height
Aspect Ratio
Day for night
B-roll
Studio system
46. A statement that asserts a judgment that a given film or group of films is good or bad - based on specific criteria - Which may or may not be stated
Motif
Crab dolly
Charge coupler device
Evaluative claim
47. The falling or unraveling action after the climax of a narrative that leads to resolution
Brechtian distanciation
Denouement
Flashing
Oeuvre
48. A statement that presents an argument about a film's meaning and significance
Tableau shot
Focal length
Plot summary
Interpretive claim
49. Color. The strength of a hue is measured by its saturation or desaturation
Hue
Matte painting
Eyeline match
Typecasting
50. A visual effect created when the subject in the frame is restricted by the objects or the physical properties of the set
Neutral-density filter
Tight framing
Jump cut
Wipe
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