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Film Vocab
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1. The narrative path of the main or supporting characters - also called a plotline. Complex films may have several lines of action
Score
Line of action
Forced development
Phi phenomenon
2. The details of a character's past that emerge as the film unfolds - and which often play a role in character motivation
Cinerama
Backstory
Compositing
Dolly
3. 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
Chiaroscuro
Lens
Star system
Trombone shot
4. A style associated with Hollywood filmmaking of the studio and post-studio era - in which efficient storytelling - rather than gritty realism or aesthetic innovation - is of paramount importance
Composition
Classical style
Widescreen
Camera distance
5. A long shot in which the film frame resembles the proscenium arch of the stage - distancing the audience
Progressive scanning
Tableau shot
Spec script
Composition
6. The central cause(s) behind a character's actions
Wireframe
Director
Motivation
Blaxploitation
7. The written blueprint for a film - composed of three elements: dialogue - sluglines (setting the place and time of each scene) - and description. Feature-length screenplays typically run 90-130 pages
Screenplay
Scene
Fog filter
Focus puller
8. A film style that emerged in the 1910s in Germany. It was heavily indebted to the Expressionist art movement of the time and influenced subsequent horror films and film noir
Fog filter
Horizontal integration
German Expressionism
Time-lapse photography
9. A consistent style - theme - and subject matter developed over the course of a director's body of work
Compilation film
Go-motion
Neutral-density filter
Oeuvre
10. Secondary footage that is interspersed with master shots - sometimes in the form of footage shot for another production or archival footage
Jump cut
B-roll
Time-lapse photography
30-degree rule
11. 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
Travelling matte
Screenplay
Screenplay
12. A complete narrative unit within a film - with its own beginning - middle - and end. Often scenes are unified - and distinguished from one another - by time and setting
Toning
Steadicam
Telecine
Scene
13. A specialist who monitors the processing of color on the se and in the film lab
Color consultant
Release prints
Lens
Rear projection
14. Filters that increase color saturation and contrast in outdoor shots
Split screen
Episodic
Emulsion
Polarizing filters
15. The period of time before principal photography during which actors are signed - sets and costumes designed - and locations scouted
Star persona
Medium long shot
Selective focus
Pre-production
16. A mental phenomenon by which viewers derive more meaning from the interaction of two sequential shots than from a single shot in isolation
Color consultant
Line reading
Kuleshov effect
Actualitas
17. Experimental film; Underground cinema;
Avant-garde film
Interpretive claim
Direct cinema
Medium long shot
18. A camera shot taken at a large distance from the subject. Using the human body as the subject - a long shot captures the entire human form
Outsourcing
Long shot
Progressive scanning
Kuleshov effect
19. 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
Apparatus Theory
Natural-key lighting
Parellel editing
Realist style
20. Drawing attention to the process of representation (including narrative and characterization) to break the theatrical illusion and elicit a distanced - intellectual response in the audience
Turning point
Script supervisor
Brechtian distanciation
Bleach bypass
21. A short documentary on current events - show in movie theaters along with cartoons and feature films beginning in the 1930s
Soviet montage
Outsourcing
Emulsion
Newsreel
22. The space between the camera and subject it is filming.
Crab dolly
Green screen
Camera distance
Character actor
23. 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
Medium long shot
Anamorphic lens
Selective focus
Polarizing filters
24. A device worn by a camera operator that holds the motion picture camera - allowing it glide smoothly through spaces unreachable by camera mounted on a crane or other apparatus
Steadicam
Widescreen
Character actor
Overexposure
25. 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
Exposure
Deep focus cinematography
Overhead shot
26. A long shot in which the film frame resembles the proscenium arch of the stage - distancing the audience
Tableau shot
Telephoto lens
Hollywood Ten
Gauge
27. A term for film stock used in early cinema that was insensitive to red hues
Frozen time moment
Travelling matte
Reframing
Orthochromatic
28. Lighting design that provides an even illumination of the subject - with many facial details washed out. High-key lighting tends to create a hopeful mood - in contrast to low-key lighting
Cameo
Extreme close-up
High-key lighting
Gaffer
29. A short documentary on current events - show in movie theaters along with cartoons and feature films beginning in the 1930s
Sound bridge
Newsreel
Selective focus
Master shot
30. A story; a chain of events linked by cause-and-effect logic
Genre
Orthochromatic
Narrative
Apparatus Theory
31. A technique of moving the camera - on a specially built track. Such shots often trace character movement laterally across the frame or in and out of the depth of the frame
Revisionist
Tracking shot
Fade-out
Special visual effects
32. A type of film stock that is sensitive to (in other words - registers) all tones in the color spectrum
Travelling matte
Undercranking
Panchromatic
Integrated musical
33. Smaller corporations that did not own distribution and/or exhibition companies in the studio era - including Universal - Columbia - and United Artists
Minor studios
Four-part structure
Focal length
Extreme close-up
34. Dialogue that restates What is already obvious from images or action
On-the-nose dialogue
Academy Ratio
Omniscient narration
Matte painting
35. 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
City symphony
Offscreen space
Foley artist
Synthespian
36. A technique of intentionally adding scratches in a film's emulsion layer for aesthetic purposes - such as to simulate home movie footage
Scratching
Non-diegetic
Extradiegetic
Third-person narration
37. The annotated script - containing information about set-ups used during shooting
Aspect Ratio
Shooting script
Slow
Antagonist
38. Creating images during post-production by joining together photographic or CGI material shot or created at different times and places
Split screen
Recursive action
Compositing
Shot transition
39. Dense accumulation of detail conveyed in the opening moments of a film
Exposition
Release prints
Aperture
Open-ended
40. 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
Brechtian distanciation
Long shot
Superimposition
Cut
41. A part of the story world implied by visual or sound techniques rather than being revealed by the camera
Offscreen space
Aperture
Shot
Diffusion filters
42. A genre film that radically modifies accepted genre conventions for dramatic effect
Loose framing
Apparatus Theory
Take
Revisionist
43. Invisible editing; a system devised to minimize the audience's awareness of shot transitions - especially cuts - in order to improve the flow of the story and avoid interrupting the viewer's immersion it in
Anamorphic lens
Minor studios
Continuity editing
Propaganda film
44. A device used to manipulate the amount and/or color of light entering the lens
Runaway production
Filter
Deep focus cinematography
Assistant Editor
45. The shape of the image onscreen as determined by the width of the frame relative to its height
180-degree rule
Digital compositing
Horizontal integration
Aspect Ratio
46. A story narrated by one of the characters within the story - using the 'I' voice
Montage sequence
Dissolve
First-person narration
Overlapping dialogue
47. 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
Dolly
Undercranking
Aspect Ratio
Superimposition
48. Light emitted from a relatively small source positioned close to the subject. It tends to be unflattering because it creates deep shadows and emphasizes surface imperfections
Newsreel
Avant-garde film
Hard light
Color timing
49. A property of older television monitors - where each frame was scanned as two fields: One consisting of all the odd numbered lines - the other all the even lines. If slowed down - the television image would appear to sweep down the screen one line at
Wide film
Crane shot
Interlaced scanning
Green screen
50. The camera does not move across an imagined line drawn between two characters
Auteur
Trailer
Lightning mix
180-degree rule
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