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Film Vocab
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Match each statement with the correct term.
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1. Sound recorded on a set - on location - or - for documentary film - at an actual real-world event - as opposed to dubbed in post-production through ADR or looping
ADR
Pushing
Flashback
Direct sound
2. A contemporary modification of the standard three-act structure that identifies a critical turning point at the halfway mark of most narrative films
Motivation
Four-part structure
Restricted narration
Compositing
3. These filters bend the light coming into lens - softening and blurring the image
Diffusion filters
Compilation film
Digital video
Lightning mix
4. A type of short film that blends elements of documentary and avant-garde film to document and often to celebrate the wonder of the modern city
City symphony
Orthochromatic
Product placement
Genre conventions
5. A scene transition wherein sound from one scene bleeds over into the ext scene - often resulting in a contrast between sound image
Soundtrack
Shutter
Storyboard
Sound bridge
6. The camera should move at least 30 degrees any time there is a cut within a scene
30-degree rule
Point-of-view shot
Bleach bypass
Soft light
7. A type of film stock that is sensitive to (in other words - registers) all tones in the color spectrum
Split screen
Running time
Horizontal integration
Panchromatic
8. A glass element on a camera that focuses light rays so that the image of the object appears on the surface of the film
Panning and scanning
Panchromatic
Lens
Storyboard
9. A compositing method that allows cinematographers to combine live action and settings that are filmed or created separately. Actors are filmed against a green or blue background. During post-production - this background is filled in with an image thr
Pixilation
Minor studios
Extreme wide-angle lens
Green screen
10. A short documentary on current events - show in movie theaters along with cartoons and feature films beginning in the 1930s
Genre conventions
Cel
Hollywood Blacklist
Newsreel
11. 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
Panchromatic
Persistence of vision
Shot
Widescreen
12. 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
Hue
Aspect Ratio
Fast motion
Pan
13. A technique of recording very few images over a long period of time - say - one frame per minute or per day
Time-lapse photography
Soft light
Production values
Genre conventions
14. Also called 'd-cinema.' Not to be confused with digital cinematography (shooting movies on digital video) - this term refers to using digital technologies for exhibition
Digital cinema
Horizontal integration
Flashing
Pulling
15. The reverse of Iris in: an iris expands outward until the next shot takes up the entire screen
Pulling
Iris out
Emulsion
Montage sequence
16. A scene transition wherein sound from one scene bleeds over into the ext scene - often resulting in a contrast between sound image
Compilation film
Charge coupler device
Rotoscope
Sound bridge
17. Everything audiences hear when they watch a sound film. The soundtrack is the composite of all three elements of film sound: dialogue - music - and sound effects
Avant-garde film
Reframing
Soundtrack
Dissolve
18. Dialogue that restates What is already obvious from images or action
Director
Eye-level shot
Three-act structure
On-the-nose dialogue
19. Any narrative - visual - or sound element that is repeated and thereby acquires and reflects its significance to the story - characters - or themes of the film.
Motif
Letterboxing
Compositing
Polarizing filters
20. The average length in seconds of a series of shots - covering a portion of a film or an entire film; a measure of pace within a scene or in the film as a whole.
Handheld shot
Actualitas
Average shot length
Point-of-view shot
21. A story narrated by one of the characters within the story - using the 'I' voice
Take
Out-take
First-person narration
Backstage musical
22. The visual arrangement of objects - actors - and space within the frame
Medium long shot
Glass shot
Composition
Dailies
23. A shot taken from a camera position above the subject - looking down at it
Continuity editing
High-angle shot
Academy Ratio
Third-person narration
24. 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
City symphony
Zoom lens
Major studios
25. Cinema verite; a documentary style in which the filmmaker attempts to remain as unobtrusive as possible - recording without obvious editorial comment
Line of action
Figure placement and movement
Direct cinema
Deep focus cinematography
26. 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
Camera distance
Screenplay
Synthespian
Extreme close-up
27. A format that uses a larger film stock than standard 35mm. IMAX - Omnimax - and Showscan are shot on 70mm film
Omniscient narration
Brechtian distanciation
Wide film
Insert
28. The narrative path of the main or supporting characters - also called a plotline. Complex films may have several lines of action
Deep focus cinematography
Crab dolly
Line of action
Fast motion
29. The horizontal turning movement of an otherwise immobile camera across a scene from left to right or vice versa
Pan
Superimposition
Product placement
Dye coupler
30. A picture element - a measure of image density. There are approximately 18 million pixels in a frame of 35mm film and 300000-400000 in a video image
Eyeline match
Pixel
Glass shot
Vista Vision
31. A single take that contains an entire scene
Composition
Slow motion
Average shot length
Master shot
32. A measure of the visual and sound quality of a film. Low-budget films tend to have lower production values because they lack the resources to devote to expensive pre- and post-production activities
B-roll
Production values
Pulling
Exposure latitude
33. A platform on wheels - used for mobile camera shots
Dolly
Backstage musical
Neutral-density filter
Studio system
34. The practice of shooting during the day but using filters and underexposure to create the illusion of nighttime
Deep focus cinematography
Rear projection
Day for night
Zoom out
35. A film composed entirely of footage from other films.
Compilation film
Canted angle
Emulsion
Hard light
36. The selection and ordering of narrative events presented in a film
Syuzhet
Slow motion
Star filter
Studio system
37. An animation technique that uses a computer program to interpolate frames to produce the effect of an object or creature changing gradually into something different. The program calculates the way the image must change in order for the first image to
Morphing
Blue screen
Color consultant
Negative
38. A musical film in which each song and dance number is narratively motivated by a plot that situates characters in performance contexts
Character actor
Aspect Ratio
Second unit
Backstage musical
39. A black masking device used to black out a portion of the frame - usually for the insertion of other images
Matte
Mockumentary
Out-take
Kuleshov effect
40. The classical model of narrative form. The first act introduces characters and conflicts; the second act offers complication leading to a climax; the third act contains the danouement and resolution
Soft light
Re-establishing shot
Three-act structure
Production values
41. An action film cycle of the late 1960s and early 1970s that featured bold - rebellious African American characters
Blockbuster
Pulling
Blaxploitation
Subgenre
42. (Automatic dialogue replacement) recording synchronized dialogue in post-production - cutting several identical lengths of developed film and having actors record the dialogue repeatedly
Storyboard
Cameo
First-person narration
ADR
43. A term for film stock used in early cinema that was insensitive to red hues
Zoom out
Hollywood Blacklist
Orthochromatic
Script supervisor
44. Non-diegetic; any element in the film that is not part of the imagined story world
Overhead shot
Diegesis
Blocking
Extradiegetic
45. An alternative to continuity editing - this style of editing was developed in silent Soviet cinema - based on the theory that editing should exploit the difference between shots to generate intellectual and emotional responses in the audience
Descriptive claim
Wide film
Color consultant
Soviet montage
46. The aspect ratio of 1.33:1 - standardized by the Academy of Motion Picture Art and Sciences until the development of widescreen formats in the 1950s
Cutaway
Lens
Classical style
Academy Ratio
47. Devices that attach to actors' faces and/or bodies to change their appearance
Prosthesis
Frozen time moment
Masking
Speed
48. An optical technique that divides the screen into two or more frames
Optical printer
Bleach bypass
Split screen
On-the-nose dialogue
49. 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
Trailer
Forced perspective
Studio system
Masking
50. A large-budget film whose strategy is to swamp the competition through market saturation
Soviet montage
Compositing
Tight framing
Blockbuster