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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. 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
Flashing
Interpellation
Exposition
Backstory
2. 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
Text
Cameo
Handheld shot
Line of action
3. The way an actor delivers a line of dialogue - including pauses - inflection - and emotion
Horizontal integration
Point-of-view shot
Line reading
Fast
4. The shape of the image onscreen as determined by the width of the frame relative to its height
Panchromatic
Extreme close-up
Tilt
Aspect Ratio
5. A chemical coating on film stock containing light-sensitive grains
Tinting
Narrative sequencing
Emulsion
Overlapping dialogue
6. 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
German Expressionism
Master shot
Rear projection
7. A technique of arranging the actors on the set to take advantage of deep focus cinematography - which allows for many planes of depth in the film frame to remain in focus
Minor studios
Offscreen space
Composition in depth
Zoom lens
8. A scene transition wherein sound from one scene bleeds over into the ext scene - often resulting in a contrast between sound image
Sound bridge
Tracking shot
Roadshowing
Extreme long-shot
9. 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
Extreme wide-angle lens
Brechtian distanciation
Recursive action
Standard shot pattern
10. An actor whose career rests on playing minor or secondary quirky characters rather than leading roles
Lightning mix
Runaway production
German Expressionism
Character actor
11. Also called 'full screen -' the technique of re-shooting a widescreen film in order to convert it to the original television aspect ration of 1.33 to 1. Rather than reproduce the original aspect ratio - as a letterboxed version does - a panned and sc
Iris in...
Gaffer
Panning and scanning
Blue screen
12. Early films that documented everyday events - such as workers leaving a factory
Synthespian
Normal lens
Actualitas
Three-point lighting
13. A technique of filming at a speed faster than projection - the projecting the footage at normal speed of 24 frames per second. Because fewer frames were recorded per second - the action appears to be speeded up
Iris in...
Hollywood Blacklist
Slow motion
Aperture
14. A crew member whose job is to measure the distance between the subject and the camera lens - marking the ring on the camera lens - and ensuring the ring is turned precisely so that the image is in focus
Focus puller
High-key lighting
Diffusion filters
Outsourcing
15. A computer-generated actor that some speculate will replace flesh and blood actors in the not so distant future
Runaway production
Reverse shot
Synthespian
Medium shot
16. 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
High concept film
Pushing
Take
Star system
17. Creating the appearance of movement by drawing a series of frames that are projected sequentially - rather than photographing a series of still images
Pulling
Animation
Matte
Overexposure
18. A scene transition in which the first frame of the incoming scene appears to push the last frame of the previous scene off the screen horizontally
Foley artist
Wipe
Diffusion filters
Minor studios
19. An abrupt - inexplicable shift in time and place of an action not signaled by an appropriate shot transition
Composition
Line reading
Matte
Jump cut
20. Wheeled platform with wheels that rotate - so the dolly can change direction
Fast motion
Crab dolly
Direct cinema
Actualitas
21. A short segment of film used to promote an upcoming release
Storyboard
Trailer
Recursive action
Blaxploitation
22. A widescreen process that uses three cameras - three projectors - and a wide - curved screen
Runaway production
Bleach bypass
Genre conventions
Cinerama
23. 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
Apparatus Theory
Cameo
Episodic
Pan
24. 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
Assistant Editor
Shot
Compositing
Low-key lighting
25. A story; a chain of events linked by cause-and-effect logic
Motivation
Extreme close-up
Narrative
Direct sound
26. The chronological accounting of all events presented and suggested
Color consultant
Base
Fabula
Reframing
27. Projecting a series of frames of film with the same image - which appears to stop the action
Saturation
Superimposition
Freeze frame
Deep focus cinematography
28. Leaving the silver grains in the emulsion rather than bleaching them out - which produces desaturated color
Recursive action
Pre-production
Bleach bypass
Aerial Shot
29. A genre film that radically modifies accepted genre conventions for dramatic effect
Mixing
Shot/reverse shot
Selective focus
Revisionist
30. A chemical embedded in the emulsion layer of film stock that - when developed after exposure - releases a particular color dye (red - green - or blue)
Exposition
Dye coupler
Point-of-view shot
Color timing
31. Processes such as Cinemascope and Cinerama - developed during the 1950s to enhance film's size advantage over the smaller television image
Reverse shot
Widescreen
Kuleshov effect
Medium shot
32. An efficient system developed for film lighting. In a standard lighting set-up - the key light illuminates the subject - the fill light eliminates shadows cast by the key light - and the back light separates the subject from the background
Running time
Motivation
Deep focus cinematography
Three-point lighting
33. 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
Natural-key lighting
Second unit
Descriptive claim
Blocking
34. The selection and ordering of narrative events presented in a film
Pixel
Canted angle
Syuzhet
Master shot
35. A production crew responsible not for shooting the primary footage but - instead - for remote location shooting and B-roll. See also B-roll
Establishing shot
Zoom out
Chiaroscuro
Second unit
36. A specialist who monitors the processing of color on the se and in the film lab
Oeuvre
Subtext
Color consultant
Offscreen space
37. Experimental film; Underground cinema;
Avant-garde film
Narrative
Screenplay
High-key lighting
38. A type of film stock that is sensitive to (in other words - registers) all tones in the color spectrum
Insert
Panchromatic
Progressive scanning
Trombone shot
39. The rules of character - setting - and narrative that films that belong to a genre - such as Westerns - horror films - and screwball comedies - generally obey.
Release prints
Genre conventions
Charge coupler device
Production values
40. A shot taken from a level camera located approximately 5' to 6' from the ground - simulating the perspective of a person standing before the action presented
Undercranking
Pre-production
Eye-level shot
Superimposition
41. 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
Spec script
Product placement
Protagonist
Reframing
42. 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
Star persona
Hard light
Star persona
Text
43. The practice of shooting during the day but using filters and underexposure to create the illusion of nighttime
Shot transition
Day for night
Production values
Toning
44. A transparent sheet on which animation artists draw images.
Cel
Average shot length
Aperture
Runaway production
45. The camera does not move across an imagined line drawn between two characters
Cel
Cinerama
Color timing
180-degree rule
46. A technique of shifting the camera angle - height - or distance to take into account the motion of actors or objects within the frame
Reframing
Anime
Cinerama
Undercranking
47. A statement that presents an argument about a film's meaning and significance
Assistant Editor
Gaffer
Point-of-view shot
Interpretive claim
48. 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
Fog filter
Lightning mix
Tracking shot
Overhead shot
49. A crew member whose job is to maintain consistency in visual details from one shot to the next
Wireframe
Continuity editor
Sound bridge
Pulling
50. A business model adopted by the major studios during the Hollywood studio era - in which studios controlled all aspects of the film business - from production to distribution and exhibition
Vertical integration
Realist style
Graphic match
Pixilation