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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 mental phenomenon by which viewers derive more meaning from the interaction of two sequential shots than from a single shot in isolation
Kuleshov effect
Double exposure
Letterboxing
Flashforward
2. 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
Rack focus
Production values
Overexposure
Color filter
3. Early films that documented everyday events - such as workers leaving a factory
Open-ended
Actualitas
Overexposure
Fabula
4. A marketing strategy of screening a blockbuster prior to general release only in premier theaters
Jump cut
Screenplay
Roadshowing
Tilt
5. Lighting design in which the greater intensity of the key light makes it impossible for the fill to eliminate shadows - producing a high-contrast image (with many grades of light and dark) - a number of shadows - and a somber mood
Low-key lighting
Star filter
Brechtian distanciation
Day for night
6. The chronological accounting of all events presented and suggested
Fabula
Focus puller
Color filter
Graphic match
7. The practice of shooting during the day but using filters and underexposure to create the illusion of nighttime
Day for night
Pixilation
Shot transition
30-degree rule
8. Assists the gaffer in managing lighting crews
Forced development
Best boy
High-key lighting
Outsourcing
9. 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
Frame narration
Diegesis
Denouement
10. Natural light; The process of suing sunlight rather than artificial studio lights when filming
Omniscient narration
Available light
Pushing
Cut
11. 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
Lightning mix
Three-point lighting
Promotion
Digital set extension
12. 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
Wireframe
High-key lighting
13. Experimental film; Underground cinema;
Three-point lighting
Avant-garde film
Shutter
Available light
14. The camera should move at least 30 degrees any time there is a cut within a scene
Continuity editor
30-degree rule
Parellel editing
Soft light
15. 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
Average shot length
German Expressionism
Star system
Direct sound
16. A series of individual drawings that provides a blueprint for the shooting of a scene
Storyboard
Loose framing
Aspect Ratio
Best boy
17. 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
Computer-generated imagery (CGI)
Realist style
Jump cut
First-person narration
18. The narrative path of the main or supporting characters - also called a plotline. Complex films may have several lines of action
Master positive
Desaturated
Foley artist
Line of action
19. Muted - washed out color that contains more white than a saturated color
Reframing
Desaturated
Letterboxing
Direct sound
20. Processes such as Cinemascope and Cinerama - developed during the 1950s to enhance film's size advantage over the smaller television image
Matte
Trailer
Widescreen
Post-production
21. 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
Eyeline match
Dailies
Star filter
22. A genre film that radically modifies accepted genre conventions for dramatic effect
Negative
Revisionist
Fast
Chiaroscuro
23. The practice or repeatedly casting actors in similar roles across different films
Running time
Shot transition
Pushing
Typecasting
24. Creating images during post-production by joining together photographic or CGI material shot or created at different times and places
Compositing
Low-angle shot
Intertextual reference
Genre
25. 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
Charge coupler device
Protagonist
Take
Academy Ratio
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
Prosthesis
Denouement
Formalist style
Screenplay
27. 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
Visual effects
Frozen time moment
Screenplay
180-degree rule
28. A technique of shooting a scene at a very high speed (96 frames per second) - then adding and subtracting frames in post-production - 'fanning out' the action through the overlapping images
Panning and scanning
Slow
Tinting
Recursive action
29. The conclusion of the film wraps up - all loose ends in a form of resolution - though not necessarily with a happy ending.
Motif
Trombone shot
Close-up
Closure
30. 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
Omniscient narration
Focal length
Blaxploitation
Interlaced scanning
31. A system for recording images on magnetic tape using a digital signal - that is - an electronic signal comprised of 0s and 1s
Rack focus
Charge coupler device
Color timing
Digital video
32. The details of a character's past that emerge as the film unfolds - and which often play a role in character motivation
Brechtian distanciation
Emulsion
Backstory
ADR
33. Creating an image by combining several elements created separately using computer graphics rather than photographic means
Digital compositing
Anime
Third-person narration
Running time
34. 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
Split screen
180-degree rule
Widescreen
Academy Ratio
35. A shot transition that emphasizes the visual similarities between two consecutive shots
Montage sequence
Formalist style
Graphic match
Text
36. A story narrated by one of the characters within the story - using the 'I' voice
Motivation
First-person narration
Blue screen
Diffusion filters
37. The period of time before principal photography during which actors are signed - sets and costumes designed - and locations scouted
Pre-production
Focus puller
Digital set extension
Widescreen
38. The falling or unraveling action after the climax of a narrative that leads to resolution
Denouement
Bleach bypass
Three-act structure
Voice-over
39. The non-chronological insertion of scenes of events yet to happen into the present day of the story world
Flashforward
Tight framing
Color timing
Soft light
40. Smaller corporations that did not own distribution and/or exhibition companies in the studio era - including Universal - Columbia - and United Artists
Gauge
Minor studios
Slow motion
Fabula
41. 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
Horizontal integration
Focus puller
Interlaced scanning
Color timing
42. A marketing strategy of screening a blockbuster prior to general release only in premier theaters
Spec script
Panning and scanning
Fabula
Roadshowing
43. A change of focus from one plane of depth to another. As the in-focus subject goes out of focus - another object - which has been blurry - comes into focus in either the background or the foreground
Second unit
Fast
Rack focus
Outsourcing
44. 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
Direct sound
Depth of field
Blockbuster
Morphing
45. A technique used to join live action with a pre-recorded background image. A projector is placed behind a screen and projects an image onto it. Actors stand in front of the screen and the camera records them in front of the projected background
Parellel
Forced development
Widescreen
Rear projection
46. Prefogging; a cinematographic technique that exposes raw film stock to light before - during - or after shooting - resulting in an image with reduced contrast. This effect can also be created using digital post-production techniques
Shot transition
Flashing
Trombone shot
Blockbuster
47. Materials intentionally released by studios to attract public attention to films and their stars. Promotion differs from publicity - which is information that is not (or does not appear to be) intentionally disseminated by studios
Rear projection
Camera distance
Aperture
Promotion
48. A widescreen process that uses three cameras - three projectors - and a wide - curved screen
Diffusion filters
Cinerama
Extreme wide-angle lens
Tilt
49. A system for combining two separately filmed images in the same frame that involves create a matte (a black mask that covers a portion of the image) for a live action sequence and using it to block out a portion of the frame when filming the backgrou
Assistant Editor
Travelling matte
B-roll
Episodic
50. 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
Extreme long-shot
Foley artist
Soviet montage
Parellel editing