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Film Vocab
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Match each statement with the correct term.
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1. A cinematography technique that produces an image with many planes of depth in focus. It can be accomplished by using a small aperture - a large distance between camera and subject - and/or a lens of short focal length
Backstage musical
Deep focus cinematography
Post-production
Blockbuster
2. 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
Syuzhet
Widescreen
Assistant Editor
Screenplay
3. A widescreen process that uses three cameras - three projectors - and a wide - curved screen
Exposure latitude
Cinerama
Glass shot
Animation
4. 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
Day for night
Green screen
Direct sound
Third-person narration
5. A technique of intentionally adding scratches in a film's emulsion layer for aesthetic purposes - such as to simulate home movie footage
Overlapping dialogue
Match on action
Master shot
Scratching
6. A documentary or occasionally - a narrative film that presents only one side of an argument or one approach to a subject
Diegesis
Closure
Iris out
Propaganda film
7. Fish-eye lens; With a focal length of 15mm or less - this lens presents an extremely distorted image - where objects in the center of the frame appear to bulge toward the camera
Extreme wide-angle lens
Apparatus Theory
Desaturated
Integrated musical
8. An unstated meaning that underlies and is implied by spoken dialogue
Subtext
Persistence of vision
Neutral-density filter
Overexposure
9. An optical technique that divides the screen into two or more frames
Split screen
Filter
Camera distance
ADR
10. 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
Outsourcing
Forced perspective
Typecasting
Computer-generated imagery (CGI)
11. A screenplay written and submitted to a studio or production company without a prior contract or agreement
Mixing
Spec script
Runaway production
Gaffer
12. Dialogue that restates What is already obvious from images or action
Shot/reverse shot
On-the-nose dialogue
Insert
Digital video
13. A genre film that radically modifies accepted genre conventions for dramatic effect
Dye coupler
Offscreen space
Revisionist
Double exposure
14. 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
Persistence of vision
Pixel
Gauge
Pan
15. The technique of telling the story from an all-knowing character. Films that use restricted narration limit the audience's perception to what one particular character knows - but may insert moments of omniscience
Omniscient narration
Pixel
Close-up
Eye-level shot
16. A filter that creates points of light that streak outward from a light source
Star filter
Actualitas
Available light
Go-motion
17. A class or type of film - such as the Western or the horror movie. They share narrative - visual - and/or sound conventions
Genre
Available light
Color timing
Subgenre
18. The imagined world of the story
Fabula
Neutral-density filter
Restricted narration
Diegesis
19. 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
Cameo
Lightning mix
Auteur
Running time
20. Individuals who were prevented from working in the film industry because of their suspected involvement with Communist interests
Hollywood Blacklist
Screenplay
Scratching
Roadshowing
21. 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
Extreme close-up
Undercranking
Tableau shot
Actualitas
22. A visual effect created when the subject in the frame is restricted by the objects or the physical properties of the set
Eyeline match
Tight framing
Mixing
Rear projection
23. 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
Restricted narration
Cameo
Compositing
Assistant Editor
24. Also called 'rushes.' Footage exposed and developed quickly so that the director can assess the day's work
Third-person narration
Re-establishing shot
Typecasting
Dailies
25. A videotape system that records images onto magnetic tape - using electronic signals
Computer-generated imagery (CGI)
Available light
Analog Video
Fade-out
26. Color. The strength of a hue is measured by its saturation or desaturation
Backstage musical
Hue
Crab dolly
Academy Ratio
27. The selection and ordering of narrative events presented in a film
Diffusion filters
Wireframe
Syuzhet
Forced perspective
28. The conclusion of the film wraps up - all loose ends in a form of resolution - though not necessarily with a happy ending.
Outsourcing
Persistence of vision
Closure
Oeuvre
29. Natural light; The process of suing sunlight rather than artificial studio lights when filming
Best boy
Anime
Storyboard
Available light
30. Exposed and developed film stock from which the master positive is struck. If projected - the negative would produce a reverse of the image - with dark areas appearing white and vice versa or - if color film - areas of color appearing as their comple
Negative
Speed
Shot
Animation
31. The measurement of how forgiving a film stock is. It determines whether an acceptable image will be produced when the film stock is exposed to too little or too much light
Exposure latitude
Dolly
Matte
Spec script
32. 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
Travelling matte
Desaturated
Soviet montage
Backstory
33. A person responsible for putting a film together from a mass of developed footage - making decisions regarding pace - shot transitions - and which scenes and shots will be used
Figure placement and movement
Offscreen space
Editor
Panning and scanning
34. The first shot in a standard shot sequence. Its purpose is to provide a clear representation of the location of the action
Post-production
Establishing shot
Star system
Composition in depth
35. An optical effect whereby the human eye fills in gaps between closely spaced objects - so that two light bulbs flashing on and off are understood as one light moving back and forth
Turning point
ADR
Desaturated
Phi phenomenon
36. A technique used to join live action with pre-recorded background images. A projector is aimed at a half-silvered mirror that reflects the background - which the camera records as being located behind the actors
Frozen time moment
Front projection
Pulling
Zoom out
37. Assists the gaffer in managing lighting crews
Best boy
Deep focus cinematography
Crane shot
Composition
38. A group of films within a given genre that share their own specific set of conventions that differentiate them from other films in the genre. For example - the slasher film is a subgenre of the horror genre
Scratching
Hard light
Blocking
Subgenre
39. A device that projects photographs or footage onto glass so that images can be traced by hand to create animated images
Rotoscope
Release prints
Soundtrack
Fog filter
40. Wheeled platform with wheels that rotate - so the dolly can change direction
Reverse shot
Four-part structure
Exposure
Crab dolly
41. 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
Masking
Focal length
Assistant Editor
Matte
42. A painting used on the set as a portion of the background
Color filter
Runaway production
Matte painting
Blue screen
43. A marketing strategy of screening a blockbuster prior to general release only in premier theaters
Vertical integration
Freeze frame
Roadshowing
180-degree rule
44. 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
Soundtrack
Pixilation
Glass shot
High-angle shot
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
Crab dolly
Rear projection
Trombone shot
Descriptive claim
46. The individual arrangement of lighting and camera placement used for each shot
Dailies
Set-up
Optical printer
Pixel
47. 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
Medium long shot
Exposition
Hard light
Vertical integration
48. Dense accumulation of detail conveyed in the opening moments of a film
German Expressionism
Morphing
Direct sound
Exposition
49. A term used for any narrative sound - or visual element not contained in the story world. Also called 'extradiegetic'
Non-diegetic
Filter
Exposure
Color filter
50. Processes such as Cinemascope and Cinerama - developed during the 1950s to enhance film's size advantage over the smaller television image
Newsreel
Desaturated
Widescreen
Third-person narration