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Film Vocab
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Match each statement with the correct term.
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1. 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
Swish pan
Rear projection
Overhead shot
Film stock
2. The first shot in a standard shot sequence. Its purpose is to provide a clear representation of the location of the action
Establishing shot
B-roll
Rack focus
Focal length
3. 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
Star filter
Product placement
Montage sequence
Tinting
4. A shot transition that involves the gradual disappearance of the image at the same time that a new image gradually comes into view
Closure
Digital cinema
Forced development
Dissolve
5. An optical technique that divides the screen into two or more frames
Omniscient narration
Split screen
Iris out
Intertextual reference
6. Devices that attach to actors' faces and/or bodies to change their appearance
Prosthesis
Flashforward
Oeuvre
Fast
7. A crew member whose job is to maintain consistency in visual details from one shot to the next
Continuity editor
Extreme close-up
Auteur
Interlaced scanning
8. Creating the appearance of movement by drawing a series of frames that are projected sequentially - rather than photographing a series of still images
Composition
Hollywood Ten
180-degree rule
Animation
9. A format that uses a larger film stock than standard 35mm. IMAX - Omnimax - and Showscan are shot on 70mm film
Extreme wide-angle lens
Line of action
Tracking shot
Wide film
10. A shot taken when the camera is so close to a subject that it fills the frame. It is most commonly used for a shot that isolates and encompasses a single actor's face - to emphasize the expression of emotion
Master positive
Master shot
Front projection
Close-up
11. An abrupt - inexplicable shift in time and place of an action not signaled by an appropriate shot transition
Jump cut
Overlapping dialogue
Compilation film
Figure placement and movement
12. 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
Promotion
Digital video
Rack focus
Composition in depth
13. Dutch angle; a shot resulting from a static camera that is tilted to the right or left - so that the subject in the frame appears at a diagonal
Trailer
Natural-key lighting
Toning
Canted angle
14. The measure of intensity or purity of a color. Saturated color is purer than desaturated color - which has more white in it and thus offers a washed-out - less intense version of a color
Hue
High-key lighting
Saturation
Out-take
15. 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
Star system
Crane shot
Protagonist
Depth of field
16. A technique of exposing film frames - then rewinding the film and exposing it again - which results in an image that combines two shots in a single frame
Montage sequence
Double exposure
Frame narration
Evaluative claim
17. A production crew responsible not for shooting the primary footage but - instead - for remote location shooting and B-roll. See also B-roll
Second unit
180-degree rule
Gauge
Chiaroscuro
18. 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
Fog filter
Cinerama
Editor
Set-up
19. 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
Insert
Best boy
Interpretive claim
Classical style
20. Creating an image by combining several elements created separately using computer graphics rather than photographic means
Interpretive claim
Digital compositing
Syuzhet
Pulling
21. 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
Recursive action
Rotoscope
Soundtrack
Blockbuster
22. A part of the story world implied by visual or sound techniques rather than being revealed by the camera
Offscreen space
Loose framing
Star filter
Grain
23. The arrangement of images to depict a unified storyline
Minor studios
Wide-angle lens
Post-production
Narrative sequencing
24. A short screen appearance by a celebrity - playing himself or herself
Letterboxing
Cameo
Cel
Turning point
25. Devices that attach to actors' faces and/or bodies to change their appearance
Prosthesis
Dye coupler
Second unit
Medium long shot
26. Muted - washed out color that contains more white than a saturated color
Widescreen
Negative
Desaturated
Protagonist
27. Light striking the emulsion layer of the film - activating light-sensitive grains
Exposure
Swish pan
Minor studios
Runaway production
28. The use of editing techniques - such as a fade or dissolve - to indicate the end of one scene and the beginning of another
Frame narration
Shot transition
Charge coupler device
Diffusion filters
29. Author; A term popularized by French film critics and refers to film directors with their own distinctive style
Matte painting
Orthochromatic
Graphic match
Auteur
30. The practice of Hollywood studios contracting out post-production work to individuals or firms outside the U.S.
Outsourcing
Post-production
Out-take
German Expressionism
31. 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
Tracking shot
Hollywood Ten
Zoom lens
Interlaced scanning
32. The five vertically integrated corporations that exerted the greatest control over film production in the studio era: MGM - Warner Brothers - RKO - Twentieth Century Fox - and Paramount
Master shot
Major studios
Filter
Fade-out
33. Reels of film that are shipped to movie theaters for exhibition. Digital cinema - which can be distributed via satellite - broadband - or on media such as DVDs - may soon replace film prints because the latter are expensive to create - copy - and dis
Release prints
Continuity error
Base
Fog filter
34. A relatively long - uninterrupted sot - generally of a minute or more
Matte painting
Editor
Long take
Slow
35. 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
Pre-production
Pixel
Director
High-key lighting
36. 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
Forced development
Negative cutter
Flashing
Split screen
37. 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
Desaturated
Iris out
Tracking shot
Digital set extension
38. The arrangement of actors on screen as a compositional element that suggests themes - character development - emotional content - and visual motifs
Interlaced scanning
Day for night
Figure placement and movement
Editor
39. A technique in which the audience temporarily shares the visual perspective of a character or a group of characters. The camera points in the directions the character looks - simulating the character's field of vision
High-angle shot
Point-of-view shot
High-key lighting
Editor
40. 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
Frame narration
Realist style
Kuleshov effect
Reverse shot
41. The non-chronological insertion of scenes of events yet to happen into the present day of the story world
Pixel
Flashforward
Subtext
Morphing
42. A machine that converts film prints to videotape format
Best boy
Telecine
Establishing shot
Realist style
43. A technique of 'pushing' the film (overdeveloping it) to correct problems of underexposure (resulting from insufficient light during shooting) by increasing image contrast
Non-diegetic
Soft light
Iris in...
Forced development
44. 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
Front projection
Matte
Long shot
Direct sound
45. A shot combining two kinds of movement: the camera tracks in toward the subject wile the lens zooms out
Graphic match
Trombone shot
Matte painting
Vista Vision
46. 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
Long take
Subgenre
Panchromatic
47. A vertical - up-and-down - motion of an otherwise stationary camera
High-angle shot
Tilt
Phi phenomenon
Method acting
48. The length in minutes for a film to play in its entirety (for example - 120 minutes). Also referred to as 'screen time.'
Telephoto lens
Cel
Pan
Running time
49. The term for a film's spoken dialogue - as opposed to the underlying meaning contained in the subtext
Omniscient narration
Text
Narrative sequencing
Matte
50. Glass filters whose surface is etched with spots that refract light - so they create the appearance of water droplets in the air
Fog filter
Establishing shot
Evaluative claim
Letterboxing