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Film Vocab
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performing-arts
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1. Literary narration from a viewpoint beyond that of any one individual character
ADR
Protagonist
Bleach bypass
Third-person narration
2. A small - variable opening on a camera lens that regulates the amount of light entering the camera and striking the surface of the film
Camera distance
Aperture
Closure
Undercranking
3. A crew member whose job is to maintain consistency in visual details from one shot to the next
Negative
Extra
Continuity error
Continuity editor
4. A marketing strategy of screening a blockbuster prior to general release only in premier theaters
Anamorphic lens
Lightning mix
Negative cutter
Roadshowing
5. A device that projects photographs or footage onto glass so that images can be traced by hand to create animated images
Roadshowing
Gaffer
Rotoscope
Star filter
6. A relatively long - uninterrupted sot - generally of a minute or more
Reverse shot
Polarizing filters
Tilt
Long take
7. A genre film that radically modifies accepted genre conventions for dramatic effect
Revisionist
Freeze frame
Extra
Medium shot
8. A shot in a sequence that is taken from the reverse angle of the shot previous to it
Matte
Reverse shot
Extradiegetic
Outsourcing
9. Film productions shot outside the U.S. for economic reasons
Ethnographic film
Realist style
Runaway production
Syuzhet
10. 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
Interlaced scanning
Zoom in...
Panchromatic
Base
11. Also called 'rushes.' Footage exposed and developed quickly so that the director can assess the day's work
Cut
Dailies
Wide film
Out-take
12. A machine used to create optical effects such as fades - dissolves - and superimpositions. Most are now created digitally
Overhead shot
Optical printer
Long shot
Newsreel
13. A computer-generated actor that some speculate will replace flesh and blood actors in the not so distant future
Synthespian
Loose framing
High-angle shot
Telecine
14. A machine used to create optical effects such as fades - dissolves - and superimpositions. Most are now created digitally
Optical printer
Visual effects
Match on action
Long shot
15. 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
Backstory
Realist style
Hard light
Intertextual reference
16. The practice or repeatedly casting actors in similar roles across different films
Typecasting
Post-production
Cinerama
Underexposure
17. 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
Interpellation
Auteur
Extreme wide-angle lens
Narrative sequencing
18. The practice or repeatedly casting actors in similar roles across different films
Blaxploitation
Typecasting
Neutral-density filter
Animation
19. Creating an image by combining several elements created separately using computer graphics rather than photographic means
Letterboxing
Digital compositing
Crab dolly
Persistence of vision
20. The practice of Hollywood studios contracting out post-production work to individuals or firms outside the U.S.
Outsourcing
Star filter
Actualitas
Standard shot pattern
21. The length in minutes for a film to play in its entirety (for example - 120 minutes). Also referred to as 'screen time.'
Running time
Iris out
Reverse shot
Anamorphic lens
22. The individual arrangement of lighting and camera placement used for each shot
Go-motion
Continuity editor
Narrative
Set-up
23. A pan executed so quickly that it produces a blurred image - indicated rapid activity or - sometimes - the passage of time
Tinting
Swish pan
Soft light
Descriptive claim
24. A shot taken from a camera position above the subject - looking down at it
Eyeline match
Color timing
High-angle shot
Selective focus
25. 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
Dolly
ADR
Direct sound
Episodic
26. A production term referring to coordinating actors' movements with lines of dialogue
Filter
Apparatus Theory
Formalist style
Blocking
27. The camera does not move across an imagined line drawn between two characters
Scene
180-degree rule
Voice-over
Wide-angle lens
28. 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
Tight framing
Pixel
Rear projection
Omniscient narration
29. A type of documentary film whose purpose is to present the way of life of a culture or subculture
Hard light
Plot summary
High concept film
Ethnographic film
30. 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
Assistant Editor
Loose framing
Vertical integration
Computer-generated imagery (CGI)
31. A series of related scene joined through elliptical editing that indicates the passage of time
Mockumentary
Masking
Montage sequence
Handheld shot
32. Natural light; The process of suing sunlight rather than artificial studio lights when filming
Available light
Day for night
Genre
Pixel
33. Early films that documented everyday events - such as workers leaving a factory
Out-take
Actualitas
Score
Ethnographic film
34. 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
Fog filter
Soviet montage
Anamorphic lens
Kuleshov effect
35. Secondary footage that is interspersed with master shots - sometimes in the form of footage shot for another production or archival footage
Chiaroscuro
B-roll
Product placement
Two-shot
36. Any lens with a focal length approximately equal to the diagonal of the frame. For 35mm filmmaking - a 35-50 mm lens does not distort the angle of vision or depth
Fast motion
Normal lens
Hybrid
Iris out
37. (Automatic dialogue replacement) recording synchronized dialogue in post-production - cutting several identical lengths of developed film and having actors record the dialogue repeatedly
ADR
Normal lens
Extreme close-up
Travelling matte
38. 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
Editor
Neutral-density filter
Time-lapse photography
High-key lighting
39. Smaller corporations that did not own distribution and/or exhibition companies in the studio era - including Universal - Columbia - and United Artists
Minor studios
Standard shot pattern
Tracking shot
Realist style
40. 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
Revisionist
Toning
Long take
41. A lens with a variable focal length that allows changes of focal length while keeping the subject in focus
Major studios
Overlapping dialogue
Zoom lens
Wide film
42. 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
Major studios
Oeuvre
Pixel
Open-ended
43. A statement that presents an argument about a film's meaning and significance
Descriptive claim
Cel
City symphony
Interpretive claim
44. A film that fuses the conventions of two or more genres
Hybrid
Pan
Iris in...
Close-up
45. A painting used on the set as a portion of the background
Loose framing
Star persona
Matte painting
Montage sequence
46. A black masking device used to black out a portion of the frame - usually for the insertion of other images
Blocking
Interpretive claim
Star filter
Matte
47. The period of time before principal photography during which actors are signed - sets and costumes designed - and locations scouted
Shot
Slow motion
Sound bridge
Pre-production
48. Literary narration from a viewpoint beyond that of any one individual character
Pre-production
Gauge
Avant-garde film
Third-person narration
49. A similarity established between two characters or situations that invites the audience to compare the two. It may involve visual - narrative - and/or sound elements
Cameo
Reverse shot
Kuleshov effect
Parellel
50. 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
Editor
Tableau shot
Sound bridge
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