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Film Vocab
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1. A flexible celluloid strip that - along with the emulsion layer - comprises 35mm film stock
Base
Blocking
Low-angle shot
Offscreen space
2. A technique of cutting back and forth between action occurring in two different locations - which often creates the illusion that they are happening simultaneously. Also called 'cross cutting.'
Parellel editing
Continuity error
Hue
Shot
3. 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
Genre conventions
Low-key lighting
Rotoscope
Negative cutter
4. 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
Day for night
Continuity editing
180-degree rule
Editor
5. A pan executed so quickly that it produces a blurred image - indicated rapid activity or - sometimes - the passage of time
Swish pan
Oeuvre
Blaxploitation
Long shot
6. A large-budget film whose strategy is to swamp the competition through market saturation
Take
Reframing
Superimposition
Blockbuster
7. 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
Orthochromatic
Rear projection
Flashing
Director
8. An abrupt shot transition that occurs when Shot A is instantaneously replaced by Shot B.
Underexposure
Cut
Dailies
Horizontal integration
9. 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
Soviet montage
Natural-key lighting
Shooting script
Optical printer
10. Also called 'd-cinema.' Not to be confused with digital cinematography (shooting movies on digital video) - this term refers to using digital technologies for exhibition
Newsreel
Montage sequence
Digital cinema
Shot
11. 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
Standard shot pattern
Focal length
Fast motion
Foley artist
12. Devices that attach to actors' faces and/or bodies to change their appearance
Re-establishing shot
Star persona
Blue screen
Prosthesis
13. Film productions shot outside the U.S. for economic reasons
Runaway production
Crane shot
Reverse shot
Hue
14. The practice of shooting during the day but using filters and underexposure to create the illusion of nighttime
Cel
Day for night
Extra
Extreme wide-angle lens
15. 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
Soft light
Rear projection
Extra
Visual effects
16. An attribute of newer television monitors - where each frame is scanned by the electron beam as a single field. If slowed down - each frame would appear on the monitor in its entirety on the screen - rather than line by line - as is the case with int
Progressive scanning
Method acting
Master shot
Apparatus Theory
17. A chemical embedded in the emulsion layer of film stock that - when developed after exposure - releases a particular color dye (red - green - or blue)
Classical style
Dye coupler
Line reading
Synthespian
18. 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
Saturation
Turning point
Pushing
Sound bridge
19. 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
Rack focus
Integrated musical
Canted angle
Mockumentary
20. 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
Cinerama
Canted angle
Shutter
Glass shot
21. A type of matte shot - created by positioning a pane of optically flawless glass with a painting on it between the camera and the scene to be photographed. This combines the painting on the glass with the set or location - seen through the glass - be
Montage sequence
Glass shot
Compilation film
Out-take
22. 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
Animation
Slow motion
High-key lighting
Major studios
23. 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
Phi phenomenon
Revisionist
Cameo
Color timing
24. Suspended particles of silver in the film's emulsion - Which may become visible in the final image as dots
Extreme wide-angle lens
Product placement
Blocking
Grain
25. 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
Episodic
Point-of-view shot
Digital set extension
Reframing
26. A lens with a variable focal length that allows changes of focal length while keeping the subject in focus
Zoom lens
Masking
Vista Vision
Establishing shot
27. The person in charge of planning the style and look of the film with the production designer and director of photography - working with actors during principal photography - and collaborating with the editor on the final version
Gauge
Glass shot
Trailer
Director
28. The practice of Hollywood studios contracting out post-production work to individuals or firms outside the U.S.
Soundtrack
Computer-generated imagery (CGI)
Outsourcing
Speed
29. Experimental film; Underground cinema;
Motif
Avant-garde film
Hybrid
Blaxploitation
30. A class or type of film - such as the Western or the horror movie. They share narrative - visual - and/or sound conventions
Genre
High concept film
Realist style
Pulling
31. An action film cycle of the late 1960s and early 1970s that featured bold - rebellious African American characters
Pixel
Pixilation
Plot summary
Blaxploitation
32. A system for recording images on magnetic tape using a digital signal - that is - an electronic signal comprised of 0s and 1s
Digital video
Persistence of vision
Blocking
Color filter
33. A process of blending the three elements of the sound track (dialogue - music - and effects) in post-production
Split screen
Glass shot
Establishing shot
Mixing
34. An alternative to classical and realist styles - formalism is a self-consciously interventionist approach that explores ideas - abstraction - and aesthetics rather than focusing on storytelling (as in classical films) or everyday life (as in realist
Available light
Dailies
Continuity editor
Formalist style
35. A scene filmed and processed but not selected to appear in the final version of the film
Fade-out
Subgenre
Out-take
Base
36. A type of film stock that is sensitive to (in other words - registers) all tones in the color spectrum
Animation
Toning
Panchromatic
Shot
37. A glass element on a camera that focuses light rays so that the image of the object appears on the surface of the film
Denouement
Deep focus cinematography
Lens
Vertical integration
38. Creating an image by combining several elements created separately using computer graphics rather than photographic means
Digital compositing
Denouement
Diegesis
Tableau shot
39. A series of individual drawings that provides a blueprint for the shooting of a scene
Desaturated
Open-ended
Storyboard
Star system
40. The length in minutes for a film to play in its entirety (for example - 120 minutes). Also referred to as 'screen time.'
Realist style
Turning point
Running time
Synthespian
41. A technique of moving from the telephoto position to the wide-angle position of a zoom lens - which results in the subject appearing to become smaller within the frame - while remaining in focus
Average shot length
Motivation
Close-up
Zoom out
42. 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
Motif
Descriptive claim
Parellel
Fade-out
43. The non-chronological insertion of events from the past into the present day of the story world
Graphic match
Flashback
Extradiegetic
Blue screen
44. A shot taken from a camera position below the subject
Hue
Anime
Low-angle shot
Evaluative claim
45. A series of related scene joined through elliptical editing that indicates the passage of time
Set-up
Narrative sequencing
Blocking
Montage sequence
46. The practice or repeatedly casting actors in similar roles across different films
Compositing
Front projection
Typecasting
Diffusion filters
47. A technique of moving from the telephoto position to the wide-angle position of a zoom lens - which results in the subject appearing to become smaller within the frame - while remaining in focus
B-roll
Synthespian
Zoom out
Auteur
48. A term used for any narrative sound - or visual element not contained in the story world. Also called 'extradiegetic'
German Expressionism
Glass shot
Masking
Non-diegetic
49. 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
Genre
Digital compositing
Handheld shot
Product placement
50. A filter that creates points of light that streak outward from a light source
Star filter
Special visual effects
Front projection
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