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Film Vocab
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performing-arts
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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 crew member responsible for logging the details of each take on the set so as to ensure continuity
Script supervisor
Extra
Parellel
Narrative
2. A marketing strategy of screening a blockbuster prior to general release only in premier theaters
Product placement
Denouement
Out-take
Roadshowing
3. The first print made from a film negative
Master positive
Turning point
Pixel
Anime
4. The non-chronological insertion of events from the past into the present day of the story world
Realist style
Star persona
Omniscient narration
Flashback
5. An outlawed studio era practice - where studios forced exhibitors to book groups of films at once - thus ensuring a market for their failures along with their successes
Sound bridge
Block booking
Extreme wide-angle lens
Revisionist
6. A pan executed so quickly that it produces a blurred image - indicated rapid activity or - sometimes - the passage of time
Classical style
Lens
Swish pan
Mockumentary
7. 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
Integrated musical
Formalist style
Fast motion
Revisionist
8. The period after principal photography during which editing and looping take place - and special visual effects are added to the film
Typecasting
Post-production
Glass shot
Wide-angle lens
9. A transparent sheet on which animation artists draw images.
Swish pan
Episodic
Cel
Crane shot
10. A specialist who monitors the processing of color on the se and in the film lab
Establishing shot
Emulsion
Color consultant
Block booking
11. A brief chronological description of the basic events and characters in a film. It does not include interpretive or evaluative claims
Parellel editing
Persistence of vision
Plot summary
Digital set extension
12. 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
Shutter
Swish pan
Canted angle
13. Dense accumulation of detail conveyed in the opening moments of a film
Open-ended
Exposition
Studio system
Matte painting
14. A film composed entirely of footage from other films.
Plot summary
Compilation film
Exposure
Recursive action
15. A platform on wheels - used for mobile camera shots
Two-shot
Dolly
Letterboxing
Horizontal integration
16. A format that uses a larger film stock than standard 35mm. IMAX - Omnimax - and Showscan are shot on 70mm film
Wide film
Two-shot
Runaway production
Extradiegetic
17. A standard shot pattern that dictates that a shot of one character will be followed by a shot of another character - taken from the reverse angle of the first shot
Scratching
Shot/reverse shot
Animation
Wireframe
18. A continuity editing technique that preserves spatial continuity by using a character's line of vision as motivation for a cut
Blockbuster
Academy Ratio
Realist style
Eyeline match
19. Public identity created by marketing a film actor's performances - press coverage - and 'personal' information to fans as the star's personality
Interpretive claim
Star persona
Color timing
Shooting script
20. The chronological accounting of all events presented and suggested
Direct sound
Extreme long-shot
Fabula
Flashback
21. A model of industrial organization in the film industry from about 1915 to 1946 - characterized by the development of major and minor studios that produced - distributed - and exhibited films - and held film actors - directors - art directors - and o
High concept film
Revisionist
Studio system
Persistence of vision
22. Drawing attention to the process of representation (including narrative and characterization) to break the theatrical illusion and elicit a distanced - intellectual response in the audience
Minor studios
Mixing
Brechtian distanciation
Protagonist
23. A long shot in which the film frame resembles the proscenium arch of the stage - distancing the audience
Trailer
Figure placement and movement
Tableau shot
Toning
24. The arrangement of images to depict a unified storyline
Match on action
Aerial Shot
Polarizing filters
Narrative sequencing
25. The practice of shooting during the day but using filters and underexposure to create the illusion of nighttime
Studio system
Fade-out
Day for night
Avant-garde film
26. Public identity created by marketing a film actor's performances - press coverage - and 'personal' information to fans as the star's personality
Star persona
Wide-angle lens
Base
Freeze frame
27. An abrupt - inexplicable shift in time and place of an action not signaled by an appropriate shot transition
Intertextual reference
Jump cut
Direct sound
Blocking
28. Recording images at a slower speed than the speed of projection (24 frames per second). Before cameras were motorized - this was called undercranking. Fewer frames are exposed in one minute - so - when projected at 24 f.p.s. - that action takes less
Narrative
Fast motion
Exposition
Scratching
29. A measure of a film stock's sensitivity to light. 'Fast' refers to sensitive film stock - while slow film is relatively insensitive
Speed
Long shot
Brechtian distanciation
Text
30. A scene filmed and processed but not selected to appear in the final version of the film
Cutaway
Hybrid
Digital compositing
Out-take
31. Optical illusions created during production - including the use of matte paintings - glass shots - models - and prosthesis
Master positive
Wide film
Rear projection
Special visual effects
32. The film medium's technological apparatus is inherently ideological
Visual effects
Second unit
Cameo
Apparatus Theory
33. The average length in seconds of a series of shots - covering a portion of a film or an entire film; a measure of pace within a scene or in the film as a whole.
Offscreen space
Average shot length
Parellel
Typecasting
34. Early films that documented everyday events - such as workers leaving a factory
Shot
Green screen
Front projection
Actualitas
35. A crew member whose job is to maintain consistency in visual details from one shot to the next
Day for night
Base
Continuity editor
Realist style
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
Front projection
Slow
Blaxploitation
On-the-nose dialogue
37. 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
Storyboard
Cameo
Extreme close-up
Classical style
38. A lens with a variable focal length that allows changes of focal length while keeping the subject in focus
Script supervisor
Genre
Zoom lens
Studio system
39. A crew member who reports to the Director of Photography (DP) and is in charge of tasks involving lighting and electrical needs
ADR
Gaffer
Major studios
Aspect Ratio
40. A character who in some way opposes the protagonist - leading to protracted conflict
Negative cutter
Double exposure
Zoom lens
Antagonist
41. A genre film that radically modifies accepted genre conventions for dramatic effect
Neutral-density filter
Flashback
Revisionist
Special visual effects
42. 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
Hue
Eye-level shot
Fog filter
Foley artist
43. 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
Cut
Selective focus
Slow motion
Desaturated
44. A shot taken from a camera position above the subject - looking down at it
High-angle shot
Second unit
Masking
Diegesis
45. The way an actor delivers a line of dialogue - including pauses - inflection - and emotion
Digital video
Gaffer
Compositing
Line reading
46. A digital technique developed by Industrial Light and Magic - which builds movement sequences from single frames of film
Crab dolly
Go-motion
Cameo
Front projection
47. A story narrated by one of the characters within the story - using the 'I' voice
Overhead shot
First-person narration
Sound bridge
Extra
48. A machine that converts film prints to videotape format
Go-motion
Rack focus
Focus puller
Telecine
49. A complete narrative unit within a film - with its own beginning - middle - and end. Often scenes are unified - and distinguished from one another - by time and setting
Revisionist
Continuity editing
Depth of field
Scene
50. A device attached to the film camera that records videotape of what has been filmed - allowing the director immediate access to video footage
Blockbuster
Video assist
Antagonist
Overhead shot