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Film Vocab
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Match each statement with the correct term.
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1. Also called 'rushes.' Footage exposed and developed quickly so that the director can assess the day's work
180-degree rule
Dailies
Parellel
Integrated musical
2. 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
Zoom out
Morphing
Time-lapse photography
Mockumentary
3. 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
Genre
Direct sound
Digital set extension
Studio system
4. 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
Undercranking
Glass shot
Dolly
Color filter
5. A shot that depicts a human body from the feet up
Low-angle shot
Interpellation
Natural-key lighting
Medium long shot
6. 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
Time-lapse photography
Canted angle
Block booking
Pulling
7. A shot in a sequence that is taken from the reverse angle of the shot previous to it
Lightning mix
Reverse shot
Tinting
Digital compositing
8. 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
Widescreen
Interlaced scanning
Academy Ratio
Editor
9. A shot taken from a level camera located approximately 5' to 6' from the ground - simulating the perspective of a person standing before the action presented
Slow motion
Eye-level shot
Montage sequence
First-person narration
10. Images that originate from computer graphics technology - rather than photography
Computer-generated imagery (CGI)
Pushing
Descriptive claim
Major studios
11. 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
Overhead shot
Matte
Tracking shot
Undercranking
12. A filter that creates points of light that streak outward from a light source
Spec script
Star filter
Anime
Masking
13. 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
Backstage musical
Episodic
Selective focus
Available light
14. Because film stock is sensitive to the color of light - directors work with film labs in post-production to monitor the color scheme of each scene in a film - making adjustments for consistency and aesthetic effect
Blaxploitation
Iris in...
Color timing
Screenplay
15. An effect created when more light is required to produce an image strakes the film stock - so that the resulting image exhibits high contrast - glaring light - and washed out shadows. This effect ma or may not be intentional on the filmmaker's part
Zoom out
Overexposure
Screenplay
Zoom lens
16. 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
Forced development
Assistant Editor
Subgenre
Day for night
17. 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
Emulsion
City symphony
Montage sequence
Glass shot
18. The plotline that surrounds an embedded tale. The frame narration may or may not be as fully developed as the embedded tale
Frame narration
Formalist style
Classical style
Eye-level shot
19. A narrative - visual - or sound element that refers viewers to other films or works of art
Backstory
Trailer
Intertextual reference
Base
20. The film medium's technological apparatus is inherently ideological
Overexposure
Four-part structure
Apparatus Theory
Low-key lighting
21. 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
Production values
Underexposure
Extra
Forced perspective
22. A shot filmed from an airplane or helicopter
Phi phenomenon
Aerial Shot
Lens
Persistence of vision
23. A series of individual drawings that provides a blueprint for the shooting of a scene
Avant-garde film
Storyboard
Parellel
Soft light
24. The non-chronological insertion of events from the past into the present day of the story world
Direct sound
Analog Video
Four-part structure
Flashback
25. Optical illusions created during production - including the use of matte paintings - glass shots - models - and prosthesis
Fast
Foley artist
Special visual effects
Running time
26. The width of the film stock - measured across the frame. Typical sizes are 8mm - 16mm - 35mm - and 70mm
Persistence of vision
Apparatus Theory
Gauge
Extreme close-up
27. The chip in a video camera that converts the incoming light to an electronic signal
Fog filter
Undercranking
Sound bridge
Charge coupler device
28. A genre film that radically modifies accepted genre conventions for dramatic effect
German Expressionism
Continuity error
Revisionist
Tableau shot
29. The central cause(s) behind a character's actions
Motivation
Descriptive claim
Restricted narration
Go-motion
30. 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
Widescreen
Natural-key lighting
Lens
Deep focus cinematography
31. Secondary footage that is interspersed with master shots - sometimes in the form of footage shot for another production or archival footage
Soft light
Freeze frame
Interlaced scanning
B-roll
32. 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
Four-part structure
Protagonist
Backstage musical
Undercranking
33. A story narrated by one of the characters within the story - using the 'I' voice
Academy Ratio
Camera distance
Integrated musical
First-person narration
34. Experimental film; Underground cinema;
Avant-garde film
Hybrid
Filter
Oeuvre
35. Processes such as Cinemascope and Cinerama - developed during the 1950s to enhance film's size advantage over the smaller television image
Shot transition
Widescreen
Pulling
Open-ended
36. A single take that contains an entire scene
Sound bridge
Telephoto lens
Optical printer
Master shot
37. The arrangement of images to depict a unified storyline
Shot transition
Narrative sequencing
Scratching
Revisionist
38. 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
Extreme wide-angle lens
Re-establishing shot
Low-angle shot
Star system
39. Literary narration from a viewpoint beyond that of any one individual character
Pulling
Exposure
Third-person narration
Toning
40. A musical accompaniment written specifically for a film
Foley artist
Score
Go-motion
Interpretive claim
41. A crew member whose job is to measure the distance between the subject and the camera lens - marking the ring on the camera lens - and ensuring the ring is turned precisely so that the image is in focus
Star persona
Propaganda film
Extreme long-shot
Focus puller
42. The term for a film's spoken dialogue - as opposed to the underlying meaning contained in the subtext
Pixel
Polarizing filters
Text
Fast motion
43. 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
Turning point
Normal lens
Auteur
Dailies
44. A crew member who reports to the Director of Photography (DP) and is in charge of tasks involving lighting and electrical needs
Low-key lighting
Flashforward
Gaffer
Medium close-up
45. A camera device that opens and closes to regulate the length of time the film is exposed to light
Film stock
Shutter
Analog Video
Underexposure
46. An early color process - involving bathing lengths of processed film in dye one scene at a time
Realist style
Tinting
Swish pan
Underexposure
47. Devices that attach to actors' faces and/or bodies to change their appearance
Available light
Chiaroscuro
Blaxploitation
Prosthesis
48. 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
Digital cinema
Film stock
Classical style
Narrative sequencing
49. Light emitted from a larger source that is scattered over a bigger area or reflected off a surface before it strikes the subject. Soft light minimizes facial details - including wrinkles
Soft light
Rotoscope
Promotion
Restricted narration
50. A contemporary modification of the standard three-act structure that identifies a critical turning point at the halfway mark of most narrative films
Desaturated
Second unit
Four-part structure
Panning and scanning