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Film Vocab
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1. A technique of depicting two layered images simultaneously. Images from one frame or several frames of film are added to pre-existing images - using an optical printer - to produce the same effect as a double exposure
Superimposition
Sound bridge
Color timing
Direct cinema
2. 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
Fog filter
Overexposure
Front projection
Composition
3. An action film cycle of the late 1960s and early 1970s that featured bold - rebellious African American characters
Blaxploitation
Motif
Overhead shot
Pulling
4. The horizontal turning movement of an otherwise immobile camera across a scene from left to right or vice versa
Crab dolly
Overlapping dialogue
Cameo
Pan
5. 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
Compilation film
Low-key lighting
German Expressionism
Close-up
6. 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
Major studios
Soviet montage
Special visual effects
Synthespian
7. A shot that interrupts a scene's master shot and may include character reactions
Grain
High-key lighting
Insert
Recursive action
8. Dialogue that restates What is already obvious from images or action
Antagonist
On-the-nose dialogue
Masking
Neutral-density filter
9. 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
Point-of-view shot
Matte
Motif
Graphic match
10. A crew member who reports to the Director of Photography (DP) and is in charge of tasks involving lighting and electrical needs
Gaffer
Extradiegetic
Backstage musical
Roadshowing
11. Also called 'rushes.' Footage exposed and developed quickly so that the director can assess the day's work
Establishing shot
Dailies
German Expressionism
Star persona
12. An action film cycle of the late 1960s and early 1970s that featured bold - rebellious African American characters
Canted angle
Syuzhet
Blaxploitation
Star system
13. The arrangement of images to depict a unified storyline
Zoom out
Rotoscope
Diegesis
Narrative sequencing
14. A vertical - up-and-down - motion of an otherwise stationary camera
Dissolve
Motivation
Episodic
Tilt
15. Wheeled platform with wheels that rotate - so the dolly can change direction
Standard shot pattern
Anime
Crab dolly
ADR
16. 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
Forced perspective
Telephoto lens
Eyeline match
Pulling
17. A sound editing technique that links several scenes through parallel and overlapping sounds. Each sound is associated with one scene - unlike a sound bridge - where a sound from one scene bleeds into that of another
Frame narration
Set-up
Tableau shot
Lightning mix
18. The first step in the process of creating CGI. The wireframe is a three-dimensional computer model of an object - which is then rendered (producing the finished image) and animated (using simulated camera movement frame by frame)
Wireframe
Tilt
Toning
Flashing
19. 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
Kuleshov effect
High concept film
Foley artist
Major studios
20. The space between the camera and subject it is filming.
Hue
Release prints
Sound bridge
Camera distance
21. 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
Matte
Minor studios
High-key lighting
Shot/reverse shot
22. A chemical embedded in the emulsion layer of film stock that - when developed after exposure - releases a particular color dye (red - green - or blue)
Blockbuster
Travelling matte
Filter
Dye coupler
23. A type of short film that blends elements of documentary and avant-garde film to document and often to celebrate the wonder of the modern city
Gaffer
Running time
Antagonist
City symphony
24. A filter that creates points of light that streak outward from a light source
Wireframe
Star filter
Plot summary
Negative cutter
25. Lighting design where the key light is somewhat more intense than the fill light - so the fill does not eliminate every shadow. The effect is generally less cheerful than high-key lighting - but not as gloomy as low-key lighting
Episodic
Negative
B-roll
Natural-key lighting
26. A musical accompaniment written specifically for a film
Star filter
Omniscient narration
Score
Text
27. 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
Text
Canted angle
Cutaway
Montage sequence
28. 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
Eye-level shot
Front projection
Low-angle shot
Post-production
29. A technique of moving a zoom lens from a wide-angle position to a telephoto position - which results in a magnification of the subject within the frame - and keeps the subject in focus
Cel
Zoom in...
Product placement
Closure
30. An animation technique that uses a computer program to interpolate frames to produce the effect of an object or creature changing gradually into something different. The program calculates the way the image must change in order for the first image to
Turning point
Morphing
Aerial Shot
Score
31. Light striking the emulsion layer of the film - activating light-sensitive grains
Exposure
Storyboard
Newsreel
Zoom out
32. Any narrative - visual - or sound element that is repeated and thereby acquires and reflects its significance to the story - characters - or themes of the film.
Motif
Continuity editing
ADR
Interpellation
33. An early color process that replaced silver halide grains with colored salts
Toning
Parellel
Day for night
Realist style
34. The selection and ordering of narrative events presented in a film
Reverse shot
Reframing
Syuzhet
Crab dolly
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
Motivation
Character actor
High-key lighting
High-angle shot
36. The first shot in a standard shot sequence. Its purpose is to provide a clear representation of the location of the action
Spec script
Trombone shot
Frozen time moment
Establishing shot
37. An abrupt shot transition that occurs when Shot A is instantaneously replaced by Shot B.
Cut
Academy Ratio
Grain
Frame narration
38. The classical model of narrative form. The first act introduces characters and conflicts; the second act offers complication leading to a climax; the third act contains the danouement and resolution
Studio system
Line reading
Pre-production
Three-act structure
39. 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
Pixel
Saturation
Restricted narration
Extreme close-up
40. The reverse of Iris in: an iris expands outward until the next shot takes up the entire screen
Anime
Iris out
Master positive
Match on action
41. 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.'
Evaluative claim
Diegesis
Normal lens
Parellel editing
42. Invisible editing; a system devised to minimize the audience's awareness of shot transitions - especially cuts - in order to improve the flow of the story and avoid interrupting the viewer's immersion it in
Foley artist
Telecine
Continuity editing
Recursive action
43. Muted - washed out color that contains more white than a saturated color
Zoom lens
Digital set extension
Line of action
Desaturated
44. A type of film stock that is sensitive to (in other words - registers) all tones in the color spectrum
Ethnographic film
Method acting
Panchromatic
Wide-angle lens
45. A production term referring to coordinating actors' movements with lines of dialogue
Fast
Tight framing
Blocking
Foley artist
46. A film style that emerged in the 1910s in Germany. It was heavily indebted to the Expressionist art movement of the time and influenced subsequent horror films and film noir
Cinerama
German Expressionism
Flashback
Non-diegetic
47. 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
Director
Chiaroscuro
Flashforward
Aperture
48. A narrative approach that limits the audience's view of events to that of the main character(s) in the film. Occasional moments of omniscient narration may give viewers more information than the character shave at specific points in the narrative
Reframing
Best boy
Restricted narration
B-roll
49. The camera does not move across an imagined line drawn between two characters
Evaluative claim
Graphic match
180-degree rule
Mixing
50. A statement that presents an argument about a film's meaning and significance
Director
Digital compositing
Minor studios
Interpretive claim