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Film Vocab
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1. A vertical - up-and-down - motion of an otherwise stationary camera
Double exposure
Production values
Tilt
Line of action
2. A shot that interrupts a scene's master shot and may include character reactions
Time-lapse photography
Insert
Green screen
Close-up
3. 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
Crane shot
Aspect Ratio
Major studios
Avant-garde film
4. Sound recorded on a set - on location - or - for documentary film - at an actual real-world event - as opposed to dubbed in post-production through ADR or looping
Masking
Direct sound
Parellel
B-roll
5. Devices that attach to actors' faces and/or bodies to change their appearance
Restricted narration
Wide film
Out-take
Prosthesis
6. A story narrated by one of the characters within the story - using the 'I' voice
Undercranking
Gaffer
First-person narration
Director
7. A technique of shooting a scene at a very high speed (96 frames per second) - then adding and subtracting frames in post-production - 'fanning out' the action through the overlapping images
B-roll
Recursive action
Block booking
Cinerama
8. A technique of recording very few images over a long period of time - say - one frame per minute or per day
Time-lapse photography
Omniscient narration
Blue screen
Backstory
9. Dialogue that restates What is already obvious from images or action
Episodic
On-the-nose dialogue
Four-part structure
High-angle shot
10. 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
Gaffer
Interpellation
Scratching
11. Processes such as Cinemascope and Cinerama - developed during the 1950s to enhance film's size advantage over the smaller television image
Aspect Ratio
Runaway production
Widescreen
Neutral-density filter
12. A film style that - in contrast to the classical and formalist styles - focuses characters - place - and the spontaneity and digressiveness of life - rather than on highly structured stories or aesthetic abstraction
Anime
Low-angle shot
Realist style
Offscreen space
13. A machine used to create optical effects such as fades - dissolves - and superimpositions. Most are now created digitally
Pulling
Optical printer
Editor
Double exposure
14. A widescreen process that uses three cameras - three projectors - and a wide - curved screen
Cinerama
Ethnographic film
Three-act structure
Screenplay
15. A short screen appearance by a celebrity - playing himself or herself
Ethnographic film
Cameo
Negative cutter
Exposition
16. An efficient system developed for film lighting. In a standard lighting set-up - the key light illuminates the subject - the fill light eliminates shadows cast by the key light - and the back light separates the subject from the background
Three-point lighting
Focus puller
Green screen
Set-up
17. A narrative moment that signals an important shift of some kind in character or situation
Charge coupler device
Turning point
Cinerama
Shooting script
18. 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
Integrated musical
Insert
Editor
Shot/reverse shot
19. These filters bend the light coming into lens - softening and blurring the image
Diffusion filters
Fade-out
Computer-generated imagery (CGI)
Letterboxing
20. 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
180-degree rule
Eye-level shot
Realist style
Shooting script
21. A production crew responsible not for shooting the primary footage but - instead - for remote location shooting and B-roll. See also B-roll
180-degree rule
Second unit
Medium close-up
Fast motion
22. The camera should move at least 30 degrees any time there is a cut within a scene
Dye coupler
Continuity editing
30-degree rule
Overhead shot
23. A shot that focuses audience attention on precise details that may or may not be the focus of characters
Front projection
Cutaway
Filter
Low-angle shot
24. Images that originate from computer graphics technology - rather than photography
Exposure latitude
Optical printer
Crane shot
Computer-generated imagery (CGI)
25. 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
Character actor
Soundtrack
Sound bridge
Interlaced scanning
26. The arrangement of images to depict a unified storyline
Episodic
City symphony
Narrative sequencing
Zoom out
27. An early color process - involving bathing lengths of processed film in dye one scene at a time
Tinting
Soundtrack
Jump cut
Animation
28. A statement that presents an argument about a film's meaning and significance
Widescreen
Interpretive claim
Actualitas
Interpellation
29. A format that uses a larger film stock than standard 35mm. IMAX - Omnimax - and Showscan are shot on 70mm film
Soundtrack
Wide film
Eye-level shot
Diffusion filters
30. A description of film stock that is highly sensitive to light
Turning point
Fast
Prosthesis
Continuity editor
31. The camera should move at least 30 degrees any time there is a cut within a scene
Compilation film
Depth of field
30-degree rule
Deep focus cinematography
32. 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
Kuleshov effect
Handheld shot
Flashforward
Forced perspective
33. 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
Narrative sequencing
Episodic
Blockbuster
Mockumentary
34. A shot that depicts a human body from the feet up
Long shot
Medium long shot
Average shot length
Extra
35. The space between the camera and subject it is filming.
Available light
Soviet montage
Foley artist
Camera distance
36. A technique of exposing film frames - then rewinding the film and exposing it again - which results in an image that combines two shots in a single frame
Blocking
Double exposure
Exposition
Typecasting
37. A musical accompaniment written specifically for a film
Spec script
Score
Ethnographic film
Film stock
38. 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
Hybrid
Editor
Extreme wide-angle lens
Glass shot
39. 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
Optical printer
Forced perspective
Persistence of vision
Tracking shot
40. (Automatic dialogue replacement) recording synchronized dialogue in post-production - cutting several identical lengths of developed film and having actors record the dialogue repeatedly
ADR
Running time
Take
Rotoscope
41. Exposed and developed film stock from which the master positive is struck. If projected - the negative would produce a reverse of the image - with dark areas appearing white and vice versa or - if color film - areas of color appearing as their comple
Swish pan
Parellel
Negative
Establishing shot
42. Images that originate from computer graphics technology - rather than photography
Composition
Pulling
Average shot length
Computer-generated imagery (CGI)
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
Low-angle shot
Negative
Normal lens
Extreme long-shot
44. 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
Color consultant
Frame narration
Superimposition
45. Literary narration from a viewpoint beyond that of any one individual character
Neutral-density filter
Masking
Letterboxing
Third-person narration
46. 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
Medium shot
Flashing
Scratching
Front projection
47. A shot taken from a camera mounted on a crane that moves three-dimensionally in a space
Point-of-view shot
Crane shot
Interpretive claim
First-person narration
48. A platform on wheels - used for mobile camera shots
Time-lapse photography
Undercranking
Extreme long-shot
Dolly
49. 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
Star system
Digital compositing
Three-act structure
Overlapping dialogue
50. A scene transition wherein sound from one scene bleeds over into the ext scene - often resulting in a contrast between sound image
Shot transition
Subgenre
Sound bridge
Shooting script
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