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Film Vocab
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1. A compositing method that allows cinematographers to combine live action and settings that are filmed or created separately. Actors are filmed against a green or blue background. During post-production - this background is filled in with an image thr
Point-of-view shot
Panchromatic
Revisionist
Green screen
2. A compositing method that allows cinematographers to combine live action and settings that are filmed or created separately. Actors are filmed against a green or blue background. During post-production - this background is filled in with an image thr
Pulling
Composition
Fabula
Green screen
3. The visual arrangement of objects - actors - and space within the frame
Composition
Compositing
Rotoscope
Saturation
4. 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
Graphic match
Scratching
Third-person narration
Parellel
5. 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
Aspect Ratio
Zoom in...
Soundtrack
Outsourcing
6. 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
Continuity editing
Voice-over
Tinting
City symphony
7. A shot that depicts a human body from the feet up
Tableau shot
Medium long shot
Shooting script
Promotion
8. A production term denoting a single uninterrupted series of frames exposed by a motion picture or video camera between the time it is turned on and the time it is turned off. Filmmakers shoot several takes of any scene and the film editor selects the
Editor
Take
Restricted narration
Method acting
9. A continuity editing technique that preserves spatial continuity by using a character's line of vision as motivation for a cut
Trailer
Zoom out
Eyeline match
Green screen
10. A part of the story world implied by visual or sound techniques rather than being revealed by the camera
Offscreen space
Hard light
30-degree rule
Animation
11. The conclusion of the film wraps up - all loose ends in a form of resolution - though not necessarily with a happy ending.
Optical printer
Closure
Star persona
Character actor
12. A lens with a variable focal length that allows changes of focal length while keeping the subject in focus
Set-up
Release prints
Episodic
Zoom lens
13. A machine that converts film prints to videotape format
Telecine
Optical printer
Anime
Average shot length
14. These filters bend the light coming into lens - softening and blurring the image
Assistant Editor
Blocking
Underexposure
Diffusion filters
15. 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
Soviet montage
Lightning mix
Star persona
16. A shot that depicts a human body from the feet up
Master shot
Medium long shot
Medium close-up
Pre-production
17. A device worn by a camera operator that holds the motion picture camera - allowing it glide smoothly through spaces unreachable by camera mounted on a crane or other apparatus
Dolly
Time-lapse photography
Negative
Steadicam
18. A chemical coating on film stock containing light-sensitive grains
Selective focus
Emulsion
Tableau shot
Omniscient narration
19. 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
Fabula
Forced perspective
Trombone shot
Vista Vision
20. A production term referring to coordinating actors' movements with lines of dialogue
Blocking
Double exposure
Available light
Hard light
21. An optical effect whereby the eye continues to register a visual stimulus in the brain for a brief period after that stimulus has been removed
Persistence of vision
Denouement
Emulsion
Hollywood Ten
22. 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
Panchromatic
Standard shot pattern
Star filter
Figure placement and movement
23. The width of the film stock - measured across the frame. Typical sizes are 8mm - 16mm - 35mm - and 70mm
Gauge
Three-act structure
Closure
Low-angle shot
24. Early films that documented everyday events - such as workers leaving a factory
Hollywood Ten
Hollywood Ten
Actualitas
Apparatus Theory
25. A short segment of film used to promote an upcoming release
Formalist style
Zoom lens
Trailer
Backstage musical
26. The chip in a video camera that converts the incoming light to an electronic signal
Recursive action
Desaturated
Charge coupler device
Shutter
27. The way an actor delivers a line of dialogue - including pauses - inflection - and emotion
Formalist style
Line reading
ADR
Eyeline match
28. 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
Blocking
Negative
Three-point lighting
Saturation
29. A brief chronological description of the basic events and characters in a film. It does not include interpretive or evaluative claims
Plot summary
Filter
Zoom out
Iris out
30. A shot that appears during or near the end of a scene and reorients viewers to the setting
Negative
Closure
Actualitas
Re-establishing shot
31. Devices that attach to actors' faces and/or bodies to change their appearance
Shot/reverse shot
Orthochromatic
Pixilation
Prosthesis
32. A chemical coating on film stock containing light-sensitive grains
Frame narration
Star system
Emulsion
Major studios
33. 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
Brechtian distanciation
Diegesis
Negative cutter
Second unit
34. 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
Anamorphic lens
Frozen time moment
Pulling
Major studios
35. A transparent sheet on which animation artists draw images.
Cel
Composition
Underexposure
Front projection
36. Cinema verite; a documentary style in which the filmmaker attempts to remain as unobtrusive as possible - recording without obvious editorial comment
Speed
Backstory
Fabula
Direct cinema
37. An unstated meaning that underlies and is implied by spoken dialogue
Toning
Subtext
Bleach bypass
Forced perspective
38. The technique of telling the story from an all-knowing character. Films that use restricted narration limit the audience's perception to what one particular character knows - but may insert moments of omniscience
Rear projection
Day for night
Filter
Omniscient narration
39. Early films that documented everyday events - such as workers leaving a factory
Shooting script
Iris out
Actualitas
Dissolve
40. Also called 'stop motion photography.' A technique of photographing a scene one frame at a time and moving the model between each shot
Extreme wide-angle lens
Pixilation
Digital cinema
Cut
41. A method for producing a widescreen image without special lenses or equipment - using standard film stock and blocking out the top and bottom of the frame to achieve an aspect ration of 1.85:1
Masking
Post-production
Second unit
Emulsion
42. Filters that increase color saturation and contrast in outdoor shots
Special visual effects
Formalist style
Polarizing filters
Persistence of vision
43. Optical illusions created during post-production
Glass shot
Front projection
Focus puller
Visual effects
44. Prefogging; a cinematographic technique that exposes raw film stock to light before - during - or after shooting - resulting in an image with reduced contrast. This effect can also be created using digital post-production techniques
Scene
Freeze frame
Flashing
Pan
45. An agreement made between filmmakers and those who license the use of commercial products to feature those products in films - generally as props used by characters
Front projection
Undercranking
Tableau shot
Product placement
46. Squeezes the image at a ratio of 2:1 horizontally onto a standard film frame. On the projector - it unsqueezes the image - creating a widescreen aspect ratio during presentation
Script supervisor
Anamorphic lens
Travelling matte
Tight framing
47. A process of transferring film to video tapes or DVDs so that the original aspect ratio of the film is preserved
Focus puller
Horizontal integration
Reverse shot
Letterboxing
48. A device that projects photographs or footage onto glass so that images can be traced by hand to create animated images
Exposition
Gaffer
Rotoscope
Apparatus Theory
49. An optical technique that divides the screen into two or more frames
Telephoto lens
Split screen
Eye-level shot
Syuzhet
50. Fish-eye lens; With a focal length of 15mm or less - this lens presents an extremely distorted image - where objects in the center of the frame appear to bulge toward the camera
Extreme wide-angle lens
Undercranking
Persistence of vision
Sound bridge