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Film Vocab
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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. 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
Video assist
Backstage musical
Major studios
Three-act structure
2. A shot combining two kinds of movement: the camera tracks in toward the subject wile the lens zooms out
Selective focus
Handheld shot
Interlaced scanning
Trombone shot
3. 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
Trombone shot
Canted angle
Eye-level shot
4. Also called 'd-cinema.' Not to be confused with digital cinematography (shooting movies on digital video) - this term refers to using digital technologies for exhibition
Frozen time moment
Graphic match
Digital cinema
Progressive scanning
5. 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
Swish pan
Glass shot
Fast motion
Base
6. A technique of manipulating focus to direct the viewer's attention
First-person narration
Diegesis
Selective focus
Wipe
7. A narrative - visual - or sound element that refers viewers to other films or works of art
Evaluative claim
Dye coupler
Block booking
Intertextual reference
8. An action film cycle of the late 1960s and early 1970s that featured bold - rebellious African American characters
Blaxploitation
Three-act structure
Restricted narration
Avant-garde film
9. 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
Revisionist
Flashback
Pan
Persistence of vision
10. 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
Focal length
Extreme wide-angle lens
Evaluative claim
Cel
11. 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
Wireframe
Block booking
Green screen
Emulsion
12. A lens with a focal length greater than 50 mm (usually between 80mm and 20mm) - which provides a larger image of the subject than a normal or wide-angle lens but which narrows the angle of vision and flattens the depth of the image relative to normal
Omniscient narration
Digital video
Telephoto lens
Open-ended
13. A story narrated by one of the characters within the story - using the 'I' voice
First-person narration
Omniscient narration
Reframing
Roadshowing
14. The central cause(s) behind a character's actions
Motivation
Motif
Text
Screenplay
15. Thin - flexible material comprised of base and emulsion layers - onto which light rays are focused and which is processed in chemicals to produce film images
Point-of-view shot
Scratching
Film stock
Low-angle shot
16. Secondary footage that is interspersed with master shots - sometimes in the form of footage shot for another production or archival footage
Subgenre
B-roll
Trombone shot
Realist style
17. The horizontal turning movement of an otherwise immobile camera across a scene from left to right or vice versa
Auteur
Iris out
Pan
Closure
18. The camera does not move across an imagined line drawn between two characters
30-degree rule
180-degree rule
Extra
Filter
19. Smaller corporations that did not own distribution and/or exhibition companies in the studio era - including Universal - Columbia - and United Artists
Minor studios
Matte painting
B-roll
Double exposure
20. 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
Film stock
Travelling matte
Color consultant
Block booking
21. A device that projects photographs or footage onto glass so that images can be traced by hand to create animated images
Blue screen
Rotoscope
Aperture
Subgenre
22. An unstated meaning that underlies and is implied by spoken dialogue
Fast motion
Grain
Color timing
Subtext
23. 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
Dissolve
Available light
Rotoscope
Overexposure
24. 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
Go-motion
Lightning mix
Cinerama
Compilation film
25. The practice of Hollywood studios contracting out post-production work to individuals or firms outside the U.S.
Outsourcing
Flashing
Shot/reverse shot
Star filter
26. A mental phenomenon by which viewers derive more meaning from the interaction of two sequential shots than from a single shot in isolation
Tilt
Loose framing
Subtext
Kuleshov effect
27. A shot taken from a camera position above the subject - looking down at it
High-angle shot
Steadicam
Motif
Aerial Shot
28. 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
Block booking
Score
Line reading
29. Optical illusions created during production - including the use of matte paintings - glass shots - models - and prosthesis
Lightning mix
Special visual effects
Forced perspective
Cinerama
30. 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
Flashforward
Camera distance
City symphony
Assistant Editor
31. Live action is filmed in front of a blue screen and a matte. It's then joined with the background footage
Neutral-density filter
Blue screen
Natural-key lighting
Exposure latitude
32. A short documentary on current events - show in movie theaters along with cartoons and feature films beginning in the 1930s
Newsreel
Aspect Ratio
Cutaway
Runaway production
33. Also called 'd-cinema.' Not to be confused with digital cinematography (shooting movies on digital video) - this term refers to using digital technologies for exhibition
Persistence of vision
Trombone shot
Motif
Digital cinema
34. A shot that interrupts a scene's master shot and may include character reactions
Insert
Persistence of vision
Scene
Auteur
35. A post-studio era Hollywood film designed to appeal to the broadest possible audience by fusing a simple story line with major movie stars and mounting a lavish marketing campaign
High concept film
Post-production
Propaganda film
Release prints
36. 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
30-degree rule
Soundtrack
Undercranking
Zoom out
37. A character who in some way opposes the protagonist - leading to protracted conflict
Matte painting
Antagonist
Voice-over
Panning and scanning
38. A visual effect created when the subject in the frame is restricted by the objects or the physical properties of the set
Front projection
Undercranking
Apparatus Theory
Tight framing
39. Glass filters whose surface is etched with spots that refract light - so they create the appearance of water droplets in the air
Loose framing
Aerial Shot
Focal length
Fog filter
40. The camera should move at least 30 degrees any time there is a cut within a scene
Lens
30-degree rule
Block booking
Selective focus
41. 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
Undercranking
Wipe
Interpretive claim
Backstage musical
42. A type of filter that absorbs certain wavelength but leave others unaffected. On black and white film - color filters lighten or darken tones. On color film - they can produce a range of effects
Compositing
Color filter
Minor studios
Computer-generated imagery (CGI)
43. The chronological accounting of all events presented and suggested
Fabula
Tracking shot
ADR
Shot transition
44. A format that uses a larger film stock than standard 35mm. IMAX - Omnimax - and Showscan are shot on 70mm film
Split screen
Wide film
Medium shot
Third-person narration
45. A lens with a variable focal length that allows changes of focal length while keeping the subject in focus
Zoom lens
Tight framing
Parellel editing
High-key lighting
46. 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
Slow motion
Depth of field
Rotoscope
Interlaced scanning
47. 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.'
Parellel editing
Hybrid
Iris out
Compilation film
48. A technician responsible for splicing and assembling the film negative to the editor's specifications
Mixing
Descriptive claim
Glass shot
Negative cutter
49. 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.
Aperture
Scene
Prosthesis
Average shot length
50. An early color process that replaced silver halide grains with colored salts
Eye-level shot
Toning
Mixing
Tinting