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Film Vocab
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1. 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
Charge coupler device
High-angle shot
Front projection
Mixing
2. A shot transition where shot A slowly disappears as the screen becomes black before shot B appears. A fade-in is the reverse of this process
Fade-out
Eye-level shot
Digital set extension
Star filter
3. A technique of manipulating focus to direct the viewer's attention
Figure placement and movement
Extreme wide-angle lens
Selective focus
Tight framing
4. 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
Blocking
Depth of field
Oeuvre
Color timing
5. A statement that asserts a judgment that a given film or group of films is good or bad - based on specific criteria - Which may or may not be stated
Wipe
Evaluative claim
Vista Vision
Digital set extension
6. A screenplay written and submitted to a studio or production company without a prior contract or agreement
Soundtrack
Cameo
Spec script
Blaxploitation
7. The individual arrangement of lighting and camera placement used for each shot
Set-up
Pan
Special visual effects
Vista Vision
8. A film that fuses the conventions of two or more genres
Lightning mix
Foley artist
City symphony
Hybrid
9. A platform on wheels - used for mobile camera shots
Crab dolly
Synthespian
Underexposure
Dolly
10. A rule in continuity editing - which dictates that if a cut occurs while a character is in the midst of an action - the subsequent shot must begin so that audiences see the completion of that action
Continuity error
Superimposition
Star filter
Match on action
11. An abrupt - inexplicable shift in time and place of an action not signaled by an appropriate shot transition
Open-ended
Orthochromatic
Denouement
Jump cut
12. Individuals who were prevented from working in the film industry because of their suspected involvement with Communist interests
Standard shot pattern
Hollywood Blacklist
Flashing
Orthochromatic
13. 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
Spec script
Slow motion
Synthespian
Slow
14. 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
Overexposure
Direct cinema
Protagonist
Overhead shot
15. A transparent sheet on which animation artists draw images.
Rack focus
Montage sequence
Cel
Interpellation
16. A shot depicting the human body from the waist up
Interlaced scanning
Frozen time moment
Medium shot
Frame narration
17. These filters bend the light coming into lens - softening and blurring the image
Typecasting
Diffusion filters
Continuity editing
Digital video
18. A camera shot taken at a large distance from the subject. Using the human body as the subject - a long shot captures the entire human form
Compositing
Double exposure
Long shot
Extra
19. 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
Progressive scanning
Motivation
Parellel
Composition in depth
20. 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
Persistence of vision
Soft light
Selective focus
Green screen
21. A shot transition that involves the gradual disappearance of the image at the same time that a new image gradually comes into view
Telephoto lens
Go-motion
Green screen
Dissolve
22. A contemporary modification of the standard three-act structure that identifies a critical turning point at the halfway mark of most narrative films
Revisionist
Four-part structure
Apparatus Theory
Director
23. 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
Freeze frame
Direct sound
Computer-generated imagery (CGI)
Normal lens
24. A chemical coating on film stock containing light-sensitive grains
Emulsion
Screenplay
Polarizing filters
Split screen
25. 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
Available light
Pixilation
Subtext
26. A part of the story world implied by visual or sound techniques rather than being revealed by the camera
Descriptive claim
Offscreen space
Academy Ratio
Wireframe
27. Secondary footage that is interspersed with master shots - sometimes in the form of footage shot for another production or archival footage
Lightning mix
B-roll
Reverse shot
Syuzhet
28. Cinema verite; a documentary style in which the filmmaker attempts to remain as unobtrusive as possible - recording without obvious editorial comment
Method acting
Medium close-up
Natural-key lighting
Direct cinema
29. 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
Masking
Tableau shot
Point-of-view shot
Hollywood Ten
30. A shot taken from a camera position above the subject - looking down at it
Product placement
High-angle shot
Prosthesis
Sound bridge
31. A glass element on a camera that focuses light rays so that the image of the object appears on the surface of the film
Shot/reverse shot
Lens
Rack focus
Backstory
32. A system for recording images on magnetic tape using a digital signal - that is - an electronic signal comprised of 0s and 1s
Panning and scanning
German Expressionism
Digital video
Voice-over
33. A film process that uses 35mm film stock but changes the orientation of the film so that the film moves through the camera horizontally instead of vertically. The larger image is of higher quality than standard 35mm processes
Vista Vision
Star persona
Forced development
Shot/reverse shot
34. A pan executed so quickly that it produces a blurred image - indicated rapid activity or - sometimes - the passage of time
Syuzhet
Swish pan
30-degree rule
Tight framing
35. A shot transition that emphasizes the visual similarities between two consecutive shots
Panchromatic
Superimposition
Graphic match
Aerial Shot
36. The falling or unraveling action after the climax of a narrative that leads to resolution
Shooting script
Promotion
Blue screen
Denouement
37. 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
Telephoto lens
Method acting
Blue screen
Subgenre
38. An uncredited actor - usually hired for crowd scenes
Dolly
Extra
Exposure latitude
Overhead shot
39. Then Hollywood writers and directors cited for Contempt of Congress for refusing to cooperate with the House Committee on Un-American Activities' attempts to root out Communists in the film industry
Rack focus
Reverse shot
Special visual effects
Hollywood Ten
40. A technique of arranging the actors on the set to take advantage of deep focus cinematography - which allows for many planes of depth in the film frame to remain in focus
Non-diegetic
Composition in depth
Pulling
Double exposure
41. Creating the appearance of movement by drawing a series of frames that are projected sequentially - rather than photographing a series of still images
Negative cutter
Animation
Phi phenomenon
Speed
42. Sound design that blends the speech of several characters talking simultaneously - used to create spontaneity - although it may also confuse the audience
Standard shot pattern
Overlapping dialogue
Deep focus cinematography
Saturation
43. A machine that converts film prints to videotape format
Panchromatic
Motivation
Oeuvre
Telecine
44. A complete narrative unit within a film - with its own beginning - middle - and end. Often scenes are unified - and distinguished from one another - by time and setting
Scene
Zoom lens
Frozen time moment
Gauge
45. The imagined world of the story
Blockbuster
Diegesis
Dolly
Tableau shot
46. A shot transition that involves the gradual disappearance of the image at the same time that a new image gradually comes into view
Toning
Animation
Dissolve
Extreme close-up
47. A flexible celluloid strip that - along with the emulsion layer - comprises 35mm film stock
ADR
Shooting script
Base
Prosthesis
48. A technique of arranging the actors on the set to take advantage of deep focus cinematography - which allows for many planes of depth in the film frame to remain in focus
Tilt
Medium close-up
Composition in depth
Focal length
49. A change of focus from one plane of depth to another. As the in-focus subject goes out of focus - another object - which has been blurry - comes into focus in either the background or the foreground
Animation
Rack focus
Soundtrack
Blue screen
50. Public identity created by marketing a film actor's performances - press coverage - and 'personal' information to fans as the star's personality
Foley artist
Overlapping dialogue
Star persona
Anime
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