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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. 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
Morphing
Subtext
Frame narration
2. A cinematography technique that produces an image with many planes of depth in focus. It can be accomplished by using a small aperture - a large distance between camera and subject - and/or a lens of short focal length
Deep focus cinematography
Avant-garde film
Motivation
Exposure
3. A shot that appears during or near the end of a scene and reorients viewers to the setting
Classical style
Saturation
Freeze frame
Re-establishing shot
4. The written blueprint for a film - composed of three elements: dialogue - sluglines (setting the place and time of each scene) - and description. Feature-length screenplays typically run 90-130 pages
Screenplay
Camera distance
Exposition
Blockbuster
5. The period after principal photography during which editing and looping take place - and special visual effects are added to the film
Continuity editing
Long shot
Progressive scanning
Post-production
6. A technique of leaving empty space around the subject in the frame - in order to covey openness and continuity of visible space and to imply offscreen space
Fade-out
Method acting
Loose framing
Film stock
7. The way an actor delivers a line of dialogue - including pauses - inflection - and emotion
Master shot
Descriptive claim
Line reading
Crane shot
8. 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
Assistant Editor
Overlapping dialogue
Evaluative claim
Cinerama
9. Glass filters whose surface is etched with spots that refract light - so they create the appearance of water droplets in the air
Trombone shot
Digital compositing
Direct cinema
Fog filter
10. 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
Product placement
Slow
Widescreen
Diffusion filters
11. Assists the editor with various tasks - including taking footage to the lab - checking the condition of the negative - cataloguing footage - and supervising optical effects - often produced by an outside company
Speed
Assistant Editor
Director
Diffusion filters
12. 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
Release prints
Gauge
Overlapping dialogue
Episodic
13. 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
Direct sound
Open-ended
Undercranking
Interpellation
14. A system for recording images on magnetic tape using a digital signal - that is - an electronic signal comprised of 0s and 1s
Hard light
Telephoto lens
Digital video
Montage sequence
15. Cinema verite; a documentary style in which the filmmaker attempts to remain as unobtrusive as possible - recording without obvious editorial comment
Direct cinema
Eyeline match
Apparatus Theory
Studio system
16. A style of stage acting developed from the teachings of Constantin Stanislavsky - which trains actors to get into character through the use of emotional memory
Flashback
City symphony
Method acting
Standard shot pattern
17. Recording images at a slower speed than the speed of projection (24 frames per second). Before cameras were motorized - this was called undercranking. Fewer frames are exposed in one minute - so - when projected at 24 f.p.s. - that action takes less
Fast motion
30-degree rule
Polarizing filters
Depth of field
18. 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
Extra
Assistant Editor
Episodic
Point-of-view shot
19. A technique of moving the camera - on a specially built track. Such shots often trace character movement laterally across the frame or in and out of the depth of the frame
Zoom out
Flashback
Tracking shot
Extreme close-up
20. Louis Althusser's term for the way in which a society creates its subjects/citizens through ideological (as opposed to repressive) state apparatuses - which include education - media - religion - and the family
Dailies
Depth of field
Interpellation
Rotoscope
21. A shot transition that emphasizes the visual similarities between two consecutive shots
Deep focus cinematography
Voice-over
Three-act structure
Graphic match
22. 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
Fog filter
Re-establishing shot
Negative
Pixilation
23. 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
Direct sound
Jump cut
Eyeline match
Re-establishing shot
24. A computer-generated actor that some speculate will replace flesh and blood actors in the not so distant future
Fog filter
Available light
Brechtian distanciation
Synthespian
25. 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
Compilation film
Plot summary
Lightning mix
Denouement
26. A musical film in which each song and dance number is narratively motivated by a plot that situates characters in performance contexts
Canted angle
Tight framing
Tableau shot
Backstage musical
27. 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
Actualitas
Bleach bypass
Flashback
Director
28. 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
Motif
Studio system
Episodic
Interlaced scanning
29. A story; a chain of events linked by cause-and-effect logic
Montage sequence
Narrative
Screenplay
Editor
30. The artful use of light and dark areas in the composition in black and white filmmaking
Glass shot
Chiaroscuro
Evaluative claim
Handheld shot
31. A videotape system that records images onto magnetic tape - using electronic signals
Lightning mix
Analog Video
Filter
Glass shot
32. Natural light; The process of suing sunlight rather than artificial studio lights when filming
Recursive action
Available light
Medium long shot
Color consultant
33. A scene transition in which the first frame of the incoming scene appears to push the last frame of the previous scene off the screen horizontally
Wipe
Typecasting
Closure
Cinerama
34. A shot filmed from an airplane or helicopter
Phi phenomenon
Aerial Shot
High-angle shot
Wipe
35. 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
Screenplay
Glass shot
Pre-production
Extreme wide-angle lens
36. 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
Lightning mix
Actualitas
Chiaroscuro
Evaluative claim
37. 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
Realist style
Steadicam
Frozen time moment
Graphic match
38. A specialist who monitors the processing of color on the se and in the film lab
Color consultant
Best boy
Zoom lens
Composition in depth
39. A narrative - visual - or sound element that refers viewers to other films or works of art
Intertextual reference
Cut
Charge coupler device
Animation
40. An unstated meaning that underlies and is implied by spoken dialogue
Subtext
Interpretive claim
Video assist
Shutter
41. The annotated script - containing information about set-ups used during shooting
Shooting script
Narrative
Canted angle
Star persona
42. Leaving the silver grains in the emulsion rather than bleaching them out - which produces desaturated color
Persistence of vision
Compositing
Bleach bypass
Academy Ratio
43. The falling or unraveling action after the climax of a narrative that leads to resolution
Offscreen space
Denouement
Long take
B-roll
44. A process of blending the three elements of the sound track (dialogue - music - and effects) in post-production
Desaturated
Superimposition
Promotion
Mixing
45. A technique used to join live action with a pre-recorded background image. A projector is placed behind a screen and projects an image onto it. Actors stand in front of the screen and the camera records them in front of the projected background
Rear projection
Tilt
Pulling
Visual effects
46. Light emitted from a relatively small source positioned close to the subject. It tends to be unflattering because it creates deep shadows and emphasizes surface imperfections
Hard light
Best boy
Propaganda film
Scratching
47. A continuity editing technique that preserves spatial continuity by using a character's line of vision as motivation for a cut
Video assist
Eyeline match
Dye coupler
Release prints
48. Lighting design in which the greater intensity of the key light makes it impossible for the fill to eliminate shadows - producing a high-contrast image (with many grades of light and dark) - a number of shadows - and a somber mood
Long take
Interpretive claim
Low-key lighting
Three-point lighting
49. A technique of underdeveloping exposed film stock (leaving it in a chemical batch a shorter amount of time than usual) in order to achieve the visual effect of reducing contrast
Pulling
Continuity editor
Orthochromatic
Shutter
50. 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
Loose framing
Hollywood Blacklist
Vista Vision
Green screen