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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 crew member responsible for logging the details of each take on the set so as to ensure continuity
Eyeline match
Establishing shot
Script supervisor
Canted angle
2. The non-chronological insertion of scenes of events yet to happen into the present day of the story world
Release prints
Flashforward
Figure placement and movement
Intertextual reference
3. A marketing strategy of screening a blockbuster prior to general release only in premier theaters
Frame narration
Handheld shot
Backstage musical
Roadshowing
4. Dialogue that restates What is already obvious from images or action
Available light
On-the-nose dialogue
Overhead shot
Video assist
5. A digital technique developed by Industrial Light and Magic - which builds movement sequences from single frames of film
Handheld shot
Green screen
Go-motion
Widescreen
6. 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
Split screen
Film stock
Overlapping dialogue
Glass shot
7. A type of documentary film whose purpose is to present the way of life of a culture or subculture
Wipe
Negative
Ethnographic film
Synthespian
8. A transparent sheet on which animation artists draw images.
Genre conventions
Jump cut
Cel
Digital video
9. The chip in a video camera that converts the incoming light to an electronic signal
Cutaway
Charge coupler device
Exposition
Flashing
10. Secondary footage that is interspersed with master shots - sometimes in the form of footage shot for another production or archival footage
Star persona
B-roll
Apparatus Theory
Scene
11. An alternative to classical and realist styles - formalism is a self-consciously interventionist approach that explores ideas - abstraction - and aesthetics rather than focusing on storytelling (as in classical films) or everyday life (as in realist
Tight framing
Graphic match
Tight framing
Formalist style
12. A camera device that opens and closes to regulate the length of time the film is exposed to light
Evaluative claim
Shutter
Kuleshov effect
Classical style
13. A style of Japanese animation - distinguished primarily by the fact that it is not all geared for young audiences
Horizontal integration
Anime
Foley artist
Extra
14. The reverse of Iris in: an iris expands outward until the next shot takes up the entire screen
Compilation film
Crab dolly
Iris out
Parellel
15. Glass filters whose surface is etched with spots that refract light - so they create the appearance of water droplets in the air
Fog filter
Three-point lighting
Frame narration
Continuity error
16. A format that uses a larger film stock than standard 35mm. IMAX - Omnimax - and Showscan are shot on 70mm film
Tracking shot
Restricted narration
Wide film
Continuity error
17. A format that uses a larger film stock than standard 35mm. IMAX - Omnimax - and Showscan are shot on 70mm film
Parellel
Wide film
Plot summary
Grain
18. A term that refers to the organization of an industry wherein one type of corporation also owns corporations in allied industries - for example - film production and video games
Script supervisor
Horizontal integration
Roadshowing
Blue screen
19. A type of film stock that is sensitive to (in other words - registers) all tones in the color spectrum
Out-take
Panchromatic
Four-part structure
Text
20. Muted - washed out color that contains more white than a saturated color
Tinting
Shot/reverse shot
Desaturated
Slow
21. 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
High-key lighting
Handheld shot
Hard light
Charge coupler device
22. 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
Omniscient narration
Composition in depth
Fast
Reframing
23. Optical illusions created during production - including the use of matte paintings - glass shots - models - and prosthesis
Optical printer
Rack focus
Special visual effects
Trombone shot
24. A visual effect achieved through the use of photography and digital techniques that appears to stop time and allow the viewer to travel around the subject and view it from a multitude of vantage points
Frozen time moment
Oeuvre
Superimposition
Soundtrack
25. A model of industrial organization in the film industry from about 1915 to 1946 - characterized by the development of major and minor studios that produced - distributed - and exhibited films - and held film actors - directors - art directors - and o
Base
Studio system
Descriptive claim
Mockumentary
26. A contemporary modification of the standard three-act structure that identifies a critical turning point at the halfway mark of most narrative films
High-angle shot
Syuzhet
Continuity error
Four-part structure
27. The width of the film stock - measured across the frame. Typical sizes are 8mm - 16mm - 35mm - and 70mm
Optical printer
Overlapping dialogue
Gauge
Matte painting
28. The aspect ratio of 1.33:1 - standardized by the Academy of Motion Picture Art and Sciences until the development of widescreen formats in the 1950s
Academy Ratio
Star system
Subgenre
Matte painting
29. A series of individual drawings that provides a blueprint for the shooting of a scene
Storyboard
Overlapping dialogue
Lightning mix
Dissolve
30. 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
Intertextual reference
Kuleshov effect
Soft light
Narrative
31. 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
Screenplay
Four-part structure
Product placement
Scene
32. A story narrated by one of the characters within the story - using the 'I' voice
Digital cinema
Cutaway
First-person narration
Synthespian
33. A visual effect created when the subject in the frame is restricted by the objects or the physical properties of the set
Tight framing
Extreme long-shot
Out-take
Cinerama
34. A business model adopted by the major studios during the Hollywood studio era - in which studios controlled all aspects of the film business - from production to distribution and exhibition
Travelling matte
Vertical integration
Medium shot
Continuity editor
35. A term that refers to the organization of an industry wherein one type of corporation also owns corporations in allied industries - for example - film production and video games
Fast motion
Classical style
Pre-production
Horizontal integration
36. The length in minutes for a film to play in its entirety (for example - 120 minutes). Also referred to as 'screen time.'
Parellel
Denouement
Natural-key lighting
Running time
37. A computer-generated actor that some speculate will replace flesh and blood actors in the not so distant future
Master shot
Synthespian
Cutaway
Parellel editing
38. The practice of shooting during the day but using filters and underexposure to create the illusion of nighttime
Day for night
Auteur
Trailer
Continuity editing
39. (Automatic dialogue replacement) recording synchronized dialogue in post-production - cutting several identical lengths of developed film and having actors record the dialogue repeatedly
Brechtian distanciation
ADR
Diegesis
Second unit
40. Optical illusions created during production - including the use of matte paintings - glass shots - models - and prosthesis
Special visual effects
Block booking
Average shot length
Best boy
41. A picture element - a measure of image density. There are approximately 18 million pixels in a frame of 35mm film and 300000-400000 in a video image
Pixel
Narrative sequencing
Product placement
Rotoscope
42. 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
Extradiegetic
Low-angle shot
Masking
Rotoscope
43. Reels of film that are shipped to movie theaters for exhibition. Digital cinema - which can be distributed via satellite - broadband - or on media such as DVDs - may soon replace film prints because the latter are expensive to create - copy - and dis
Release prints
Grain
180-degree rule
Parellel
44. 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
Line reading
Brechtian distanciation
Foley artist
Eyeline match
45. A term applied to film stock that is relatively insensitive to light. This stock will not yield acceptable images unless the amount of light can be carefully controlled
Dye coupler
Travelling matte
Propaganda film
Slow
46. A flexible celluloid strip that - along with the emulsion layer - comprises 35mm film stock
Toning
Negative cutter
Base
Studio system
47. The distance that appears in focus in front of and behind the subject. It is determined by the aperture - distance and focal length of lens
Depth of field
Character actor
Digital set extension
Close-up
48. 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
Filter
Product placement
Actualitas
Aspect Ratio
49. An action film cycle of the late 1960s and early 1970s that featured bold - rebellious African American characters
Motif
Extra
Blaxploitation
Tableau shot
50. An effect created when too little light strikes the film during shooting. As a result the image will contain dark areas that appear very dense and dark (including shadows) and the overall contrast will be less than with a properly exposed image
Dye coupler
Continuity editing
Underexposure
Rack focus