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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. These filters bend the light coming into lens - softening and blurring the image
Diffusion filters
Continuity editing
Compositing
Motivation
2. An optical technique that divides the screen into two or more frames
Matte
Split screen
Wipe
On-the-nose dialogue
3. 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
Mixing
High-angle shot
Extreme wide-angle lens
Studio system
4. The arrangement of images to depict a unified storyline
Letterboxing
Medium long shot
Soft light
Narrative sequencing
5. The measure of intensity or purity of a color. Saturated color is purer than desaturated color - which has more white in it and thus offers a washed-out - less intense version of a color
Anamorphic lens
Brechtian distanciation
Shot/reverse shot
Saturation
6. A crew member whose job is to measure the distance between the subject and the camera lens - marking the ring on the camera lens - and ensuring the ring is turned precisely so that the image is in focus
Cutaway
Tinting
Focus puller
Figure placement and movement
7. A type of film stock that is sensitive to (in other words - registers) all tones in the color spectrum
Panchromatic
Studio system
Shooting script
Low-angle shot
8. A machine used to create optical effects such as fades - dissolves - and superimpositions. Most are now created digitally
Soviet montage
Optical printer
Typecasting
Re-establishing shot
9. 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
Emulsion
Pixilation
Zoom in...
Actualitas
10. A scene filmed and processed but not selected to appear in the final version of the film
Out-take
Graphic match
Loose framing
Hollywood Ten
11. A scene transition wherein sound from one scene bleeds over into the ext scene - often resulting in a contrast between sound image
Sound bridge
Star filter
Wireframe
Continuity editing
12. A system for combining two separately filmed images in the same frame that involves create a matte (a black mask that covers a portion of the image) for a live action sequence and using it to block out a portion of the frame when filming the backgrou
Zoom in...
Backstory
Third-person narration
Travelling matte
13. A fiction film (often a comedy) that uses documentary conventions on fictional rather than real-world subject matter
Tinting
Three-point lighting
Mockumentary
Syuzhet
14. 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
Medium shot
Continuity error
Low-key lighting
Eye-level shot
15. A relatively long - uninterrupted sot - generally of a minute or more
Medium long shot
Green screen
Take
Long take
16. A story; a chain of events linked by cause-and-effect logic
Long take
Narrative
Two-shot
Glass shot
17. A long shot in which the film frame resembles the proscenium arch of the stage - distancing the audience
On-the-nose dialogue
Close-up
Tableau shot
Extreme wide-angle lens
18. 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
Tilt
Pushing
Available light
Flashing
19. A continuity editing technique that preserves spatial continuity by using a character's line of vision as motivation for a cut
Revisionist
Antagonist
Composition
Eyeline match
20. 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
Glass shot
Phi phenomenon
Film stock
Animation
21. A crew member whose job is to maintain consistency in visual details from one shot to the next
Motivation
Blue screen
Continuity editor
Promotion
22. 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
Shot
Assistant Editor
Analog Video
Split screen
23. These filters bend the light coming into lens - softening and blurring the image
Diffusion filters
Assistant Editor
Revisionist
Emulsion
24. A shot that interrupts a scene's master shot and may include character reactions
Point-of-view shot
Filter
Narrative
Insert
25. A shot filmed from an airplane or helicopter
Storyboard
Aerial Shot
Editor
Wipe
26. 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
Widescreen
Analog Video
Freeze frame
Scene
27. The imagined world of the story
Hard light
High concept film
Continuity editor
Diegesis
28. A term used for any narrative sound - or visual element not contained in the story world. Also called 'extradiegetic'
Rotoscope
Soft light
Non-diegetic
Line reading
29. 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
Front projection
Zoom out
Go-motion
Long take
30. A series of related scene joined through elliptical editing that indicates the passage of time
Montage sequence
Genre
Continuity error
Second unit
31. Public identity created by marketing a film actor's performances - press coverage - and 'personal' information to fans as the star's personality
Studio system
Star persona
Point-of-view shot
Hollywood Blacklist
32. 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
Establishing shot
Digital cinema
Neutral-density filter
Plot summary
33. A technician responsible for splicing and assembling the film negative to the editor's specifications
Auteur
Scene
Compositing
Negative cutter
34. 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
Digital cinema
Fast
On-the-nose dialogue
Product placement
35. A device attached to the film camera that records videotape of what has been filmed - allowing the director immediate access to video footage
Desaturated
Video assist
Orthochromatic
Optical printer
36. An abrupt - inexplicable shift in time and place of an action not signaled by an appropriate shot transition
Tilt
Character actor
Recursive action
Jump cut
37. The distance in millimeters from the optical center of a lens to the lane where the sharpest image is formed while focusing on a distant object
Motif
Focal length
Panning and scanning
German Expressionism
38. Creating the appearance of movement by drawing a series of frames that are projected sequentially - rather than photographing a series of still images
Oeuvre
Animation
Natural-key lighting
Zoom lens
39. Leaving the silver grains in the emulsion rather than bleaching them out - which produces desaturated color
Aspect Ratio
Bleach bypass
Steadicam
Continuity editing
40. A shot taken fro a position directly above the action - also called a 'birds' eye shot'
Outsourcing
Flashforward
Trailer
Overhead shot
41. The practice or repeatedly casting actors in similar roles across different films
Typecasting
Pixel
Master positive
Overhead shot
42. A shot taken from a camera position below the subject
Low-angle shot
Medium shot
Motif
Plot summary
43. A mental phenomenon by which viewers derive more meaning from the interaction of two sequential shots than from a single shot in isolation
Composition
Star system
Continuity editing
Kuleshov effect
44. A black masking device used to black out a portion of the frame - usually for the insertion of other images
Matte
Dailies
Script supervisor
Extreme long-shot
45. 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
Take
Focus puller
Rack focus
Voice-over
46. A videotape system that records images onto magnetic tape - using electronic signals
Speed
Swish pan
Underexposure
Analog Video
47. The falling or unraveling action after the climax of a narrative that leads to resolution
Pre-production
Eyeline match
Saturation
Denouement
48. A technique of intentionally adding scratches in a film's emulsion layer for aesthetic purposes - such as to simulate home movie footage
Focus puller
Minor studios
Scratching
Roadshowing
49. 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
Hollywood Ten
Filter
Cutaway
Establishing shot
50. 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
Pixel
Extreme wide-angle lens
Handheld shot
Product placement