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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 who works in post-production in a specially equipped studio to create the sounds of the story world - such as the shuffling of shoes on various surfaces for footsteps
Revisionist
Product placement
Foley artist
Slow
2. The five vertically integrated corporations that exerted the greatest control over film production in the studio era: MGM - Warner Brothers - RKO - Twentieth Century Fox - and Paramount
Zoom lens
Script supervisor
Major studios
Depth of field
3. Devices that attach to actors' faces and/or bodies to change their appearance
Shot transition
Natural-key lighting
Forced development
Prosthesis
4. Film productions shot outside the U.S. for economic reasons
Runaway production
Method acting
Cel
Compositing
5. A term used for any narrative sound - or visual element not contained in the story world. Also called 'extradiegetic'
Frame narration
Three-point lighting
Non-diegetic
Swish pan
6. A small - variable opening on a camera lens that regulates the amount of light entering the camera and striking the surface of the film
Panning and scanning
Intertextual reference
Text
Aperture
7. Dutch angle; a shot resulting from a static camera that is tilted to the right or left - so that the subject in the frame appears at a diagonal
Product placement
Roadshowing
Canted angle
Grain
8. A style associated with Hollywood filmmaking of the studio and post-studio era - in which efficient storytelling - rather than gritty realism or aesthetic innovation - is of paramount importance
Classical style
Offscreen space
Major studios
Optical printer
9. A pan executed so quickly that it produces a blurred image - indicated rapid activity or - sometimes - the passage of time
Swish pan
Open-ended
Visual effects
Intertextual reference
10. A technique of manipulating focus to direct the viewer's attention
ADR
Selective focus
Extra
Apparatus Theory
11. 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
Master positive
Close-up
Focal length
Deep focus cinematography
12. A part of the story world implied by visual or sound techniques rather than being revealed by the camera
Three-act structure
On-the-nose dialogue
Offscreen space
Aerial Shot
13. A filter that creates points of light that streak outward from a light source
Editor
Star filter
Motivation
Color timing
14. Leaving the silver grains in the emulsion rather than bleaching them out - which produces desaturated color
Visual effects
On-the-nose dialogue
Base
Bleach bypass
15. Early films that documented everyday events - such as workers leaving a factory
Cameo
Actualitas
Compilation film
Progressive scanning
16. 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
Go-motion
Jump cut
Direct sound
Diegesis
17. Any noticeable but unintended discrepancy from one shot to the next in costume - props - hairstyle - posture - etc.
Continuity error
Letterboxing
Blue screen
Slow motion
18. A technique of shooting a scene at a very high speed (96 frames per second) - then adding and subtracting frames in post-production - 'fanning out' the action through the overlapping images
Overhead shot
Wide-angle lens
Recursive action
Video assist
19. 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
Progressive scanning
Rear projection
First-person narration
Flashing
20. An unstated meaning that underlies and is implied by spoken dialogue
Subtext
Underexposure
Composition
Color timing
21. A machine that converts film prints to videotape format
Digital compositing
Telecine
B-roll
Extradiegetic
22. A shot filmed from an airplane or helicopter
Aerial Shot
Chiaroscuro
Running time
Flashback
23. 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.
Pixel
Go-motion
Soviet montage
Average shot length
24. 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
Film stock
Production values
Shot transition
Iris in...
25. Also called 'rushes.' Footage exposed and developed quickly so that the director can assess the day's work
Line of action
Compositing
Integrated musical
Dailies
26. A shot taken from a camera mounted on a crane that moves three-dimensionally in a space
Crane shot
First-person narration
Depth of field
Editor
27. A production term referring to coordinating actors' movements with lines of dialogue
Blocking
Shutter
Method acting
Scene
28. These filters bend the light coming into lens - softening and blurring the image
Extreme close-up
Diffusion filters
Close-up
Motif
29. A crew member who works in post-production in a specially equipped studio to create the sounds of the story world - such as the shuffling of shoes on various surfaces for footsteps
Point-of-view shot
Method acting
Foley artist
Widescreen
30. Optical illusions created during production - including the use of matte paintings - glass shots - models - and prosthesis
Take
Special visual effects
Two-shot
Diffusion filters
31. The visual arrangement of objects - actors - and space within the frame
Master shot
Genre conventions
Composition
Soviet montage
32. The space between the camera and subject it is filming.
Computer-generated imagery (CGI)
Crane shot
Medium shot
Camera distance
33. 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
Turning point
Editor
Matte
Low-key lighting
34. Filters that increase color saturation and contrast in outdoor shots
Polarizing filters
Progressive scanning
Time-lapse photography
Visual effects
35. A narrative moment that signals an important shift of some kind in character or situation
Storyboard
Fast
Turning point
Superimposition
36. An action film cycle of the late 1960s and early 1970s that featured bold - rebellious African American characters
Film stock
Blaxploitation
Exposition
Running time
37. A shot that appears during or near the end of a scene and reorients viewers to the setting
Iris out
Slow
Plot summary
Re-establishing shot
38. Invisible editing; a system devised to minimize the audience's awareness of shot transitions - especially cuts - in order to improve the flow of the story and avoid interrupting the viewer's immersion it in
Second unit
Overhead shot
Continuity editing
Extreme close-up
39. Assists the gaffer in managing lighting crews
Hybrid
Best boy
Outsourcing
Block booking
40. The central cause(s) behind a character's actions
Low-angle shot
High concept film
Available light
Motivation
41. 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
Method acting
Glass shot
Hollywood Ten
Lightning mix
42. The measurement of how forgiving a film stock is. It determines whether an acceptable image will be produced when the film stock is exposed to too little or too much light
Apparatus Theory
Orthochromatic
Telecine
Exposure latitude
43. An early color process - involving bathing lengths of processed film in dye one scene at a time
On-the-nose dialogue
Color consultant
Tinting
Cameo
44. A device used to manipulate the amount and/or color of light entering the lens
Filter
Color timing
Video assist
Insert
45. A short segment of film used to promote an upcoming release
Hard light
Forced development
ADR
Trailer
46. An attribute of newer television monitors - where each frame is scanned by the electron beam as a single field. If slowed down - each frame would appear on the monitor in its entirety on the screen - rather than line by line - as is the case with int
Wipe
Progressive scanning
Ethnographic film
Editor
47. A short segment of film used to promote an upcoming release
Hollywood Ten
Product placement
Trailer
Green screen
48. A documentary or occasionally - a narrative film that presents only one side of an argument or one approach to a subject
Composition
Medium long shot
Syuzhet
Propaganda film
49. A technique of exposing film frames - then rewinding the film and exposing it again - which results in an image that combines two shots in a single frame
Non-diegetic
Bleach bypass
Figure placement and movement
Double exposure
50. 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
Three-act structure
Frozen time moment
Trailer
Composition in depth