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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. An alternative to continuity editing - this style of editing was developed in silent Soviet cinema - based on the theory that editing should exploit the difference between shots to generate intellectual and emotional responses in the audience
Crane shot
Vertical integration
Slow motion
Soviet montage
2. Wheeled platform with wheels that rotate - so the dolly can change direction
Mixing
Optical printer
Tilt
Crab dolly
3. A scene filmed and processed but not selected to appear in the final version of the film
Post-production
Out-take
Subgenre
Slow motion
4. Sound design that blends the speech of several characters talking simultaneously - used to create spontaneity - although it may also confuse the audience
Production values
Frame narration
Overlapping dialogue
B-roll
5. The use of editing techniques - such as a fade or dissolve - to indicate the end of one scene and the beginning of another
Exposition
Matte painting
Shot transition
Genre conventions
6. A relatively long - uninterrupted sot - generally of a minute or more
Special visual effects
Long take
Diffusion filters
Dye coupler
7. A scene transition wherein sound from one scene bleeds over into the ext scene - often resulting in a contrast between sound image
Academy Ratio
Sound bridge
Color timing
Descriptive claim
8. A character who in some way opposes the protagonist - leading to protracted conflict
Fast
Extreme long-shot
Tight framing
Antagonist
9. An animation technique that uses a computer program to interpolate frames to produce the effect of an object or creature changing gradually into something different. The program calculates the way the image must change in order for the first image to
Product placement
Morphing
Montage sequence
Negative
10. A direct vocal address to the audience - Which may emanate from a character or from a narrative voice apparently unrelated to the diegesis
Post-production
Voice-over
Hard light
Frame narration
11. 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
Matte painting
Block booking
Morphing
12. A process of blending the three elements of the sound track (dialogue - music - and effects) in post-production
Mixing
Parellel editing
Computer-generated imagery (CGI)
Storyboard
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
Long shot
First-person narration
Star persona
Slow motion
14. Optical illusions created during production - including the use of matte paintings - glass shots - models - and prosthesis
Text
Plot summary
Special visual effects
Color consultant
15. 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
Apparatus Theory
Promotion
Continuity editing
Newsreel
16. The way an actor delivers a line of dialogue - including pauses - inflection - and emotion
Frozen time moment
Line reading
Digital compositing
Actualitas
17. 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
Master positive
Take
Trombone shot
Forced development
18. A contemporary modification of the standard three-act structure that identifies a critical turning point at the halfway mark of most narrative films
Extra
Diffusion filters
Four-part structure
Superimposition
19. 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
Method acting
Shot
Spec script
20. 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
Wide film
Canted angle
Pixilation
Star filter
21. A long shot in which the film frame resembles the proscenium arch of the stage - distancing the audience
Tableau shot
Outsourcing
Fog filter
Widescreen
22. A film style that - in contrast to the classical and formalist styles - focuses characters - place - and the spontaneity and digressiveness of life - rather than on highly structured stories or aesthetic abstraction
Masking
Realist style
Matte painting
Steadicam
23. An early color process that replaced silver halide grains with colored salts
Toning
Line of action
Subgenre
Normal lens
24. A machine that converts film prints to videotape format
Special visual effects
Dolly
Telecine
Anime
25. A short screen appearance by a celebrity - playing himself or herself
Hard light
On-the-nose dialogue
Cameo
Block booking
26. The visual arrangement of objects - actors - and space within the frame
Bleach bypass
Flashforward
Iris in...
Composition
27. Author; A term popularized by French film critics and refers to film directors with their own distinctive style
Iris out
Auteur
Production values
Cut
28. The technique of telling the story from an all-knowing character. Films that use restricted narration limit the audience's perception to what one particular character knows - but may insert moments of omniscience
Pulling
Aperture
Omniscient narration
Narrative
29. 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
Line reading
Star persona
Antagonist
Zoom in...
30. 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
Rear projection
Intertextual reference
Compilation film
31. Dialogue that restates What is already obvious from images or action
Animation
Crab dolly
Dissolve
On-the-nose dialogue
32. 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
Narrative
Wipe
Glass shot
Widescreen
33. A shot transition that emphasizes the visual similarities between two consecutive shots
Motif
Graphic match
Digital video
Crane shot
34. 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
Match on action
Direct sound
Syuzhet
Non-diegetic
35. A chemical embedded in the emulsion layer of film stock that - when developed after exposure - releases a particular color dye (red - green - or blue)
Dye coupler
Intertextual reference
Cel
Episodic
36. 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
Tracking shot
Time-lapse photography
Negative
37. The artful use of light and dark areas in the composition in black and white filmmaking
Color filter
Hybrid
Chiaroscuro
Trombone shot
38. 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
Wireframe
Wipe
180-degree rule
39. 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
Go-motion
Lightning mix
Slow
Tinting
40. The non-chronological insertion of scenes of events yet to happen into the present day of the story world
Formalist style
Interpellation
Lightning mix
Flashforward
41. A production crew responsible not for shooting the primary footage but - instead - for remote location shooting and B-roll. See also B-roll
Crab dolly
Aperture
Soviet montage
Second unit
42. Author; A term popularized by French film critics and refers to film directors with their own distinctive style
Auteur
Oeuvre
Blockbuster
Flashback
43. A shot taken from a vantage point so close that only a part of the subject is visible. On an actor - it might show only an eye or a portion of the face
Extreme close-up
Dailies
Denouement
Available light
44. A mental phenomenon by which viewers derive more meaning from the interaction of two sequential shots than from a single shot in isolation
Hard light
Runaway production
Subgenre
Kuleshov effect
45. A shot that depicts a human body from the feet up
Undercranking
Propaganda film
Medium long shot
Trailer
46. The classical model of narrative form. The first act introduces characters and conflicts; the second act offers complication leading to a climax; the third act contains the danouement and resolution
Line of action
Morphing
Three-act structure
Shooting script
47. A shot taken from a camera position below the subject
Low-angle shot
Set-up
Compilation film
Studio system
48. The space between the camera and subject it is filming.
Method acting
Standard shot pattern
Scene
Camera distance
49. A form of shot transition - generally concluding a scene - where a circular mask constricts around the image until the entire frame is black
Wide film
Character actor
Digital cinema
Iris in...
50. A shot depicting the human body from the waist up
Medium shot
Diegesis
Masking
Medium close-up