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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 shot taken fro a position directly above the action - also called a 'birds' eye shot'
Three-point lighting
Hollywood Blacklist
Overhead shot
Natural-key lighting
2. A technician responsible for splicing and assembling the film negative to the editor's specifications
Non-diegetic
Available light
Genre
Negative cutter
3. A visual effect created when the subject in the frame is restricted by the objects or the physical properties of the set
Take
Tight framing
Frozen time moment
Toning
4. 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
Recursive action
Aperture
Text
Handheld shot
5. A shot taken fro a position directly above the action - also called a 'birds' eye shot'
Overhead shot
Progressive scanning
Reframing
Figure placement and movement
6. 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
Reframing
First-person narration
Underexposure
Tight framing
7. A scene transition wherein sound from one scene bleeds over into the ext scene - often resulting in a contrast between sound image
Negative cutter
Fabula
Blaxploitation
Sound bridge
8. 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
Crane shot
Color consultant
Persistence of vision
Frozen time moment
9. Creating the appearance of movement by drawing a series of frames that are projected sequentially - rather than photographing a series of still images
Dailies
Natural-key lighting
Animation
Video assist
10. A lens with a shorter focal length than a normal or telephoto lens (usually between 15-35mm). The subject appears smaller as a result - but the angle of vision is wider and an illusion is created of greater depth in the frame
Compositing
Antagonist
Medium long shot
Wide-angle lens
11. 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
Prosthesis
Tracking shot
Gauge
High concept film
12. Also called 'stop motion photography.' A technique of photographing a scene one frame at a time and moving the model between each shot
Underexposure
Pixilation
Outsourcing
Panning and scanning
13. The horizontal turning movement of an otherwise immobile camera across a scene from left to right or vice versa
Digital cinema
Focus puller
Pan
Prosthesis
14. A shot filmed from an airplane or helicopter
Extreme long-shot
Sound bridge
Take
Aerial Shot
15. A filter that creates points of light that streak outward from a light source
Extreme wide-angle lens
Star filter
Gaffer
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16. A musical accompaniment written specifically for a film
Split screen
Pan
Score
Wireframe
17. The narrative path of the main or supporting characters - also called a plotline. Complex films may have several lines of action
Tracking shot
Line of action
B-roll
Panning and scanning
18. These filters bend the light coming into lens - softening and blurring the image
Fog filter
Average shot length
Compositing
Diffusion filters
19. The camera does not move across an imagined line drawn between two characters
Superimposition
Parellel
Evaluative claim
180-degree rule
20. The visual arrangement of objects - actors - and space within the frame
Exposition
Pulling
Composition
Academy Ratio
21. A glass element on a camera that focuses light rays so that the image of the object appears on the surface of the film
Telephoto lens
Match on action
Flashing
Lens
22. The details of a character's past that emerge as the film unfolds - and which often play a role in character motivation
Assistant Editor
Newsreel
Backstory
Spec script
23. A compositing method that allows cinematographers to combine live action and settings that are filmed or created separately. Actors are filmed against a green or blue background. During post-production - this background is filled in with an image thr
Matte
Day for night
Green screen
Blue screen
24. Optical illusions created during post-production
Visual effects
First-person narration
Composition
Extreme close-up
25. 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
Phi phenomenon
Match on action
High-angle shot
Superimposition
26. Squeezes the image at a ratio of 2:1 horizontally onto a standard film frame. On the projector - it unsqueezes the image - creating a widescreen aspect ratio during presentation
Anamorphic lens
Zoom lens
Dolly
Optical printer
27. A genre film that radically modifies accepted genre conventions for dramatic effect
Minor studios
Revisionist
Insert
Academy Ratio
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
Anamorphic lens
Overexposure
Forced development
Omniscient narration
29. The selection and ordering of narrative events presented in a film
Focal length
Syuzhet
Academy Ratio
Dailies
30. A shot transition that emphasizes the visual similarities between two consecutive shots
Graphic match
Brechtian distanciation
Phi phenomenon
Handheld shot
31. A shot taken from a camera mounted on a crane that moves three-dimensionally in a space
Set-up
Matte painting
Day for night
Crane shot
32. Creating an image by combining several elements created separately using computer graphics rather than photographic means
Digital compositing
Character actor
Storyboard
Intertextual reference
33. An abrupt shot transition that occurs when Shot A is instantaneously replaced by Shot B.
Soundtrack
Anamorphic lens
Color filter
Cut
34. A musical in which some or all musical numbers are not motivated by the narrative; for example - characters sing and dance throughout the film but at least some performances are not staged for an onscreen audience. Examples include Oklahoma - The umb
Trailer
Integrated musical
Desaturated
Color filter
35. A camera shot taken at a large distance from the subject. Using the human body as the subject - a long shot captures the entire human form
Overlapping dialogue
Progressive scanning
Long shot
Video assist
36. A person responsible for putting a film together from a mass of developed footage - making decisions regarding pace - shot transitions - and which scenes and shots will be used
Editor
Second unit
Hollywood Ten
Scene
37. Author; A term popularized by French film critics and refers to film directors with their own distinctive style
Diegesis
Auteur
Newsreel
Overlapping dialogue
38. A shot taken from a camera position below the subject
Scene
Low-angle shot
Narrative sequencing
Color consultant
39. Non-diegetic; any element in the film that is not part of the imagined story world
Extradiegetic
Master positive
Kuleshov effect
Omniscient narration
40. The first step in the process of creating CGI. The wireframe is a three-dimensional computer model of an object - which is then rendered (producing the finished image) and animated (using simulated camera movement frame by frame)
Day for night
Wireframe
Mockumentary
Average shot length
41. A short documentary on current events - show in movie theaters along with cartoons and feature films beginning in the 1930s
Eye-level shot
Kuleshov effect
Newsreel
Text
42. Public identity created by marketing a film actor's performances - press coverage - and 'personal' information to fans as the star's personality
Star persona
Camera distance
Mockumentary
Academy Ratio
43. 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
Block booking
Take
Major studios
Pre-production
44. A lens with a shorter focal length than a normal or telephoto lens (usually between 15-35mm). The subject appears smaller as a result - but the angle of vision is wider and an illusion is created of greater depth in the frame
Hollywood Ten
Wide-angle lens
Auteur
Actualitas
45. Also called 'rushes.' Footage exposed and developed quickly so that the director can assess the day's work
Dailies
Flashback
Release prints
Pixilation
46. A type of filter that absorbs certain wavelength but leave others unaffected. On black and white film - color filters lighten or darken tones. On color film - they can produce a range of effects
Color filter
Trailer
Hybrid
Computer-generated imagery (CGI)
47. 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
Pre-production
Pushing
Trailer
Progressive scanning
48. A term for film stock used in early cinema that was insensitive to red hues
Matte painting
Orthochromatic
Vista Vision
Cutaway
49. Also called 'stop motion photography.' A technique of photographing a scene one frame at a time and moving the model between each shot
Depth of field
Crane shot
Narrative
Pixilation
50. A shot combining two kinds of movement: the camera tracks in toward the subject wile the lens zooms out
Trombone shot
Rotoscope
Morphing
Fabula