Film - Quiz 1
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Sirpinesol on September 13, 2009
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 A picture | A feature film with considerable budget and prestigious source material or stars or other personnel that has been historically promoted as a main attraction receiving top billing in a double feature. |
| Art directors | The individual responsible for supervising the conception and construction of the physical environment in which the actors appear, including sets, locations, props, and costumes. |
| Art film | A type of film produced for aesthetic rather than primarily for commercial or entertainment purposes, whose intellectual or formal challenges are often attributed to the vision of an auteur. |
| Aspect ratio | The width-to-height ratio of the film frame as it appears on a movie screen or TV monitor. |
| Auteur | The French term for author; the individual credited with the creative vision defining a film; implies a director whose unique style is apparent across his or her body of work. |
| B Picture | A low-budget, non-prestigious movie that usually played on the bottom half of a double bill. _____ were often produced by the smaller studios referred to as Hollywood's Poverty Row. |
| Backlighting | A highlighting technique that illuminates the person or object from behind, tending to silhouette the subject (Sometimes called edgelighting). |
| Blocking | The arrangement and movement of actors in relation to each other within the mise-en-scene. |
| Blue Screen Technology | A visual effects process that superimposes two images. Actors perform in front of a blue background screen; later the blue is keyed out and background images are superimposed. With the shift to digital technology, use of the blue screen has become more prevalent. |
| Casting directors | The individual responsible for identifying and selecting which actors would work best in a particular role. |
| Character actors | Recognizing actors associated with particular character types, often humorous or sinister, and often cast in minor parts. |
| Character types | Conventional characters typically portrayed by actors cast because of their physical features, acting style, or the history of other roles they have played. |
| Chiaroscuro lighting | A term that describes dramatic, high-contrast lighting that emphasizes shadows and the contrast between light and dark; frequently used in German Expressionist Cinema |
| Cinematographer | The member of the film crew who selects the camera, film stock, lighting, and lenses to be used as well as the camera setup or position. Also known as the director of photography or D.P |
| Costume designer | Individuals who plan and prepare how actors will dressed for parts |
| Cues | A visual or aural signal that indicates the beginning of an action, line of dialogue, or piece of music |
| Directional lighting | Lighting that may appear to emanate from a natural source and defines and shapes the object, area, or person being illuminated |
| Director | The chief creative presence or the primary manager in film production, responsible for overseeing virtually all the work of making a movie. |
| Fill lighting | A lighting technique using secondary fill lights to balance the key lighting by removing shadows or to emphasize other spaces and objects in the scene. |
| Final cut | The final edited version of a film. |
| Grips | A crew member who installs lighting and dollies |
| High concept | A short phrase that attempts to sell a movie by identifying its main marketing features, such as its stars, genre, or some other easily identifiable connection. |
| Highlighting | Using lighting to brighten or emphasize specific characters or objects. |
| Key lighting | The main source of non-natural lighting in a scene. High-key light is even (the ratio between key and fill light is high); low key light shows strong contrast (the ratio between key and fill light is low). |
| Leading actor | The two or three actors, often stars, who represent the central characters in a narrative. |
| Mise-en-scene | A French theatrical term meaning literally "put on stage"; used in film studies to refer to all the elements of a movie scene that are organized, often by the director, to be filmed and that are later visible onscreen. They include the scenic elements of a movie, such as actors, lighting, sets, costumes, make-up, and other features of the image that exist independently of the camera and the processes of filming and editing. |
| Natural lighting | Light derived from a natural source in a scene or setting, such as the illumination of the daylight sun or firelight. |
| Pan-and-scan | The process used to transfer a widescreen-format film to the standard television aspect ratio. A computer-controlled scanner determines the most important action in the image, and then crops peripheral action and space or presents the original frame as two separate images. |
| Platforming | The distribution strategy of releasing a film in gradually widening markets and theaters so that it slowly builds its reputation and momentum through reviews and words of mouth. |
| Postproduction | The period in the filmmaking process that occurs after principal photography has been completed and usually consisting of editing, sound, and special effects work. |
| Preproduction | The phase when a film project is in development, involving the preparation of the script, financing the project, casting, hiring crew, and securing locations |
| Producer | The person or persons responsible for steering and monitoring each step of a film project, especially the financial aspects, from development to postproduction and a distribution deal |
| Production designer | The person in charge of the film's overall look. |
| Production sound mixer | The sound engineer on the production set (AKA a sound recordist) |
| Prop | An object that functions as a part of the set or as a tool used by the actors |
| Realism | An artwork's truthful picture of a society, person, or some other dimension of everyday life; an artistic movement that aims to achieve verisimilitude |
| Screenplay | The text from which a movie is made, including dialogue and information about action, settings, etc, as well as shots and transitions. |
| Screenwriter | A writer of a film's screenplay; the screenwriter may begin with a treatment and develop the plot structure and dialogue over the span of several versions |
| Script doctor | An un-credited individual called in to do rewrites on a screenplay. |
| Set designers | The individual responsible for supervising that conception and construction of movie sets |
| Set lighting | The distribution of an evenly diffused illumination through a scene as a kind of lighting base |
| Setting | A fictional or real place where the action and events of the film occur |
| Sound stages | a large soundproofed building designed to construct and move sets and props and effectively capture sound and dialogue during filming |
| Special effects | A variety of illusions created during the filmmaking process through mechanical means, such as the building of models, or on-set explosions, or with the camera such as slow motion, color filters, process shots, and matte shots. Sometimes used interchangeably with visual effects, which more often denotes digital effects added in postproduction. |
| Supporting actors | Actors who play secondary characters in a film, serving as foils or companions to the central characters |
| Takes | A single filmed version of a shot during production or a single shot onscreen |
| Three-point lighting | A lighting technique common in Hollywood that combines key lighting, fill lighting, backlighting to blend the distribution of light in a scene |
| Visual effects | Special effects created in postproduction through digital imaging. |
| Widescreen ratio | The wider, rectangular aspect ratio of typically 1.85:1 or 2.35:1 |
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