Chapter 1-4

Question 1

Anime

Answer 1

Japanese feature-length animated films

Question 2

Art director

Answer 2

The person who designs a movie’s sets and decor

Question 3

Auteur

Answer 3

A filmmaker with a distinctive style and coherent thematic vision that are developed throughout a body of work. French for “author”
Primary creator of a movie, who guides the collaborative filmmaking project so that it expresses his or her creative intentions. Strictly, a director with a distinctive style and vision who also writes and edits the films

Question 4

Blacklist

Answer 4

A list that prohibits the hiring of specific individuals and/or a particular class of people, such as left-wing screenwriters. Also the agreement to enforce such a list

Question 5

Blocking

Answer 5

Planning and rehearsing the positions and movements of the actors and of the camera within a shot or scene

Question 6

Cinematographer

Answer 6

A motion picture photographer; the head of the camera crew

Question 7

Cinema verite

Answer 7

An unscripted documentary in which goths catalyzing presence of the camera, with which the subjects interact, is acknowledged. In most cases the crew is small, sometimes only one person to run the camera and one to record the sound, and the equipment is lightweight

Question 8

Close shot

Answer 8

1. Unlike the far shot, a shot in which the camera is near the subject - or, thanks to a long lens, appears to be near the subject
2. A shot whose field of view is slightly broader than that of the close-up; in terms of the human figure, the head and upper chest might fill the frame

Question 9

Close-up

Answer 9

A shot whose field of view is very narrow; in terms of the human figure, a face or hand might fill the frame

Question 10

Continuity

Answer 10

1. The narrative structure of a film, laid out in sequence; the plot as a string of scenes
2. A list and description(including dialogue) of all the shots in the final version of a film, prepared by the editor; the film as a series of shots. Also known as cutting continuity

Question 11

Crane

Answer 11

1. A vehicle equipped with an arm (or broom); at the end of the arm is a camera platform that can be lifted and moved through the air
2. A lightweight boom that supports a remote-controlled camera

Question 12

Cross-cutting

Answer 12

Cutting back and forth between ongoing actions - usually between scenes that are presented as occurring in different locations at the same time and that are dramatically or thematically related

Question 13

Cult film

Answer 13

A movie, usually but not necessarily weird, with an insatiable devoted following

Question 14

Cut

Answer 14

1. An instantaneous transition from one shot to another, also called a straight cut
2. To splice one shot to another; also the splice itself
3. The way a particular version of a film has been edited, as in the director’s cut
4. The instruction to stop shooting or to end a shot
5. Abridged

Question 15

Deep focus

Answer 15

A visual field that is in sharp focus from foreground to background and whose foreground and background planes appear to be widely separated; often used to accentuate composition in depth

Question 16

Director’s cut

Answer 16

The film as the director would like to see it released; the final version presented to the producer or studio, usually with the contractual understanding that it may be altered without the director’s approval

Question 17

Dissolve

Answer 17

A superimposed fade-out and fade-in; a transitional device in which one image vanishes evenly and gradually while another gradually appears

Question 18

Documentary

Answer 18

A nonfiction film that organizes and presents factual materials to make a point

Question 19

Dubbing

Answer 19

1. Replacing one performer’s voice with that of another
2. Replacing all the performers’ dialogue with dialogue spoken in another language, usually by other performers
3. Re-recording with the same performer, especially when an actor replaces his or her dialogue as recorded during shooting with a new performance, under ideal sound conditions, of the same dialogue
4. Copying or transferring a recording

Question 20

Editing

Answer 20

The art of selecting, trimming, and assembling in order the shots and/or the tracks that make up the finished motion picture

Question 21

Establishing shot

Answer 21

1. A long shot, early in a movie or scene, that shows where the action takes place
2. Any shot that introduces a location

Question 22

Expressionism

Answer 22

1. The artistic movement that held that the look and style of the visible, external universe could take its shape,color, and texture from the artist’s intuition of its essential inner being or from human emotions and sensations
2. The art of rendering inner states as aspects of the outer world
3. Emotionally intense creative distortion

Question 23

Exterior

Answer 23

1. An outdoor shooting location

2. A scene that is set outdoors

Question 24

Extreme close-up

Answer 24

A shot with a very narrow field of view; the camera appears to be extremely close to the subject. In terms of the human figure, an eye or mouth might fill the frame

Question 25

Extreme long shot

Answer 25

A shot with a very broad field of view; the camera appears to be extremely far from the subject. An adult might be less than one tenth the height of the frame.

Question 26

Fade

Answer 26

1. A transitional effect in which the image gradually and evenly disappears into darkness 2. A dissolve to any monochromatic field 3. To effect a fade; to fade out

Question 27

Feature

Answer 27

1. A movie whose running time is an hour or more | 2. A theatrical, narrative film that usually lasts over 85 minutes

Question 28

Femme fatale

Answer 28

The seductive woman who is deadly and treacherous

Question 29

Film noir

Answer 29

An American genre of the 1940s and 1950s characterized by sudden violence, tough romantic intensity, deceptive surfaces and emblematic reflections, unsentimental melodrama, narrative complexity, low-key lighting, and themes of entrapment and corruption, honor and duplicity, desire and revenge, compulsion and madness, betrayal and disenchantment, irony, and doom

Question 30

Flashback

Answer 30

A cut to an earlier event, usually followed by a return to the present

Question 31

Flash forward

Answer 31

A cut to a future event, usually followed by a return to the present

Question 32

Frame

Answer 32

1. An individual photograph or picture area on a strip of film 2. The perimeter or boundary line of the picture area 3. In the narrative film, a story or narrative situation within which another story or sequence is bracketed or presented 4. A one-frame length of film

Question 33

Freeze frame

Answer 33

A sudden cessation of movement created by the continual reprinting of the same frame

Question 34

Genre

Answer 34

1. A subcategory of the narrative film, defined by the choice and treatment of subject - mystery, musical, western, and so forth. 2. A particular variety or type of motion picture

Question 35

Hays office

Answer 35

Colloquial name for Hollywood’s bureau of self-censorship, the Motion Picture Producers and Distributors of America, as administered by its first president

Question 36

High angle shot

Answer 36

A shot in which the camera looks downward toward the subject

Question 37

Independent

Answer 37

1. A film production company not affiliated with the Motion Picture Parents Company 2. A filmmaker who works without studio support or interference and who may distribute the film personally or license it to a company that specializes in alternative, non studio products 3. A producer or small company that makes a film autonomously but that may have a distribution deal with a studio

Question 38

Interior

Answer 38

1. An indoor set | 2. A scene that takes place indoors

Question 39

Intertitle

Answer 39

Any title card, whether or not it is superimposed on another image, that appears anywhere between the head credits and the tail credits of a movie

Question 40

Iris shot

Answer 40

A shot whose picture area appears within a circle, whether or not the circle changes size

Question 41

Kinetoscope

Answer 41

Edison’s electronically operated peephole viewer

Question 42

Lip sync

Answer 42

Perfect synchronization between picture and sound, so tight that an actor’s lip movements and recorded dialogue absolutely match

Question 43

Location

Answer 43

A shooting site that is not on a studio lot; often a place where the film’s fictional events are set or actual events occurred

Question 44

Long shot

Answer 44

A shot that gives a wide, expensive view of the visual field; the camera appears to be far from the subject. In terms of the human figure, a person might be less than half the height of the frame

Question 45

Mise-en-scene

Answer 45

The atmosphere, setting, decor, and texture of a shot. The way a scene has been designed and staged for the camera