FLM 170 Final Exam

Long Take

A ____________ is a shot that continues for an unusually lengthy time before the transition to the next shot.

Matte Shot

A _____________ is a type of process shot in which different areas of the image (usually actors and setting) are photographed separately and combined in laboratory work.

Flashback

A ______________ is an alteration of story order in which the plot moves back to show events that have taken place earlier than ones already shown.

Wipe

A ______________ refers to a transition between shots in which a line passes across the screen, eliminating one shot as it goes and replacing it with the next one.

Dissolve

A _______________ refers to a transition between two shots during which the first image gradually disappears while the second image gradually appears; for a moment the two images blend in superimposition.

Medium Shot

A ________________ refers to framing in which the scale of the object shown is of moderate size; a human figure seen from the waist up would fill most of the screen.

Flashforward

A _________________ is an alteration of story order in which the plot presentation moves forward to future events and then returns to the present.

film strip

Cinematography is a general term for all the manipulations of the _____________ by the camera in the shooting phase and by the laboratory in the developing phase.

Temporal Order

Manipulation of __________ allows a filmmaker to present events out of chronological order in a manner that the viewer is still able to follow.

Temporal Duration

Manipulation of ______________ allows a filmmaker to control how much of the story's screen time will be occupied by a depiction of a specific event.

Temporal Frequency

Manipulation of ________________ allows a filmmaker to control how often we see or hear a specific event in the narrative. The event is often repeated from varying perspectives in a narrative film.

Production

The _________ stage of a film's development cycle refers to the actual film shoot. This stage concludes with a rough work print of the film several months prior to the film's release.

Distribution

The __________ stage of a film's development cycle includes preparation and scheduling for a narrative film's commercial release to the general public. This stage often coincides with limited promotional premieres of the completed film at film festivals to generate interest in the finished product among domestic and international audiences.

Opening

The ___________ of a narrative film structure provides a basis for what is to come and initiates us into the narrative. It sets up a specific range of possible causes for what we see on screen. This portion occupies up to 25% of the film's running time.

Pre-Production

The ___________ stage of a film's development cycle includes initial budgeting, casting, scheduling and planning for the main phase of a narrative film's development cycle. The stage concludes with the preparation for the main phase of a narrative film's development.

Exhibition

The ___________ stage of a film's development cycle represents the potentially lucrative culmination of the preceding four steps in the film development cycle. This stage refers to the film's theatrical and/or home video release to the general public through various retail outlets in domestic and foreign film markets.

Climax

The ______________ portion of a narrative film structure is presented towards the conclusion of a film. It solves challenges for characters established in prior sections of the film by narrowing the narrative's development to a slim range of possible outcomes.

Post-Production

The ______________ stage of a film's development cycle refers to the film refers to the editing, sound mixing, and special effects incorporation phase of a narrative film. Editing within this stage is often referred to as the 'final assembly' process.

Animation filmmaking

The ___________________ process whereby artificial movement is created by photographing a series of drawings (see also cel animation), objects, or computer images one by one. Small changes in position, recorded frame by frame, create the illusion of movement.

Middle Development

The ____________________ portion of a narrative film structure presents changes or challenges that must be resolved by established characters as the film's narrative winds to a close. These changes or challenges delay or further the character from the resolution of the narrative's ending.

Story

_________ in a narrative film refers to a chain of events that occur within a narrative film. Details of this component are frequently conveyed in chronological order.

Editing

__________: 1. In filmmaking, the task of selecting and joining camera takes. 2. In the finished film, the set of techniques that governs the relations among shots.

Plot

___________ in a narrative film refers to a stylized variation on a story conveyed through perspective, chronology, and consistent narration.

Audience Perception

___________ of a film is based on two factors; (1) prior personal experiences and (2) prior viewing experiences.

Causality

____________ refers to the incorporation of cause and effect into a narrative film. These cause and effect relationships are often incorporated by characters who trigger specific events.

Cut

____________: 1. In filmmaking, the joining of two strips of film together with a splice. 2. In the finished film, an instantaneous change from one framing to another.

Exposure

_____________ refers to adjustment of the camera mechanism in order to control how much light strikes each frame of film passing through the aperture.

Crosscutting

_____________ refers to editing that alternates shots of two or more lines of action occurring in different places, usually simultaneously.

Setting

______________ is an aspect of film aesthetic that originally surfaced amidst evaluation of stage-based dramatic productions in prior eras. This aesthetic component is most frequently used to communicate the scope, tone or historical context of the environment in which an individual shot takes place.

Fade

______________: (1) A dark screen that gradually brightens as a shot appears. (2) A bright screen that disappears as the screen darkens.

Lighting

_______________ is often used by a filmmaker to communicate the size of screen space within an individual shot. The three-point incorporation system in relation to mise-en-scene includes utilization of space above, below and/or beneath the actors within a specific shot.

Restricted Narration

________________ is a narration type that confines the perspective to that of a specific character

Staging

_________________ Refers to the placement of actors and the items with which they interact within the frame of an individual shot. This technique is often incorporated to achieve dramatic effect in lieu of realism.

Establishing Shot

_________________ describes a shot, usually involving a distant framing, that shows the spatial relations among the important figures, objects, and setting in a scene.

Mise-en-scene

_________________ is a French term (translation: "putting into the scene") that refers to contributing factors to the overall aesthetic properties of any single shot within a film. Study of this broad distinction encompasses four aspects of film aesthetic.

Sound Mixing

_________________ refers to the process of combining two or more sound tracks by recording them onto a single one.

Unrestricted Narration

__________________ is a narrative type that gives the viewer more information than the characters.

Nondiagetic Sound

__________________ is sound, such as mood music or a narrator's commentary, represented as coming from a source outside the space of the narrative.

Associational Form

__________________ refers to a type of organization in which the film's parts are juxtaposed to suggest similarities, contrasts, concepts, emotions, and expressive qualities.

DiageticSound

__________________ refers to any voice, musical passage, or sound effect presented as originating from a source within the film's world.

Costumes/Make-Up

___________________ are often incorporated by production designers in a narrative film to narrative tone and scope to the audience. This technique involves manipulation of individual actors' aesthetic within the frame to convey specific emotions, historical context, or tone to the audience.

Continuity Editing

___________________ refers to system of cutting to maintain continuous and clear narrative action. Continuity editing relies on matching screen direction, position, and temporal relations from shot to shot.

Sound Perspective

___________________ refers to the sense of a sound's position in space, yielded by volume, timbre, pitch, and, in stereophonic reproduction systems, binaural information.

Film Style

____________________ refers to repeated and salient uses of film techniques characteristic of a single film or a group of films (for example, a filmmaker's work or a national movement).

Abstract Form

_____________________ is a type of filmic organization in which the parts relate to one another through repetition and variation of such visual qualities as shape, color, rhythm, and direction of movement.

Rhetorical Form

______________________ is a type of filmic organization in which the parts create and support an argument.

Categorical Form

_______________________ is a type of filmic organization in which the parts treat distinct subsets of a topic. For example, a film about the United States might be organized into 50 parts, each devoted to a state.

Synchronous Sound

_______________________ is sound that is matched temporally with the movements occurring in the images, as when dialogue corresponds to lip movements.

Asynchronous Sound

_________________________ refers to ound that is not matched temporally with the movements occurring in the image, as when dialogue is out of synchronization with lip movements.

Film Genre

___________________includes various types of films that audiences and filmmakers recognize by their familiar narrative conventions. Common examples include musical, gangster, and Western films.