American Film Terms
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- What squeezes everything in really tall, then projects it with a reverse lens to spread it all out and is used to shoot wide screen film on regular film stock?
- Anamorphic Lens
- What angle makes the subject feel smaller and less significant?
- High Angle
- What angle makes the subject more important, tall, and powerful?
- Low Angle
- What angle is straight on and eye level?
- Straight Angle
- What angle is tilted from perpendicular?
- Dutch Angle
- What angle is an extremely low angle?
- High Hat Angle
- What is an outcasst, outlaw, misfit, rejects mainstream values, reveals somthing about culture that is corrupt, and brings something positive?
- Anti-hero
- What is the size of openings when the shutter opens to let light in?
- Aperature
- What is the ratio of height and width of the shown image?
- Aspect Ration
- What is the genre that treats something serious in a humorous way, like the nuclear war in Dr. Strangelove?
- Black Comedy
- What is any moving object that a camera is put on?
- Dolly
- What is it when the camera rotates from left to right on a vertical axis?
- Pan
- What is it when the camera moves up to down on a horizontal axis?
- Tilt
- What is it when the camera is put on a crane to move around?
- Crane
- What is Composition(Mise en scene)?
- How the frame is arranged
- What is making sure the film has a logical flow to the sequences of the action?
- Continuity
- What is when two different scenes are cut together so it appears as if they happen at the same time?
- Crosscutting
- What is it when the image will fade out at the same time as another image is faded in?
- Dissolves
- What is it when an image fades to white or black?
- Fades
- What is it when a nwe image is literally wiped across another image?
- Wipes
- What can be put in at any time during production?
- Inserts
- What kind of cut is disruptive to watch and has abrupt jumps to change time?
- Jump
- What is a seamless cut?
- Match
- What is it when the sound from one scene is carried over to another shot or something that sounds like it?
- Bridge
- What is it when there is a small apturature and everything in the scene is focused?
- Deep Focus
- What genre came from a group of films that were stylistically similar with low key lighting, psyche, claustrophobia, femme fatale, and a corrupted person?
- Film Noir
- What is it when a scene jumps into the past or present?
- Flashback/Flashforward
- What is it when there is the emphasis on how something is shot is more important than what is being shot?
- Formalism
- What is the type of filming that is unset and has the documentary effect?
- Realism
- What is a blend of formalism and realism?
- Classicism
- How many frames per second are used in regular film/digital film?
- 24 frames per second/30 frames per second
- What takes a frame and repeats it over and over so there is no action
- Freeze Frame
- What is the word for the style or kind of film?
- Genre
- What kind of lighting is dark with low light and is used in mysteries and thrillers?
- Low Key
- What kind of lighting is light and used in comedies?
- High Key
- What kind of lighting uses bright lights and dark shadows together?
- High Contrast
- What is putting pieces together and passing time?
- Montage
- What is it called when the character talks over the action?
- Voice-over
- What kind of shot shows the location of a film?
- Establishing Shot
- What kind of shot is it where there is one camera that films an entire shot with no cuts?
- Master Shot
- What kind of shot is wide and used for mountain or landscapes?
- Extreme Long Shot
- What kind of shot is used in a play so you can see all of the action?
- Long Shot
- What kind of shot shows the waist up?
- Medium Shot
- What kind of shot is very close and shows something small like an eyeball?
- Extreme Close-up
- What kind of shot shows a conversation over the shoulder and switches?
- Reverse Angle Shot
- What kind of shot is of a character reacting to an action?
- Reaction Shot
- What kind of shot gets closer and zooms in as the camera on a dolly moves out?
- Zoom In/Out
- What kind of shot is used when the camera is shot from the point of view of a character behind or over a shoulder?
- Subjective Shot
- What kind of shot is used from an airplane or over land?
- Aerial