Film Appreciation 1301
Vocabulary Test #1
Analytical editing
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A critical term applied to the formation of a narrative style in early
cinema in which an action or several actions that occur as continuous movements
without interruption are “analyzed,” or broken up into a series
of discrete images.
Backdrop
– A painted scene behind live-action performers, adapted from stage productions
in early cinema by filmmakers such as Georges Melies.
Camera
– The apparatus that records motion-picture images by exposing and advancing
individual frames on a film roll.
Camera Angle
– The position of the camera in relation to the subject being photographed.
Celluloid
–
A synthetic plastic material invented in the 1870’s originally
utilizing the chemical compound cellulose nitrate, that replaced paper
as the basis for the film roll in the late 1880’s, later a more
general term for motion pictures.
Cinematographe
– Motion picture apparatus developed by Auguste and Louis Lumiere in France
that functioned both as a camera and as a part of a projection device;
recorded and screened films in 1895 leading up to the first showing of
a projected motion pictures to the general public on December 28, 1895
in Paris.
Crosscutting
– A term for alternating shots among different locations, as when a series
of shots cuts back and forth among two or more separate spaces.
Film Stock
– Sensitized celluloid made into o perforated rolls that are exposed in
motion-picture cameras.
Insert shot
– A shot, usually in close-up, that emphasizes a segment of a larger scene.
Magic Lantern
– The name for the pre-cinema devices that projected large-screen images
of slides and often created the illusion of motion.
Nickelodeon
– A term for storefront movie theatres that emerged in United States cities
after 1905 and generally charged five cents (a nickel) for a ticket.
Projector
– The apparatus that illuminates, enlarges, and advances film frames to
cast the appearance of moving images on a screen or other surface.
Reel
– The spool on which film is wound for projection. Also a unit for measuring
film duration.
Tracking Shot
– A shot made with a moving camera, sometimes mounted on rails or tracks.
Tinting
– Painting individual frames of black-and-white film by hand, or bathing
film footage in colored dyes to achieve color effects.
Vitascope
–
First American motion-picture projector developed by Charles Francis
Jenkins and Thomas Armat, marketed as a product of Thomas A. Edison and
used at the premiere motion picture screening in the United States on
April 23, 1896, at Koster & Bial’s Music Hall in New York.
Intertitles
–
Frames of printed text inserted between shots during the silent era to
announce a change of scene or location, give dialogue lines, guide the
spectator by summarizing in advance the next scene’s action, or
comment editorially.
Take(s)
– The act of photographing a specific shot; ______ are frequently repeated
and consecutively numbered, and the most effective ones are selected
by the director and editor in the post production process.
Sequence
– A unit within the narrative or continuity of a film; generally composed
of a related group of shots.
Director
– In fiction filmmaking, the person who has the overall creative responsibility
for turning a screenplay into a visual motion picture text.
Distribution
– The aspect of the film business involving the delivering of films from
producers to theatres.
Film
– Originally a substance composed of sensitized paper, coated with gelatin
emulsion, on a roll, developed in 1885 by George Eastman and William
Walker.
Epic
– A film genre generally dealing with historical subjects and emphasizing
production values such as extensive location shooting , big sets, elaborate
costumes and large casts.
Raw Stock
– film footage before it is exposed.
Rapid Cutting
– A term denoting an editing style utilizing a series of very brief shots.
Glossary Definitions
Film, An International History of the Medium by Robert Sklar,
Professor of Cinema Studies, New York University - 2nd edition, copyright 2002.
Prentice-Hall
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