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Film, Theatre & Television
10th Grade
05/29/2011

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an actor who specializes in a secondary role-some become stars but most do not
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character actor
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the style that is used to express emotions and feelings rather than realism
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expressionism
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the main subject of the shot has extra space for movement
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loose framing
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the three major parts of making a film setting, subject being filmed, and composition
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mis-en-scene
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technique used to block out part of an image temporarily
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masking
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an indistinct setting or background usually black or white
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limbo
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an actor who has immersed themselves in a character's life and mindset
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method actor
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What are four examples of method actors/actresses?
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marlon brando, al pacino, jo ann woodward, robert de niro
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camera angle looking straight down on a subject
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bird's eye view
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to film while the camera is moving on a track
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track
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the view of a subject from above; makes the subject smaller
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high angle
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green, blue, violet colors
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cool colors
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soft light usually comes from a source near the camera that is used to soften shadows of lignes
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fill light
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muted, dull, pale color used to display lack of energy
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desaturated color
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the difference between dark and light in a scene
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contrast
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when a film begins or when it shifts to a new setting, _____reveals the setting
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extreme long shot
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a camera is shot so it seems to the viewer's that they are in the character's eyes
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point of view shot (POV)
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a scene where the foreground, background, and everything in between are in sharp focus
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deep focus
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unscattered light that is shown on a subject
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hard light
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filming and editing so that all shots in a scene are from the same side of an imaginary straight line running between the scene's major subjects
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180 degree system
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consecutive shots of a brief duration to editing dominated by brief shots
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fast cutting
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a series of brief shots that fades out as another fades in; condense time; replace a series of consecutive scenes in a film
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montage
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What country is known for the use of montages?
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russia
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a group of related or consecutive scenes ina narrative film
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sequence
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a film editing with uninterrupted time and action
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continuity editing
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the last version of an edited film
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final cut
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a shot alternating between two subjects, usually in conversation
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shot/reverse shot
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editing characterized by frequent shots of long duration
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slow cutting
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sound history???
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the sound in a film other than spoken words or music
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sound effects
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the period of time without any sound
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silence
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people who watch a film and add sound effects
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foley artist
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editing that occurs after all filming is complete
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post production sound
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sounds placed in scenes of a film to create a mood
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music
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reference to an earlier text or part of one
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allusion
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when the original film is updated or created
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remake
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a series of drawings or photographs that represent scenes of a film
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storyboard
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the relationship betweena film and some toher types of text
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intertextuality
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the version of the script used in filming
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shooting scripts
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humorous narrative about subjects that are not particularly funny (ex. murder, death, war)
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black comedy
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story structure in which some scenes have no necessary relation to each other
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epsodic plot
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a term used by the russian formalist school of literary theory and some later film theorists to mean the reconstruction of all the events of a nonchronological narrative into a chronological order
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fabula
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a represntation of individual or group thinkin or bhaviro that indirectly exposes the subject as flawed
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satire
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the arrangment of the parts of the whole text
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structure
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popular indian films consisting of lare casts
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bollywood
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film made outside the studio system--independently funded; usually made for less money
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independent film
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film characterized by frequent scenes with little light and many shadows
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film noir
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a film movemtn in Italy with films that combine real and imaginary events
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italian neorealism
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aspect of a text that is open to two or more possible interpretations
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abiguity
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a script that describes a finished film; a written description of a finished film
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cutting continuity script
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fundamental beliefs and values of acertain soceity; taken to extreme=propoganda
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ideallogy
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the belief that some filmmakers usually directors though sometimes producers writers or actors function as the dominant creators of films
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auteur theory
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anything with a meaning beyond its usual literal meaning that can be interpreted
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symbol
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the arrangment of lighting and subjects in relation to each other and to the sides of the frame
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composition
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the borders of the projected film, tv set or monitor
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frame
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a real place that is not built expressly for the filmmakers, though filmmakers often modify certain of its detail before filming
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location
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leaves little space around the subject, and such settings often convey a sense of confinemnt and stress
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tight framing
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the light from one or more sources that is visible in the pupils of a subject's eyes
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catchlight
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the too rapid horizontal pivoting of a movie camera during filming that results in blurred images; the shot that results when a movie camera is pivoted too rapidly during filming and blurred footage
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swish pan
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a view of the subject as seen from below eye level
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low angle
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light that has been diffused or reflected before illumniating the subject
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soft light
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a shot, usually a long shot or an extreme long shot, used at the beginning of a scene to show where and sometimes when the events taht are to follow take palce
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establishing shot
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a shot that briefly interrupts the representation of a subject to show someething else
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cutaway shot
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a transition between shots in which one shot begins to fade out as the next shot fades in, over lapping the first shot before replacing it
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lap dissolve
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editing that involves using a computer and software to select and combine digitized shots
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non linear editing
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an uniterrupted strip of exposed motion picture film or videotape that represents a subject
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shot
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any sound recorded directly from the event during the filming process
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direct sound
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spoken words between characters
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dialogue
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the inclusion, recreation or imitation of part of another film; a tribute to a person, director, or other film
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homage
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the earliest version of a script, written before filming begins
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screenplay
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a shot, scene, or sequence that interrupts a narrative to show earlier events
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flashback
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a shot, scene, or sequence that interrupts a narrative to show events that happen in the future
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flash forward
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a group of films that share enough similarities that both filmmakers and audiences recognize the films as members of the same group
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genre
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a film movement made up of a lose grouping of untraditional movies made in france in the late 1950s and early 1960s
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french new wave cinema
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a group of people with commong interests and a broadly shared outlook who tend to generate broadly similar meanings from a text
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interprative comunity
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a likeness of a subject created ina text
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represntation
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a meaning ina text that is the same as a belief of a soceity or social group
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symptomatic meaning
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directors of photography
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cinematography
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If something is in deep focus it is in____foucs.
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sharp
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color that always suggest some kind of energy
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saturated color
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____is used to import energy into a film.
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fast cutting
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a transition between shots that causes a jarring or even shocking shift in space, time or action; may be used to shorten the representation of an event or to diorient views or both
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jump cutting
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editing taht alterantes between two or more events, often suggesting that the events are related to each other or are occurin simultaneously
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parallel editing
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multispeaker sound system developed by lacsfilm and used in selected movie theaters to increase frequency range, audence coverage and dialogue intelligibility while decreasing low base distortion
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THX
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a transition between two shots in whicha sound begins to fade out as the next sound fades in and overlaps the first sound before replacing it
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sound dissolve
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looping???
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background sound that is so unobtrusive that people tend not to notice it
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ambient sound
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unexposed and unprocessed motion picture film; film stock
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raw material events
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