Film Media
The three components that make up the light-sensitive emulsion in color filmstock
What are gelatin, silver halide, and dyes?
The three main phases of a film's life
What are production, distribution, and exhibition?
The opposite of wide release
What is platforming?
What is "pan-and-scan"?
The name of the first major annual international film festival
What is the Venice International Film Festival?
The teeth that guide a film strip through cameras, printers, and projectors
What are sprockets?
A term for the synopsis of a film's action, typically presented early in the writing process
What is a "treatment"?
Bordwell, Thompson, and Smith's rough estimate for the share of ticket sales in the US that are controlled by the distributors they call the "majors" (Warner Bros., Paramount, Walt Disney/Buena Vista, Universal, Sony/Columbia, Twentieth Century Fox)
What is 95%?
The term for reformatting that adds a black bar on the top and bottom of the screen, to preserve the entirety of the original frame
What is "letterboxing"?
The year in which the first annual international film festival was run
When is 1932?
[NON-STANDARD FORMAT]: Name four (4) different film gauges
8mm, 16mm, 35mm, 70mm, Super 8, Super 16, IMAX
[NON-STANDARD FORMAT] Name two roles from above-the-line and two from below-the-line, and what stage of filmmaking do these people/teams participate in?
1. Literary property rights, writer, director, major cast; pre-production and up to principal photography 2. crew, secondary cast, insurance, publicity; shooting and post-production
Term for a film expected by the studio and distributor to make big box office, thereby potentially offsetting any of the company's smaller releases that do not recoup costs at the box office
What is a tentpole?
The term, according to Bordwell, Thompson, and Smith, for the portion of grosses a theater is permitted to reserve before profit sharing with distributors, as a way of covering their operational costs
What is the "house nut"?
The university with which Bordwell, Thompson, and Smith are all affiliated
What is the University of Wisconsin—Madison?
The "p" in 1080p
What is "progressive scan"?
The title for the head electrician
What is a "gaffer"?
Streaming, digital downloads, licensing for cable and satellite, and physical media (VHS, DVD, Bluray, Betamax, LaserDisc, etc.) are all examples this term for non-theatrical distribution of content/media
What are "ancillary markets"?
The term for a theater owner or operator, or, more generally, the person who shows the film to the public
What is an "exhibitor"?
Term for the practice of pre-recording musical sequences, which performers then lip-synch for the camera
What is "playback"?
[NON-STANDARD FORMAT] Two of three for points: 1. What is the "critical flicker fusion" frequency (flashes per second)? 2. What is the standard range of early silent film frames per second? 3. What is the standard contemporary frame rate?
1. 50 flashes per second
2. 16–20 frames per second (18 is common)
3. 24 frames per second
The title of the supervisor of B-roll, location, and stunt footage shooting
What is the "Second/2nd Unit Director"?
An example given by Bordwell, Thompson, and Smith of the potential for "new narrative possibilities" inherent in the increased availability for at-home or repeat viewing of films released in theaters
What are (all acceptable answers): alternate endings, puzzle films, companion texts, marketing, merchandising, and product placement?
Two practices prohibited in the US that are still practiced globally under which exhibitors have little or no choice about the films they receive from distributors. EXTRA POINTS: the Supreme Court decision that prohibited these practices, and its year
What are "blind booking" and "block booking"? What is United States v. Paramount Pictures, Inc. (1948), a.k.a. "The Paramount Decision"
The name for element of a camera labelled in the diagram on the board with the letter "X"
What is the "shutter"?