Film Vocabulary
What is the directors job?
assemble and oversee the production team; provide design directives; lead rehearsals; and manage the production schedule of the project, ensuring that all the moving parts connect.
What is an establishing shot?
A wide/extreme wide shot of a building/landscape used to set the time and location of a scene
The Kinetograph was made by Thomas Edison.
What was the first movie with sound?
The Jazz Singer
Who is the one who knocks?
Heisenberg (Walter Hartwell White)
What is an kinetograph?
What is a high angle?
A type of camera shot where the camera is facing down at an object or character.
What is meant by the phrase the “unchained camera”?
filmmakers getting shots from cameras in motion enabling them to use pan shots, tracking shots, tilts, crane shots, etc.
What and when was the first Pixar movie?
Toy Story is the first Pixar movie, and it was released in 1995.
How many seasons dose Better Call Saul have?
6 seasons (Tell Kevin to finish better call Saul Hi Kevin)
What is creative geography? ( AKA artificial landscape)
It is the method of filming scenes at multiple locations or various times of the day but editing them in such a way that it appears to be one continuous location or time.
What is a wide shot?
A wide shot is a shot that typically shows the entire object or human figure and is usually intended to place it in some relation to its surroundings.
How do pans differ from tilts?
Pan is when the camera turns left or right. Tilt is when the camera moves up or down.
What was the first ever film?
Dose snoop dogg the legendary rapper ( and stoner) have a wine brand
Yes. 19 Crimes Snoop Dogg Cali
What dose VHS stand for?
Video Home System
What is a dutch angle?
A technique where a camera is slightly tilted on its roll axis to create uneasiness.
What is matting?
Matting is when you paint black shapes on a glass plate attached to the lens of the camera; those black shapes.
What was the first film directed by a woman and who directed it?
La Fée aux Choux, directed by Alice Guy-Blaché.
What is the next holiday?
Veterans Day
What are zoetropes? (I don't care how you explain it just do it)
A cylinder with pictures inside that you move to make it look like its a moving picture (Something like this would work)
What is a full shot?
A full shot is a type of camera shot that includes the actor's full body into the frame.
What year was the first camera made?
1816
What was the longest film ever made? Hint: It was made in 1987.
The Cure for Insomnia, which is 87 hours, is the longest film ever made.
Who is the sexiest man alive?
Ryan Reynolds (shave your eyebrows kevin)