These are sounds that come from sources not on the screen.
What are invisible sounds?
100
This editing transition eliminates a strip of insignificant or unnecessary action from a continuous shot.
What is a jump cut?
100
This shot type is the standard for framing, usually emphasizes relationships or interactions, and is waist-up.
What is a medium shot?
100
This direction of lighting creates a shadow on half of a character face.
What is side lighting?
100
This is another name for a director that is involved in all steps of the filmmaking process utilizing his or her skills, styles, and philosophies.
What is an auteur?
200
This is music that is part of the reality or environment of the story.
What is Diegetic Music?
200
This type of editing utilizes the computer environment to aid in the editing process.
What is non-linear editing?
200
This camera angle places the camera below looking up at a character, place, or object.
What is a low angle shot?
200
This is a color (or music) associated with a specific character.
What is a leitmotif?
200
This office "directed" the film industry as to what should be avoided in films beginning in the 1930s.
What is the Hays Office?
300
The rhythm of the music matches the movement of objects on the screen.
What is Mickey Mousing?
300
Before computers, this device was used for decades to edit films.
What is the moviola?
300
This point of view provides the perspective of a character.
What is the subjective point of view?
300
This is another way of saying "what's put into a scene" (color, lighting, sets, etc.)
What is mis-en-scene?
300
This is the first sub-genre of comedies, popular in the 1920s.
What is slapstick?
400
Sounds that are natural to a scene's environment.
What are Ambient Sounds?
400
This editing transition is based on creating visual and compositional patterns or similarities between shots.
What is the form cut?
400
Shots featuring these suggest strength and control.
What are vertical lines?
400
This is a pre-visualization technique in which shots are sketched, like a comic book, before production begins.
What is a storyboard?
400
This genre typically featured urban settings, greedy characters, and a dangerous "femme fatale."
What is film noir?
500
This sound system was created as a quality assurance system that certain theaters were certified to playback sounds as close to the intentions of the sound mixing engineer as possible.
What is THX Sound?
500
This type of editing is a fast-paced collaboration between various images and sounds linked together into a sequence expressing a a larger visual picture.
What is a montage?
500
This is a camera set-up that has no camera movement.
What is a fixed frame?
500
This means controlling the amount of light on an object or surface.
What is incident control?
500
According to The Cutting Edge: The Magic of Editing, this director established the basic grammar and rules of classical film editing.