Acting Part 2
Special Effects
Special Effects 2
Cuts
200

Actors who have the talent to leave their personality behind and  assume the personality of another including voice and mannerisms. 

What are Chameleons (Impersonators)? 

200

Smaller versions of larger objects. 

What are miniatures? 

200

CGI stands for _______________________________. 

What is computer generated image? 

200

Cutting together very long shots

What is slow cuts? 

400

Actors who take the character and filter them through their own identity and ability.

What are Interpreters? 

400

Combining 2 or more images into a single final image. 

What are mattes? 

400

Images that look captured by a camera not animated by a computer. 

What is photo-realistic? 

400

Short machine-gun bursts of images sandwiched together to compress action Editing changes the story.

What is flash cuts? 

600

Actors who can only play a certain type of character with truthfulness. 

What are Personality Actors? 

600

Uses a background of one color and digitally replacing the background with another image.

What is Chroma Key? 

600

The creation of synthetic body parts that move and feel like real, organic parts.

What are Prosthetics? 

600

Cutting scenes may be done _________________,  because sometimes a scene can take “wind out of the sails” of a sequence 

What is "for pacing"? 

800

Actors who usually play eccentric characters usually with distinctive voices and accents. 

What are Character Actors? 

800

Splitting the screen so that you can have the same actor on screen at the same time.

What is Doubling? 
800

This background screen: 

  • Requires lots of lights 

  • Sometimes matches eye color 

What is a blue screen? 

800

Cutting scenes may be done __________________, because sometimes a scene filmed does not fit the tone/theme of the rest of the film

What is "for incongruity"? 

1000

____________ limits an actor to a narrow range of limited roles.

What is Typecasting? 

1000

Hooking up a camera to a computer that moves it precisely to create an illusion of movement.

What is Motion Control? 

1000

Glass plate painted with an image put in front of a camera. 

What is an In-camera matte? 

1000

The editor manipulating us by exciting or calming by the cuts.

What is glancing rhythms?