Critical Viewing a specialized bigscreen film format about ten times larger than the traditional 35mm cinema format 70mm IMAX film produces incredible highdefinition sharpness and is projected on up to eightstory high screens in theatres or domes equipped with advanced digital surroundsoun ID: 552052
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Vocabulary List – Film Lingo (B)
Critical ViewingSlide2
a specialized, big-screen film format about ten times larger than the traditional 35mm cinema format (70mm); IMAX film produces incredible high-definition sharpness and is projected on up to eight-story high screens in theatres or domes equipped with advanced digital surround-sound systems.
IMAXSlide3
the “go-ahead” for a film to be made
GREENLIGHTSlide4
a term of contempt for movie stars who lose popularity, typically making their subsequent films financial disasters.
BOX OFFICE POISONSlide5
an Italian term for pushy photographers who stalk celebrities in their private lives.
PAPARAZZISlide6
an Irish term which denotes hype/publicity regardless of the film’s actual merit
BALLYHOOSlide7
a term that implies the trade of sexual favors to a director or producer to obtain a film role.
CASTING COUCHSlide8
self-indulgent hamming or overacting by a famous actor
“CHEW UP THE SCENERY”Slide9
an important film industry executive.
MOVIE MOGUL
Tyler Perry
Harvey Weinstein
Scott
Rudin
Steven
Spielberg
Jerry BruckheimerSlide10
Alfred Hitchcock's term for an item, object, goal, event, or piece of knowledge that drives the logic or action of the plot; although it appears extremely important to the film characters, it often turns out to be insignificant.
MacGUFFINSlide11
advertising space within a film sold to name-brand companies for their products to appear within the film as a way for a producer to fund some film production costs.
PRODUCT PLACEMENTSlide12
the all-powerful control that monopolistic film studios had over all aspects of assembly-line filmmaking and film production from the 1920s until the late 1950s, when movie moguls such as Mayer, Selznick, and
Zukor
ruled ownership of property, control of publicity and marketing and brokered iron-clad contracts with star actors, directors, composers, cameramen, costume designers, writers, and producers.
STUDIO SYSTEMSlide13
named after Will Hays, a series of rigid censorship restrictions imposed on films by the
Motion Picture Production Code, beginning in mid-1934 and lasting until the lat 1960’s; enforced/administered by Joseph Breen, the Code explicitly prescribed what couldn't be shown in films, e.g. "nakedness and suggestive dances," "methods of crime," "illegal drug use," "scenes of passion," "pointed profanity," etc.
HAYS CODE
Will Hays