Film Vocabulary

1. a written form of a musical composition
3. a film with lots of funny scenes
4. a movie in which the characters often break out into song
6. translation of foreign dialogue of a movie or TV program
9. Movie stars earn millions of dollars every time they play a ________.
10. someone who finances and supervises the making of a movie
12. a person who acts in stage plays, motion pictures, television broadcasts, etc.
14. the person in charge of making a movie
17. one of the people in a story
18. the text of a film that actors must memorize
19. the office where tickets of admission are sold
20. the first public performance of a play or movie
22. a critical article or report on a book, play, recital, or film
24. scenery used to identify a location of a dramatic production

2. a place where movies are shown on a big screen
3. a style of dress, including accessories and hairdos, especially that are peculiar to a nation, region, group, or historical period
5. the series of events that form the main story
6. The opening _________ showed a young man leaving prison and walking to a bus stop.
7. sound recording on a narrow strip of a motion picture film
8. For film class we had to compare movies from two different __________, such as comedy and horror.
11. embarrassing mistakes actors make while filming, usually shown at the end of a movie
13. a short promotional film composed of clips showing highlights of a movie
15. all the actors and actresses in a movie or TV show
16. the flat surface that a movie is projected onto
21. a series of moving pictures that tells a story; motion picture
23. a minor actor in crowd scenes