Glossary of motion picture terms
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This glossary of motion picture terms, (also, glossary of film terms), is a list of definitions about motion pictures.
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A
- A roll
- Above-the-line
- Accelerated montage
- Accent light
- Acousmatic
- Action axis
- Actor
- Adaption
- Aerial perspective
- Aerial shot
- Alternate ending
- Ambient light
- American night
- American shot
- Anamorphic format
- Anamorphic widescreen
- Angle of light
- Angle of view
- Angle plus angle
- Angular resolution
- Animation
- Animatronics
- Answer print
- Aperture
- Apple box
- Art department
- Artificial light
- ASA speed rating
- Aspect ratio
- Autofocus
- Automatic dialogue replacement
- Available light
- Axial cut
B
- B movie
- B-roll
- Baby plates
- Backlighting
- Backlot
- Background actor
- Background lighting
- Balloon light
- Barn doors
- Beatscript
- Below the line (film production)
- Best boy
- Billing
- Bird's eye shot
- Blocking
- Bluescreen
- Boom shot
- Boomerang (lighting)
- Bounce board
- Breaking down the script
- Breathing
- Bridging shot
- Brightness (lighting)
- Broad light
- Broadside (lighting)
- Bullet time
- Butterfly
C
- C-clamp
- C-Stand
- Callier effect
- Cameo lighting
- Cameo appearance
- Cameo lighting
- Camera angle
- Camera boom
- Camera crane
- Camera coverage
- Camera dolly
- Camera operator
- Camera stabilizer
- Camera tracking
- Candles per square foot
- Casting
- Casting director
- Character actor
- Character animation
- Choker shot
- Chroma key
- Chromatic aberration
- CinemaDNG
- Cinematographer
- Cinematography
- Clapboard
- Clock wipe
- Close shot
- Close up shot
- Closing credits
- Cold open
- Color conversion filter
- Color corrected fluorescent light
- Color correction
- Color gel
- Color grading
- Color rendering index
- Color reversal internegative
- Color temperature
- Color timer
- Compositing
- Continuity
- Continuity editing
- Cooke Triplet
- Cost report
- Crafts service
- Crane shot
- Creative geography
- Creature suit
- Cross-cutting
- Cross lighting
- Cucoloris
- Cutaway
- Cut
- Cut in
- Cut out
- Cutting on action
D
- Daily call sheet
- Daily editor log
- Daily production report
- Daily progress report
- Daily rushes
- Day for night
- Day Out of Days
- Day player
- Deadspot (lighting)
- Deep focus
- Delayed release
- Depth of field
- Depth of focus
- Dialect coach
- Dialogue editor
- Dichroic lens
- Diegetic sound
- Diffraction
- Digital audio
- Digital cinema
- Digital cinematography
- Digital compositing
- Digital film
- Digital image processing
- Digital intermediate
- Digital negative
- Digital Picture Exchange
- Digital projection
- Dimmer (lighting)
- Direct lighting
- Director
- Dissolve
- Distribution
- DMX (lighting)
- Documentary film
- Dolly grip
- Dolly shot
- Dolly zoom
- Double-system recording
- Douser (lighting)
- Drawn on film animation
- Dubbing
- Dutch angle
- Dynamic composition
E
- Edit decision list
- Editing
- Effects light
- Electrotachyscope
- Ellipsoidal reflector spot light
- Establishing shot
- Executive producer
- External rhythm
- Extra
- Extreme close-up
- Extreme long shot
- Eye-level camera angle
- Eyeline match
F
- F-number
- F-stop
- Fade-in
- Fade-out
- Fast cutting
- Fast motion
- Feature film
- Feature length
- Field of view
- Fill light
- Film budgeting
- Film crew
- Film criticism
- Film director
- Film distribution
- Film editing
- Film finance
- Film frame
- Film gate
- Film genre
- Film inventory report
- Film modification
- Film plane
- Film producer
- Film recorder
- Film release
- Film scanner
- Film score
- Film speed
- Film theory
- Film transition
- Film treatment
- Filmmaking
- Filmography
- Filter (photography)
- Fine cut
- Fisheye lens
- Flashback
- Flashforward
- Flicker fusion threshold
- Floodlight
- Floodlighting
- Focal length
- Focus (optics)
- Focus puller
- Foley artist
- Follow focus
- Follow shot
- Followspot light
- Forced perspective
- Footage
- Fourth wall
- Frame
- Frame composition
- Frame rate
- Freeze frame shot
- Fresnel lens
- Full frame
- Full shot
G
H
- Hanging miniature
- Hard light
- Head-on shot
- Head shot
- Heart wipe
- High-angle shot
- High concept
- High-intensity discharge lamp
- High-key lighting
- Hip hop montage
- Hook
- Hydrargyrum Medium-Arc Iodide lamp
I
- Independent film
- Insert
- Internal rhythm
- Intertitle
- Iris in
- Iris out
- Italian shot
J
K
L
- L cut
- Leading actor
- Lens flare
- Letterbox
- Limited release
- Long shot
- Long take
- Low-angle shot
- Low-key lighting
M
- Martini Shot
- Master shot
- Match cut
- Match moving
- Medium close-up
- Medium shot
- MIDI timecode
- Mise en scène
- Money shot
- Montage
- Mood lighting
- MOS
- Movement mechanism
- Movie camera
- Multiple-camera setup
- Multiple exposure
N
O
P
- Pan and scan
- Panning
- Persistence of vision
- Phenakistiscope
- Pillarboxing
- Pitch
- Point of view shot
- POV shot
- Point of view
- Post-production
- Pre-production
- Principal photography
- Producer
- Production board
- Production report
- Production schedule
- Production strip
Q
R
- Racking focus
- Reaction shot
- Read-through
- Reel
- Reflector
- Rembrandt lighting
- Replay
- Reverse angle shot
- Roadshow theatrical release
S
- Scene
- Screen direction
- Screenplay
- Screenwriter
- Screenwriting
- Script breakdown
- Script supervisor
- Scriptment
- Sequence shot
- Shot
- Shot reverse shot
- Shooting in the round
- Shooting schedule
- Shooting script
- Single-camera setup
- Slow cutting
- Slow motion
- Smash cut
- SMPTE timecode
- Soft light
- Sound design
- Sound designer
- Sound editor
- Sound effect
- Sound report
- Spec script
- Split edit
- Split screen
- Special effect
- Special effects supervisor
- Stage lighting
- Stalker vision
- Stand-in
- Steadicam
- Step outline
- Stop motion
- Storyboard
- Storyboard artist
- Striplight
- Stunt double
- Stunt performer
- Substitution splice
- Supporting actor
T
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V
W
X
Y
Z
See also
References
External links
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