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Post by Claire de Cerises on May 18, 2006 4:15:00 GMT
Ariel Shot: A shot taken from a crane, plane, or helicopter.
Animation: Methods by which inanimate objects are made to seem to move on the screen. These methods include photographing drawings, cels, or objects one or a few frames at a time while adjusting their positions in between frames. When projected, the drawings or objects appear to move.
Aspect Ratio: The ratio of the horizontal and vertical dimensions of the frame, expressed as 1:33:1 or 1:85:1 (widescreen)
Blue Screen Process: Photography of live action in front of a blue background; later, the blue area is replaced by another scene so that the two actions appear to have been filmed together.
Boom: A pole or support for suspending a microphone or camera
Cel: A transarent plastic sheet on which drawings are made; used in animation
Cinematography: The art of lighting each scene in a film to give it a specific feel or look. The CINEMATOGRAPHER, also called the DIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRAPHY, specializes in creating the "look" of the film.
Close-up: Generally, any close shot; a small object fills most of the frame.
Colorization: A process by which color is added to a videotaped version of a film originally shot in black and white.
Composite: Any image in a frame that is made from a combination of two or more elements filmed at different times or places. Compositing, the actual process of combining these various images, can be done in-camera, in an optical printer, or in a computer.
Computer-Generated Images: Images that are created completely on a computer. (CGI)
Credits: The list of technical personnel, cast, and crew of a film.
Cross-cutting (or Intercutting): Intermingling the shots of two or more scnes to suggest simultaneous or parallel action.
Cue dot: A dot in the upper right corner of the frame, indicating to the projectionist that the reel is ending.
Cut: An instantaneous change from one camera shot to another, created by joining separately-shot pieces of film
Dailies (or Rushes): Prints of shots that are made immediately after a day's shooting so that they can be examined before the enxt day's shooting begins.
Digital: Used to describe methods of recording, storing, and transmitting images, sounds and data through the conversion of information into binary numbers (combinations of ones and zeros). Digital information can be copied and transmitted repeatedly with no loss of detail.
Director of Photography (DP): Person who sets directs the lighting (see CINEMATOGRAPHER)
Dissolve: A superimposition of a fade-out and a fade-in.
Dolly: A platform with wheels upon which a camera is mounted.
Dolly Shot: (see also TRACKING SHOT) A shot taken from a moving platform.
To be continued...
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Post by Señorita Présidenté on May 18, 2006 5:16:50 GMT
I have heard of all these from BTC.
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Post by Claire de Cerises on May 18, 2006 5:43:10 GMT
That is only one page of seven.
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Post by Señorita Présidenté on May 18, 2006 8:38:00 GMT
Meh. One will be sufficient thanks.
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Post by Claire de Cerises on May 19, 2006 2:23:50 GMT
I might write it out though. Just so that I can review. Sorry.
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Post by Señorita Présidenté on May 19, 2006 4:49:24 GMT
That's OK. Do w/e ever you think is best.
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Post by Claire de Cerises on May 20, 2006 16:20:58 GMT
Dub: To add sound or dialogue after the visuals have been photographed. Also, to add dialogue to a film in a language other than the original.
Dutch Angle/Dutch Tilt Angle: A camera angle achieved by tilting the camera from its normal vertical horizontal axes. Tilting the camera implies something amiss, something unusual.
DVD: Digital Video Disc.
Editing: the Process of cutting the film and splicing scenes together to create the final version.
Effects: Creation of elements which do not or can not exist in reality
VISUAL EFFECTS OF SPECIAL EFFECTS: Visual effects can be created with models miniatures, stop-motion, opitical printing, mattes, digital CGI, blue screen, etc.
PHYSICAL EFFECTS are effects physically achieved on set during filming, such as pyrotechnics, break-away materials, large-scale mechanical props, etc.
SOUND EFFECTS are sound elements added to films.
Establishing shot: A long shot at the beginning of the scene or sequence which provides the viewer with essential information regarding location.
Fade-in: The screen gradually changes from black to an image; or, silence gradually becomes sound
Fade-out: The screen gradually goes from an image to black; or, audible sound gradually becomes silent.
Fast motion: The film is shot at fewer than 24 frames per second, so that when it is projected at normal speed, actions appear to move much faster than normal.
Film gauge: The width of the film across the bottom of the frame after developing, indicated in millimeters. Standard sizes are 8mm, 16 mm, 35 mm, and 70 mm. The most commonly used in theaters is 35 mm.
Feature Film/ Feature: A fictional narrative film lasting more than an hour, made for showing in commercial theaters.
Focus: The degree of sharpness and clarity in a film image.
Foley: The recording of synchronized sound effects to match silent images. Most noises heard in a film are created during a Foley session rather than being recorded during original filming.
Foley Artist: A person who specializes in creating foley sound effects.
Frame: One individual picture, defined by the limits of the camera’s aperture, on a piece of motion pictuer film.
Freeze frame: A shot composed of a single frame that is reprinted a number if times on the filmstrip. When it is projected, it gives the illusion of a still photograph.
Front Lighting: The subject is lit from the front.
Green screen: This is the same as a blue screen process, except that the green screen is often replaced by computer images.
High-angle shot: The camera is placed above the subject.
High-key lighting: Generally bright lighting in a scene.
Letterbox format: A video format on which the original widescreen dimensions of a film are recorded. A film in letterbox has black bands at the top and bottom of the screen. (also called WIDESCREEN)
Long Shot: A long shot includes all or most of a subject and usually some or most of the surroundings.
Low-angle shot: The camera is placed below the action.
Low-key lighting: Generally dark lighting in a scene.
Master shot: Usually a long shot of an entire scene into which the closer shots are cut.
Matte: A mask which blocks off a portion of a frame. Later, some other scene is put in the portion of the frame where the matte was.
Matte painting: A realistic painting used in a portion of the frame. Often, live action is combined later with the matte painting.
Medium shot: A shot between a long shot and a close up.
Miniatures: Small-scale objects used in motion picture photography in a way that makes them appear to be real and of normal size.
Model: Any object or location that has been reproduced for filming purposes.
Montage: A series of related shots representing the passing of a longer period of time.
Morphing: The process by which one image appears to transform, seamlessly, into another created on a computer.
(to be continued)
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Post by Claire de Cerises on May 20, 2006 16:39:13 GMT
Objective Camera: Camera coverage that places the audience in the position of an observer of the action. The camera is not a character.
Outtakes: Developed film sequences not used in the final film.
Pan: To move the camera left or right from a fixed base.
Pixels: An abbreviation of “picture element.” Pixels are the tiny squares of color which make up a digital image. Each image consists of many thousands of pixels. The more used to describe a picture, the higher the resolution.
Production/Pre-production/Post-production: The process of creating a film is divided into three distinct phases. Pre-production refers to the part so fht filmmaking process that occur before filming begins: Scriptwriting, the design and construction of props and sets, casting of actors, financing, and scheduling. Production is the actual phase of shooting a film in a studio or on location and is usually the shortest part of the film making process. Post-production refers to the process that occur after shooting:L editing, creation of special effects, dubbing, and sound effects, recording of the musical score.
Production design: The department which designs and creates sets, props, costumes, and storyboards for a film.
Reaction Shot: A shot that cuts away from the main action to show a character’s reaction to it.
Rear Projection: (Rear Screen projection) The projection of still or moving backgrounds on a screen, in front of which live actors are photographed. The camera perceives both as taking place simultaneously.
Reel: About 10-12 minutes of film. A DOUBLE REEL is about 20 minutes of film.
RUSHES: (Also called DAILIES) Prints of shots that are made immediately after a day’s shooting so that they can be examined before the next day’s shooting begins.
SCENE: a series of shots (or a single shot) that take place in a single location and that deal with a single action.
SCORE: The background music composed for a film.
SEQUENCE: A series of shots with a common theme or purpose; a scene.
SHOT: A single piece of film, without cuts, exposed continuously.
SIDE-LIGHTING: The subject is lit from a light source on the side.
SLOW MOTION: The film is run through the camera at more frames per second than normal; when the film is projected at 24 frames per second, the action appears to move more slowly than normal.
SOUND EFFECTS: All the created sounds that are not dialogue or music.
SOUNDTRACK: A band-magnetic, optical, or digital- which provides the sound on a film. The soundtrack for a film combines 3 separately-recorded tracks: dialogue, sound effects, and music.
SPLICE: The joint between two pieces of film; to join film.
SPROCKET HOLES: Regularly spaced holes in film that enable the film to be mechanically advanced in the camera and projector. Sprockets in the camera or projector pull each frame into position behind the shutter.
STOP-MOTION ANIMATION: A technique in which the camera operates one frame at a time, allowing objects to be adjusted between frames. When projected at normal speed, the objects seem to move independently and smoothly. This techniques is used in cel animation, claymation, pixilation, model work, etc.
STORYBOARD: A series of drawings which show the planned sequence of camera shots for a film.
SUBJECTIVE CAMERA: The camera sees the action from the point of view of a character.
SYNC/SYNCRONIZATION: The process of keeping the sound and picture in proper co-ordination with each other.
SUBTITLE: A title superimposed over action, usually at the bottom of the frame and sometimes used to translate a foreign language film into English.
TAKE: Each time the camera is started and then stopped to film a shot. Several takes of each shot are normally filmed and the best take is selected and used during editing.
TELEPHOTO LENS: A lens that acts like a telescope to magnify distant objects.
TILT SHOT: The camera tilts up or down from a fixed base.
TIME-LAPSE PHOTOGRAPHY: Photographing extremely slow events, such as the blooming of a flower, one frame at a time over lengthy intervals, such as one frame each minute. When projected at normal speed, the action, such as the flower blooming, appears to happen very quickly. Extreme fast motion.
TRACK: Any one of a number of separate parallel recording channels on tape that can be played separately or later mixed or modified.
TRACKING SHOT: A shot made while the camera and its support are moving, usually on a platform on a track.
VOICE-OVER: The voice of a narrator or a character who is not on screen.
WIDE-ANGLE LENS: A lens with a very broad angle or view.
WIDESCREEN: Any one of a number of aspect ratios of 1:66:! Or greater, such as 1:85:1 or 2:35:1
ZOOM LENS: A lens which adjusts to move farther from or closer to the subject; the camera itself remains fixed.
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Post by Señorita Présidenté on May 22, 2006 4:46:56 GMT
Thanks for that Claire, but you honestly don't have to.
"When shall we three meet again,
in thunder, lightning, or in rain??"
"When the hurlyburly's done,
when the battles' lost and won."
"That will be ere the set of sun."
"Where the place?"
"Upon the heath!"
"There to meet, with Macbeth!"
"I come Greymalkin!"
"Paddock calls!"
"Anon!"
"Fair is foul, and foul is fair;
Hover through the fog and filthy air."
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Post by Claire de Cerises on May 24, 2006 22:06:08 GMT
Wow. Is that sad that from the very beginning I knew it was the three witches of Macbeth?
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Post by Señorita Présidenté on May 25, 2006 4:44:00 GMT
Indeed it most certainly is.
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Post by Claire de Cerises on May 25, 2006 22:44:54 GMT
Out of curiosity, why did you write that?
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Post by Señorita Présidenté on May 26, 2006 7:20:37 GMT
Because I was in my random phase, Claire.
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Post by Claire de Cerises on May 30, 2006 0:49:49 GMT
Of course. I should have known better by now.
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Post by Señorita Présidenté on May 30, 2006 4:15:11 GMT
Indeed you most certainly should have.
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