Motion picture terminology

The film industry is built upon a large number of technologies and techniques, drawing upon photography, stagecraft, music, and many other disciplines. Following is an index of specific terminology applicable thereto.

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• 180 degree rule
• 30 degree rule

A

• A and B editing
• A roll
• Accelerated montage
• Acousmatic
• Action axis
• Aerial shot
• Ambient light
• American night
• American shot
• Anamorphic
• Angle of view
• Angle plus angle
• Angular resolution
• Answer print
• Aperture
• Apple box
• Artificial light
• ASA speed rating
• Aspect ratio
• Autofocus
• Automatic dialogue replacement
• Available light
• Axial cut

B

• B roll
• Backlot
• Background lighting
• Balloon light
• Barn doors (lighting)
• Below the line (film production)
• Blocking
• Bluescreen
• Boom shot
• Boomerang (lighting)
• Bounce board
• Brightness (lighting)
• Broadside (lighting)
• Butterfly (lighting)

C

• C-Stand
• Callier efect
• Cameo lighting
• Cameo (credits image)
• Cameo role
• Cameo shot
• Camera angle
• Camera boom
• Camera crane
• Camera dolly
• Camera shot
• Candles per square foot
• Character animation
• Choker shot
• Chroma key
• Chromatic aberration
• Clapboard
• Clock wipe
• Close shot
• Close up shot
• 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
• Continuity
• Cooke Triplet lens
• Crafts service
• Crane shot
• Creative geography
• Cross cutting
• Cross lighting
• Cutaway
• Cut in - cut out
• Cutting on action

D

• Daily rushes
• Day for night
• Deadspot (lighting)
• Deep focus
• Depth of field
• Depth of focus
• Dichroic lense
• Diegetic sound
• Diffraction
• Diffuser (lighting)
• Digital audio
• Digital audio tape recorder
• Digital cinema
• Digital compositing
• Digital film
• Digital image processing
• Digital intermediate
• Digital negative
• Digital projection
• Dimmer (lighting)
• Dissolve (film)
• DMX (lighting)
• Dolly grip
• Dolly shot
• Dolly zoom
• Double-system recording
• Douser (lighting)
• DPX film format
• Drawn on film animation
• Dubbing
• Dutch angle
• Dynamic composition

E

• Effects light
• Electrotachyscope
• Ellipsoidal reflector spot light
• Establishing shot
• Extreme close-up
• Extreme long shot
• Eye-level camera angle

F

• F-number
• F-stop
• Fade-in
• Fade-out
• Fast cutting
• Fast motion
• Field of view
• Fill light
• Film gate
• Film modification
• Film plane
• Film recorder
• Film scanner
• Film speed
• Filter (photography)
• Fine cut
• Fisheye lens
• Flicker fusion threshold
• Focal length
• Focus (optics)
• Focus puller
• Foley artist
• Follow focus
• Follow shot
• Followspot light
• Forced perspective
• Fourth wall
• Frame
• Frame composition
• Frame rate
• Freeze frame shot
• Fresnel lens
• Full frame
• Full shot

G

• Gobo (lighting)
• Go motion
• Godspot effect
• Greenlight

H

• Hard light
• Head-on shot
• Heart wipe
• High-angle shot
• High camera angle
• High concept
• High-intensity discharge lamp
• High-key lighting
• Hip hop montage
• Hydrargyrum Medium-Arc Iodide lamp

I - Z

• key light
• letterbox
• light reflector
• Martini Shot
• Mise en scène
• montage
• MOS
• movement mechanism
• movie camera
• negative cutting
• over-cranking (speed up the camera faster than 24 fps to slow motion in the scene)
• pan and scan
• persistence of vision
• POV shot (as if seen through the character's eyes "point of view" - filmed by the camera
• point of view
• post-production
• replay
• slow cutting
• slow motion
• stand-in
• storyboard
• take
• timecode
• time-lapse
• tracking shot
• under-cranking (slow down the camera's frame rate to speed up action in the scene)
• voice artist
• voice-over
• widescreen

See also

• Film technique
• Film crew
• Filming production roles
• List of film formats
• List of film topics
• List of basic film topics