Filmmaking terminology

The Film Terminology Metanode

So you wanna make a movie, huh? Lights, camera, action, all of that? Well if you're making anything above home videos of Junior dumping his face in birthday cake numero tres, you might just need to know what you're doing. Here now is a handy-dandy list of good terms to know when making a film - whether you're writing the script, playing the lead, or behind the scenes.

Crew

• ADR recordist
• art director
• assistant director
• best boy
• boom operator
• camera loader
• camera operator
• cinematographer
• clearances coordinator
• color timer
• composer
• construction coordinator
• costume design
• dialogue coach
• dialogue editor
• director of photography
• dolly grip
• editor
• Foley artist
• Foley mixer
• gaffer
• grip
• key rigging rip
• line producer
• location manager
• makeup artist
• negative cutter
• production designer
• production manager
• production sound mixer
• properties master
• scenic
• scenic foreman
• script supervisor
• second unit
• set designer
• set dresser
• sound designer
• sound effects editor
• sound recordist
• stunt coordinator
• stuntman
• visual effects coordinator
• wardrobe supervisor

Screenwriting

• antagonist
• character arc
• character development
• climax
• conflict
• continuity
• coverage
• denouement
• dialogue
• exposition
• farce
• foil
• fourth wall
• in medias res
• MacGuffin
• milieu
• Motif
• motive
• pitch
• plot
• plot twist
• point of view
• protagonist
• query letter
• resolution
• rising action
• Screenplay Treatment Ouroboros
• setting
• spec
• subtext
• theme
• turn up the heat
• turn up the volume
• whammo!

Directing

• above the line
• action
• angle
• axis of action
• backlight
• barn doors
• blocking
• blur
• bounce light
• broad light
• C-clamp
• canted shot
• change-over mark
• character generator
• clapperboard
• close-up
• crosscutting
• crossing the line
• cut
• cutaway
• dailies
• depth of field
• dichroic filter
• dissolve
• dolly
• establishing shot
• Exposure Index (EI)
• exterior shot
• fade
• falloff
• field of view
• fill light
• focus
• forced perspective
• frame-within-frame
• freeze frame
• fresnel light
• F-stop
• gel
• headroom
• interior shot
• jib arm
• jogging
• jump cut
• key light
• leadroom
• leaveling
• Lewton bus
• line of action
• long take
• lux
• match cut
• mise-en-scene
• moirč effect
• money shot
• montage
• motion control
• moving frame
• opening shot
• over the shoulder
• pan
• photo line
• process shot
• pull focus
• rack focus
• rule of thirds
• rushes
• screen
• sequence
• shoot
• shot reverse shot
• sidelight
• slates
• slow motion
• soft light
• Steadicam
• stills
• storyboard (or storyboarding)
• strip light
• subjective shot
• swish pan
• tally light
• tracking shot
• transition
• T-stop
• wedge mount
• whip pan
• white balancing
• wide shot
• zoom

Acting

• body double
• character
• cue
• delivery
• dramatic faith
• emotional memory
• essence
• internal monologue
• method acting
• monologue
• motivation
• nude scene
• organic acting
• personal voice
• restraint
• role
• set

Special Effects

• animatronics
• aspect ratio
• bit
• blue screen
• color balance
• frame rate
• greenscreen

Sound

• bidirectional
• diagenic sound
• dubbing
• Foley
• postdubbed sound
• ribbon microphone
• sweetening

Equipment

• multiplane camera
• telephoto lens]

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