The film industry is built on 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 editing – Acousmatic – Action axis – Aerial shot – Ambient light – American night – American shot – Anamorphic – Angle of view – Angle 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 – Baby plates – Backlot – Background lighting – Balloon light – Barn doors (lighting) – Below the line – Best boy – Blocking – Bluescreen – Boom shot – Boomerang (lighting) – Bounce board – Brightness (lighting) – Broadside (lighting) – Butterfly (lighting)
C
C-Stand – Callier effect – Cameo lighting – Cameo (image credits) – Cameo role – Cameo shot – Camera angle – Camera boom – Camera crane – Camera dolly – Camera shot – Candles for square foot – Character animation – Choker shot – Chroma key – Chromatic aberration – CinemaDNG – 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 lens – 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 animation – Dubbing – Dutch angle – Dynamic composition
E
Effects light – Electrotachyscope – Ellipsoidal reflector light spot – 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 – Feature length – Field of view – Fill Light – Film gate – Film changing – flat Film – Film Recorder – scanner Film – 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 – Footage – Fourth wall – Frame – Frame composition – Frame rate – Freeze frame shot – Fresnel lens – Full frame – Full shot
G
Gobo (lighting) – Go motion – Godspot effect – Greenlight – Grip – Gaffer
H
Hard light – Head-on shot – Heart wipe – High-angle shot – High angle camera – High concept – High-intensity discharge lamp – High Key lighting – Hip Hop mounting – Hydrargyrum Medium-Arc Iodide lamp
K
Key Grip – key light
L
letterbox – light reflector
M
Martini Shot – Director – editing – MOS – movement mechanism – movie camera – MIDI Timecode
N
negative cutting
O
over-cranking { Slow motion }
P
pan and scan – persistence of vision – Pillarboxing – POV shot – point of view – post-production
R
Reel – Replay
S
slow cutting – slow motion – stand-in – storyboard
T
take – timecode – time-lapse – tracking shot
UZ
under-cranking – voice artist – voice-over – widescreen