Moviemaking Terms

Tripp's Moviemaking Class

180-degree line or ‘the line’ -

Aspect ratio -

Bounce –

CGI –

Circle of action –

Continuity editing (or continuity style) –

Coverage –

Crash zoom –

CU –

Cut -

Cutting on the look (and cutting on action) –

Day for night –

Deep focus – ???

Depth of field –

Dolly –

Dolly Shot –

DP –

Dub –

ECU –

Edit in camera –

Establishing shot –

Exposure –

Final Cut (3 meanings) –

Flag –

Flashback –

Foley sound –

Follow shot –

Frame (2 meanings) –

Handheld shot –

Insert –

Jump cut –

L-cut (and J-cut) –

Long lens –

Long shot –

Mark –

Master shot –

Match cut –

MOS –

Mini-DV –

NTSC & PAL –

Non-linear editing –

Off screen –

Optical sound –

OTS (over the shoulder) –

Pan –

Pick-ups –

Post-production (or ‘post’) –

POV –

Pre-Production –

Pre-vis –

Production –

Public Domain –

Recce (“recky”) –

Reverse angle –

Rough Cut –

Set up –

SFX –

Short lens –

Shot Distance –

Slate –

SteadiCam –

Stereo sound & Surround sound –

Storyboard –

Subjective shot –

Swish pan (or whip pan) –

Take –

Tilt –

Titles –

Tracking Shot –

Transition –

Treatment –

TT shot –

Two shot –

VO –

White balance –

Wide Shot –

Zolly –

Others:

Internet Resources:

http://www.imdb.com/Glossary/

http://www.allmovie.com/avg_glossary.html

homepage.newschool.edu/~schlemoj/film_courses/glossary_of_film_terms/glossary.html