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| Fade | a visual transition placed between shots in such as way that the image on screen gradually goes back to black (fade -out) or emerges from black (fade-in) |
| fast motion | mechanical distortion of a shot which causes it to occur at a faster speed than it did in reality |
| figurative language | writing that incorporates any of the various figures of speech such as : metaphor, simile, personification, hyperbole, irony, apostrophe, metonymy, and syneecdoche |
| fill-light | a soft light, normally placed near a camera on the side opposite the key-light; it fill in areas left inadequately lit by the key-light or it softens shadows, thereby reducing the contrast |
| film noir | french for ¨Black film¨; a style that emerged in Hollywood in the late 1940s through 1950s; characterized by a brutal, violent urban world of crime. filmed in a manner that emphasizes dark shadows, pools of light |
| fin de siecle | the end of a century; a term often applied to the transitional period marking the last ten years of a century |
| flash forward | a shot or sequence of shots that transports the action of the story into the future |
| flash pan | a shot in which the camera pans so rapidly that the images are blurred as they ¨Flash¨ by; normally used as transition between shots to indicate the passage of time |
| flashback | a shot or shot sequence that transports the narrative action of the story into the past |
| flat lighting | the distribution of light within the image so that bright and dark tones are not in high contrast |