Basic Film Terms
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| Animation | the technique of photographing successive drawings or positions of puppets or models to create an illusion of movement when the movie is shown as a sequence
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| Close-up | a photograph, movie, or video taken at close range and showing the subject on a large scale
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| Dissolve | a gradual transition from one image to another
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| Film Editing | the art, technique, and practice of assembling shots into a coherent sequence
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| Fade-in/Fade-out | an image is made to appear/disappear gradually or the volume of sound is gradually increased from zero.
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| Filming Frame | one of the many still images which compose the complete moving picture
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| Long Shot | a view of a scene that is shot from a considerable distance, so that people appear as indistinct shapes
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| Medium Shot | a camera angle shot from a medium distance
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| Panning | a camera movement technique that involves moving the camera horizontally to the right or left
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| Zoom | change smoothly from a long shot to a close-up or vice versa
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| Script Writing | the art and craft of writing scripts for mass media such as feature films, television productions or video games
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| Storyboard | a sequence of drawings, typically with some directions and dialogue, representing the shots planned for a movie or television production
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| Rule of Thirds | aligning a subject with the guide lines and their intersection points, placing the horizon on the top or bottom line, or allowing linear features in the image to flow from section to section
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| Wide-Angle-Shot | refers to a lens whose focal length is substantially smaller than the focal length of a normal lens for a given film plane
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| Widescreen | a film format presenting a wide field of vision in relation to height
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| Tripod | a three-legged stand for supporting a camera or other apparatus
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| Pan Handle | a tripod head permitting vertical or horizontal rotation of a camera to any position
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| Lens | a clear curved piece of glass or plastic that is used in eyeglasses, cameras, telescopes, etc., to make things look clearer, smaller, or bigger
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| Viewfinder | a device on a camera showing the field of view of the lens, used in framing and focusing the picture
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| Lavalier Microphone | a small microphone used for television, theatre, and public speaking applications in order to allow for hands-free operation
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| Boom Microphone | a pole carrying an overhead microphone projected over a film or tv set
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| iMovie | a video editing software application sold by Apple Inc. for the Mac and iOS
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| Final Cut Pro | a professional non-linear editing software application developed by Apple Inc
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| Crop | cut the edges in order to produce a fit in a given space
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| Title | the name of a book, composition, or other artistic work
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| Credits | publicly acknowledge someone as a participant in the production of (something published or broadcast)
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| Digital Effects | Synthetic sounds and animations created in the digital domain. Reverberation, morphing and transitions between video frames are examples
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| Footage | a length of film made for movies or television
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| A-roll | the primary footage of video being used on the multimedia video
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| B-roll | the secondary footage and is not as important but still can be used
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| Rough Cut | the first version of a movie after preliminary editing
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| Narration | a commentary delivered to accompany a movie, broadcast, etc.
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| Voiceover | a piece of narration in a movie or broadcast, not accompanied by an image of the speaker
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| Audio Tracks | an audio signal communications channel in a storage device, used in operations such as multi-track recording and sound reinforcement
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| Digital Noise | Image noise is random (not present in the object imaged) variation of brightness or color information in images, and is usually an aspect of electronic noise
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| Background Noise | extraneous sound which can be heard while listening to or monitoring other sounds
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| White Balance | the color balance on a digital camera
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| Digital Camera | a camera that records and stores digital images
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