Film Vocab
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Film Vocab
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1. The camera should move at least 30 degrees any time there is a cut within a scene

2. Film productions shot outside the U.S. for economic reasons

3. Creating an image by combining several elements created separately using computer graphics rather than photographic means

4. Early films that documented everyday events - such as workers leaving a factory

5. A machine used to create optical effects such as fades - dissolves - and superimpositions. Most are now created digitally

6. Color. The strength of a hue is measured by its saturation or desaturation

7. The arrangement of images to depict a unified storyline

8. A production crew responsible not for shooting the primary footage but - instead - for remote location shooting and B-roll. See also B-roll

9. A crew member responsible for logging the details of each take on the set so as to ensure continuity

10. A lens with a focal length greater than 50 mm (usually between 80mm and 20mm) - which provides a larger image of the subject than a normal or wide-angle lens but which narrows the angle of vision and flattens the depth of the image relative to normal

11. A series of individual drawings that provides a blueprint for the shooting of a scene

12. A scene transition wherein sound from one scene bleeds over into the ext scene - often resulting in a contrast between sound image

13. A device attached to the film camera that records videotape of what has been filmed - allowing the director immediate access to video footage

14. A chemical coating on film stock containing light-sensitive grains