The position from which camera photographs action. (May have an impact
on how the subject is interpreted.)
Images that are slightly different in their placement, which, when
shown consecutively, give the illusion of motion.
The way in which films are grouped and labelled - U, PG, 12A, 12,
15 and 18 - according to the age of the person that is allowed
to watch them.
A shot from a close distance in which the size of the object is magnified
and fills the entire frame. This focuses attention and emphasises
its importance, showing details.
A sudden change or jump in camera angle, location, placement, or
time, from one shot to another. Can also refer to the stopping
of the camera at the end of a take.
Spoken lines in a film said by an actor or actress.
The person responsible for overall artistic control of all phases
of a film's production.
The person who selects, assembles, arranges and joins together many
separate camera takes.
A gradual change in the intensity of an image or sound – this
could be a fade in or a fade out.
(1) as a verb, to record a scene or make a motion picture; (2) as
a noun, refers to a motion picture, or (3) the thin strip of material
on the film negative that is used to create images, through light
exposure.
A single image, the smallest compositional unit of a film's structure,
captured by the camera on a strip of motion picture film - similar
to an individual slide in still photography.
Originally a French word meaning ‘kind’, ‘sort’ or ‘type’.
Genre refers to a class or type of film that share common features
including: distinctive artistic and thematic elements, iconography
(e.g. bad guys in westerns wear black hats), narrative content, plot,
subject matter, mood and milieu (or setting) or characters.
A camera view of an object or character from a considerable distance
so that it appears relatively small in the frame, e.g. a person
standing in a crowd of people or a horse in a vast landscape.
Abbreviation for panorama shot; refers to the horizontal scan, movement,
rotation or turning of the camera in one direction (to the right
or left) around a fixed axis while filming.
 A
shot (or series of shots) that together comprise a single, unified
dramatic event, action, unit, or element of film narration, or block
(segment) of storytelling within a film, much like a scene in a play.
The end of a scene is often indicated by a change in time and/or
location.
The written text of a film - a blueprint for producing a film detailing
the story, setting, dialogue, movements and gestures of actors,
and the shape and sequence of all events in the film.
The person who writes a script – usually not the author of
the book if the film is a book-to-film story.
A film that is shorter than about 30 or 45 minutes.
The audio component of a movie, including the dialogue, musical score,
narration and sound effects.
The creation of fantastic visual and audio illusions that cannot
be accomplished by normal means, such as travel into space.
A standardised image or conception of a type of person.
The change of image size which is achieved when the focal length
of the lens is altered.
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