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Cinema
The industry concerned with the production, distribution and appreciation of films.
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long-shot
Cinema; Filmmaking
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 ...
motif
Cinema; Filmmaking
Refers to a recurrent thematic element in a film that is repeated in a significant way or pattern; examples of motifs - a symbol, stylistic device, image, object, word, spoken ...
offstage
Cinema; Filmmaking
Refers to action or dialogue off the visible stage, or beyond the boundaries of the camera's field of vision or depicted frame; aka off-screen.
dynamic frame
Cinema; Filmmaking
A photographic technique used to mask the projected image size and shape to any ratio that seems appropriate for the scene (e.g., the image narrows as an actor passes through a ...
flashback
Cinema; Filmmaking
A film technique that alters the natural order of the narrative; a flashback may often be the entire film; it takes the story order back chronologically in time to a previous or ...
dubbing
Cinema; Filmmaking
The technique of combining multiple sound components into one. The term is also used to refer to automatic dialog replacement of a new language.
magic hour
Cinema; Filmmaking
The minutes around sunset and sunrise, where light levels change drastically and quickly, lending a warm orange glow to earlier shots, and a clearer blue in later minutes that ...
Sub-categories
- Film lighting (258)
- Film studies (294)
- Film titles (259)
- Film types (385)
- Filmmaking (396)