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Filmmaking
Flimmaking is the process of making a film, from an initial story, or idea, through scriptwriting, casting, shooting, directing, editing, and screening into a finished product before an audience that may result in a theatrical release or television program.
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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 vast landscape; ...
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 phrase, line, or ...
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 narrow passageway, and ...
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 past event, scene, 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 allows a crew to shoot ...
