SCREENPLAY
Used to indicate who is talking in a scene
What is Character heading
In Charge of both the camera and lighting teams, generally is the head of creating a 'look' for the film
What is the Director of Photography (Cinematographer)
A shot that frames the head and solders of a subject.
What is a Close Up
A job on a film production is in charge of putting all the shots together.
What is an editor?
What is Gain
The spoken words of on screen characters.
What is Dialogue
An Entry level position on a film set, working under the production department. Job involves assisting the production run smoothy.
What is a Production Assistant
The total amount of light that hits your film or censor, we often say something is Over___ or Under___
What is Exposure
The word for bringing in all your footage and media into an editing software.
What is Importing
When an audio peak is past the digital limit of a software the result with be something distorted with the tips of the audio cut off.
What is Clipping
Found at the start of each new change in location or time, this thing is a useful tool for establishing location and time of day.
What is a Scene Heading
In many ways the boss of a film set, helps create schedules and runs things day off.
What is a 1st Assistant Director
When the background behind an image is blurry. Often used for beauty shots or separating the subject from the background.
What is Shallow Depth of Field
The Start and End Points to a change in an effect or value. (Can include multiple for a series of changes)
What are keyframes
Another word for background sound, and sound of a space. An important element of a built out soundscape and helpful to mask cuts and breaks in continuity.
What is ambiance.
Shorthand for a scene that takes place indoors, or a scene that takes place outdoors.
What is INT and EXT
Helps to secure places to film at and is the lead communicator between building owners and the film set.
What is a Location Manager
Measured in F-stops. The size of the hole letting light pass through a lens is often called an iris or this technical term.
What is Aperture.
When digitally adjusting the transparency of a piece of media you are adjusting THIS property in your effects tab of Premiere.
What is Opacity
While it can happen naturally, we do this sometimes digitally to distort the quality of an audio recording, perhaps making the sound appear to come from a different space like a large hall, or tunnel.
What is reverb.
A note or particular direction on how a line of dialogue should be delivered by a character. (Should usually be used sparingly)
What is a Parenthetical
The creative lead for the art departments including, sets, costume, wardrobe, and makeup.
What is the Production Designer
Placing a lampshade over a bright light bulb in order to soften the quality of the light is an example of this word.
What is Diffusion
This type of Edit extends the image of the current clip over the audio for the oncoming clip causing the timeline to look like a LETTER that the cut is named after. (It's used a lot in Dialogue scenes)
When measuring a waveform what is the distance from the highest to lowest point.
What is Amplitude