The Talking Heads
This film is considered the first feature length documentary, the first film where the word "documentary" was coined in 1922 also considered the first film that used "actuality footage" to edit it together to create a story.
"Nanook of the North"
This is how you introduce a character in a screenplay.
CAPITALIZE their name, age, brief physical description.
What the camera sees in any uninterrupted moment. What the camera is actually filming in a given moment after “record” and before “stop record”
A Shot
Loads the camera and maintains film logs and canning of shot film. Also marks and records each shot with the clapper board. Sometimes at the end of a shot, if the board cannot be used at the beginning, the Callper/Loader with invert the board to say “End of Shot”
Second Assistant Camera (Second AC)
What are three main sources of light in 3-point lighting?
A Key Light, A Fill Light, A Back Light
“A method of documentary filming that attempts to capture reality as it unfolds; where the filmmaker observes the subject without interference.”
Cinéma Vérité/Observational
This is the font used in screenwriting
Courier
This is what it is called when subjects are in sharp focus and everything else is out of focus
Shallow Focus
This person controls the crew, telling when cameras should roll, cut etc and controlling crowd action.
First Assistant Director
This is the name of the cable used to connect a shot gun mic to the recording source.
XLR
a subgenre of documentary filmmaking in which the filmmaker is included in the film's narrative and directly interacts with the film's subjects. In this type of documentary form, the filmmaker may appear in front of the camera during an interview, be heard as voiceover behind the camera, and can even appear on camera without any other subjects. The effect of the filmmaker's presence may be minimal, or it may be a major influence on the narrative.
Participatory
What you cannot SEE or HEAR. ie background information or deep feelings of the characters.
The name for placement of subjects in a shot & composition
Framing
The person responsible for overseeing practical matters such as ordering equipment, getting near- location accommodations for the cast and crew, etc.
Production Coordinator
the deliberate recording of a space where a scene is being filmed (without interruption or other sounds).
Room Tone
documentary films focus on the filmmakers’ involvement with his or her subject, using his or her personal experience or relationship with the subject as a jumping-off point for exploring larger, subjective truths about politics, history, or groups of people. A cinematographer is often asked to capture the documentary production process, as well as intimate footage that illustrates the direct and often personal relationship between filmmaker and subject.
Performative
is a writer's way to give background information to the audience about the characters and setting of the story.
Exposition
when applied to the cinema this refers to everything that appears before the camera—the sets, props, costumes, actors, and even the lighting. These elements help to express a film's vision by generating a sense of time and space, as well as setting a mood.
Mise-en-Scène
A person who tracks which parts have been filmed, how the filmed scenes deviated from the script; they also make continuity notes, creating a lined script.
Script Supervisor
These are examples of WHAT KIND OF SOUND in FILM
Dialogue - in a scene
Music — piano playing at a restaurant, music in an elevator, a street performer banging drums
Sound effects — explosions, rain drops, car engines, and many, many more
Diegetic Sound
in Russian, literally “film truth.” Coined by Russian documentary forefafather Dziga Vertov who sought to reveal deeper societal truths by capturing ordinary life.
kino-pravda
is the implied, unspoken meaning of a character's words and actions in a story.
Subtext
This angle is tilted to one side.
Dutch Angle
Working under the Director of Photography this person is in charge of the lighting crew, including the Sparks and the Riggers
Gaffer
when person acts out certain sounds in time with something that had already been filmed. This is used especially for sound effects that need to synced up very precisely, such as horses’ hooves, or irregular footsteps.
Foley