Gear and Equipment
This key piece of equipment holds up grip and electric gear.
What is a C-stand?
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What is a Century stand?
The older alternative to LED lights, which covers a wider swath of the light spectrum.
What is tungsten?
This murderer helped invent the moving image through his work photographing horses.
Who is Eadweard Muybridge?
This film featured the first synchronized sound in movie history.
What is "The Jazz Singer?"
This German poet proposed the first form of color theory which prioritized the emotional impact of various colors.
Who is Goethe?
This word is called when carrying unwieldy objects across a set to alert others of the potential obstacle.
What is "points?"
The currently popular style of lighting characterized by flat, bright, even light.
What is "Netflix lighting?"
This Indigenous filmmaker went on from his breakout Sundance hit to direct most of "Dark Winds"
Who is Chris Eyre?
These dialogue cards were used to convey characters' lines during the silent era.
What are intertitles?
This aspect ratio was used on all 35mm Hollywood films made from 1932 to 1952.
What is the Academy Ratio?
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What is "Academy?"
These words are called before turning on or off a light on set to protect others in the environment.
What are "striking" and "saving?"
What Kelvins measure in a filmmaking context.
What is color temperature?
This silent film director was associated with the early impulse towards fantasy and narrative storytelling in film—and made the world's first horror movie.
Who is Georges Meliès?
These terms distinguish sounds present inside the narrative from those (like voiceovers and most soundtrack music) that the characters themselves cannot hear.
What are "diegetic" and "non-diegetic?"
This term, adopted from French, refers to all the aspects of a film visible inside the frame, including costume design, props, staging, etc.
What is mise-en-scène?
This part of a camera is extremely sensitive to light and therefore must remain covered for its protection.
What is a sensor?
The name/title of the person responsible for designing lighting and running the Electric department on a film set.
What is a gaffer?
These silent film directors were associated with early documentary work and helped invent the film camera.
Who are the Lumiere Brothers?
This audio process indicates sound recorded on a film strip, rather than on a disc.
This technique was used to reframe widescreen movies for viewing on TV by chopping up the frame and artificially moving it.
What is "pan-and-scan?"
This nickname refers to the part of a stand that must be tightened to lock in its position.
What are "knuckles?"
The kind of yellow light used in old streetlights and noted for occupying an extremely small and precise fraction of the light spectrum.
What is sodium vapor?
This Golden Age era director was famed for complex musical numbers that used dancers' bodies to create abstract geometric shapes.
Who is Busby Berkeley?
These Japanese performers would provide character voices live alongside the screen.
Who are Benshi?
These tools were used to confirm color accuracy—but only white models were represented for the first several decades of their usage.
What are "Shirley Cards?'