Show:
Equipment
Pre-Production
Production
Post-Production
Finished Film
100
A board with information on it used by the editors to organize footage.
What is a Clapboard?
100
A script written on “speculation” that it will be produced, the opposite of a commissioned script
What is a Spec Script?
100
Slang for the indistinct sound of crowd murmur.
What is Walla?
100
Automated Dialogue Replacement.
What is ADR?
100
A “prologue” shown before the opening credits.
What is a Cold Open?
200
A vehicle used to actually control the car actors are in.
What is a Camera Car?
200
A pre-production film used to test various elements to see how they look on screen.
What is a Screen Test?
200
A small explosive device detonated by the special effects crew to simulate a bullet impact.
What is a Squib?
200
A print of a film where the sound and image are in sync.
What is a Composite Print?
200
The presentation and order of filmmakers (usually actors) in the credits or advertisements.
What is Billing?
300
The adjustable flaps on movie lights.
What are Barn Doors?
300
A contract between an artist and a studio—the studio gets the first option at that artist’s work, if they pass, the artist can take it elsewhere
What is a First Look Deal?
300
Someone approximately the same body size/shape used to help set up camera and lighting of a scene.
What is a Stand In?
300
Cutting back and forth between two scenes happening simultaneously.
What is Cross Cutting?
300
The image is “squeezed” onto film and “un-squeezed” during projection.
What is Anamorphic?
400
A board with specific shapes cut out of it.
What is a Cookie?
400
With the cast assembled during Pre-Production, the script is read through entirely.
What is a Table Read?
400
Actors wear sensors that inform additional CGI.
What is Motion Capture?
400
Two types of machines used by film editors (name one).
What is a Moviola or a Steenbeck?
400
Slang for a movie that has a long and positive run at the box office.
What are Legs?
500
The mechanism that holds the film steady as it passes by the lens.
What is a Gate?
500
A synopsis of a script, usually written in a prose style.
What is a Treatment?
500
Filming at a higher rate than 24fps to achieve slow motion.
What is Overcranking?
500
More than one element shot at different times and combined later.
What is a Matte Shot?
500
The promotion or criticism of a film through audience reactions and casual reviews.
What is Word-of-Mouth?