Exposure
The amount of light reaching the image sensor, illuminating the image.
What is exposure?
A lens that magnifies the image and compresses the background.
What is a telephoto lens?
To clear the memory of an SD card.
What is formatting or initializing the card?
the main character; the character whose fate matters most
Who is the protagonist?
A part of the script that describes what characters and locations look like, and what happens on screen
What are action lines?
This camera setting determines how long the sensor is exposed for each frame, and should always be double the frame rate for video.
What is shutter speed?
The distance between the nearest and furthest elements that appear to be “acceptably sharp” in an image.
What is depth of field?
The size of an image, measured in pixels
What is resolution?
The person, force or circumstance that gets in the way of the protagonist's goals
What is conflict?
Clapping a clapboard with the film's title, director, and cinematographer written on it, at the beginning of each shot, in order to avoid confusion during editing
What is slating?
This camera setting controls the opening of a lens' iris, measured in f/stop numbers.
What is aperture?
An in-camera effect where you move towards or away from a subject while zooming in the opposite direction, so that the subject stays the same size in the frame but the perception of depth changes.
What is a dolly zoom?
A camera setting used to match the color of the light source so that white objects appear white.
What is white balance?
A part of the story where the protagonist is at their breaking point and must make an "ultimate choice"
What is the climax?
Something the director says after a shot is slated and ready to be acted out
The recording mode that allows you to control shutter speed, aperture, and ISO.
What is Manual Mode?
An in-camera effect where the focus moves from foreground to background, or vice versa.
What is a rack focus?
A measurement of the warmth or coolness of light measured in Kelvin.
What is color temperature?
The events that happen leading up to the climax, where new conflicts arise, questions are answered, and tension builds
What is rising action?
A method of shooting that guarantees a variety of angles; shooting wides first, then moving in for mediums and close-ups
What is coverage?
A graph that measures the brightness of an image by representing the frequency of each tone as a value on a bar chart
What is a histogram? (I will accept histograph even though that's not correct)
A phenomenon in which the background appears to be closer to a subject than it actually is.
What is lens compression?
The main part of the camera which contains the controls, the LCD, the internal image sensor, and the associated circuitry.
What is the camera body?
A type of character who changes, grows or learns throughout the story as a result of what happens
What is a dynamic character?
Something a sound person says to let the director know sound is being recorded
What is "sound rolling" "sound speed" or "speed"?