Terms
A group of shots that condense time.
What is montage?
What the camera sees.
What is angle on?
An actor should pause before continuing to speak.
What is beat?
An immediate cut to a new scene.
What is cut to?
Describes what is happening in the background of a scene.
What is b.g.?
An event that takes place in one time or location.
What is scene?
A shot that focuses closely on a subject, character, or action.
What is close on or C.U.?
Off screen dialog.
What is O.C./O.S.?
A blackening of a scene followed by lightening to a different scene.
What is dissolve to?
The setting takes place outdoors.
What is EXT.?
One image with many different types.
What is shot?
When the camera moves slowly across something.
What is slow pan?
Direction for the actor to deliver lines in a certain way.
What is parenthetical?
An image gradually disapears.
What is fade out?
The setting is indoors.
What is INT.?
Sounds, character movement, and scene description in a screenplay.
What is action?
When the camera moves quickly across something?
What is whip/swish/flash pan?
The camera shows what a specific character sees.
What is P.O.V.?
When an image slowly appears, usually at the beginning of a script.
What is fade in /fade to?
A shot that shows the location, from a distance.
What is establishing shot?
A voice that is not seen commenting on an the image shown.
What is voice over or V.O.?
An extreme close-up.
What is E.C.U.?
A characters name appears like this the first time they appear or whenever they speak.
What is all caps?
A transition used at the beginning of a slug line to show the scene happened in the past.
What is flashback?
Text at the beginning of the scene that describes the location and time of day.
What is slug line?