Film Term of the Week
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Film Term of The Week: Short Film
Short Film 1. A short film is any film not long enough to be considered a feature film. No consensus…
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Film Term of the Week: Electrical Lighting Technician
Electrical Lighting Technician 1. Electrical Lighting Technicians (ELT) or simply Lighting Tech., are involved with rigging stage and location sets…
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Film Term of the Week: Digital Imaging Technician
Digital Imaging Technician 1. On digital photography productions the Digital Imaging Technician, or DIT, is responsible for the coordination of…
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Film Term of Week: Unit Publicist
Unit Publicist 1. The Publicist liaises between the film production and the media. They create press releases, in collaboration with…
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Film Term of The Week: Telecine
Telecine 1. Telecine…is the process of transferring motion picture film into video and is performed in a color suite. The…
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Film Term of the Week: Sweat Box
Sweat Box 1. “Sweat box” is the animation industry’s equivalent to rushes, or dailies. Nowadays, when an animated scene has…
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Film Term of the Week: Dailies
Dailies 1. Dailies, in filmmaking, are the raw, unedited footage shot during the making of a motion picture. They are…
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Film Term of the Week: Model Animation
Model Animation 1. Model animation is a form of stop motion animation designed to merge with live action footage to…
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Film Term of the Week: Object Animation
Object Animation 1. Object animation is a form of stop motion animation that involves the animated movements of any non-drawn…
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Film Term of the Week: Stop Motion
Stop Motion 1. Stop motion (also known as stop frame) is an animation technique to make a physically manipulated object…
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Film Term of the Week: Silent Film
Silent Film 1. A silent film is a film with no synchronized recorded sound, especially with no spoken dialogue. In…
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Film Term of the Week: Classical Hollywood Cinema
Classical Hollywood Cinema 1. Classical Hollywood cinema or the classical Hollywood narrative, are terms used in film history which designate…
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Film Term of the Week: Susurrant
Susurrant 1. softly murmuring; whispering. Source: Dictionary
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Film Term of the Week: European Art Cinema
European Art Cinema 1. European art cinema is a branch of cinema that was popular in the 1960s. It is…
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Film Term of the Week: Continuity Editing
Continuity Editing 1. Continuity editing is the predominant style of film editing and video editing in the post-production process of…
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Film Term of the Week: Soviet Montage Theory
Soviet Montage Theory 1. Soviet montage theory is an approach to understanding and creating cinema that relies heavily upon editing…
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Film Term of the Week: Final Cut
Final Cut 1. Often after the director has had his chance to oversee a cut, the subsequent cuts are supervised…
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Film Term of the Week: Director’s Cut
Director’s Cut 1. A director’s cut is a specially edited version of a film, and less often TV series, music…
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Film Term of the Week: Editor’s Cut
Editor’s Cut 1. An editor’s cut (sometimes referred to as the “Assembly edit” or “Rough cut”) is normally the first…
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Film Term of the Week: Major Film Studio
Major Film Studio 1. A major film studio is a production and distribution company that releases a substantial number of…
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