Film Term of the Week
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Film Term of the Week: Music Editor
Music Editor 1. The music editor is a type of sound editor in film or other multimedia productions (e.g. video…
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Film Term of the Week: Film Treatment
Film Treatment 1. A film treatment (or treatment) is a piece of prose, typically the step between scene cards (index…
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Film Term of the Week: Establishing Shot
Establishing Shot 1. An establishing shot in filmmaking and television production sets up, or establishes the context for a scene…
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Film Term of the Week: Independent Film
Independent Film 1. An independent film is a professional film production resulting in a feature film that is produced mostly…
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Film Term of the Week: Film Editing
Film Editing 1. Film editing is part of the creative post-production process of filmmaking. The term film editing is derived…
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Film Term of the Week: Aerial Shot
Aerial shot 1. A shot taken from a plane, helicopter or a person on top of a building. Not necessarily…
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Film Term of the Week: Scriptment
Scriptment 1. A scriptment is a written work by a movie or television screenwriter that combines elements of a script…
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Film Term of the Week: Step Outline
Step Outline 1. A step outline (more commonly called a beat sheet) is a detailed telling of a story with…
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Film Term of the Week: Storyboard Artist
Storyboard Artist 1. A Storyboard artist (sometimes referred as story artist) is a profession specialized in creating storyboards for advertising…
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Film Term of the Week: Distribution
Distribution 1. This is the final stage, where the film is released to cinemas or, occasionally, to consumer media (DVD,…
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Film Term of the Week: Pitch
Pitch 1. a concise verbal (and sometimes visual) presentation of an idea for a film or TV series generally made…
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Film Term of the Week: Film Screening
Film Screening 1. the displaying of a motion picture or film, generally referring to a special showing as part of…
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Film Term of the Week: Film Release
Film Release 1. A film release refers to the authorization by the owner of a completed film to a public…
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Film Term of the Week: Guerrilla Filmmaking
Guerrilla Filmmaking 1. Guerrilla filmmaking refers to a form of independent filmmaking characterized by low budgets, skeleton crews, and simple…
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Film Term of the Week: Casting Call
Casting Call 1. In the performing arts, casting (or casting call) is a pre-production process for selecting a cast (a…
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Film Term of the Week: Movie Projector
Movie Projector 1. A movie projector is an opto-mechanical device for displaying motion picture film by projecting it onto a…
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Film Term of The Week: Screenwriting
Screenwriting 1. Screenwriting, also called script-writing is the art and craft of writing scripts for mass media such as feature…
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Film of the Week: Filmmaking
Filmmaking 1. Filmmaking (often referred to in an academic context as film production) is the process of making a film.…
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Film Term of the Week: Subtitles
Subtitles 1. textual versions of the dialog or commentary in films, television programs, video games, and the like, usually displayed…
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Film Term of the Week: Sound-on-film
Sound-on-film 1. Sound-on-film refers to a class of sound film processes where the sound accompanying picture is physically recorded onto…
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