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Have you ever heard the term "Clapper Board" or "That's a Wrap" below is
a list of the common words used in the movie industry. Become a movie star
and learn them all :)
- A&B Rolls The negative of an edited film, cut to correspond to
picture
- Academy Aperture In 35mm this is the full frame exposed by the
camera
- Academy Leader This is standard countdown leader, counting
down 8 to 3
- A.D.R. Automated Dialogue Recording. This is just Dubbing
- Anamorphic A method of creating a wide screen image with
standard film
- Answer Print This is the first corrected print made from the
A&B Rolls
- Aperture This is the same as the Iris.
- Apple Box This is a wooden box, often helpful on the set to
raise up equipment
- Arm A metal rod that is attached to a CStand which can extend
off to the side
- Aspect Ratio The proportions of the frame.
- A.S.A. This is the sensitivity to light of a particular type
of film
- Balance Stripe A second stripe found on 35mm stripe
- Barndoors blinders on the sides of lights that can be used to keep
light from going everywhere
- Barney A quilted cozy that fits around a camera to reduce
camera noise
- Base Film has two elements, base is the clear, perforated strip,
emulsion thin, light sensitive layer
- Bayonet A type of lens mount commonly used with heavier lenses
- Black Leader, It is what the negative cutter uses when preparing A&B
rolls
- Blow Up An optical enlargement of a film from one gauge to
another
- Blimp A fibreglass housing used to encase a noisy camera
- Bolex One of the more widely used 16mm no sync cameras
- Bounce Card A white or silver card used for soft indirect
lighting
- Bracketing The filming of several takes of the same shot
- Cable Sync A somewhat archaic method of sync sound shooting
- The Call This is the sequence of directions that begin a take
- Camera Core A 2 inch Core.
- Camera Reports A form of paperwork used to log shots
- Camera Roll Each roll that you shoot becomes a camera roll
- Camera Stock This is film. It is also called camera stock to
distinguish it from Print Stock
- Camera Tape Cloth tape specifically for use on film shoots
- Cement Splice A type of splice used primarily by negative
cutters
- Changing Bag A double chambered black bag with a zipper
- Clamp Light A type of lighting fixture designed to hold a
screw in light bulb
- Clapper The Slate, or just the two sticks that are struck together
to mark a sync sound take.
- Coaxial Magazine A type of magazine with two chambers side by
side
- Code Numbers Inked on edge numbers, usually added to a work
print
- Colourist The Timer of a video transfer
- Contact Printing The method used by the lab to copy film
- Coverage Used to describe the architecture of breaking down a script
- C.R. Abbreviation for Camera Roll.
- Critical End! What to label your film can when turning it in
at the lab
- Cross Modulation Test the Mixing House will do with the lab for
optimal sound quality.
- Cross Processing A technique used much more by still
photographers
- Crystal Sync Specifically, a way of recording Sync Sound
- C.T.B. C.T.B. stands for Colour Temperature Blue
- C.T.O. C.T.O. stands for Colour Temperature Orange.
- CStand A type of light stand with fixed legs that swing out
- Cue Sheets A road map, of sorts, for the mixer to find the
sounds on your tracks
- Cut 1.: What the director says to end the filming of a shot. 2
- Cutaway A shot, usually a close up of some detail
- Dailies The work print, before it has been edited
- Daylight Balanced The colour temperature of daylight which is
5,400K
- Daylight Spool An aluminium spool holding 100 feet of film
- Depth of Field While a lens focuses on a single plane of depth
- Diffusion 1.: A filter used on the camera to create a soft
focus effect
- Diopter The diopter is part of the view finding system of a
camera
- dissolve A transition between two shots, where one shot fades
away
- Dolly Shot A dolly shot is one where the camera is placed on a
dolly and is moved while filming
- Double Exposure exposed piece of film is re shot with a second
image on top of the first.
- Double System The term double system refers to sound and
picture as two separate elements
- E.C.N. stands for Eastman Colour Negative
- Editorial Sync A set of sync marks on picture and sound that
line up at the same frame
- Edge Fog Exposure along the edge of the film from raw light
- E.I. Abbreviation for Exposure Index.
- Emulsion The thin layer of silver attached to the base
- Emulsion Leader Unlike plastic leader, emulsion leader can be
cement spliced
- Estar Base a brand name for Polyester Base.
- Exciter Lamp A special lamp in the projector used for the
playback of Optical Sound
- Flex Fill A round cloth bounce card mounted on a ring that can
be folded up when not in use.
- Film Cement not a glue, but a chemical that melts and fuses
two pieces of film together.
- Film Speed The sensitivity to light for proper exposure of a
given film stock
- Gel A large sheet of transparent tinted plastic used as a
filter for a movie light
- The Ground glass A flat surface of etched glass in the view
finding system of a camera
- Guillotine A type of tape splicer which uses imperforated
splicing tape.
- Halation is the effect that occurs when the bright areas of an image
appear to softly bleed
- Head 1.: The beginning of a shot or a roll is called the head.
- Head Room The space between the top of a subject’s head and
the top of the frame.
- Insert Shot A close up of some detail in the scene.
- Internegative An intermediate copy of a film
- Interval meter A device that attaches to the camera for
filming single exposures
- Iris Like the iris of the eye, a valve within a lens to
control the amount of light
- Jump Cut Basically, two similar shots cut together with a jump
in continuity
- Lab Roll A large roll (usually up to 1,000 feet) made up of
camera rolls joined together
- Lens Flare. It is caused when light strikes the lens
- L.F.O.A. This stands for Last Frame of Action
- Light leak Stray light that penetrates into a camera
- Lip Sync when sound is not matching the frame
- Loading Booth A small darkroom
- Locked Cut The so called final cut of a film
- Locked Down Shot A shot taken with the pan and tilt releases
- Macro Lens A lens that can be used for extremely close to the
subject
- Magazine An attachment to a camera with one or two lightproof
chambers
- Matte Shot A double exposure that does not meld two images on
top of each other
- M&E stands for Music and Effects
- Mix This is the process of combining all your soundtracks into
one
- .O.S. A shot, a sequence, or a film that is shot without sound
- Moviola An Upright Moviola. Moviola is the company that makes
this machine
- Negative The original film that is used in the camera
- Negative Cutter person who cuts and assembles original
negative to match the edited work print
- NonReflex A camera that does not have a “through the lens”
view finding system
- Nose Room When a subject is in profile
- O.C.N. O.C.N. stands for Original Colour Negative
- 180° Rule states if two people are filmed in a sequence there
is an invisible line between them
- One Light The alternative to a Timed Print
- Optical Printing Basically, rephotographying film frame by
frame
- Parallel Editing The technique of intercutting between two
simultaneous stories or scenes.
- Perf Perforations. The sprocket holes in a piece of film.
- Pigeon This is a heavy round disc with a lighting stud
- Pilottone A 60 Hz (US) 50Hz (UK) reference signal recorded
onto the audio tape
- Pitch This is the distance between perforations along a roll
of film
- Photo flood a high power screw in light bulb
- Pull Down A transfer of sound slowed down from film speed
- Quick Release Shoe The part of the quick release that attaches
to the camera
- Rank A respectable and commonly used brand of Telecine
machines
- Raw Stock Unexposed film.
- Recans Leftover film that was loaded into a magazine
- Reduction Print optical reduction of a film from one gauge to
another, such as 35mm to 16mm.
- Reflex A view finding system in a camera where the image you
see in the viewfinder
- Resolver A device that governs the speed of a tape recorder
during the transfer to mag
- Sandbag bag with two chambers filled with sand
- Scene A scene is really just a single shot
- Scratch running a foot of a roll of film, or a dummy roll of film,
and checking for scratches
- Sharpie A permanent felt tipped marker useful for labelling
- Short ends The unexposed remainder of a roll of film in a
magazine
- Single Perf 16mm film with a row of perforations along one
edge
- Single System refers to recording, editing or projecting sound and
picture together
- Slop Print An un timed black and white dupe print of your work
print
- S.M.P.T.E. Leader Another term for Academy Leader.
- Sound Reader A playback head for reading mag stock
- Tachometer A gauge on a camera measuring the film speed when
the camera is running.
- Take Multiple versions of the same shot are called takes.
- The Taking Lens On a turret, the lens that is actually in
front of the gate
- Telecine A machine for transferring film to video.
- Tie In device for bypassing fuse and electrical wiring by tapping
power directly from the mains.
- Tight Wind used to wind film onto a core and giving it a very
smooth edge
- Time lapse is when single frame shooting is used to dramatically
speed up the action
- Ultrasonic Cleaner sound cleaning machine found at labs to
clean negatives prior to printing
- Underexposure Filming a scene with less light than the
emulsion of the film needs for a correct
- Vault Box A white, flat, square cardboard box designed to hold
1,000 feet of 35mm
- Wild Not sync. A wild motor is one that runs close to 24
frames per second
- Wild Sound Nonsync sound, recorded without the camera running
- Zero Cut A method of negative cutting specifically for blow up
- Zoom Lens A variable focal length lens
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