History of Cinema
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delmarsoccer on January 17, 2012
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 Adaption | movie based on a film or novel |
| Ambiguous | uncertain or indefinite subject to more then one interpretation |
| Antagonist | the main adversary (enemy) of the protagonist. (main character) |
| Apple Box | kept out of camera view, a riser for short actors/objects |
| Asynchronous sound | mixing flaw, sound mis-alighned with picture |
| Backstory | background to the story, seen in flashbacks or referred to a dialogue |
| Bath | chemical solutions used to process film |
| Best boy | assistant to the chief electrician, orders and maintains equipment |
| Billing | placement of actors name in the credits according to the box-office power |
| Blocking | planning reharsing actors positions and movements |
| B-movie | one without a top-dollar budget or stars |
| Body double | fills in the close-ups of exposed body |
| Cameo | brief screen appearance by a famous person |
| Caption | a film subtitle or description accompanying the picture |
| Cast | the set of a performers in a film |
| Celluloid | transparent cellulose base for film stock |
| Charisma | great personal magnetism |
| Chutzpah | yiddish slang, for bold, brash self confidence |
| Clapboard | pair of hinged slate boards, filmed at the start of eah take, clapped together for sound/picture synchronization |
| Comeuppance | justly deserved punishment or retribution |
| Computer-generated imagery | images created on a computer often animated and combined digitally with live action |
| Continuity | logical progression from shot to shot and scene to scene |
| Crew | group of people involved in the techanical aspects of a film |
| Cutaway | momentary shift away from main action, then back |
| Dailies | rough print of a days shooting, also called "rushes" |
| Deus ex machina | an improbable character or device suddenly introduced to untangle a plot or resolve a sequence of events |
| Dialogue | spoken lines |
| Dolby | trade-marked noise reduction system, introduction in the 1970's |
| Downstage | part of the set closest to the camera |
| Dream sequence | series of images representing a characters dream |
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