Index of motion picture–related articles

Articles related to the field of motion pictures include:

0–9

180-degree rule – 3D film – 3Delight –

– – – 16 mm film – – 70 mm film –

A

Aa–Am

A and B editing –

– Aberration in optical settings – – Academy Awards – Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences – Accelerated montage – – – Acting – – Action axis – Actor – – Actuality film – Adobe After Effects – – Adobe Premiere Pro – AVS Video Converter – AVS Video Editor – Aerial image – – Aliasing – Alliance Atlantis – – Ambient light – American Cinema Editors – American Federation of Television and Radio Artists – American Film Institute – American Indian Film Festival – American National Standards Institute – American night – American Society of Cinematographers – American shot

An–Az

– – Angle plus angle – Angular resolution – Animation – Animation camera – Animation director – Animator – Anime – Answer print – Anti-aliasing filter – Apparatus theory – Aperture – – Arc lamp – Arri – – – – Arriflex D-20 – Art department – Art director – Art film – – ASA – ASA speed rating – Aspect ratio (image) – Assistant director – – – – Autoconform – Autodesk – Autoethnography – Autofocus – – Available light – Avar – Avid Technology – Axial cut – –

B

– – Backlot – Background light – – Bailin bracket – Balloon light – – – Bayer filter – Beat (filmmaking) - – Best boy – Beta movement – – – – Black-and-white – Blaxploitation – Bleach bypass – Blocking – Bluescreen – – – Body makeup artist – Bolex – – Boom operator – – – – – Breathing (lens) – Brightness (lighting) – British Academy of Film and Television Arts – British Board of Film Classification – British Independent Film Awards – British Film Institute – Broadside (lighting) – Bronson Canyon – Burnt-in timecode – Butterfly (lighting)

C

Ca–Cm

– – Callier effect – Cameo lighting – – Cameo shot – Camera angle – – Camera boom – – – – Camera magazine – Camera operator – Camera shot – Canadian pioneers in early Hollywood – Candles per square foot – Cannes Film Festival – – Casting – Casting couch – Catering – Celluloid Closet – Celluloid ceiling – – Changing bag – Character animation – Charisma – Chiaroscuro – Choker shot – Chroma key – Chromatic aberration – Chronophotography – Cinelerra – Cinema 16 – CinemaDNG – – – – Cinematheque – Cinematic techniques – Cinematographer – Cinematography – Cinéma vérité – Cineon – CinePaint – Cinerama – Circle of confusion – – Clapperboard – Clapper loader – Close shot – Close-up – Closed captioning – Closing credits

Cn–Cz

Cold open – Color conversion filter – Color corrected fluorescent light – Color correction – Color gel – Color grading – Color rendering index –

– – Columbia Pictures – Compositing – Composition – Computer-generated imagery – Continuity – Continuity editing – – Cooke triplet lens – Costume design – Costume designer – – Costume supervisor – Costumer – – Crane shot – Crashbox – Creative Artists Agency – Creative geography – – Cross lighting – Cross-dressing in film and television – Cue (theatrical) – Cult film – Cutaway – Cut in –

D

– – Dance film – Day for night – Deadspot (lighting) – Deep focus – Depth of field – Depth-of-field adapter – – Development hell – Dialogue editor – Dichroic lenses – – Diffraction – Diffuser (lighting) – Digital audio – Digital audio tape recorder – Digital audio workstation – Digital cinema – Digital Cinema Initiatives – Digital cinematography – Digital compositing – – – Digital image processing – Digital intermediate – Digital Light Processing – – Digital projection – – Digital video – Digital Visual Interface – Digital zoom – Dimmer (lighting) – – – – Director's cut – Directors Guild of America – – – Docudrama – Documentary film – Dolby Digital – Dolly grip – – Dolly zoom – Double-system recording – Douser (lighting) – – – Dream sequence – DreamWorks – DreamWorks Animation – – – Dutch angle – DV – DVD – Dynamic composition – Dykstraflex –

E

– – Edit decision list – Editor's cut – Effects light – Electrotachyscope – – Ellipsoidal reflector spot light – – Entertainment law – – Establishing shot – Evangelion shot – Executive producer (motion picture) – – Exposure latitude – – – Extreme close-up shot – – – Eyepiece –

F

Fade-in –

– Fan film – Fast cutting – – Feminist film theory – Field of view – Fill light – Film – Film Academy – Film colorization – Film crew – – Film criticism – Film director – Film distributor – Film editing – – Film festival – Film format – Film gate – Film genre – – Film leader – Filmmaking – – Film noir – Film-out – Film plane – Film preservation – – Film producer – – – Film recorder – – Film scanner – Film school – Film score – Film speed – Film stock – Film styles – – Film theory – – Film treatment – – – – Final cut privilege – Final Cut Pro – Fine cut – First National Pictures – Fisheye lens – Flange focal distance – Flashing arrow – Flatbed editor – Flicker fusion threshold – F-number – Focal length – Focus (optics) – Focus puller – Focusing screen – – Follow focus – Follow shot – – Forced perspective – Foreshadowing – Formalist film theory – – Fourth wall – – Frame composition – Frame rate – Frazier lens – – French hours – – Fresnel lantern – Fresnel lens – – Full frame –

G

– Gaffer tape – – – – Genres – – Gobo (lighting) – Go motion – Godspot effect – Golden Globe Awards – Greenlight – Greensman – –

H

Hand-held camera – Hard light –

– Heterodiegetic – High-angle shot – High camera angle – High Definition – High-intensity discharge lamp – High-key lighting – – – – Hollywood accounting – Hollywood cycles – Hollywood North – HandBrake – The Hollywood Reporter – Home video – Horror film – – Hyperfocal distance –

I

– – IMAX – iMovie – In-camera effect – Independent film – – – – Intelligent lighting – Interlace – Intermittent mechanism – – Interruptible foldback – Intertitle – Iris-in/ Iris-out – Iso-elastic – Italian neorealism –

J

Jaggies – Jib – Jump cut – Juxtaposition (editing) –

K

Key costumer – Key grip – Key light –

– Keykode – Kinemacolor – Kinetoscope – Kino-Pravda – Kinopanorama – Klieg light – – –

L

L cut (split edit) –

– Lead space – Lekolite – – Lens flare – Lens hood – Letterboxing – Light meter – Light reflector – Lighting technician – Lighting – Lighting control console – Lighting design – – Lightworks – Limato, Ed – Line producer – Linear filter – Linear timecode – Linear video editing – – – Live soundtrack – Location – Location manager – Location scouting – Location shooting – Log line – – Long take – Low-angle shot – Low-key lighting – Lucasfilm – Lucasfilm Animation – Lumapanel –

M

Machinima – Magic lantern – Make-up artist – Make-up call – Marxist film theory – Master shot – Match cut – Match moving – Matte –

– – Medium shot – Medium-long shot – Method acting – – Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer – Microphone – Microphone boom – – MIDI timecode – Mini35 – – Mixing console – Mockumentary – – Mood lighting – Motion blur – Motion capture – – Motion Picture Association – Motion Picture Association – Canada – – Motion picture continuity – Motion picture distribution – Motion picture editing – – – – Movie projector – Movie star – – Movie theater – – Movietone sound system – Moving light – Moviola – – – Multiplane camera – Music editor – Music supervisor – Musical film

N

Narrative film – Narrativity – National Association of Theatre Owners – National Film Board of Canada – National Film Preservation Board – National Film Registry –

– Negative cutting – Negative pickup deal – Neo-noir – Neorealism – – Newsreel – – – Night for night – Nitrocellulose – Noise reduction – Non-diegetic insert – – Normal lens –

O

Oblique camera angle – Offline editing – Oktoskop – On Location – One-light –

– OpenEXR – – Opening credits – – – Optical printer – – Original camera negative – Orphan film – Outtake

P

– Pan and scan – Pan shot – Panavision – – – Paramount Pictures – – Persistence of vision – – Phi phenomenon – Photographic film – – Photometry – Pinnacle Liquid Edition – Pinnacle Studio – – Pinscreen animation – Pitch – Pixar – Pixilation – Plot development (motion picture) – – – Pool hall lighting – Pop filter – – Post-production – PowerAnimator – Practical effects – Practical lighting – Praxinoscope – Premium Picture Productions – Pre-production – Principal photography – Producer – Producers Guild of America – Production assistant – – Production company – Production design (motion picture) – Production designer – Production sound mixer – – Progressive scan – Proof of concept – Propaganda film – – Property master – Psychoanalytic film theory – Publicist – PV mount –

R

– – Reaction shot – Read-through – Re-can – Recording mixer – Redress – Reflected light – Refractive index – Reframing – Remake – Rembrandt lighting – Rendering – Re-recording mixer – – Reversal film – Reverse-angle shot – RGB color model – – Rostrum camera – Rotary disc shutter – Rotoscoping – Rough cut – Rule of thirds – Runaway production – – Rushes log

S

Sa–Sm

Scene axis – Scene lighting – Scoop lights – Screen Actors Guild – Screen direction – Screen test – Screenplay –

– Screenwriter – Screenwriting – Screenwriting software – – – Scrim (lighting) – Script – Script breakdown – Script doctor – – Second unit – Secondary animation – Sellmeier equation – – – – Set (film and TV scenery) – Set construction – Set costumer – Set decorator – Set dresser – Shake (software) – Shallow focus – Shaw Brothers Studio – Shooting ratio – Shooting script – Short end – Short film – – – – Shutter speed – Silent film – Simultaneous release – – Skywalker Sound – Slit-scan – Slow cutting – Slow motion – SMPTE – SMPTE color bars –

Sn–Sz

Snoot (lighting) – Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers –

– – – – Sound dissolve – Sound editor – – Sound effects editor – – – – Sound stage – Soundtrack – – Star Wars – Special effects – Specular light – – Spotlight (lighting) – Spydercam – Stage combat – Stage lighting – Stage lighting instrument – Stand-in – Standoff – Step outline – Stereoscopy – Stock footage – Stop motion – – Striplight – Strobing effect – Structuralist film theory – – Stuntmen's Association of Motion Pictures – Subjective camera angle – – Sundance Institute – Sungun lamp – – Surround sound – Suspension of disbelief – Swing gang – Sync-coding – – Sync sound –

T

Talkies –

– Tally light – Technical achievement – Technicolor – Technirama – Techniscope – Telecine – Teleconverter – – – – Test screening – Three-point lighting – Tight shot – Tilt – – Title sequence – – – Toronto International Film Festival – Tracking shot – – – Transition focus – Transitional effect – Treatment – Trilogy – Trucking shot – Tungsten fresnel light – Tungsten open face light – –

U

– – Utilitarian lighting – Utility sound technician –

V

Varicam – Variety – Venice Film Festival – Vertical interval timecode – Video – Video assist – Video tap – Viewfinder – Vignetting – Vinegar syndrome –

– VistaVision – Visual effects – Vitascope – – Voice director

W

Walla – Walt Disney Company – Wardrobe attendant – Wardrobe design – Wardrobe designer – Warner Brothers – WGA screenwriting credit system – Wide-angle lens – Widelux – Widescreen – Wipe –

– Wire removal – Wireless microphone – – Workprint – Writers Guild of America –

X

Xenon arc lamp –

– –

Z

– Zen filmmaking – Zoetrope – Zoom lens – Zoopraxiscope –

See also

• Outline of film