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If you are planning to get into the filmmaking industry, it will be important that you know the terms used in the industry before you apply for a job. These terms and the definitions to them will help you be better equipped to start in the industry with a head start.
?A&B Rolls: This term is used to describe the negatives for an edited film. They are two separate rolls of film that are separated into odd and even numbered shots. The A Roll is generally the odd numbered shots and the B Roll is generally the even numbered shots.
?A.D.R.: Automated Dialogue Recording -This acronym is used to obscure that dubbing was used in a film when it appears in the credits. This dubbing can generally be used in addition to Location Sound.
?Answer Print: This is the print that has both the picture and the sound on the same print for the first time. It is sometimes called the First Answer Print because with more corrections there can also be a Second and Third Answer Print.
?Bayonet: This term is used when referring to a type of lens that is generally used with heavy lenses and can be attached to the camera by a mechanism that locks it into place.
?Bounce Card: This is the term used for a white or silver card that allows for light to be reflected onto a person as a gentle lighting source.
?Camera Stock: This is the camera film.
?Contact Printing: This term is used for the method in which a laboratory would copy film.
?Cookie: A flat board that has holes that creates a pattern of shadows on an object when it is put up to a light.
?Dolly Shot: This is also called a tracking shot and is the process of taping a shot from a dolly.
?Dubbing: Recording done in a sound studio after the actual shot is filmed that the actors make lip movements to the words.
?Fade: This can either be a Fade Out or a Fade In. A fade out means that the shot fades to a darker frame gradually and a fade in means that the shot fades to a brighter frame gradually.
?Foot Candle: This is the measurement of light used in the filming industry. One foot candle is equal to one foot away.
?Gauge: The width of the film that is being used such as 16mm.
?Head Room: This term is used to describe the amount of room between the top of the subject of the frame and the top of the frame itself.
?Iris: This is used to describe a valve within a lens that controls the amount of light that is allowed to pass through.
?Kelvin: This is the scale with which color temperature is measured.
?Master Shot: This term is used to describe a usually wide shot that integrates the scene from start to finish.
?M&E: This abbreviation stands for Music and Effects.
?Negative Cutter: This is the person responsible for the assembly of the original negative to be sent to the lab.
?P.O.V. Shot: This abbreviation stands for a Point of View Shot.
These are only a few terms among the thousands that you will need to know in the filmmaking industry in order to understand the lingo and what the directors and other team members are trying to describe.
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