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Film Terminology Glossary

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Day-For-Night
A capture done during that day, that models nightime, using filtration, underexposure, and other methods to make a sensation of darkness.

Deepfocus Shot
A shot in which both the foreground and the background are in concentrate. In other terms, a shot with remarkable detail of field.

Depth of Field
A evaluate of the range along a digital camera's range of site in which objects will be in concentrate. See also aperture, shutter speed.

Development
The procedure of operating on a fleshing out a program, in desires that it will be greenlighted for production.

Dialogue Editor
A sound editor who focuses primarily on modifying conversation.

Digital Theatre Systems
A organization which has created a digital soundtrack standard. Opponents consist of Dolby Digital and SDDS.

Director
The major creative artist on a film set. A film director is usually (but not always) the driving innovative resource behind the shooting process, and conveys to stars the way that he/she would like a particular field performed. A director's responsibilities might also consist of casting, script editing, shot selection, shot composition, and editing. Generally, a film director has complete innovative control over all factors of the film, but it is not unusual for the film director to be limited by contracts with either a manufacturer or a studio room. In some large shows, a film director will assign less important moments to a second unit. Factual Movie(s):Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker's Apocalypse (1991) Fictional Movie(s): Living in Oblivion (1995), Ed Timber (1994), Stop Man, The (1980)

Director of Photography
A cinematographer who is eventually accountable for the process of recording a scene in the manner preferred by the film director. The Director of Photography has a number of possible duties: selection of film stock, cameras, and lenses; creating and selecting illumination, guiding the gaffer's position of lighting; shot composition (in assessment with the director); film developing and film printing. Factual Movie(s): Visions of Light (1992) Fictional Movie(s): Living in Oblivion (1995)

Director's Cut
Contracts under the conditions of the The Hollywood Director's Guild usually allow 6 several weeks for a film director to set up a cut of the film without studio room disturbance as he or she would like it to be seen. This director's cut is completely modified and has a synchronized soundtrack. This cut is usually not shade fixed or density fixed and may not even have the ultimate songs and results paths. In more modern periods the phrase Director's Cut has taken on a well-known significance that indicates a refined last cut of the film that the film director has finish creative management over.

Dope Sheet
A record of moments from the program that have already been shot, or a record of the material of an revealed baitcasting reel of movie stock. An precise dope sheet is the liability of the associate cameraman. See also clapboard, a continual review.

Double
An acting professional who appears in for another acting professional in certain moments, some of which may include risky conditions or need unique abilities (e.g. a stop double). Sometimes human body enhances are used in moments that contact for nudity or intimacy. Comparison with stand-in.

Dutch Tilt
A shot consisting with the horizon not parallel with the bottom of the frame. Used substantially in Batman, and regularly by Orson Welles.