Important Film Production Vocabulary

 

Audio

Black Magic Cinema Camera (BMCC)

Brian Gawlik

Gawlik Room

B-roll

Canon Vixia

Canon T3I / T5I

Chroma key

Cinematic

Clip

Continuity

Copyright

Credits

Cut

"Cut a package"

Director

Director of Photography

Dissolve or fade

Editing

Editor

Effect, special effect, FX

Establishing shot

Event (in FCPX)

Eyeline / Eyeline Matching

Final Cut Pro X (FCPX)

“Fix it in Post”

Formatting

Frame

Frame rate

Green Screen

HD or High Definition

Image

Initializing

Key Light

Jonathan Levin

JVC HM100

Lavalier Mic (Lav Mic)

Library (in FCPX)

“Lock it down”

Lower thirds

Music.

News Room

“180 Degree Rule”

Pre-production

Post-production

Producer

Project (in FCPX)

Production

Rule of Thirds

Scene

Shoe

Shot List

Shotgun Mic

Slow motion

Stand-up

Storyboard

Take

Timelapse

Timeline

Transition

Trim

Sequence

Video Server

Voice-over

White balance

XLR Cable