The painful truth about filmmaking is no one or no film school will teaches you everything about filmmaking. A good filmmaker must know A to Z of the Film Direction Technical terms, phrases and definitions. This article will help you to learn about Basic Filmmaking Terms.

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Film Direction Technical Terms and Definition- Part 3

• Fade– It is the gradual change in the intensity of an image or sound, such as from a normally-lit scene to darkness or vice versa, or from silence to sound or vice versa.
• Fast Motion– An effect created by filming a scene with the film running at a rate less than the normal 24 frames per second and then projecting it back at standard speed, thereby creating the effect of moving faster than normal.
• Fish-eye Lens– A type of super wide-angle lens that distorts the linear dimensions of the image, giving it a sense of curvature.
• Focus– It is the amount of sharpness of an image or a particular area of an image.
• Foley– Foley Sounds are reproduced sound effects of everyday objects or movements synced with the visual of the film like footsteps, gunshots, punches, explosions, etc.
• Following shot– A shot in which the camera follows a moving subject onscreen.
• Freeze-frame– An effect in which a single frame image is identically repeated over several frames which gives the illusion of a still photograph in which the action has ceased.

• Handheld shot– A shot taken with a handheld camera which appears unstable and shaky.

• High-angle shot– A shot where the subject is filmed from above to make the subject appear weak and vulnerable.

• Highlighting– The use of beams of light to illuminate selected parts of the subject.

• Insert shot– a shot that occurs in the middle of a larger scene that draws audience attention and provides some specific information.

• Intercut shots– It is a series of shots that alternates between two simultaneous events. For example, shots of two people involved in a telephone conversation.

• Iris– A video effect where an expanding or diminishing circle, reveals or hides an image.

• Jump Cut– An abrupt cut in between a continuous shot, where the onscreen action is noticeably advanced in time. It is often done deliberately to create discontinuity.

• Key Light– The most prominent light source in the frame that has the highest intensity.

• Location sound– It is the ambient sound of the location of the scene which adds to the realism of the scene.

• Locked-down shot– A shot where the camera remains static while something happens off-screen. It is used to create suspense.

• Long-shot– A shot where the camera is placed at a considerable distance from the subject so that it appears relatively small in the frame.

• Long take– A shot of lengthy duration.

• Looping– It is the process of re-recording dialogues by actors in the studio during post-production, matching the actor’s voice to lip movements on screen. It is also known as ADR (Automated Dialogue Replacement).

• Low-angle shot– A shot where the subject is filmed directly from below, to make the subject appear larger than life and more dominating.

Related  Posts;

1. A Complete Glossary of Basic Filmmaking Techniques | Part 1

2.  A Complete Glossary of Basic Film Terms Part 2 (D-E)

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