Joseph's Glossary of Film
Terms
- fade
- a sound or visual effect in which the sound or the screen image gradually changes from
silence to sound or from black to image (fade in) or the reverse (fade out).
- fast motion (sometimes referred to as accelerated motion)
- an action scene filmed at a rate less than the standard projection rate of
24 fps and then projected at the standard rate,
thereby creating the effect of faster than normal motion.
- fast stock, fast film
- film which has a high sensitivity to light and, therefore, is used to film scenes which
are poorly lit.
- film noir
- French phrase meaning "black film"; refers to a genre of film whose subject
matter bleak, usually an urban theme of corruption (e.g., Orson Wells' Touch
of Evil(1958), Ridley Scott's Blade Runner (1982) and
L.A. Confidential (1998))
- filters
- devices used to change the natural quality of sound, light or colour in filming a scene
- final cut also release print
- the edited film which is released to the movie theatres
- fine cut
- a completed edited workprint.
- first cut also known as rough cut
- see rough cut.
- first-person point of view
- viewing the scene from the point of view of one of the characters in the film
- flashback
- a shot or sequence of shots showing action which took place prior to the present time of
the film
- flash-forward
- a shot or sequence of shots showing action which takes place a future time the the
present time of the film
- focus
- the adjusting of the clarity or sharpness of an image by adjusting the lens or light
source
- footage
- a sequence of shots taken by the camera and transferred to the rolling film
- formalist, formalism
- a critical approach to film making which stresses form over content premised on the
assumption that meaning has to do with how the content is presented rather than the
content in-and-of itself (e.g., Louis Bunuel's Un Chien andalou (1928) and
David Linch's Blue Velvet(1986))
- frame
- a single individual picture captured by the camera on the film
- framing
- composing a shot
- frames per second or fps
- speed at which the frames past before the recording camera lens or
projector lens.
- freeze frame
- creating the illusion of freezing a single frame
of a film by repeating the same image over several frames in the film strip
- f-stop
- indicates the shutter opening in a camera's lens which gauges the amount of light
entering the camera and striking the film
- full shot (F.S.)
- full length shot of a person or persons, a shot which includes the entire
person or persons
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