Glosario Inglés- Términos Cinematograficos

A
Angle: difference between making level and the object or human figure is filmed.
Argument: History or matter that is the film from an idea or general schematic. You can be original or adapted from another work. The four phases of creating an argument are: synopsis, treatment, script continuity and technical.
Asynchronism: Effect that occurs when not match the visual and sound installation.B
Background: Fund a stage or a backdrop.
Band of effects: Magnetic stripe has to go separate display synchronized to obtain the "master sound", or full band sound or final mix.
Band image: Area containing film frames.
C
Climax: Time of highest interest or excitement in the action of the film, especially dramatic or spectacular tone, which is created before the denouement.
Caterer: A personor company who provides the main meals for cast and crew either on set or on location. See also craft service.
Casting: The process of hiring actors to play the characters in a script, typically done by a casting director, but with some input from a director, producer, or studio.
D
Double speed: Effect that occurs when shooting at a rate lower than normal.
Dolly - back: When the camera movesaway from the object.
Dolly-in: Moving the camera on wheels to a particular object or character. Wheeled camera mount. Names the movements that can be done with it.
E
Extra: A person who appears in a movie where a non-specific, non-speaking character is required, usually as part of a crowd or in the background of a scene. Extras are often recruited from wherever they are available. Contrast withnon-speaking role.
Establishing shot: The first shot of a new scene, that introduces the audience to the space in which the forthcoming scene will take place.
Editor: A person who performs editing (in consultation with the director) on a movie. This term usually refers to someone who does visual editing.
F
Field: visual space that takes the camera from the point of view that is based on theangle and framing.
Flash back: Jump back in time. "return to the past of the character or history"
Filmmakers: A collective term used to refer to people who have a significant degree of control over the creation of a movie: directors, producers, screenwriters, and editors.
G
Go Motion: A form of animation similar to stop motion, but which incorporates motion blur. Ordinary stop motion cannotproduce motion blur as motion only occurs between frames. Robotic models that are moved during the exposure of each frame produce motion blur, and thus are more realistic.
Gaffer: The head of the electrical department, responsible for the design and execution of the lighting plan for a production. Early films used mostly natural light, which stagehands controlled with large tent cloths using longpoles called gaffs (stagehands were often beached sailors or longshoremen, and a gaff is a type of boom on a sailing ship).
Greenscreen: a newer technique similar to bluescreen, however utilizing a key green background. Research showed that substantially better results could be gained by filming on green instead of blue, as effects stock was more sensitive to separating key green from other(foreground) colors.
H
High Concept: Describes a film that includes and/or exploits certain elements (e.g. fast action, big-name stars) in order to attract a large audience.
Homage: A respectful imitation of the work of another director, as a way of paying tribute to another director or movie.

Hot Set: A set where set dressers and prop persons have finalized placing funiture and props forfilming a scene and on which a scene is in the process of being shot; labeled thus to indicate that it should not be changed or disturbed.
I
Ingenue: A young actress. Also, a type of role played by a young actress, generally implying a young, fresh-faced, naive character. studio.
Insert: A close-up shot of an object, often produced by the second unit. The term probably came about to reflect the...