A pan shot is achieved with a camera mounted on a swivel head so that the camera body can turn from a fixed position.
Parallel editing is a technique whereby cutting occurs between two or morerelated actions occurring at the same time in two separate locations or at different points in time.
With Point of View, the audience is, in effect, looking through the character's eye.
Rear projection involves the projection of either a still or a moving picture onto the back of a translucent screen.
A shot consists of a single take. A scene is composed of several shots. A sequence is composed of scenes.
Slow motion is typically achieved by shooting at a fast speed and then projecting at a normal speed.
Sound is the audio portion of a film.
Soundtrack refers to all the audio elements of a film. Dialogue, music, soundeffects.
Split screen is a combination of two or more scenes filmed separately which appear in the same frame.
A steadicam shot employs a kind of special hydraulic harness that smoothes out the bumps and jerkiness associated with the typical handheld style.
Superimposition is when two or more images are placed over each other in the frame.
A swish pan looks like a blur as one scene changes to another. The camera appears to be moving rapidly from right to left or left to right.
A take is one run of the camera, recording a single shot.
A tracking, or trucking, shot is one in which a camera is mounted on some kind of conveyance (car, ship, airplane) and films while moving through space.
Virtual camera movement refers to the creation of the perceptual sense of movement through space by the manipulation of focal length or by more irregular techniques.
Voice-over is dialogue, usually narration, that comes from an unseen, offscreen voice, character, or narrator.
A wide-angle lens has a short focal length, which exaggerates the relative size or objects within field of view.
A shot with a greater horizontal plane of action and greater depth of field is known as a wide-angle shot.
Wipes allow one scene to effectively erase the previous scene and replace it.
A zoom shot is one that permits the cinematographer to change the distance between the camera and the object being filmed without actually moving the camera.