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Terms for subject Cinematography (689 entries)

development	The process of working on a fleshing out a script, in hopes that it will be greenlighted for production.
dialect coach	A person who helps train an actor in diction and/or the use of accents to suit the character an actor is playing.
dialog editor	Please see Dialogue Editor
dialogue coach	A person who helps train an actor in diction and/or the use of inflections, so that his or her speech fits the character and situation.
dialogue editor	A sound editor who specializes in editing dialogue.
Diegetic sound	A sound that is created by something or someone visible on the screen or whose source is implied to be present by the action of the film.
Digital Cinema Providers Group	DCPG
digital compositing	A technique whereby separately filmed components are combined through digital editing. Contrast with optical printing.
digital compositor	A person who does compositing by digital means (at a computer) as opposed to using (pre-digital) optical or physical techniques.
digital editing	Editing a portion of a movie by digitizing one or more frames and altering them electronically or combining them with other digitized images, and then printing the modified frame.
digital imaging technician	A person who provides on-set quality control, image manipulation & color correction, production continuity, trouble shooting and consultation to assist in fullfilling the requirements and vision of the cinematographer in film-style digital production.
digital theatre systems	A company which has produced a digital soundtrack standard. Competitors include Dolby Digital and SDDS.
digital versatile disc	Digital Versatile Discs resemble audio CDs in appearance, but have a much higher storage capacity. Hence, they can store rich digital media such as video in addition to audio and computer software. DVD was once called "Digital Video Disc" but the name change reflects its wider uses. As a video medium, DVD offers full length feature films to be stored with exceptional picture quality accompanied by high end digital sound, such as Dolby Digital and DTS. Thanks to the huge capacity of discs, DVD movies are often sold with extra features such as the option to view the movie in widescreen or fullscreen, or the option to listen to the movie or director commentaries.
directing animator	The animator responsible for creating the key poses or key frames of an animation.
director	The principal creative artist on a movie set. A director is usually (but not always) the driving artistic source behind the filming process, and communicates to actors the way that he/she would like a particular scene played. A director's duties might also include casting, script editing, shot selection, shot composition, and editing. Typically, a director has complete artistic control over all aspects of the movie, but it is not uncommon for the director to be bound by agreements with either a producer or a studio. In some large productions, a director will delegate less important scenes to a second unit.
director of photography	A cinematographer who is ultimately responsible for the process of recording a scene in the manner desired by the director. The Director of Photography has a number of possible duties: selection of film stock, cameras, and lenses; designing and selecting lighting, directing the gaffer's placement of lighting; shot composition (in consultation with the director) film developing and film printing.
director's cut	Contracts under the terms of the Hollywood Director's Guild usually allow 6 weeks for a director to assemble a cut of the movie without studio interference as he or she would like it to be seen. This director's cut is fully edited and has a synchronized soundtrack. This cut is usually not color corrected or density corrected and may not even have the final music and effects tracks. In more recent times the term Director's Cut has taken on a popular meaning that implies a polished final cut of the movie that the director has complete artistic control over.
directors guild-producer training plan	The Director's Guild of America has various training programs whereby successful applicants are placed in various productions and can gain experience working in the film or television industry.
dissolve	An editing technique whereby the images of one shot is gradually replaced by the images of another.
distributor	The organization responsible for coordinating the distribution of the finished movie to exhibitors, as well as the sale of videos, laserdiscs, and other media versions of movies.