cinematography

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Terms for subject Cinematography (689 entries)

intertitles	A title card appearing intercut with a scene. Contrast with subtitles. Commonly used with silent films.
Japanese Adult Video	JAV
jib	The arm of a mechanical crane.
judder	An instability introduced when images sampled at one frame rate are converted to a different frame rate for viewing. This effect is most noticeable when frames are repeated or deleted in order to obtain slow motion or fast motion. See also motion artifact.
jump cut	A cut involving an interruption to the continuity of time, where the image in a shot closely matches the image of the previous shot.
Just As Funny Offstage	JAFO
key	A general adjective denoting importance.
key grip	The key grip works closely with the director of photography and the gaffer to sculpt the desired look of a film by diffusing and cutting the light. The key grip is also in charge of camera movement whether on a dolly, camera crane or mounted on the hood or bumper of a vehicle.
kickoff	The start of production or principal photography.
Larry Brown	LB
layout artist	A person responsible for staging every shot and plotting the action that will take place within each scene, whether it be live action or CGI-based.
layouts	A person responsible for working out the action before filming begins, including where the characters should be, and the camera angles.
lead character technical director	Oversees the work of a team of character technical directors, partners closely with the Lead Artist to address all issues related to the creation of animated film and/or game characters. Responsible for setting and maintaining the aesthetic and technical quality bar for the character creation team.
lead role	The most important character in a movie, often distinguished by gender.
leadman	Member of the art department who is in charge of swing gangs and/or set dressers and reports to the set decorator.
Leatherface	A fictional character in the "The Texas Chainsaw Massacre" movies.	xlator
legal services	An attorney or a law firm which is responsible for a broad range of legal services related to filmmaking (film, television, music, digital media and entertainment) including, but not limited to the counseling, drafting and negotiation of subscription and investment agreeemnts, development and production agreements, cast (actor) and crew agreements, distribution agreements, and other related agreements, as well as intellectual property concerns.
legs	Of a movie: continuing to return large box-office figures.
lens	an optical device used by a camera to focus an image onto film stock or image sensor.
letterboxing	As the aspect ratio of movies are rarely the same as the aspect ratio of a television screen, when showing movies on TV it is necessary to make sacrifices. "Letterboxing" is a video mastering process whereby a film source with an aspect ratio greater than that of the video master (4:3 for NTSC/PAL and 16:9 for HDTV) is transferred to the video master in such a way that no film image is cut off to the left or the right, requiring the addition of (usually) black bars at the top and at the bottom of the image so that it entirely fills the screen--in other words, the technique of shrinking the image just enough so that its entire width appears on screen, with black areas above and below the image. The advantage of this technique is that the film images are shown as originally intended by the film's creators, not interfering with their shot composition and artistic intentions. The disadvantage is that the entire image must be shrunk, which makes viewing on smaller TVs more difficult. Contrast with pan and scan (for DVD, also anamorphic widescreen)

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