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Terms for subject Cinematography (689 entries)

P&A	Prints and advertising, the major costs of film distribution.
P&A costs	Print and Advertising costs	NataLe­t
PAL	A standard for tv/video display, dominant in Europe and Australia, which delivers 625 lines of resolution at 50 half-frames per second. See also NTSC and SECAM.
pan	The action of rotating a camera about its vertical axis. See also tilt.
pan and scan	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. "Pan and Scan" refers to the technique of chopping off strips from one or both sides of the picture when displaying. The areas chopped off are typically changed on a shot-by-shot basis, depending on scene composition. The main advantage of this technique is that it allows detail to be seen, the disadvantage is that shot composition is sometimes destroyed. Contrast with letterboxing.
Parental Advisory	PA
Parental Advisory Committee	PAC
Parental Lock	PL
pen	To write, especially a script.
PG	A certificate issued by the MPAA indicating that a film's content is suitable for viewing by children, but recommends parental guidance. See also PG-13.
PG-13	A certificate introduced by the MPAA on July 1, 1984 to indicate that a movie's content is rated as slightly stronger than a PG certificate. See also R.
pickups	Movies made by one studio that have been acquired by another. Alternately, any footage shot after production wraps. See also additional photography.
picture Car	A vehicle shown in a movie.
pipeline	A schedule of movie projects in production.
pixelation	Visual squarelike digital break up that appears on the monitor when playing back a video from a digital medium such as a miniDV or a Digibeta resulting from some sort of corruption of the video. Also, a variant of stop-motion animation where actors are the objects being filmed. The key example is Neighbours.
point of view	A camera angle in which the camera views what would be visible from a particular object's position. The abbreviation is often used in a slug line.
Porn Without Point	PWP
pornographic film	A film in which sex is graphically depicted to a large degree. See also XXX.
positive print	An original light image captured on film. See also negative print.
post-production	Work performed on a movie after the end of principal photography. Usually involves editing and visual effects. See also production.