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Cinematography
(689 entries)
Voluptuous Beautiful Women
VBW
w.w.
y.y.
Liquid_Sun
walk-on
A minor role, usually without speaking lines.
walla
Background conversation. Historically, when a script called for "crowd unrest" or "murmuring", the extras would be required to mumble the word "rhubarb", as this produced the required effect.
wardrobe department
The section of a production's crew concerned with costumes. Individual job titles include: costume designer, costumer, and costume supervisor.
wardrobe supervisor
The head of the wardrobe department.
Washington Film And Video Council
WFVC
Watch Language
WL
Weak Hit
WH
Web Quality Review Board
WQRB
western
A movie set in the "Wild West" of the late 19th-century United States.
What Bad Taste
WBT
whip pan
An extremely fast pan, incorporating much motion blur. The term refers to the "whipping" action that the camera operator uses to move the camera.
widescreen
A movie which has an aspect ratio which is greater than academy ratio when projected.
wild sound
Scenes that are filmed without the sound being recorded at the same time. Dialog and/or sound effects may be dubbed in later.
Wilhelm scream
Originally recorded as a sound effect for the film Distant Drums in 1951 and named after the character who yelped it out, this distinctive scream was archived in the Warner Brothers sound effects library, and was subsequently used in countless films, first simply as a generic stock scream, and later because sound supervisors and directors used it in their films
(including Star Wars, Indiana Jones, Toy Story and Pirates of the Caribbean)
as a sort of touchstone or homage to earlier films. Though no specific documentation lists the identity of the screamer, sound designer Ben Burtt's research of Warner Brother's recording logs indicates that singer/actor Sheb Wooley is likely the source, as he was one of the bit actors contracted to record sound effects for Distant Drums, and had been known to specialize in yells, laughs, and screams.
wipe
An editing technique in which images from one shot are fully replaced by the images of another, delimited by a definite border that moves across or around the frame.
working title
The name by which a movie is known while it is being made. This is sometimes different from the title with which it is released.
wrangler
A person who is responsible for the care and control of entities used on a set that can't be spoken with. This person is typically a professional, certainly with expertise in handling the item, often with expertise in handling the item on a movie set.
wrap
To finish shooting, either for the day or the entire production.
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