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Terms for subject Cinematography (689 entries)

trainer	Someone who conditions animals to perform various behaviors on cue.
transportation captain	Manages the vehicles and drivers needed for location and studio filming. The Transportation Captain does not drive vehicles, but coordinates the onset team of drivers to assist all departments with moving their supplies and personnel.
Transportation Coordinator	The person responsible for managing drivers and co-ordinating the transporation of a production's cast, crew, and equipment from the various locations and sets used for filming.
travelling matte shot	A shot in which foreground action is superimposed on a separately filmed background by optical printing or digital compositing.
treatment	An abridged script; longer than a synopsis. It consists of a summary of each major scene of a proposed movie and descriptions of the significant characters and may even include snippets of dialogue. While a complete script is around 100 pages, a treatment is closer to 10.
trilogy	A series of three movies that are closely connected by plot. Often, a storyline from the first film of a trilogy is altered, twisted or modified by the second or third part of the series.
Trying To Conceive	TTC
turnaround	A state of limbo that a movie enters after a studio decides to drop it. In turnaround, the producers have a chance to set the project up with another studio or with different talent. In union contracts, the time between when someone leaves work and when they start work the next day, or when someone is receiving compensation for not being given the contractual amount of time, it is sometimes said that they are in turnaround.
two-shot	A medium close-up shot of two subjects, usually framed from the chest up.tframe rate of a camera down, so that when the captured pictures are played at the normal frame rate the action appears to be in fast motion. Historically, cameras were operated by turning a crank at a constant speed; hence "undercranking" refers to turning the crank too slowly. See also overcranking, frames per second, judder.
Ultra Violence	UV
Under Eight	UE
unit production manager	An executive who is responsible to a senior producer for the administration of a particular movie. Unit Production Managers only work on one film at a time. Only DGA members can be called Unit Production Managers. See also line producer.
unit publicist	Member of the publicity department who works on location during the production of a movie. Duties includes working with the residents of the location where the film is being made, as well as setting up press visits and electronic press kit interviews. In addition, the unit publicist assembles the biographical materials and notes about the making of the movie that are later turned into the movie press kit. Unit publicists are itinerant -- they move from production to production and are on the production payroll. They report to the filmmakers and, if the film has a releasing studio, they also report to the publicity directors. Once principal photography is over, the unit publicist moves on to another job.
Universal	Universal Pictures
utility person	The person responsible for various manual tasks, running errands, or performing whatever jobs other members of their crew assign them.
V	An IMDb notation to indicate that a particular title was originally released on video without a screening or being broadcast.
V.O.	voiceover	q3mi4
vertigo effect	A camera technique created by Alfred Hitchcock during his film Vertigo that involves tracking backwards while simultaneously zooming in, making the person or object in the center of the image seem stationary while their surroundings change.
Very Bad Stuff	VBS
VG	An IMDb notation to indicate that a particular title is a video game.