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Terms for subject Cinematography (689 entries)

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.
writer	A general term for someone who creates a written work, be it a novel, script, screenplay, or teleplay. See also Writers Guild of America.
Writers Guild of America	The Writers Guild of America is the sole collective bargaining representative for writers in the motion picture, broadcast, cable, interactive and new media industries. It has numerous affiliation agreements with other U.S. and international writing organizations and is in the forefront of the debates concerning economic and creative rights for writers.
X- Rated Video	XRV
xerography	The technique using an electrostatic process to copy or transfer an image, commonly found in office copiers and used in cartoon production.