December 1997
Beginner
192 pages
4h 23m
English
The film and television industry has its own vocabulary which itself is littered with abbreviations and slang. The following list is by no means comprehensive but it does contain some useful more commonly heard words and phrases.
| Action | The universal cue command to actors. It is what they want to hear, don’t be afraid to use it. |
| AD | Assistant Director, 1st, 2nd and 3rd. Spanning a range of great responsibility from second in command to dog’s body. |
| Anti-flare | Aerosol spray used to dull reflective surfaces. |
| Aperture | The iris which controls the amount of Sight that strikes the film or electronic chip. |
| Aspheron | Supplementary lens providing relatively undistorted extreme wide angle (as long as you don’t pan). ... |
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