Basic Film Terms: A Visual Dictionary

Duration: 600 ft.

Creator: Pyramid Films

Complete Record: opening-truck bakes up, man opens trunk, pulls out dolly, makeup person, setting up field shoot, loading camera onto tripod, light meter reading, focus camera, typing film treatment- CU of what’s on paper type of shots, etc., CU storyboards, real-live action of storyboard inter-cut with writers discussing script “The Shot” - shot of two people fighting with foam swords, LS of sword fighting, then MS, then CU, then worm’s eye view, then Bird’s eye, MS actress, MS actor and actress, MS three shot, underexposed sword fighting, overexposed, fast motion, slow-mo, zoom in on face, followed by focus pull on person behind “Lenses”- Screwing on lenses CU on bolex camera (explaining), various shots demonstrating lenses “camera movement” - man panning, shows what he’s shooting, tilt up, tilt down, dolly truck in, truck, boom up, boom down, zoom in, dolly in “Sound” - CU man talking, camera man with sound man holding shotgun and actor, CU slate, CUs men sword fighting, sound men holding shotgun to actress, sound man getting “wildsound”, actors sword fighting, rooster, soundman following rooster “Editing” - girl at workbench, CU cutting film, LS sword fight, writers talking, LS sword fight this goes back and forth (discussing how to edit shots), superimposition of sword fighting and writers talking, editor rewinding film on workbench, edited scene of sword fight (five shots), edited scene of sound man getting sounds (three) two shots (slo-mo) of actor flying via air, 2 shots (frontal low angle) of sword fighter fighting, editor viewing film, CU stopping film with hand on reels, marking point on film with China marker, writers talking sword fighting (with trans, effect) ”Pablo’s sequence” - car drives down road, frontal , 3 people get out, MCU driver, CU woman, MCU her walking away, MS third passenger leaning against car, trucking shot of girl, MCU on driver, men get into car, pull out swords, run up hill, MCU man with sword, reverse shot 2 shot LS, OSS lunge, match cut MS (side) man lunging, back to OSS man falls down, side MS woman walks, picks up sword, zoom in on man she starts to strike, match cut side view of her swinging hitting him he falls (slo-mo), long shot she walks to car, drives off frame