{
 "source": "https://peabody.kids/flashcards/film-terms",
 "id": "film-terms",
 "title": "Film Terms",
 "category": "arts-music",
 "subject": "Film",
 "levels": [
  "6-8",
  "9-12",
  "adult"
 ],
 "description": "Camera shots, editing, jobs on a movie set and film history.",
 "tags": [
  "film",
  "movies",
  "camera shots",
  "editing"
 ],
 "frontLabel": "Term",
 "backLabel": "Meaning",
 "cards": [
  [
   "Close-up",
   "A shot showing a face or object up close"
  ],
  [
   "Extreme close-up",
   "A shot of a very small part, like an eye"
  ],
  [
   "Medium shot",
   "A shot of a person from the waist up"
  ],
  [
   "Long shot (wide shot)",
   "A shot showing the whole person and their surroundings"
  ],
  [
   "Establishing shot",
   "A wide shot showing where a scene takes place"
  ],
  [
   "Over-the-shoulder shot",
   "A shot from behind one person looking at another"
  ],
  [
   "Point-of-view (POV) shot",
   "A shot seen through a character's eyes"
  ],
  [
   "Pan",
   "Turning the camera left or right from a fixed spot"
  ],
  [
   "Tilt",
   "Moving the camera up or down from a fixed spot"
  ],
  [
   "Zoom",
   "Changing the lens to get closer or farther"
  ],
  [
   "Dolly shot",
   "Moving the camera on a wheeled cart"
  ],
  [
   "Tracking shot",
   "The camera follows a subject as it moves"
  ],
  [
   "Crane shot",
   "A camera on a crane moving high or low"
  ],
  [
   "Aerial shot",
   "A shot from high in the air, often by drone"
  ],
  [
   "High angle",
   "The camera looks down, making subjects seem small"
  ],
  [
   "Low angle",
   "The camera looks up, making subjects seem powerful"
  ],
  [
   "Eye-level shot",
   "The camera at the actor's eye height"
  ],
  [
   "Dutch angle",
   "A tilted camera that makes a scene feel uneasy"
  ],
  [
   "Frame",
   "One single image in a film"
  ],
  [
   "Frame rate",
   "How many pictures are shown per second; film is usually 24"
  ],
  [
   "Cut",
   "A change from one shot to another"
  ],
  [
   "Fade",
   "A shot slowly changing to or from black"
  ],
  [
   "Dissolve",
   "One shot slowly blending into another"
  ],
  [
   "Montage",
   "A series of short shots joined to show time passing or ideas"
  ],
  [
   "Flashback",
   "A scene showing an earlier time"
  ],
  [
   "Foreshadowing",
   "A hint about what will happen later"
  ],
  [
   "Slow motion",
   "Action shown slower than real life"
  ],
  [
   "Time-lapse",
   "Many pictures over a long time shown quickly"
  ],
  [
   "Voice-over",
   "A narrator's voice heard over the pictures"
  ],
  [
   "Soundtrack",
   "The sound and music of a film"
  ],
  [
   "Score",
   "The music composed for a film"
  ],
  [
   "Sound effects",
   "Added sounds like footsteps or doors"
  ],
  [
   "Foley",
   "Sound effects made live by artists, matched to the action"
  ],
  [
   "Dialogue (film)",
   "Spoken words between characters"
  ],
  [
   "Script (screenplay)",
   "The written story, dialogue and action of a film"
  ],
  [
   "Storyboard",
   "A series of drawings planning each shot"
  ],
  [
   "Director",
   "The person who leads the creative work on a film"
  ],
  [
   "Producer",
   "The person who organizes money and the production"
  ],
  [
   "Screenwriter",
   "The person who writes the script"
  ],
  [
   "Cinematographer",
   "The person in charge of camera and lighting"
  ],
  [
   "Editor",
   "The person who cuts shots together"
  ],
  [
   "Gaffer",
   "The chief electrician on a film set"
  ],
  [
   "Best boy",
   "The assistant to the gaffer or key grip"
  ],
  [
   "Grip",
   "A crew member who moves and sets up equipment"
  ],
  [
   "Key grip",
   "The head of the grip crew"
  ],
  [
   "Production designer",
   "The person who plans the look of a film's sets"
  ],
  [
   "Costume designer",
   "The person who plans actors' clothing"
  ],
  [
   "Stunt performer",
   "A person trained to do dangerous action safely"
  ],
  [
   "Extra",
   "An actor in the background with no lines"
  ],
  [
   "Clapperboard",
   "A board snapped at the start of a take to match sound and picture"
  ],
  [
   "Take",
   "One try of filming a shot"
  ],
  [
   "Scene (film)",
   "A part of the story in one place and time"
  ],
  [
   "Action!",
   "What the director says to start filming"
  ],
  [
   "Cut! (director's call)",
   "What the director says to stop filming"
  ],
  [
   "Wrap",
   "The end of filming"
  ],
  [
   "Special effects",
   "Tricks made during filming, like explosions or makeup"
  ],
  [
   "Visual effects (VFX)",
   "Images added using computers after filming"
  ],
  [
   "CGI",
   "Computer-generated imagery"
  ],
  [
   "Green screen",
   "A green background replaced by another image after filming"
  ],
  [
   "Animation",
   "Making still drawings or models appear to move"
  ],
  [
   "Stop motion",
   "Photographing objects frame by frame as they are moved a little"
  ],
  [
   "Trailer",
   "A short preview of a film"
  ],
  [
   "Genre",
   "A type of film, such as comedy or adventure"
  ],
  [
   "Documentary",
   "A film about real people and events"
  ],
  [
   "Premiere",
   "The first public showing of a film"
  ],
  [
   "Oscars (Academy Awards)",
   "Annual awards for achievements in film, first given in 1929"
  ],
  [
   "Silent film",
   "A film with no recorded dialogue, popular until the late 1920s"
  ],
  [
   "The Jazz Singer",
   "1927 film often called the first feature with synchronized talking"
  ],
  [
   "The Wizard of Oz (1939)",
   "A famous early Technicolor film"
  ],
  [
   "Walt Disney",
   "Founder of an animation studio; Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs came out in 1937"
  ],
  [
   "Toy Story (1995)",
   "The first full-length computer-animated feature film"
  ]
 ]
}