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Comprehensive glossary of filmmaking terms, concepts, and techniques.

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All light already present in a location -- natural or artificial -- used without adding any film lighting equipment.

A documentary filmmaking style that uses lightweight equipment and minimal intervention to capture spontaneous, unscripted reality.

A 1995 Danish filmmaking manifesto demanding stripped-down production: handheld cameras, natural light, location sound, and no genre conventions.

The period when the sun is low on the horizon, producing warm, directional, long-shadow natural light.

A film made with minimal budget and crew, often without official permits, using unconventional and resourceful production methods to reduce costs.

A numerical measure of a camera sensor's sensitivity to light, forming one part of the exposure triangle.

A fiction film or series shot in documentary style to satirise its subject or the documentary form itself.