Glossary
Comprehensive glossary of filmmaking terms, concepts, and techniques.
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A
2Aside
A brief remark directed at the audience that other characters on screen do not hear.
Audition
A live performance assessment in which an actor reads or performs material to be evaluated for a specific role.
D
2Dialogue
The spoken words exchanged between characters in a film, written by the screenwriter and performed by actors.
Diegetic Sound
Sound whose source exists within the story world and can be heard by the characters on screen.
F
3Fourth Wall
The invisible boundary between the fictional world and the audience that characters normally do not acknowledge.
Fade
A gradual transition between an image and a solid colour, most commonly black, used to open or close a scene.
Foreshadowing
A narrative technique that plants hints early in a story that anticipate later events.
S
2Shallow Depth of Field
A narrow focus plane that keeps the subject sharp while rendering the background and foreground as soft blur.
Subjective Cinema
A filmmaking approach that presents events through a character's internal perception rather than an objective external viewpoint.
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