Glossary

Comprehensive glossary of filmmaking terms, concepts, and techniques.

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Avant-Garde

Experimental filmmaking that pushes beyond conventional narrative and form, prioritising innovation, abstraction, and the exploration of cinema's formal possibilities.

ProductionAdvanced

F

Flash-Forward

A scene or sequence that interrupts the present narrative to show events that occur later in the story's timeline.

Screenwriting & DevelopmentIntermediate

Flashback

A scene or sequence that interrupts the present narrative to dramatise events from the past.

Screenwriting & DevelopmentFoundational

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L-Cut

An edit in which the audio from the incoming scene begins before the video cuts to that scene.

Post-ProductionFoundational

M

Mumblecore

A low-budget American independent film movement of the 2000s characterised by naturalistic dialogue, non-professional actors, and relationship-focused narratives.

ProductionIntermediate

N

New Hollywood

The American film movement of the late 1960s and 1970s in which a generation of directors gained creative control and made formally adventurous, auteur-driven films.

ProductionIntermediate

New Wave

The French film movement of the late 1950s and 1960s that rejected conventional filmmaking in favour of personal, experimental, location-shot cinema.

ProductionIntermediate

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Sequence

A series of scenes linked by a common narrative thread, forming a distinct dramatic unit.

ProductionFoundational