Talent - A general, informal term for actors and extras.
Talkie - An early term for a film with sound and especially recorded spoken dialogue. It is typically used today to make a distinction between silent and sound films made in the late 1920's and early 1930's when sound films establishing their marketplace dominance.
Tape Recorder Operator - Also known as a sound recordist, a tape recorder operator is a member of the sound crew responsible for operating the audio recording equipment on a set.
Teaser Trailer - A short trailer that is generally released many months before a movie is actually released, to give a brief peek at what the movie will be like, and to build audience anticipation. Teaser trailers are usually much shorter than the final trailer, which reveals more of the storyline of the film.
Technical advisor / Consultant - A person with expertise in a particular field who provides advice for the production.
Telecine - The process of transferring moving images from film to a video signal, including frame rate and colour corrections. Also the equipment or facility used to do it.
Teleplay - A script written to be produced for television.
Television movie (TV movie / Telepic) - A feature - length movie funded by a TV network, intended to be premiered on television.
Television Series Pilot - A TV series episode for a proposed television series which is produced for the benefit of the production company, TV network executives and/or syndication customers. The purpose behind is to show the prospective customers how a series' premise and characters would typically be presented to an audience.
Television Special - Or just special. A television production of a singular event, such as an awards show or concert as opposed to a regularly scheduled series. Contrast with series and a television movie.
Television Spot / Commercial / Advertisement - A brief advertisement or public service announcement show between TV programs.
Telewriter - A writer who either adapts an existing work for production on television, or creates a new teleplay.
Terra-Flight - A cross between a steadicam and a louma crane, used to steady images of running horses or cars driving over gravel.
THX Devision - A subdivision of Lucasfilm, Ltd dedicated to improving picture and sound for the cinema and the home.
Tilt - The action of rotating the camera either up or down.
Time Lapse (Photography) - A form of animation in which numerous single frames are filmed spaced at a given interval to show a process that would take a very long time to occur for example a flower blooming, or the motion of the stars.
Time Code - Electronic guide track added to film, video or audio material to provide a time reference for editing and synchronisation.
Titleist - A titleist can also be recognised as a title designer, lead titleist or film titleist. The person who designs how a film's title appears on the screen. The manner in which title of a movie is displayed on screen is widely considered an art form. Saul Bass is considered a master title designer.
Topline - To star in a motion picture; this can sometimes include the placement of a performer's name before the title on the credits and promotional items.
Track - A single component or channel of a soundtrack.
Tracking shot - Or tracking is the action of moving a camera along a path parallel to the path of the object being filmed.
Trailer - An advertisement for a movie which contains scenes from the film. Historically advertisements were attached to the end of a newsreel or supporting-feature, hence the name. Doing this reduced the number of reel changes that a projectionist would have to make.
Trainer - Someone who conditions animals to perform various behaviours on cue.
Transportation Captain - Manages the vehicles and drivers needed for location and studio filming. The Transportation Captain does not drive vehicles, but coordinates the onset team of drivers to assist all departments with moving their supplies and personnel.
Transportation Manager - The person responsible for managing drivers and co-ordinating the transportation of a productions cast, crew and equipment from the various locations and sets used for filming.
Travelling Matte Shot - A travelling matte shot is widely more recognised as a blue screen is a
shot in which foreground action is superimposed on a separately filmed background by optical printing or digital compositing.
Treatment - Treatment is an abridged script longer than a synopsis. It consists of a summary of each major scene of a proposed movie and descriptions of the significant characters and may even include snippets of dialogue. While a complete script is around 100 pages, a treatment is closer to 10.
Trilogy - A series of three movies that are closely connected by plot. Often, a storyline from the first film of a trilogy is altered, twisted or modified by the second or third part of the series. Trilogy is noticeably used in famous films such as The Godfather.
Turnaround - A state of limbo that a movie enters after a studio decides to drop it. In turnaround, the producers have a chance to set the project up with another studio or with different talent. In union contracts the time between when someone leaves work and when they start work the next day is sometimes said that they are having a turnaround.
Two-shot - A medium close-up shot of two subjects, usually framed from the chest up.
Animation - A form of filmmaking characterised by photographing inanimate objects or individual drawings frame by frame with each frame differing minutely from the previous frame. When these images are projecting at the standard speed of twenty-four frames per second the images appear to move.
Auteur - Auteur is french for author. It has been used by critics writing for Cahiers du cinema and other journals to indicate the figure, usually the director who stamped a film with his/her own "personality". The concept allowed critics to evaluate highly works of American genre cinema that were otherwise dismissed in favour of the developing European art cinema. Auteur theory emphasises the director as the major creator of film art.
Costume - These are the clothes that characters wear. Costume in narrative cinema can be used to signify characters, advertise particular fashions or to make clear distinctions between characters.
Biopic - A biographical film normally about the life of a famous person.
Captions / Titles - These are written labels on the screen. A title designer is responsible for the captions. One of the most famous title designers was Saul Bass who worked on many of Hitchcock's films.
Cinematography - Is the director of photography. The artist is responsible for the lighting of a shot and the quality of the photography in a film.
Diegesis - The narrative elements that are shown or inferred from the content of a film. The diegesis includes objects, events, spaces and the characters that inhabit them, including things, actions and attitudes not explicitly presented in the film but inferred by the audience. The audience constructs a diegetic world from the material presented in a narrative film.
Dolly shot / Tracking shot - A shot taken from a moving vehicle. In the past trucks were laid on the set to permit a smoother movement of the camera.
Editing - The joining together of clips of film into a single filmstrip. The cut is a simple edit but there are many other possible ways to transition from one shot to another.
Movie Buff - A film enthusiast.
Flashback / Flashforeward - A jump backwards or forwards in diegetic time. With the use of a flashback / flashforeward that make the order of events in the plot no longer match the order of events in the story.
Focus - This refers to the degree to which light rays coming from any particular parts of an object pass through the lens and reconverge at the same point on a frame of the film negative, creating sharp outlines and distinct textures that match the original object. "Out of focus" means the image are blurred and lack acceptable linear definition.
Freeze frame - A device which allows you to pause the film and freeze the image.
Genres - Types of film recognised by audiences or producers. Theses types are distinguished by narrative or stylistic conventions.
Mise-en-scene - All the things that are put in the scene, the setting, the decor, the lighting, the costumes and the performance.
Scene - A scene is a segment of a narrative film that usually takes place in a single time and place, often with the same characters.
Script / Screenplay / Scenario - A written description of a film's dialogue and action, sometimes with basic camera directions.
Shot - A single stream of images, uninterrupted by editing: a unit of film in which the camera does not stop filming.
Synopsis - A short description of the main parts of a story.
Teaser - An opening sequence designed to catch the interest of the audience.
Thriller - A film with a lot of action and suspense.
Trailer - A short film advertisement for a film using highlights from the film with graphics and voice-over commentary to publicise the film.
Stunts - A dangerous trick, usually done by a stunt man or woman substituting the actor.
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