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What are the English abbreviations of film and television terms?

aberration

Due to inaccurate production or artificial damage, the camera head can't focus all the light emitted from one point on the same position of the negative film, which makes the image distorted or out of focus.

absolute film

A film that interprets music with abstract graphics. It was first created by German avant-garde film director Oscar Fesinger in 1925- 1930.

Abstract film ABSTRACT FILM is a film that expresses ideas through film editing, visual skills, sound attributes, color shapes and rhythm design, giving people a sense of freedom and informality.

Film terminology and interpretation

Academic editor

A editing method that carefully follows the development of the movie plot. Its purpose is to reconstruct the whole process of an event and keep the smooth development of the movie plot. Because this splicing method will not attract the audience's attention to the splicing itself, it is sometimes called "seamless splicing" and is one of the most commonly used splicing methods in Hollywood.

College aperture film academy

A film door specification popularized by the American Academy of Motion Picture Arts, which is mainly used for 35mm film cameras and projectors. The aspect ratio of this specification is 1.33: 1. Also known as the academic framework.

Academy Awards [font=Arial]

Awards established by the American Academy of Motion Picture Arts 1972 are awarded to outstanding filmmakers every year. There are up to five nominations for each award. Individual project awards can enhance the value of actors or filmmakers.

Film director of the Academy of Film Arts

According to the standards set by the Academy of Film Arts, a film is connected at the beginning and end of the screening copy ... This guide contains a series of countdown figures, screening records and other information, which is convenient for the projectionist to load and change films. The film guide not only protects the film, but also enables the projector to reach the normal projection speed from the beginning to the first frame before reaching the projector door.

College Mask The Film Academy covers a device planned by the Academy of Film Arts to cover a part of the camera door.

Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences American Academy of Film Art (Taiwan Province) Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (Mainland)

Founded in 1927, its purpose is to "improve the artistic quality of film media, provide universal communication between different departments and technologies in the film industry, promote the representative works of dynamic technology research and cultural development, and pursue its established diversified goals". The college is famous for its annual Oscar.

Academy of Film and Art Standards

Refers to the technical specifications formulated by the American Academy of Motion Picture Arts, aiming at promoting the standardized operation methods of the film industry. Including college framework, college leaders and college masks.

Accelerated montage

Editing technology aimed at enhancing the action acceleration effect in the film. In film editing, accelerated montage is often used to deal with the climax of chasing scenes. The principle is to shorten or skip the picture of every continuous action that has happened, resulting in a visual effect of accelerated rhythm.

American Film and Television Editors Association.

A professional film editing organization in the United States awards the Eddie Award for Best Film Editing every year.

Action action

The oral language that the director ordered the actors to start performing at the shooting scene.

Action cutting performance

For the convenience of shooting, movies are usually divided into independent scenes, and the previous scene often includes the beginning of the next scene to keep the plot running.

Action field performance field

The area that a camera lens can take.

action film

Generally speaking, it refers to movies that create fun with fast-paced actions, such as westerns, kung fu movies, police movies, etc., but it can also include some farce that emphasizes action. The first popular action movie was great train robbery (1903).

actors studio

1947, Yili Kashan, Robert Louis and Shirley shriver set up a training place for professional actors in new york. It had a great influence on American TV dramas and movies in the 1950' s, from which famous actors such as Marlon Brando and paul newman came.

Real voice

In a scene, the source of sound is produced by live performances, such as the chanting of actors and the ambient sound in the street. These are all real sounds.

Realistic documentary

A documentary film, which originated from the early works of the Lucae brothers in France, such as The Factory Is Off Work (1895).

ad lib

There is no adaptation in the adaptation

Put stories, novels, plays or other works suitable for processing through film media on the screen.

Aerial lens

Photos taken from an airplane or helicopter.

Agent broker

A person authorized to speak and make decisions on behalf of others. In Hollywood, agents usually get a commission of 10% and even share the profits of films.

AGIT props political education film

Russian abbreviation for agitation siya-prop ganda, originally intended to encourage and publicize, is a tool to educate the masses and publicize political theories and ideals.

randomizing technique

Refers to all or part of the film content developed by improvisation, without any pre-constructed ideas and forms. For example, the wedding of Rob atman (1978).

Deformed lens

An optical lens that can compress a large range of scenes into a standard picture area. 1927 was invented by Henry Cresian according to China's haha mirror. In the 20th century, Flowserve Company used this lens for the first time when shooting the Millennium robes in 1953.

slur

When movies express ideas, they consciously or unconsciously produce double or multiple meanings, which leads to non-directional references and more complicated and contradictory results. This is called ambiguity. Because this ambiguity is based on multiple meanings, it is sometimes translated as "polysemy". In movies, fuzziness can come from images, plots, clips, sounds and performances, and sometimes it is based on the contrast of these elements. Luigi Pilandello, a playwright, is a pioneer of drama ambiguity, and his representative is Six Playwrights Looking for Writers.

American Film Academy

Founded in 1967, headquartered in Washington, D.C. ... with the purpose of "protecting the tradition of American films and promoting their artistic development".

American montage

1930s, Hollywood in the United States began a splicing technique to express the fleeting time, or a summary of story development. This technology is characterized by using a series of short newspaper headlines to tell the audience what is happening. Such as the film The Godfather (1972).

american society of cinematographers

The trade association was established in 19 19, referred to as "A.S.C" for short, with the aim of "promoting film art", and invites members.

usa standards institute

"A.S.A" for short), the Association began to establish the technical standards for film, photography and television, namely "ASA standards" on 1930. The association changed its name to American Standards Institute on 1966.

American studio era

From the popularity of 1925 to 1960, the films in the cinema era have adopted high-quality technology to enhance their appeal and attract a wide audience. Film production has a high degree of division of labor, and every stage of the film production process is handled by the production line. The typical way is to imitate popular movies, and the narrative conventions and formulas are repeated constantly, resulting in many popular movie types: musicals, police films, westerns, romance films, comedies and dramas.

Relief stereoscopic film

The overlapping of the two images produces a three-dimensional effect, and when the audience wears stereoscopic glasses to watch, they feel immersive. Also known as "3D movies". Animation animation

A film that shoots a plane picture or a three-dimensional object frame by frame to make it have the illusion of motion. Cartoon is the most common animation, including puppet animation, silhouette animation, entity animation and so on. When shooting, an action is often broken down into dozens of pictures, and then shot one by one at the speed of 1/24 seconds per frame.

Animation can be traced back to the continuous murals of wrestling in ancient Egypt and the continuous movements of athletes on ancient Greek pottery. China's shadow play is the earliest animation prototype reflected in twilight with light and shadow.

Animation camera

A camera equipped with a pause motor can shoot a frame. When shooting fashion, it can move vertically on the animation stage to change the size of the shot image or produce scaling effect.

School of violent animation

Comic genre with farce or extremely violent action as the main comic element. This cartoon is a typical work of Dex Avery.

Animation photography platform

Generally speaking, it refers to the basic working equipment used by animation photographers, including an animation camera, a camera bracket and a carefully built platform for shooting animation works.

Animator animation design

The staff responsible for drawing the original painting in an animated film.

Print corrected copy of answers

The first audio copy printed from the edited original film is used to answer the producer's doubts about the final appearance of the film.

Antagonistic villain;

A role or force in a film or drama that is opposed to the protagonist and causes dramatic conflicts in the plot. For example, Darth Vader in Star Wars (1977) and the original environment in the northern South Nuuk (1922). Wear-resistant protective film

A film is used to protect the film from scratches or other damage in the production process.

Anticlimax

When the conflict was finally resolved in the film, there was no plot design effect that the audience expected and disappointed. For example, in the detective classic Sleeping (1946), no one knows who the murderer is from beginning to end, which is an anti-climax technique.

Antihero

A role in a film, play or novel. They are sympathetic, but they appear as non-heroes, and usually take an indifferent, angry and indifferent attitude towards society, politics and morality. Dustin hoffman in The Graduate (1967) and Woody Allen in annie hall (1975) are typical anti-heroes in modern comedies.

Aperture camera or projector

The frame opening behind the lens that meets the negative specification. When shooting or showing, every frame passes through this place and stops before leaving, fully exposed or shown. Also known as picture gate.

Draw a movie.

A term derived from the United States 1930 s, used to refer to one of the two films released at the same time with better quality, or one with higher expectations from the audience. Most A-rated films are starring big stars and pay attention to luxurious artistic scenes.

Apple box footstool box

In the early film production, wooden boxes filled with apples were often used to solve the height problem of actors or objects, so the footstool box was called the apple box.

arc light/lamp

Strong light, because the color temperature is quite close to that of sunlight, is often used for outdoor color photography. Arc motion lens

A mirror surface photographed by a camera in a circular or semi-circular motion. This kind of lens can provide multiple visual levels for a scene. Claude Leroche used this lens to capture the warm hugs of lovers reunited at the end of the love between men and women (1966).

Aroma Lama Fragrance Film

A film projection system can emit fragrance to match the plot in the film when it is shown. The earliest film was Song of Broadway (1929).

Art directs art design.

Design and production of film modeling. Through the design of scenery, props and costumes, it is an important part of film art to shape the screen image with artistic appeal, such as screen modeling, local color, spirit of the times, national color and character modeling, and the production designer is responsible for the division of labor in the film.

Artistic director, production designer;

Production designer originally refers to the person in charge of setting design in movies. Recently, he is often called "production designer", responsible for coordinating the overall visual style of lighting, photography, special effects, clothing, props, editing and so on.

Art home art cinema

Refers to the cinema showing non-mainstream commercial films. The films shown in art theaters pay more attention to the quality of the film itself than to its commercial appeal, such as films directed by important contemporary directors, independent films, classic works in film history, and limited pioneer and experimental films. Also known as the Art Theatre.

Art theater art cinema

Refers to the cinema showing non-mainstream commercial films. The films shown in art theaters pay more attention to the quality of the film itself than to its commercial appeal, such as films directed by important contemporary directors, independent films, classic works in film history, and limited pioneer and experimental films. Also known as the art house. artificial light

Lighting relative to natural light.

Aspect ratio The ratio of the width and height of an image projected on the screen. The international standard specification is 1.33: 1, and the widescreen movie is 1.85: 1.

Assembled straight film

In the first procedure of editing, the editor connects the spare shots of each scene into a tape according to the shooting progress. Connected tape is called rough shear copy, which can be used as the basis of fine shear.

Co-producer;

A person who plans to help filmmakers make movies.

Astigmatism astigmatism

The defect of camera lens makes the incident light unable to focus evenly, which leads to image distortion. This phenomenon is particularly obvious at the edge of the picture.

Separation of asynchronous sound and image

Refers to the mismatch between the sound and the image on the film. The main reason is that the sound and picture are not combined accurately, for example, the actor's mouth shape does not match what he said. But sometimes it is deliberately done for special purposes.

Asynchronous sound

Camera motion

Refers to the motion of a movie camera, the purpose of which is to follow an action or change the presentation of the scene, person or object being photographed.

camera bellows

A sealed box has a small hole on one side, and the scenery outside the box passes through the small hole, forming an opposite reflection on the completely dark inner wall of the box. This is the earliest form of camera.

camera operator

Also known as the "second photographer", he actually operates the camera according to the instructions of the director and photography director when shooting.

Photography speed

Refers to the speed at which the film rotates in a movie camera, usually calculated in frames per second (fps). The normal shooting speed is 24 frames per second.

camera operator

A general term for people who operate movie cameras. Sometimes it means "director of photography".

Candeira candlelight

A unit of luminous intensity.

take a photo without permission

A method of shooting refers to shooting real people in real situations, and the photographer does not know that someone is shooting them. For example, The Story of Qiu Ju.

the Cannes Film Festival

Cannes Film Festival (Taiwan Province) Cannes Film Festival (Mainland) Cannes Film Festival (Hong Kong) started in the French town of 1948 and is held every May. It has always been in a leading position in international film festivals, and the highest award is the Palme d 'Or. In addition to film competition, it also has the important function of film market screening.

Capitalized title

A title or paragraph in front of a scene or paragraph is intended to explain the plot, arouse the interest and curiosity of the audience, or indicate the passage of time. Now it's called inserting a title.

carbon arc lamp

An arc lamp uses two carbon rods as electrodes to generate an arc through current. In movies, it is used as a lighting source for shooting and showing movies.

Cartoon cartoon

An animated film. See the animation for details.

cassette tape

Plastic box with film or tape. The loaded movies and tapes can reproduce high-fidelity images through standard TV receivers or movie projectors.

cassette tape

Built-in film, which is embedded in the camera box.

throw

1. A list of actors appearing in the movie, or a comparison table of actors and roles in the play.

2. Choosing actors for roles in movies is also called "casting".

Casting director casting guidance

Someone who is responsible for selecting and hiring actors for movies.

The hanging bracket structure in the catwalk grid roof scaffolding studio is convenient for workers to get close to the lamps and recording equipment above the studio.

CC filter is the abbreviation of color compensation filter, which consists of a series of lenses with different colors. It is a necessary accessory to adjust the tone uniformity of the whole film in the printing stage, and is occasionally used in shooting.

Celluloid transparent sheet,

Celluloid is a transparent substrate used to attach photosensitive drug films, usually made of nitrocellulose and other raw materials.

An inspector, a person engaged in film censorship.

Transformation screening

Refers to the process of changing from one projector to another when showing several films so that the films will not be interrupted.

Dressing bag dark bag

An opaque double-layer black bag with two cuffs, into which you can put your hand to load and unload film.

character actor

A role that requires an actor to present a unique role with mature acting skills, usually not the protagonist. Most of the characters are played by actors who are good at performing special types or have a wide range of plays.

Character, characteristics

The fictional characters in narrative movies are different from the actors who play them.

Cheating, please

In order to shoot the same scene from different angles, the relative positions of actors, props and scenery are changed.

Chinese pencil splicing pen

An oil-based pen for editing, which can be recorded in the work copy, is a necessary thing in the editing room, especially when the effect is to be clear.

China trolley obliquely pushes the track.

American studio idiom means that the camera rolls quickly while pulling back, and its push rail tilts towards the subject.

CHOPSOCKY kung fu film

American slang refers to a large number of kung fu movies produced by Hong Kong and Taiwan in the 1970s.

Tighten the mark and pull the mark.

A scratch on the surface of a film is mainly caused by the film being rolled too tightly and the surfaces rubbing against each other.

film-maker

Refers to directors and film creators.

Cinema pure film

An experimental film refers to the early works of the avant-garde movement in Germany and France in the1920s. Oppose the plot and story of the film, and advocate using the characteristics of the film to provide a pure visual and rhythmic experience.