Post-Production Terms 1
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- timer
- the person at the lab who goes through your film, shot by shot, and selects the printing lights
- shot
- the film exposed from the time the camera has started to the time it is stopped
- Scene
- a single shot
- take
- multiple versions of the same shot
- master shot
- a single shot, usually a wide shot, the incorporates the whole scene from beginning to end.
- Mag Track
- a piece of film that is covered with an emulsion of magnetic oxide instead of silver halides. (Sound recording tape that is the same size as film).
- Mag stock
- Mag track is transferred to stock where it is run on an editing machine in tandem with picture, one frame of picture equaling one frame of sound.
- Contact Print
- made on a contact printer, in which the original film and unexposed print are sandwiched together and are run at a constant speed past a light which shines through the original, exposing the print stock with the same image. Workprints, answer prints, and release prints are all contact prints.
- Cue Sheet
- a road map for the mixer to find the sounds on your tracks during the mix. It is laid out as a grid with each track forming a column and time moving ahead in rows measured in 35mm footage.
- Cut
- the point where the shots have been cut apart
- Cutaway
- A shot, usually a close-up of some detail, or landscape, that is used to break up a matching action sequence.
- Jump Cut
- Two similar shots cut together with a jump in continuity, camera position, or time.
- Dissolve
- A transition between shots where one shot fades out while simultaneously another fades in
- Fade-in
- a transition from a shot from black where the image gradually becomes brighter.
- Fade-out
- A transition from a shot to black where the image gradually becomes darker.
- Heads
- (1) The beginning of shot or a roll. (2) A small, round clamp, usually used in conjunction with an arm on a C-Stand. (3) Tripod head.
- Edge numbers
- Small numbers running along the edge of film, in between the perf in 16mm and just to the far side of them in 35mm. They are photographed onto the film during manufacture and are used to aid the negative cutter in lining up shots in the process of conforming the negative.
- Mix
- The process of combining all your soundtracks into one, with all your sounds blended together at their correct volumes, together with any equalization, filtering, and effecting of the sound to give you the desired result.
- M.O.S.
- \"Mit Out Sound\" a shot, sequence, or film that is shot without sound.
- Optical
- Effects produced through optical printing, including transitions, superimposed titles, etc.
- Optical Print
- Re-photographing film frame by frame in order to make a copy of the print with more possibilities than contact printing. Note: with 16 mm this results in a loss of clarity and added contrast).
- Outtake
- The footage from your workprint that is not used in your edited version. Small bits are considered \"trims.\"
- A copy of another piece of film.