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Reduction Print

An optical reduction of a film from one gauge to another, such as 35mm to 16mm.

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1.: A metal or plastic spool for holding film, either for projection or editing. 2.: In 35mm a reel is 1,000 feet of film (or usually a little less).

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Reflective Light Reading

A reflective light reading measures the amount of light bouncing off the subject. You take a reflective reading with a light meter equipped with a ho

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Reflector Board or Reflector Card

see Bounce Card.

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A viewfinding system in a camera where the image you see in the viewfinder is viewed through the same lens that is used to photograph the image on fi

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The degree to which one frame lines up with the next is registration. A camera with poor registration will create an image that will gently bobble wh

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Registration Pin

A registration pin is found in the movement certain cameras, such as the Arriflex and the Eclair, and acts to steady the image during exposure.

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This is a print made after the answer print has been approved. It is not retimed, but struck using the same timing as the final answer print. Because

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A device that governs the speed of a tape recorder during the transfer to mag, insuring the sound will be in sync with picture. The resolver uses the

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A type of film and method of processing that yields a positive original. This is the moviefilm equivalent of slide film and processing, in still phot

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A shot from the other side of the previous shot (though preferably on the same side of the 180° Line), such as cutting between two characters talking

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A simple device for winding film, consisting of a crank and a spindle for mounting one or more reels, typically found mounted on either side of an ed

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A type of tape splicer which uses perforated splicing tape. Two models exist: One for straight cuts used for picture, and one for slanted cuts used f

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A recording of the “silence” of a room or any location, to be used to fill in gaps when editing the sound. The silence of a location is really not ve

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The edited film, between the stages of being an assembly and a fine cut.

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The workprint, when it is just back from the lab, unedited, called the rushes because of the rush to see that everything came out alright. Also known

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S.M.P.T.E. Leader

Another term for Academy Leader.

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A cloth bag with two chambers filled with sand, used as a weight on the legs of a light stand for additional stability.

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A scene is really just a single shot. But often scene is used to mean several shots, which is more to do with the word’s origin in theater. It is som

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Damage to a film in the form of a long gouge of either the emulsion or the base. A scratch on the emulsion is pretty much unfixable, since part of th

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A mix with little correction of the sound, that is usually done before the final mix in order to screen the film with all the sounds in place, to det

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A scratch test is done before shooting, by running either a foot or two of the beginning of a roll of film, or a dummy roll of film, and checking for

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A sync recording made under conditions that make the sound useless, except for reference to the sound editor or to the actors for dubbing.

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Sometimes it is useful to separate out all the shots you are going to use before beginning to edit. These are known as selects.

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A permanent felttipped marker useful for labeling the cans of exposed rolls out on a shoot and in the editing room for labeling your leader. Sharpie

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The ratio of how much film shot compared to running time of the finished film. For instance a 5 minute film for which you shot 30 minutes of footage

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The unexposed remainder of a roll of film in a magazine that is clipped and placed back into a can for use later. Unlike recans a shotend is somethin

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A shot is the film exposed from the time the camera is started to the time it is stopped. Shot and Scene are interchangeable terms.

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This term is often a little confusing because it does not mean a camera that is itself silent, and therefore usable for sync sound, but it means a no

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18 frames per second. A slightly archaic notion left over from the time when 16mm was used exclusively for home movies. It is not always that easy to

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16mm film with a row of perforations along one edge. On the film can this will be indicated by 1R appearing on the label.

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In 35mm a reel is 1,000 feet of film (or usually a little less).

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Single System refers to recording, editing or projecting sound and picture together on the same piece of film. Cameras used for tv news would record

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An untimed black and white dupe print of your workprint, used for projection in a sound mix. A slop print is used because splices can jump and cause

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A rather unattractive sounding name for Filler.

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A type of light with a builtin surface to act as a bounce card, providing soft, indirect light on the subject.

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Basically just a quilted mover’s blanket. Often it is thrown over the camera (and the camera operator) to cut down on camera noise, as a sort of impr

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A playback head for reading mag stock, mounted on a bracket that snaps onto a synchronizer. It is pugged into the squawk box.

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24 frames per second. The normal speed for filming and projecting.

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A metal cylinder with a flat plate at one end and a hole through the center, used between reels on the spindle of a rewind to space out the reels the

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In sound editing, these are any effects that directly relate to the picture, where we see a thing happen and hear it too. Backgrounds, ambiance and s

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Another, less commonly used, term for Spreader.

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Spikes are a term that comes from theater. They are little pieces of tape placed around the legs of furniture, or the tripod legs, before they are mo

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A method of joining two peices of film so they can be projected as one continuous piece. There are three methods: the Tape Splice (usually used for e

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A special type of clear tape, not interchangeable with scotch tape, used to splice film. It comes in perforated (for use with a Rivas) and unperforat

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A very handy reel, the two halves of which may be unscrewed and film on a core placed between. Once screwed back together (but not too tight, or it w

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see Matte Shot. Typically a split screen is a matte shot divided down the center of the shot.

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Winding an unexposed 400 foot roll down onto four 100 foot daylight spools for use in a camera that will only take 100 feet of film. Spooling down ca

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