Tooltip Tags: Camera

Dutch Angle

This is the process where a camera is angled so that the horizontal frame line is not parallel to the horizon.

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Core

A plastic cylinder on which film is wound for transport or storage.

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Deep Focus

A style of cinematography and staging that uses relatively wide angle lenses and small lens apertures by maintaining objects in the extreme background and foreground simultaneously focused.

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Depth of Field

The amount of space within lens view which will maintain acceptable focus at given settings (i.e. camera speed, film speed, lens aperture).

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Dolly Shot

Any shot made from a moving dolly. These may also be called tracking or traveling shots.

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Animorphic

An optical system having different magnifications in the horizontal and vertical dimensions of the image.

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Blocking

Plotting actor, camera and microphone placement and movement in a production or scene.

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Camera Blocking

The process of notating the changing position of the camera, lens size, and focus during a particular scene.

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