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CAMERA |
Device to form an image with a lens onto a film |
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CAMERA LOG |
Record sheet with details of scenes shot on a roll of original negative |
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The original film element exposed in the camera, often the original negative |
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CANCELLATION |
The cancellation of sound distortion on a photographic sound track by neg pos printing |
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CANDELA |
A unit of luminous intensity of light |
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CAPSTAN |
A smooth or toothed drive spindle for film or tape |
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CAPTION |
Written or spoken titles to a picture or illustration |
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CARTRIDGE |
Container with a spool of film, or a closed loop of film |
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CASSETTE |
A light tight container for a roll of film for attachment to a daylight operating film processor |
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CASSETTE |
A sound tape cartridge, or a video tape cartridge |
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Optically flat Colour Correction filters made of gelatin in RGBCMY and intervals of 0.05 Density [Kodak term] |
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CCD |
Charged Coupled Device [acronym] |
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CCIR |
Consultative Committee for International Radio, standardising body for television and radio |
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CELL |
Transparent foreground used for animation filming |
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CELL SCRATCH |
Scratch on the base or cell [celluloid] side of film, = base scratch |
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CELL SIDE |
The base [or celluloid] side of a piece of film |
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Trade name for cellulose nitrate, occasionally used for all film |
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CHARACTERISTIC CURVE |
A graph of Log E and Density for a film stock |
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CHARGE COUPLED DEVICE |
Semiconductor which can store information, used as an image sensor |
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CHECKER-BOARD CUTTING |
A and B roll cutting [syn] |
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CHEMICAL TONING |
See TONING |
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CHROMA |
Television signal component carrying colour, also loosely = saturation |
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CHROMAGENIC |
Production of colour by a chemical process, used of colour development, and certain toning processes |
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CHROMAKEY |
Video special effect combining images with a blue background with other images, similar to travelling matte |
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CHROMINANCE |
Refers to a video signal that determines the colour of the image |
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CINCH MARKS |
Scratches caused by excessive tension during the winding up of film, especially by cinching |
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CINCHING |
Pulling the end of film to tighten the wind of loosely wound film, very bad practise |
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CINE |
Colloquial term for any motion picture practice or equipment |
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Trade name for an anamorphic widescreen film system |
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CINEMATOGRAPHY |
General term for intermittent motion picture fim technology |
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CINEX STRIP |
A short test print in which each scene has been exposed with a different exposure |
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CLAPPER |
Hinged arms clapped together and filmed by camera to establish film synchronisation |
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CLAW |
Device to pull film through the camera or printer gate intermittently |
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CLEARING BATH |
Aqueous solution used to ensure staining reduced to a minimum, chemistry depends on the process |
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CLIP |
Short section removed or replaced from a film sequence or scene |
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CMY |
Cyan, Magenta, Yellow, the subtractive primaries, also print grading lights [in Technicolor] |
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COCKLE |
Unevenly shrunken film resulting in uneven wind [see also buckle] |
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COLLIMATED |
Of light in a parallel beam, produced by condensing lenses |
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COLORIMETRY |
The measurement of colour in numerical terms |
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COLORISATION |
Electronic addition of colour to a black and white film for colour TV transmission |
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COLOUR |
A general term for the subjective sensation of viewing different wavelengths of visible light. USA COLOR |
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COLOUR ANALYSER |
See Analyser, colour grading electronic video device |
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COLOUR BALANCE |
Term used to describe the "neutrality" of a colour film or TV image or it's departure from neutral, see also BALANCE |
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COLOUR CONTRAST |
The subjective effect of the intensities of two colours, numerically the log of this ratio |
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COLOUR CORRECTION |
Adjustment [by grading] of an off balance print or image to a correct balance |
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COLOUR DEVELOPER |
Aqueous solution of a colour developing agent to produce dyes in film emulsions chromagenically |
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COLOUR FILTER |
A transparent gelatin or glass for selectively absorbing light wavelengths |
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COLOUR NEGATIVE |
A record of colour and brightness of a scene in terms of negative values of brightness and complimentary colours |
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COLOUR POSITIVE |
A record of the original scene in identical brightness and colour values |
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COLOUR PRINT |
A photographic colour positive made from a different camera original by printing |
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COLOUR SEPARATIONS |
Black and white film negatives or positives made through tricolour filters that represent R, G or B records of a scene |
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COLOUR SYSTEM |
Trade name or traditional name of a colour film process or technique |
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COLOUR TEMPERATURE |
A method of describing the colour of a light source, by comparing with the temperature in Kelvin units of a black body irradiator |
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COMBINED PRINT |
A film print with both picture and sound track, a married track [see] |
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COMMENTARY TRACK |
A sound track with a voice or commentary over the background sound |
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COMOPT |
Combined Optical sound track, a photographic sound track on a print |
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COMPLEMENTARY COLOURS |
Colour resulting from removing a colour from white light, eg the complementary of yellow is blue, OR two colour when added together produce neutral white or grey |
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COMPOSITE PRINT |
Combined print [syn] |
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CONDENSER LENS |
A lens, or lens system, able to collimate light, ie generate a parallel beam |
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CONDENSING |
Creating a peeled role [cf] [Technicolor] |
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CONFORMING |
The assembly of picture and sound elements to match an edited film or video production |
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CONSERVATION |
The processes necessary to ensure the physical survival of the film with minimum degradation |
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CONSERVATION MASTER |
Term for a duplicate made primarily for long term archival storage |
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Printing a film by exposing the raw stock in contact with the original |
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Printing film by continuous, not intermittent, transport of the original and the print |
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CONTINUOUS PROJECTION |
Projection by continuous film transport, the intermittent image is created by a mirror or prism system. |
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CONTRAST |
Relationship between light [highlight] and dark [shadow] areas of a picture, described as high, low or a number [numerically the log of this ratio] |
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CONTROL TRACK |
A magnetic sound track on a film controlling the distribution of other tracks to loudspeakers |
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COPY |
A film print, a colloquial general term |
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CORE |
A cylinder used as a centre for winding film, usually plastic, originally wood |
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COUNTER |
Device for measuring the length of a film by counting frames |
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COUPLER/DYE COUPLER |
A chemical that combines with oxidised developing agent to forma dye, chromagenic |
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CP FILTER |
Colour Printing filters, for use in uncollimated light, in primary colours and increments of 0.025 or 0.05D |
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CRAWLING TITLES |
Titles or credits travelling horizontally across the screen |
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CREDITS |
Acknowledgements in the titles at beginning or end of a film |
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CREEPING SYNC |
A progressive error in synchronization between picture and sound |
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Colour Reversal Intermediate, a defunct Kodak duplicating system |
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CROPPING |
Cutting off the top or sides of a frame to change the aspect ratio |
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CROSS MOD TEST |
A cross modulation test determines the optimum printing exposure to achieve cancellation [c.f.] |
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CROSSOVER [TEST] |
Sensitometric test when converting printing conditions from one batch of film to another |
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CU |
Close Up |
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CUE |
A signal or mark to actuate an event, on a film |
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A technical mean to operate an event, as a light change, on a printer |
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CUE DOTS |
Visible signals to indicate the reel change over between film projectors or telecine, |
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CUE SHEET |
List of printing details for as roll of film |
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CUT |
A change from scene to scene |
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CUTS AND TRIMS |
Unused negative film from scenes, takes and parts of scenes, left over from editing |
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CUTTING |
Selection and assembly of scenes of a film |
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Laboratory term for the editors cut film, ready for negative matching |
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CUTTING FRAMES |
Extra frames at start and end of scenes to allow latitude in editing, particularly in animation |
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CYAN |
Subtractive primary |