Cinematography

A tetralogy (from Greek τετρα- tetra-, "four" and -λογία -logia, "discourse") is a compound work that is made up of four distinct works.

Celluloids are a class of compounds created from nitrocellulose and camphor, with added dyes and other agents.

The technological boundaries between home-movie-making and professional movie-making are becoming increasingly blurred as prosumer equipment often offers features previously only available on professional equipment.

(Main article: Erotic films in the United States) The Golden Age of Porn, or porno chic, refers to a 15-year period (about 1969–1984) in commercial American pornography in which sexually-explicit films experienced positive attention from mainstream cinemas, movie critics, and the general public.

Fan fiction or fanfiction (also abbreviated to fan fic, fanfic, or fic) is fiction about characters or settings from an original work of fiction, created by fans of that work rather than by its creator.

Sophocles was a Windows-based screenwriting software application used for writing feature film and television screenplays.

Film studies is an academic discipline that deals with various theoretical, historical, and critical approaches to films.

A mockbuster (also known as knockbuster or a drafting opportunity) is a movie created with the intention of piggy-backing on the publicity of a major movie with a similar title or subject or both.

A cinematographer or director of photography (sometimes shortened to DP or DOP) is the chief over the camera crews working on a film, television production or other live action piece and is responsible for making artistic and technical decisions related to the image.

Color motion picture film refers both to unexposed color photographic film in a format suitable for use in a motion picture camera, and to finished motion picture film, ready for use in a projector, which bears images in color.

Suspense is a feeling of pleasurable fascination and excitement mixed with apprehension, tension, and anxiety developed from an unpredictable, mysterious, and rousing source of entertainment.

A B movie is a low-budget commercial movie that is not an arthouse film.

A serial, film serial or chapter play, is a motion picture form popular during the first half of the 20th century, consisting of a series of short subjects exhibited in consecutive order at one theater, generally advancing weekly, until the series is completed.

The blue hour (from La hora azul, in Spanish, or L'Heure Bleue in French) is the period of twilight early in the dawn each morning and late dusk each evening when the sun is at a significant distance below the horizon and the residual, indirect sunlight takes on a predominantly blue hue.

Persistence of vision refers to the optical illusion whereby multiple discrete images blend into a single image in the human mind and believed to be the explanation for motion perception in cinema and animated films.

A heptalogy (from Greek ἑπτα- hepta-, "seven" and -λογία -logia, "discourse") is a compound literary or narrative work that is made up of seven distinct works.

A color gel or color filter (British spelling: colour gel or colour filter), also known as lighting gel or simply gel, is a transparent colored material that is used in theater, event production, photography, videography and cinematography to color light and for color correction.

Panaghoy sa Suba (in English, The Call of the River or The Cry of the River), is a 2004 Visayan language film produced and directed by Cesar Montano, who also played the lead role.

Digital Bolex is a partnership between Cinemeridian, Inc.

JA Prestwich Industries, was an English manufacturing company named after founder John Alfred Prestwich, which was formed in 1951 by the amalgamation of J.

In filmmaking, a long take is a shot lasting much longer than the conventional editing pace either of the film itself or of films in general.

The American Cinematographer Manual is a filmmaking manual published by the American Society of Cinematographers.

Founded in 1920 by Louis Knell, the Youngstown, Ohio-based Armored Trunk Manufacturing Company was one of America's largest manufacturers of steamers, trunks and luggage.

The dolly zoom is an in-camera effect that appears to undermine normal visual perception.