movie

I

(New American Roget's College Thesaurus)

n. motion pictures.See drama.

II

(Roget's IV) modif.

Syn. screen, cinematic, filmic, motion, sound, picture, photographic.

n.

Syn. motion picture, moving picture, photoplay, cinema, film, show, screenplay, video, talking picture, silent picture, photodrama, cinematograph, cartoon, animated cartoon, serial, comedy, foreign film, travelogue, short, documentary, videotape, talkie*, flick*, flicker*; see also drama , entertainment 2 .

III

(Roget's 3 Superthesaurus) n.

motion picture, moving picture, film, picture, show, screenplay, cinema, photoplay, silver screen, video, *talkie, *flick, documentary, docudrama, melodrama, epic, *spaghetti western, horse opera, B movie, blue movie, stag film, *skin flick. ''Life with the dull parts cut out.''—Alfred Hitchcock.

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• actor/small role: bit player, cameo appearance, extra actor who is partially created by computer

• make-up effects: synthespian

• advertising/promotional clip: trailer

• aerial shot: crane shot

• award: Academy Award, Oscar

• black-and-white to color process: colorization

• box office smash: *boffo

• captioned drawings of planned camera shots: storyboard

• clapper: slate

• daytime run movie: matinee

• digital special effect that metamorphoses person or thing: morphing

• directs actors and technicians: director

• double scene effect: split screen

• electrician assistant: best boy

• electrician in charge of lights: gaffer

• end of shooting for the day: wrap

• fade out effect: dissolve

• gunshot wound effect: squib

• head of financing and hiring: producer

• joining of two pieces of film: splice

• journals of the industry: Trades, Variety, Hollywood Reporter

• library film: stock footage

• lip synchronization on short loops of film: looping

• location finder: location scout

• moving shot: dolly shot, trucking shot

• music of: score

• object: prop

• past, scene from character’s: flashback

• photographer, motion picture: cinematographer

• prints from day’s shooting: dailies, rushes

• proposal of movie to financiers: pitch

• publicity: publicist

• record dialogue and sound effects: dub, Foley

• rolling credits at end of movie: crawl, closing credits

• script continuity: script supervisor

• set or prop assistant: grip

• sets and costumes head: art director

• sound effects room: Foley studio

• sound recorder: sound technician, Foley artist

• stop-action photography: pixillation

• superimposition effect: blue screen, matte shot

• studio and outside shooting area: lot, backlot

• wardrobe assistant: dresser

• widening shot: pull-back

• wide-screen film process: Cinemascope

• wide side-to-side shot: pan

• writer: screenwriter, script doctor

• writer’s outline: treatment

• zooming in effect: zoom shot