tramline

The tramline is therefore much less obvious on the screen. Also, if the scratch is on the base (i.e., on the back of the film), then it will not be in sharp focus.

1984, Movie Maker, volume 18, number 2, page 47:

(film) A scratch on a film, usually vertical, that extends through multiple frames.


insert

From Latin insertus, past participle of inserō, from in- + serō (“join, bind together, connect, entwine, interweave”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *ser- (“to bind, put together, to line up”). Compare exsert.

der

(television) A pre-recorded segment included as part of a live broadcast.

[…] close-ups of her legs on the escalator, an insert of the emergency stop button (ARRET D'URGENCE), intercut close-ups of her glance and the cinema sign, […]

2013, David Bordwell, Narration in the Fiction Film, page 316:

(film, television) A close-up shot used to draw attention to a particular element of a larger scene.


wide-angle

en-adj

wide-angle (comparative wider-angle, superlative widest-angle)

wider-angle (comparative)
widest-angle (superlative)

(cinematography, photography) Of or pertaining to a short focal length lens that has an angle of view greater than about 70°; of or pertaining to an image produced with such a lens.


wilco

Wilco, Bravo Six Three will take the north road. Bravo Six Four will take the south road, out.

(radio communications) Indicates agreement and compliance.


wilco

en-verb

wilco (third-person singular simple present wilcos, present participle wilcoing, simple past and past participle wilcoed)

wilcos (present singular third-person)
wilcoing (participle present)
wilcoed (participle past)
wilcoed (past)

(radio communications, rare) To give the "wilco" indication.


pancake

en-noun

pancake (countable and uncountable, plural pancakes)

→ Cantonese: 班戟 (baan¹ gik¹)

→ Mandarin: 班戟 (bānjǐ)

→ Cebuano: pankeyk

→ French: pancake

→ German: Pancake

desc

→ Hijazi Arabic: بانكيك (bānkēk, pānkēk)

→⇒ Irish: pancóg

→ Japanese: パンケーキ (pankēki)

→⇒ Khmer: នំផេនខេក (num pheenkheek)

→ Korean: 팬케이크 (paenkeikeu)

→ Nauruan: epankeik

→ Portuguese: panqueca, (dated) panqueque, (dated) pancake

→ Russian: панкейк (pankejk)

→ Spanish: (Argentina, Chile, Ecuador, Peru, Uruguay) panqueque, (Costa Rica, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama, Puerto Rico) pancake, (Venezuela) panqueca

→ Thai: แพนเค้ก (pɛɛn-kéek)

→ Turkish: pankek

→ Azerbaijani: pankek

→ Yoruba: pan̄kéèkì

Inherited from Middle English pancake, panne cake, pankake, ponkake, equivalent to pan + cake.
Perhaps adapted from Middle Low German pankôke, pannekôke, from Old Saxon *pannakōko (suggested by derivatives Old Saxon pannakōkilo and pannakōkilīn), where the compound is much older; compare Old High German phankuohho (8th century), whence Middle High German phankuoche, German Pfannkuchen (“pancake”); further
Saterland Frisian Ponkouke, Ponkuuke (“pancake”), West Frisian pankoek (“pancake”), Dutch pannenkoek (“pancake”), German Low German Pannkook (“pancake”).
The juggling sense is by analogy with a pancake being tossed in a pan.

(countable, film, slang) A box on which an actor stands to make them appear taller.


dead air

(idiomatic, broadcasting) An unintended interruption in a broadcast during which nothing is transmitted: a silent period on radio or a silent period with no picture on television.


playback singer

en-noun

playback singer (plural playback singers)

(singing, cinematography) A singer whose songs are pre-recorded for use in films, especially Bollywood musicals, where actors lip-sync them.

নেপথ্য গায়ক

singer whose songs are lip-synced by an actor


dodge

en-verb

dodge (third-person singular simple present dodges, present participle dodging, simple past and past participle dodged)

dodges (present singular third-person)
dodging (participle present)
dodged (participle past)
dodged (past)

Likely from dialectal dodge, dod, dodd (“to jog, trudge along, totter", also "to jerk, jig”), of uncertain origin. Perhaps from unrecorded Middle English *dodden, ultimately from Proto-Germanic *dud- (“to move”), related to Old English dydrian, dyderian (“to delude, deceive”), Middle English dideren (“to tremble, quake, shiver”), English dodder, Norwegian dudra (“to tremble”).

cog

(photography, videography) To decrease the exposure for certain areas of an image in order to make them darker (compare burn).

varjostaa

photography: to decrease the exposure for certain areas of a print


soliloquy

en-noun

soliloquy (countable and uncountable, plural soliloquies)

Augustine of Hippo
Hamlet
Soliloquiorum libri duo
To be, or not to be
William Shakespeare

1595–1605; From Late Latin sōliloquium in the title of St. Augustine's Soliloquiorum libri duo ("Two Books of Soliloquies"), from sōlus (“only, sole”) + loquor (“I speak”).

Coordinate term: aside

At the end of the second act the main villain gave a soliloquy detailing his plans to attack the protagonist.

Yet if I were to say […] that Hamlet's soliloquy had been much over-rated, it would not be said, on this account, that I was unable to appreciate Shakespeare.

1901, Edmund Selous, Bird Watching, J.M. Dent & Co, London, Chapter XII: Watching Blackbirds, Nightingales, Sand-martins, etc., page 315:

(drama) The act of a character speaking to themselves so as to reveal their thoughts to the audience.

The feeling of Singleton's bosom grew heightened in its tone of melancholy, and a more passionate emphasis of thought broke forth in his half-muttered soliloquy:— ¶"How I remember as I look […]

1835, William Gilmore Simms, The Partisan, Harper, Chapter XI, page 135:

Here is a very over-simplified example, this time expressed in the form of a subjective soliloquy rather than a computer simulation.

1976, Richard Dawkins, The Selfish Gene, Kindle edition, OUP Oxford, published 2016, page 126:

(authorship) A speech or written discourse in this form.


matt

(film) Alternative spelling of matte (“background, often painted or created with computers”)


bump

bump (countable and uncountable, plural bumps)

From Early Modern English bump (“a shock, blow from a collision”), probably of North Germanic origin; compare Danish bump (“a thump”), Danish bumpe (“to thump”), Old Danish bumpe (“to strike with a clenched fist”), all probably of imitative origin.
Apparently related to Middle English bumben, bummen (“to make a hollow noise”), Dutch bommen (“to hum, buzz”), German Low German bumsen (“to bump, push”), German bummen (“to hum, buzz”), Icelandic bumba (“drum”). More at bum, bumble. Compare also bomb.

onom

imitative

cog

(US, broadcasting) A short, self-promotional spot on a radio or television station.


wigging

en-noun

wigging (countable and uncountable, plural wiggings)

“So why are there so few women in the stunt industry? Many point to the practice of “wigging” – which is when male stunt actors play female characters.”

2018, Daniel Lavelle, “Why stuntwomen are angry about 'wigging' – and are changing the industry from within”, in The Guardian:

(film) The practice of male stuntmen performing for actresses.


shojo

From the Japanese 少女 (shōjo, “young woman”).

(anime, manga) A style of anime and manga intended for young women.


shojo

en-adj

shojo (comparative more shojo, superlative most shojo)

more shojo (comparative)
most shojo (superlative)

(anime, manga) Being in the style of shōjo manga or anime.


overnight

Inherited from Middle English overnyght, from Old English ofer niht (“through the night, overnight”), equivalent to over + night. Verbal use (late 19th c.) may have been influenced by German übernachten (16th c.), though it could also have developed independently.

inh

Word spread that Barney was on his way out to the location and that the Nielsen overnights had been terrific, or why else would he come.

2000, Dorothy C. Swanson, Story of Viewers For Quality TV: From Grassroots to Prime Time:

The TV critic had the results of the June rating survey by Arbitron and Nielsen. […] He has the hard numbers on the June book plus the recent Nielsen overnights.

(television, in the plural) Viewership ratings for a television show that are published the morning after it is broadcast, and may be revised later on.


lector

From Middle English lector, lectoure, lectour, from Late Latin lēctor, from legō (“I read”). “Voice-over” sense probably adapted from Polish lektor.

The Hungarian viewer of The Colbert Report wants to experience authentic American comedy, and the lector—like an interpreter performing chuchotage at a high-level meeting of heads of state—serves primarily as a check on the viewer's grasp of the real thing.

2011, David Bellos, chapter 12, in Is that a Fish in Your Ear?:

(television, film) A person doing voice-over translation of foreign films, especially in Eastern European countries.


unity

en-noun

unity (countable and uncountable, plural unities)

George B. McClellan
George Meade
Ulysses S. Grant
William Rosecrans
William Tecumseh Sherman
unity

Etymology tree
Middle English unite
English unity
From Middle English unite, from Anglo-Norman, Old French unité, from Latin ūnitās, from ūnus (“one”) + noun of state suffix -itās, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *óynos (“one, single”), hence distantly related to one and an. Displaced native Old English ānnes (literally “oneness”).

der

(drama) Any of the three classical rules of drama: unity of action (nothing should be admitted not directly relevant to the development of the plot), unity of place (the scenes should be set in the same place), and unity of time (all the events should be such as might happen within a single day).

eenheid

drama: any of the three classical rules of drama


ATV

Associated Television
w:Associated Television

(broadcasting, television) Initialism of Associated Television.

Asia Television Limited
w:Asia Television Limited

(broadcasting, television) Initialism of Asia Television Limited.

(broadcasting, television) Initialism of ATV (Austria).


ATV

en-noun

ATV (countable and uncountable, plural ATVs)

(broadcasting, television) Initialism of amateur television.


thriller

(film, literature) A suspenseful, sensational genre of story, book, play or film.

إِثَارَة

a suspenseful, sensational genre of fiction

pulp novel

A suspenseful, sensational genre of fiction


blaxploitation

Blend of black + exploitation (from exploitation film) or blend of blax + exploitation.

(film) A genre of exploitation films of the 1970s that starred black actors.


transcription

transcription (countable and uncountable, plural transcriptions)

From Middle French transcription, or directly from Latin transcriptiōnem, from trānscrībō (“transcribe”).

From the outset, Selvage had hoped to interest NBC or CBS in broadcasting the American Family Robinson on a sustaining basis. Neither did, and the series ended up in transcription, recorded and circulated to individual stations by the World Broadcasting System.

1999, William L. Bird, "Better Living": Advertising, Media and the New Vocabulary of Business Leadership, 1935-1955, Northwestern University Press, →ISBN:

Something that has been transcribed, including:

(broadcasting) A recorded radio or television programme.


transmissible

en-adj

transmissible (comparative more transmissible, superlative most transmissible)

more transmissible (comparative)
most transmissible (superlative)

(radio communications or broadcasting, of a message or program) Capable of being transmitted from a transmitter to a receiver.


overplay

en-verb

overplay (third-person singular simple present overplays, present participle overplaying, simple past and past participle overplayed)

overplays (present singular third-person)
overplaying (participle present)
overplayed (participle past)
overplayed (past)

When Chris overacted his part again, the director warned that anyone overplaying would be barred from the next production.

Nevertheless, 3 Body Problem does well to pull us onward, as much through the relentless, but never overplayed, suffering and hardening of Ye Wenjie as she endures her effective imprisonment in the project grounds – and the stealing of her work by others – as by the present day mystery.

2024 March 21, Lucy Mangan, “3 Body Problem review – the creators of Game of Thrones have done it again”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:

(transitive, intransitive, acting) To overdo or overact one's effect or role.


retrace

From French retracer, from Middle French retracier.

(television) The period when the beam of the cathode-ray tube returns to its initial horizontal position in order to start the next line of the display.


shooting

en-noun

shooting (countable and uncountable, plural shootings)

From Middle English shoting, schoting, from Old English scotung (“shooting”), from Proto-Germanic *skutungō, equivalent to shoot + -ing. Cognate with Dutch schieting, German Erschießung (“shooting”), Swedish skjutning (“shooting”).


persuader

These electrons are guided to the second dynode by the resultant electric field of this dynode and the persuader.

1953, Stanley William Amos, D. C. Birkinshaw, Television Engineering, Principles and Practice, page 108:

(television) An electrode that directs electrons into a multiplier.


cowcatcher

Coordinate term: hitchhiker

Hitchhiker and cowcatcher plugs will be considered.

National advertisers have probably been major contributors to this practice through the use of so-called hitchhike and cowcatcher announcements.

1945, Charles Harold Sandage, Radio Advertising for Retailers, page 185:

Sometime in the mid-40s, the Hummerts canceled Mr. Keen and Easy Aces from their early evening periods on CBS, which also killed my cowcatchers and hitchhikes.

2009, George Ansbro, I Have a Lady in the Balcony, page 138:

(radio, advertising) An advertisement at the start of a programme.


baka

en-adj

baka (comparative more baka, superlative most baka)

more baka (comparative)
most baka (superlative)

Borrowed from Japanese 馬鹿(ばか) (baka, “stupid”).

(anime manga, fandom slang, endearing) Stupid, silly.


baka

(anime manga, fandom slang, endearing) A foolish person, a dummy, a silly goose.


cherry-pick

en-verb

cherry-pick (third-person singular simple present cherry-picks, present participle cherry-picking, simple past and past participle cherry-picked)

cherry-picks (present singular third-person)
cherry-picking (participle present)
cherry-picked (participle past)
cherry-picked (past)

A metaphor, from the idea of picking through a bowl of cherries and seeking the best for oneself, or the idea of picking off the cherries for oneself from a cake or dessert.

Those stations that will send CNN tapes of their local and regional news for CNN to cherry-pick from, in turn will be allowed to cherry-pick themselves.

1980, Television/radio age, volume 28, page 80:

(US, idiomatic, broadcasting) To broadcast selected programming from another network.


ham it up

ham it up (third-person singular simple present hams it up, present participle hamming it up, simple past and past participle hammed it up)

hams it up (present singular third-person)
hamming it up (participle present)
hammed it up (participle past)
hammed it up (past)

You can count on him to ham it up for the camera.

(idiomatic, acting) To deliberately exaggerate one's emotions or movements, or to overact or act hammily.

有意誇張

performing arts: exaggerate one's emotions or movements


bit part

2005, Most of her work, however, consisted of bit parts. She often was cast in movies credited only as "flower vendor," "warden" or "suntan lady," — 'Five Easy Pieces' waitress dead at 85, CNN online.

(acting) A minor role, generally not assigned a name.


behind the scenes

Many videos come with features that show what went on behind the scenes to make the movie and special effects.

(idiomatic, theater, film) behind the scenery and stage area; backstage; among the actors; during the production or rehearsal


HD

en-noun

HD (countable and uncountable, plural HDs)

(television) Initialism of High Definition (“1280×720 pixels”).


sidekick

From side + kick, which in the late 19th and early 20th century was a slang term for the front side pocket of a pair of trousers, known as the pocket safest from theft. Thus, by analogy, a "side-kick" was a person's closest companion.

So even though he had – no question – the best lines in Friends, he was never what he would have been in an earlier era: the sidekick.

2023 October 29, Zoe Williams, “‘An ironic, self-deprecating metrosexual’: how Matthew Perry captured the spirit of the age”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:

(authorship, figuratively) In literature, theatre/theater, etc., a good foil of the protagonist, a character who helps emphasize the traits of the main character.


spit take

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When the wombat-riding chimp jumped onto the bar, Smith, who had been enjoying a beer, did a massive spit take.

(acting) A take (recorded performance), generally expressing surprise or disbelief, in which the actor in the act of drinking spits out the drink.


boutique

→ Cebuano: botik

Borrowed from French boutique. Doublet of apotheke and bodega.

(film) A film production company making only a few movies per year.


DB

(television) Initialism of delayed broadcast.


long shot

The term arose from the accuracy of early naval guns, which were effective only at close range and unlikely to hit the mark at any great distance.

(film) A master shot, the primary wide shot of a scene into which the closeups will be edited later.


DV

DV (countable and uncountable, plural DVs)

Vincent opened it and found a video camera, a Panasonic. She recognized it as one of the new kind that took DV tapes, but it still had an unexpected weight.

2020, Emily St. John Mandel, The Glass Hotel, Picador (2021), page 67:

(television) Initialism of digital video.

(television) Initialism of described video.


vox

From Latin vōx (“voice”). Doublet of voice.

The junior can offer to do the voxes, gaining experience and sparing the senior journalist the trouble. Always remember to think how the clips will edit together. If you're the lucky junior sent to do voxes, there are some technical matters […]

2018, Gary Hudson, Sarah Rowlands, The Broadcast Journalism Handbook:

(broadcasting, informal) Ellipsis of vox pop.


P

P (countable and uncountable, plural Ps)

product placement
product placement#English

(UK, television) Initialism of product placement. (displayed on screen as an indicator to viewers)


cruft

Circa 1959, MIT Tech Model Railroad Club. Unknown origin; possibly from Cruft Hall, built in 1915 as a gift from a donor named Harriet Otis Cruft. Cruft Hall was the radar laboratory of Harvard's physics department during the Second World War, which contained much old and unused technical equipment. Possibly blend of crust + fluff, both of which may form on old abandoned things, or influenced by crud.

(film, slang) Meaningless or gratuitous content displayed on computer consoles in visual entertainment productions.


H

(UK, film, historical) Abbreviation of horrific. (former film classification)


M

M (countable and uncountable, plural Ms)

(US, film) A film with the content rating M.


TNN

The Nashville Network
w:The Nashville Network

(US, television, historical) Initialism of The Nashville Network.


masthead

(television, by extension) The logo of a broadcaster used in an ident.


scoop

From Middle English scope, schoupe, a borrowing from Middle Dutch scoep, scuep, schope, schoepe (“bucket for bailing water”) and Middle Dutch schoppe, scoppe, schuppe ("a scoop, shovel"; > Modern Dutch schop (“spade”)), from Proto-Germanic *skuppǭ, *skuppijǭ, from Proto-Indo-European *(s)kep- (“to cut, to scrape, to hack”). Cognate with Old Frisian skuppe (“shovel”), Middle Low German schōpe (“scoop, shovel”), German Low German Schüppe, Schüpp (“shovel”), German Schüppe, Schippe (“shovel, spade”). Related to English shovel.

gloss

"a scoop, shovel"; > Modern Dutch <i class="Latn mention" lang="nl">schop</i> (“spade”)

cog

(film, television) A kind of floodlight with a reflector.


kicker

[…] international news and politics, and heavy on the light stuff: local news, entertainment and merry little kickers […]

1984, Media Report to Women, volume 12, page 46:

Instead, a reporter can carve out a niche as an entertainment/community reporter, thus concentrating their efforts on filing feature stories for the E block, where the kickers are slated. Kickers are feel-good pieces placed at the end of the newscast to leave viewers in a good mood […]

2013, Frank Barnas, Ted White, Broadcast News Writing, Reporting, and Producing, page 77:

(radio, television) A lighthearted or humorous item used to round off a news broadcast.

(film, television) A backlight positioned at an angle.


squib

Possibly imitative of a small explosion.

unk

Possibly

(film, theater) In special effects, a small explosive used to replicate a bullet hitting a surface or a gunshot wound on an actor.


ADR

en-noun

ADR (countable and uncountable, plural ADRs)

/eɪ diː ˈɑː/

(colloquial, film, uncountable) Initialism of additional/audio dialogue replacement.


Japanimation

Japanimation (countable and uncountable, plural Japanimations)

(anime, dated) Synonym of anime; Japanese animated cartoons.

(anime) 20th-century anime (Japanese animation)


improv

improv (countable and uncountable, plural improvs)

(acting) A form of live entertainment characterized by improvisation and interaction with the audience.


MAV

MAV (countable and uncountable, plural MAVs)

(Australia, television, uncountable) Initialism of mature adult audience (“Strong Violence”).


AMC

(television) Initialism of All My Children: an American television soap opera broadcast from 1970 to 2013.


TBS

Turner Broadcasting System
w:Turner Broadcasting System

(US, television) Initialism of Turner Broadcasting System.


FTA

(broadcasting, telecommunications) Abbreviation of free to air.


CCTV

China Central Television
w:China Central Television

(broadcasting, China) Initialism of China Central Television.


OB

OB (countable and uncountable, plural OBs)

(television, radio) Initialism of outside broadcast.

(television, radio) Initialism of outside broadcasting.


WGA

The use of AI in the production of film and television – either to write scripts, generate actors’ likenesses, or cut corners in paying creative work, has been a major point of contention in negotiations between the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers (AMPTP) and Sag and the Writers Guild of America (WGA).

2023 July 26, Adrian Horton, “Netflix lists AI job worth $900,000 amid twin Hollywood strikes”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:

The W.G.A.’s negotiating committee recognized that A.I. had to be on the table, and not simply as something to be resisted or refused.

2023 September 29, Adam Seth Litwin, “Hollywood’s Deal With Screenwriters Just Rewrote the Rules Around A.I.”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:

Writers Guild of America
w:Writers Guild of America

(US, film, television) Initialism of Writers Guild of America, the labor union representing writers of film and television.


ACE

ACE (countable and uncountable, plural ACEs)

human recombinant soluble angiotensin-converting enzyme 2

(film) A member of American Cinema Editors


DP

DP (countable and uncountable, plural DPs)

From the shotlist, the DP can figure out, to some extent, how many lighting changes each scene will require.

2013, Arthur Vincie, Preparing for Takeoff: Preproduction for the Independent Filmmaker:

From the first, jungle-set shot, the redoubtable d.p. Hélène Louvart gives the film the daubed, traffic-light palette of a ripe mango; were it possible, you’d expect it to have an aroma to match.

2019 May 25, Guy Lodge, “Film Review: ‘The Invisible Life of Eurídice Gusmão’”, in Variety:

director of photography
director of photography#English

(film) Initialism of director of photography.


newscaster

(broadcasting, journalism) One who delivers the news for broadcast on television, radio, etc; a newsreader.


emission

All too often, such shows result in destroying any idea that the topic just _could possibly_ be serious. I also discussed with gothic friends, telling they once were interviewed by people claiming to be creating an emission about gothics... just to discover later that the real topic was sects!

2002 June 13, Laura Dove, “Documentary about vampires”, in alt.vampyres (Usenet), retrieved 2022-12-18:

(non-native speakers' English, broadcasting) A show; a program.


personal video recorder

personal video recorder (plural personal video recorders)

(television, Canada, UK, Ireland) A device that can record broadcast television programmes, or the images from a video camera, for subsequent playback through a television set


actuality

actuality (countable and uncountable, plural actualities)

From actual + -ity.
* (television): Influenced by French actualité.

A cabled despatch is better than nothing, but a voicecast of tolerable quality is preferable, and in certain types of story a voicecast with live or recorded actuality is best of all. Correspondents all have portable tape recorders.

1964, European Broadcasting Union, EBU Review: Programmes, Administration, Law, volume 83, page 22:

This is a news report from the scene of the event. When a voicer and an actuality are combined into one complete story, it's known as a wrap.

2005, Alan R. Stephenson, David E. Reese, Mary E. Beadle, Broadcast Announcing Worktext, page 164:

(television) Live reporting on current affairs.

By 1903, the actuality film had reached its peak; in 1903, the Edison and Biograph companies, combined, registered three hundred fifty one actuality films for copyright protection. By 1908 that number had dropped to two.

1999, “The Variety Stage collection”, in Selected Materials from the Library of Congress:

(historical, film) A short early motion picture.


newscast

(broadcasting, journalism) A broadcast of the news; a news report that is transmitted over the air for television, radio, etc.


tallyho

1772, UK, probably alteration of French taïaut (interjection used in deer-hunting), from Middle French tahou, tayo, from Old French taho, ta ho, tielau (interjection given to hounds to return) (second half of 13th century), composed of ta (particle used to prod animals) + ho ! (“halt!, hold!”). More at ho.

uder

(Air Traffic Control): Speedbird 123, New York, traffic at two o’clock, seven miles, a Boeing 737, west-bound, at 4000 feet.”

(Pilot): New York, Speedbird 123, tallyho.


broadcaster

/ˈbɹɔːdˌkɑːstə/

From broadcast (“to transmit a message or signal through radio waves or electronic means”) + -er (suffix forming agent nouns).

suffix

A piece of equipment used to transmit audio and/or video content, or messages, to be received by radios or televisions, over the internet, etc.

lähetin

An organization or station that engages in the activity of such broadcasting.

放送局

or referring to broadcasting in Japan or Korea

A person whose job it is to effect such broadcasts; specifically, one who presents radio or television programmes (especially documentaries or news programmes); a presenter.


judder

en-noun

judder (countable and uncountable, plural judders)

(television) Jerky playback caused by converting between frame rates; telecine judder


int

(film) Clipping of interior (describing the location of a shot in a film script, etc.)


continuity

continuity (countable and uncountable, plural continuities)

Borrowed from Middle French continuité, from Latin continuitas, equivalent to continue + -ity.

(uncountable, film) Consistency between multiple shots depicting the same scene but possibly filmed on different occasions.

(uncountable, radio, television) The announcements and messages inserted by the broadcaster between programmes.


PGA

Producers Guild of America
W:Producers Guild of America

(film) Initialism of Producers Guild of America, a trade organization representing television producers, film producers and New Media producers in the United States.


VOA

(US, radio) Initialism of Voice of America.


SAP

SAP (countable and uncountable, plural SAPs)

second audio program
w:second audio program

(television) Initialism of second audio program.


takeout

takeout (countable and uncountable, plural takeouts)

Japanese: テークアウト (tēkuauto)

Takeouts on important running topics in the news are one way to add a valuable dimension to the evening news. One consequence, however, has been that there are fewer minutes available on the broadcast for hard news out of Washington.

1994, Penn Kimball, Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, Downsizing the news: network cutbacks in the nation's capital (page 19)


cunny

cunny (countable and uncountable, plural cunnies)

(countable, fandom slang, chiefly anime and manga) The vulva or vagina of a child or childlike character (loli).

(countable, synecdochically) A child or childlike character, especially when considered sexually attractive; a loli.

(uncountable, metonymically) Lolicon-themed media, especially when erotic (hentai).


WCG

(television) Initialism of wide color gamut.


opt-out

opt-out (countable and uncountable, plural opt-outs)

National television channels (descendant network) with regional or local slots or opt-outs: […]

1995, Pierre Musso, Philippe Souêtre, Lionel Levasseur, The Printed Press and Television in the Regions of Europe:

There is no limitation to the number of regional and local opt-outs that France 3 can operate; nor are there any guidelines in the channel's remit as to the length and content of such news programmes.

2003, Michael Scriven, Emily Roberts, Group Identities on French and British Television, page 27:

(television, radio, countable) A regional broadcast that other stations in the network may elect not to include.


filler

(television, music) material of lower cost or quality that is used to fill a certain television time slot or physical medium, such as a music album


MPA

Motion Picture Association
w:Motion Picture Association

(film) Initialism of Motion Picture Association.


stanza

From Italian stanza, from Vulgar Latin *stantia (“standing, stopping-place”), from Latin stāns, stantis, from stō, stāre, from Proto-Italic *staēō, from Proto-Indo-European *sth₂éh₁yeti, stative verb from *steh₂- (whence English stand). Doublet of stance.

der

Actually NBC and other webs have used similar devices in the past, particularly during the war, when net used plattered segments for its news and documentary stanzas. As far as can be determined, however, this is the first post-war instance in which the net has allowed even a partial plattering of a regularly skedded commercial stanza.

1957 December 30, “NBC Breaks Wax Rule for Hope's Britain Shows”, in Billboard, volume 59, number 45, page 5:

(broadcasting) A segment; a portion of a broadcast devoted to a particular topic.


ROC

(statistics, radio) Initialism of receiver operating characteristic.


roller

→ Welsh: rholer

* From Middle English rollere, equivalent to roll + -er.
* (credits in TV or film): These were originally printed on a physical cylinder that was rotated in front of the camera.

I learned a lot from watching, but the part that I should have studied harder was the roller. The names of the writers went on for ever.

2006, Clive James, North Face of Soho, Picador, published 2007, page 69:

(television, film) A roll of titles or (especially) credits played over film or video; television or film credits.


colorize

en-verb

colorize (third-person singular simple present colorizes, present participle colorizing, simple past and past participle colorized)

colorizes (present singular third-person)
colorizing (participle present)
colorized (participle past)
colorized (past)

There is a colorized version of Casablanca.

What we see are beautiful overlapping NASA satellite photographs of the American mainland, […]taken in black and white and then luminously colorized by computer for scientific reasons.

1988 August 26, Jonathan Rosenbaum, “Looking for America”, in Chicago Reader:

(photography, cinematography) To convert black and white media to color by digital post production (as is often done in digital photography and in video special effects).

värittää

to convert a black and white media to color


velociraptor

From New Latin Velociraptor genus name, from vēlōx (“swift”) + raptor (“thief”).
The application to Deinonychus came about because Gregory S. Paul proposed that Velociraptor and Deinonychus were the same genus and this idea was taken up in the book leading to the Jurassic Park film series.

This is my favorite velociraptor, and that is saying a lot....That this species is sunk into Velociraptor is rather unfortunate, because the name Deinonychus Ostrom 1969a is a fine one.

1988, Gregory S. Paul, Predatory Dinosaurs of the World, New York, London, Toronto, Sydney, Tokyo: Simon and Schuster, →ISBN, pages 366–7:


smear

en-noun

smear (countable and uncountable, plural smears)

From Middle English smeren, smerien, from Old English smerian, smyrian, smierwan (“to anoint or rub with grease, oil, etc.”), from Proto-West Germanic *smirwijan, from Proto-Germanic *smirwijaną. Doublet of schmear.
Cognate with Saterland Frisian smeere, Dutch smeren, Low German smeren, German schmieren.

In television terms, a certain amount of smear, ringing, and anticipatory overshoot are indigenous to VSB transmission.

1954, Radio & Television News: Radio-electronic engineering section:

Results show the reduction in intelligibility produced by changing the filter condition was much greater than reductions caused by altering smear duration.

1972, Scientific and Technical Aerospace Reports:

(radio, television, uncountable) Any of various forms of distortion that make a signal harder to see or hear.


CBBC

(television) Initialism of Children's BBC.


plateau

Borrowed from French plateau, diminutive of plat (“a plate”); see plate. Doublet of platter.

(sports, broadcasting) A notable level of attainment or achievement.


blooper

WLK. First radio station. On December 31, 1921, local engineer Francis F. Hamilton's radio station, 9ZJ, signed on with an address from Mayor Samuel (Lew) Shank. Broadcasting from Hamilton's garage at 2011 North Alabama Street, Shank made the city's first radio blooper: "Hamilton, do you mean to tell me that people can actually hear me over that damn' dingus?"

1921 December 31, “WLK”, in David J. Bodenhamer and Robert G[raham] Barrows, with the assistance of David G[ordon] Vanderstel, editors, The Encyclopedia of Indianapolis, Bloominton, Indianapolis, Ind.: Indiana University Press, published 1994, →ISBN, page 1399, column 2:

The 10th anniversary of the Kermit Schafer Blooper LP's on Jubilee will be marked by a brand-new blooper LP called "Washington Bloopers." Set is the 12th in the blooper series which started in 1953. […] Schafer's blooper packages have become so popular that he has formed a Blooper Snooper Club. Members of the club get prizes for blooper contributions, and it will soon have a monthly newsletter.

1963 August 24, “Some Goof: Success through Mistakes”, in Lee Zhito, editor, Billboard: The International Music-record Newsweekly, volume 75, number 34, Cincinnati, Oh.: The Billboard Publishing Company, →OCLC, page 7, columns 1 and 3:

With DVDs steadily joining VHS cassettes as extinct technology, what has become of the fun, insightful mixed bag that movie fans came to know as bonus features — the audio commentaries, behind-the-scenes featurettes, bloopers, deleted scenes and alternate endings?

2018 April 6, Fabrice Robinet, “Oh for the Days of the Making-Of Featurette — Seriously”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:

(film, informal) A filmed or videotaped outtake that has recorded an amusing accident and/or mistake.

pilalle mennyt otos (or otto, kohtaus instead of otos)


ghostwrite

en-verb

ghostwrite (third-person singular simple present ghostwrites, present participle ghostwriting, simple past ghostwrote, past participle ghostwritten)

ghostwrites (present singular third-person)
ghostwriting (participle present)
ghostwrote (past)
ghostwritten (participle past)

Mariana would rather not ghostwrite for a living because she finds it a thankless task.

(authorship, intransitive) To write under the name of another (especially literary works).

The president has someone to ghostwrite his addresses.

(authorship, transitive) To author a literary work or speech in the place of another.


sound bite

The dumbing down of America is most evident in the slow decay of substantive content in the enormously influential media, the 30-second sound bites (now down to 10 seconds or less), lowest common denominator programming, credulous presentations on pseudo-science and superstition, but especially a kind of celebration of ignorance.

1995, Carl Sagan, “Science and Hope”, in The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark, 1st edition, New York: Random House, →ISBN, pages 25–26:

(journalism, television) An extract from a speech or interview used as edited into a news or other broadcast; an interview clip, especially seen as particularly expressive or pithy.


KBS

Korean Broadcasting System
w:Korean Broadcasting System

(South Korea, broadcasting) Initialism of Korean Broadcasting System.

Kyoto Broadcasting System
w:Kyoto Broadcasting System

(Japan, broadcasting) Initialism of Kyoto Broadcasting System.


cross the line

cross the line (third-person singular simple present crosses the line, present participle crossing the line, simple past and past participle crossed the line)

crosses the line (present singular third-person)
crossing the line (participle present)
crossed the line (participle past)
crossed the line (past)

(cinematography) To film from the opposite side of an imaginary axis on set in order to view the actors from the opposite direction.


streamer

From Middle English stremer, stremere, equivalent to stream + -er.

Coordinate term: broadcaster

For starters, the business models for American broadcasters like NBC and streamers like Netflix (or Hulu, or Amazon) are drastically different.

2016 February 23, Jason Mittell, “Why Netflix Doesn’t Release Its Ratings”, in The Atlantic, retrieved 2022-11-01:

So where HBO used to boast that it was “not TV,” modern streamers send the message, “We’ll give you a whole lot of TV.”

2024 April 27, James Poniewozik, “The Comfortable Problem of Mid TV”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:

(television, Internet) A subscription service that streams content to an audience.


stylish

en-adj

stylish (comparative more stylish, superlative most stylish)

more stylish (comparative)
most stylish (superlative)

→ German: stylisch

(film) Having a particular directing style or cinematography.


jingle

/ˈd͡ʒɪŋɡ(ə)l/

The verb, which is older than the noun, is from Middle English gyngle. Onomatopoeic; compare jangle.

That used-car dealership's jingle has been stuck in my head since we heard that song.

The best of friends become the worst of enemies when Barney makes a hilarious attack ad where he viciously pummels a cardboard cut-out of Homer before special guest star Linda Ronstadt joins the fun to both continue the attack on the helpless Homer stand-in and croon a slanderously accurate, insanely catchy jingle about how “Mr. Plow is a loser/And I think he is a boozer.”

2012 June 3, Nathan Rabin, “TV: Review: THE SIMPSONS (CLASSIC): “Mr. Plow” (season 4, episode 9; originally aired 11/19/1992)”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name):

(broadcasting, advertising, music) A memorable short song, or in some cases a snippet of a popular song with its lyrics modified, used for the purposes of advertising a product or service in a TV or radio commercial.


filmology

[title] International Bureau of Filmology ¶ When the International Film Congress met in Paris in 1947 a plan was approved for the organization of a “Bureau International de Filmologie.”

1949, Renée Jeanne Fulton, “Theatre, Film, and Radio Notes”, in The French Review, volume 22, number 3, American Association of Teachers of French, page 279:

Pervy's research in filmology may eventually open wider applications of films in modern languages.

1949, Renée Jeanne Fulton, “Theatre, Film, and Radio Notes”, in The French Review, volume 23, number 2, American Association of Teachers of French, page 144:

[title]

1950, Adolphe Pervy, “Filmology Applied to the Fields of Vocabulary Growth and Modern Language Methods”, in Modern Language Forum, v 35 (March–June), pp 42–53

So the University of Paris set out to study the science of filmology—after Cohen-Séat's important book had given rise to an institute, a review, and a whole series of investigations.

1956, Jean Debrix, “Cinema and Poetry”, in Yale French Studies, number 17, Yale University Press, page 88:

The fourth approach is that of filmology—of the scientific study conducted from outside by psychologists, psychiatrists, aestheticians, sociologists, educators, and biologists. [contrasted with film criticism, the history of the cinema, and the “theory of cinema”]

1991, Christian Metz, Michael Taylor, Film Language: A Semiotics of the Cinema, University of Chicago Press, page 90:

190: According to Marc Soriano, secretary editor of the institute's review, “Before filmology, one was restricted to verifying a basic truth, that the projection of a film affected the audience. As far as how and why, that was another question. It was thus this ‘how and why’ that the nascent filmology tackled.”
198: This problem of the film spectator, which we have just begun to address, was already at the center of the filmology movement's debates during the 1950s.

1992, Jacques Aumont et al, Richand Neupert transl., Aesthetics of Film, University of Texas Press

In the history of the filmology movement this conjuncture of disciplines underwent a gradual but unrelenting reconfiguration wherein the disciplines of psychology and sociology (at this time overwhelmingly Durkheimian in cast) acquired such prominence that aesthetic or hermeneutic concerns were virtually eliminated.

1992, John Mowitt, Text, Duke University Press, page 143:

9: Filmology once again set an example, by explicitly proposing a new vocabulary (“filmofanic,” “profilmic,” “diegetic,” etc.), just as semiotics and psychoanalysis would become exemplary in the 1960s and 1970s by tending toward private lexemes (“syntagmatic,” “icon,” “suture,” etc.).
103: It should be noted that filmology is not the only branch of the ongoing research, however; but we have had strong reasons for privileging it so far. It cannot be said too often that filmology introduced a scientific approach to cinema for the first time and that, during the 1950s and 1960s, it hosted the most important psychological contributions to the topic. But when the references to this experience started disappearing, especially in the second half of the 1970s, other lines of enquiry emerged, close to filmology in spirit.

1999, Francesco Casetti, Elizabeth Gard Bartolini-Salimbeni, Theories of Cinema, 1945–1995:

If filmology, for its part, has not shown much interest in films, it has significantly contributed to the shift in film theory's center of gravity by determining it in relation to certain “scientific” achievements, and, despite the generality of its stakes, has sometimes wound up touching several levels of textual singularity—and above all reviving a concern for method, which will have more or less long term direct effects on the analysis of film, thanks to a progressive displacement at work from filmology toward semiology.

2000, Raymond Bellour, Constance Penley, The Analysis of Film, Indiana University Press, page 6:

(film) A 1950s–60s movement of theoretical study relating to film.


pan and scan

Paul disdained pan and scan DVD releases, always holding out for the widescreen special editions.

(film) Formatted to fit within proportions of a 1.33:1 or 1.78:1 aspect ratio television screen, with sides of the original widescreen image (especially 2.35:1 aspect ratio) cropped off.


pan and scan

en-noun

pan and scan (countable and uncountable, plural pan and scans)

Alicia hated the person who had invented pan and scan, since the heightened panning effect aggravated her nausea when watching action movies.

(uncountable, film) The method or practice of adjusting widescreen film images, especially 2.35:1 or 2.39:1 aspect ratio, so that they can be shown within the proportions of a 1.33:1 or 1.78:1 aspect ratio television screen, by cropping off sides of the original widescreen image, as opposed to letterboxing.

In the discount bin by the door sat a pile of pan and scans, mostly comedies, that no one would touch.

(film) A movie recording employing this technology.


pan and scan

en-verb

pan and scan (third-person singular simple present pans and scans, present participle panning and scanning, simple past and past participle panned and scanned)

pans and scans (present singular third-person)
panning and scanning (participle present)
panned and scanned (participle past)
panned and scanned (past)

(film) To adjust widescreen film images so that they can be shown with standard television aspect ratios by cropping the original image, i.e. using pan and scan methods.

In the full-screen version of Star Wars Episode II, only Anakin and Obi-Wan appear in the scene because Padmé was panned and scanned out.

(film) To crop out (a character or object) when performing the pan and scan process, resulting in the deletion of a character or object.


widescreen

(film) Filmed in a greater aspect ratio than the 1.33:1 or 1.37:1 aspect ratio.


stinger

From sting + -er. Both figurative and literal senses appeared in the 16th century.

(slang, television and film) An extension cord.


monologue

dialogue

antonym(s) of “a monopolizing utterance”

First attested in c. 1550. Borrowed from Middle French monologue, modeled on dialogue, ultimately from Byzantine Greek μονόλογος (monólogos, “soliloquy, monologue”).

der

(drama, authorship) A long speech by one person in a play; sometimes a soliloquy; other times spoken to other characters.


backing

en-noun

backing (countable and uncountable, plural backings)

The simplest and cheapest answer is to introduce a scenic backing of some kind, a backdrop, a drape, some flats to restrict the shot and obscure whatever is outside.

2013, Gerald Millerson, TV Scenic Design, page 134:


letterbox

(film) Transferred to home video formats while preserving the original aspect ratio, having black bars above and below the picture area.


letterbox

en-verb

letterbox (third-person singular simple present letterboxes, present participle letterboxing, simple past and past participle letterboxed)

letterboxes (present singular third-person)
letterboxing (participle present)
letterboxed (participle past)
letterboxed (past)

(film, transitive) To transfer a widescreen motion picture to home video formats while preserving the original aspect ratio, with the placing of black bars above and below the picture area.


sweeps

(US, television) The Nielsen ratings used to measure television show viewership several times a year.


shoot 'em up

My wife won't watch this movie; it's a shoot ’em up.

The arcaders have it easy. All they need to do is drop a quarter into a machine to find out how good the latest shoot 'em up game really is. But for the home computer owner, it's another story.

1983 August, Popular Mechanics, volume 160, number 2, page 88:

An unmissable shoot 'em up.

1989, Duncan Macdonald, R-Type (video game review) in Your Sinclair issue 37, January 1989

(idiomatic, film, television, literature, video games) A piece of media which depicts considerable gunplay.


exposition

en-noun

exposition (countable and uncountable, plural expositions)

From Middle English exposicioun, from Old French esposicion, from Latin expositiō, from expōnere (“to put forth”). The sense meaning "exhibition" is a later semantic loan from French exposition.

This essay has too much exposition in it.

My reviewer said she couldn't picture the setting for my story, so I'm improving the exposition.

(authorship) The act or process of declaring or describing something through either speech or writing, in nonfiction or in fiction; the portions and aspects of a piece of writing that exist mainly to describe or explain a set of things (such as, in fiction, the setting, characters and other non-plot elements).

I turned my research into an exposition on the traditional music of Borneo.

(authorship) An essay or speech in which any topic is discussed in detail.

বয়ান

(authorship) An opening section in fiction, in which background information about the characters, events or setting is conveyed.


matte

Matte painting is a tool that filmmakers can use to create a scene that is impossible to achieve with conventional cinematographic means.

(film) A background, often painted or created with computers


RTHK

Radio Television Hong Kong
w:Radio Television Hong Kong

(Hong Kong, broadcasting) Initialism of Radio Television Hong Kong: the government broadcaster of Hong Kong.


HT

HT (countable and uncountable, plural HTs)


LWT

London Weekend Television
w:en:London Weekend Television

(UK, television) Initialism of London Weekend Television.


MOS

Disputed, with many speculative suggestions; see Wikipedia.

(film) Without a synchronous audio track.


glossy

Anna Magnani has been making Hollywood glossies recently, so it was good to see her back again in a native Italian production, The Last Temptation, in which with great artistry and all her usual power she played a Nun who finds a woman's and even a mother's heart beating strongly beneath her 'sister's' habit.

[…] the first home-made guide to TV films by which is meant old films shown on the box, not those new Hollywood glossies made specially for it (though a guide there too would soon be welcome).

1973, Films and Filming, volume 20, page 10:

(film, informal) A film depicting people with glamorous lifestyles.


longueur

Borrowed from French longueur (literally “length”).

bor+

Most of the reasons given for its disappearance make sense: people are happier, busier; the work done by the anti-Freudian skeptics has finally taken hold of the popular imagination, so that people have no time for analytic longueurs and no patience with its mystifications.

1998 August 17, Adam Gopnik, “Man Goes To See a Doctor”, in The New Yorker:

He cultivated the aura, if not quite of the Anti-Christ, at least of an Anti-Sun King, discountenancing his uncle and shocking the dévots by preferring the intimacy and informality of a clique of drinking companions to the formal longueurs of the courtly round […].

2002, Colin Jones, The Great Nation, Penguin, published 2003, page 30:

[T]he reader can’t help feeling that a few judicious nips and tucks might have dispersed the longueurs that waft around the third quarter of the book.

2015 October 5, Michiko Kakutani, “Review: ‘City on Fire,’ Garth Risk Hallberg’s Novel of New York in the Bad Old Days”, in New York Times:

Claire Fontaine (who are actually a duo) have queered the phrase, lending its pungency and ambiguity to a biennale that I wish were nearly so succinct. There are longueurs. There are detours and incomprehensible delays.

2024 April 22, Adrian Searle, “Venice Biennale 2024 review – everything everywhere all at once”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:

(authorship) A lengthy passage in a dramatic or literary work, especially a dull or tedious one; a period of boredom.


frequency modulation

en-noun

frequency modulation (countable and uncountable, plural frequency modulations)

(sound, radio) the use of a modulating wave to vary the instantaneous frequency of a carrier wave


kokoro

/ˈkoʊkəˌɹoʊ/

Borrowed from Japanese 心(こころ) (kokoro, “heart, mind, spirit”).

Fame is for weenies. I'd rather be remembered for inventing a weird guitar effect or a recording technique than becoming famous by a song, unless the song is genuinely from my kokoro.

1992 December 7, Mike, “Re: When Things Go Wrong”, in bit.listserv.allmusic (Usenet), message-ID <ALLMUSIC%92120719125825@AUVM.AMERICAN.EDU>:

(fandom slang, chiefly anime and manga) A heart.


B-movie

Analogous to the B-side (i.e. the second side, the primary side being designated A) of a musical recording.

(film) A low-budget motion picture, especially one with poor production values.


mockumentary

Perlman devised a format inspired by the seminal mockumentary Spinal Tap, where the spot started with an ESPN announcer speaking to camera in a serious, straight voice, framing the story as “real” documentary.

2010, Douglas Holt, Douglas Cameron, Cultural Strategy: Using Innovative Ideologies to Build Breakthrough Brands, Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 345:

The resonances between This is Spinal Tap and other documentary and mockumentary texts is pervasive, […]

2018, Richard Wallace, Mockumentary Comedy: Performing Authenticity, Springer, →ISBN, page 87:

(film) A film or television programme presented as if it were a documentary but that is not factual and often a parody or satire.


cable box

(television) A set top box connecting a house to its cable service.

(television) A device given out by some cable television services that allows the user to have more channels on their television than they would have without the cable box.

(television) A descrambler used to descramble scrambled television channels on cable TV.


mise en scène

mise en scène (plural mises en scène or mise en scènes)

mises en scène (plural)
mise en scènes (plural)

LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-mise en scène.wav

Borrowed from French mise en scène (literally “placing on stage”).

bor+

Although this mise en scène may sound like a contrived “Twilight Zone” setup, it provides Mr. Powers with the perfect opportunity to show off his virtuosic skills as a writer[…]

1995 June 27, Michiko Kakutani, “Playing Pygmalion to a Hermeneutic Computer”, in New York Times:

For reasons explained in the previous volume, noticeably absent are mises en scène representing productions at the Théâtre-Italien.

1998: H. Robert Cohen, Original Staging Manuals for Ten Parisian Operatic Premières, 1824–1843, page xiii (Pendragon Press; →ISBN, 0945193610)

Dupont interrupts the continuity of the master narrative of lighthouse-keeping and marital and extramarital love with visually arresting mise-en-scènes and mise-en-shots.

2010, Paul Matthew St, E. A. Dupont and His Contribution to British Film, Pierre: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, page 173:

This is also the point at which mise en scène no longer simply describes the passage of a text to the stage, but rather encompasses the autonomous organisation of the theatre work, the 'synthetic' vision of theatre and of mise en scène which is the subject of an accomplished study by Guido Hiss.

2013, Patrice Pavis, translated by Joel Anderson, Contemporary Mise en Scène, Taylor & Francis (Routledge), pages 9–10:

(film, theater) The arrangement of props and actors on a stage or for film.


SOC

en-noun

SOC (countable and uncountable, plural SOCs)

(broadcasting) Initialism of standard outcue.


firehosing

(videography) Video camera movement intended to record as much of a scene as possible, such as by swinging the camera from side to side, usually in a way that makes the resulting footage worthless.


Dogme

(film) A movement whose goal is to instill a sense of simplicity into filmmaking by using hand-held cameras, shooting on location, omitting music, etc.


small screen

Jane Smith made her small-screen debut in 1998, appearing as a patient in a hospital drama.

"Marvel’s attempts to conquer TV as comprehensively as it has done cinema continues with what might be its most distinctive small-screen effort yet."

2018, Ferran Adrià, “What's on Netflix and Amazon this month - July 2018”, in The Guardian:

(broadcasting) The broadcast or cable television screen, as opposed to the cinema screen (or big screen); by extension, the television programs themselves.


go out

en-verb

go out (third-person singular simple present goes out, present participle going out, simple past went out, past participle gone out)

goes out (present singular third-person)
going out (participle present)
went out (past)
gone out (participle past)

The first episode of the show goes out on Saturday.

(intransitive, UK, broadcasting) To be broadcast.


tweener

With a less bankable cast, “Cold Mountain” became an $80-million-plus “tweener,” neither a blockbuster studio movie nor a modest “indiewood” production like “Lost in Translation.”

2004 February 3, Peter Biskind, “Ambitious Miramax Gets Lost in ‘Tweener’ Land”, in Los Angeles Times:

(informal) A person or thing that is between two categories, classes or age groups.

(film) A film that falls between two genres or audiences (and thus may not be easily marketed).

While it lacks true function curves for complete control of tweening, Carrara has several kinds of tweeners that allow decent control of object movement between keyframes (the Spline and Velocity Graph tweeners are most useful).

2000 May, Steve Anzovin, Raf Anzovin, “Reviews: Carrara 1.0”, in MacAddict, volume 5, number 5, Brisbane, CA: Imagine Media, Inc., →ISSN, page 57:

(cinematography) A person, machine, or piece of software that performs tweening.


hitchhiker

Coordinate term: cowcatcher

[…] and networks have taken steps to modify or eliminate the bunching of spots and commercials between programs which results from the use of hitchhikers and cowcatchers.

1945, Charles Harold Sandage, Radio Advertising for Retailers, page 186:

(radio, advertising) An advertisement at the end of a programme.


sign off

sign off (third-person singular simple present signs off, present participle signing off, simple past and past participle signed off)

signs off (present singular third-person)
signing off (participle present)
signed off (participle past)
signed off (past)

Before he signed off the radio station for the night, the disc jockey played the National Anthem.

(broadcasting) To cease broadcasting a radio or television signal, usually at the end of a broadcasting day.


DVR

digital video recorder
digital video recorder#English

(television) Initialism of digital video recorder.


amplitude modulation

en-noun

amplitude modulation (countable and uncountable, plural amplitude modulations)

(radio) A method of sending information by modifying (modulating) the intensity (amplitude) of a carrier wave.


biopic

Shortened from biographical picture; synchronically bio + pic.

(film) A motion picture based on the life (or lives) of a real, rather than fictional, person (or people).


doublet

From Middle English doublet, a borrowing from Old French doublet, from double, duble, doble + -et.

zeke

(historical in English) a man’s waistcoat


pup

For a scene like the Highgate exhumation night sequence suitable equipment would consist of: two brutes on Molevators, three 10 K lights also on Molevators and, for good measure, two 5 Ks, four 2 Ks, two pups (1000 W), two North lights […]

1976, A. Arthur Englander, Paul Petzold, Filming for Television, page 191:

Spots were also used for the foreground, usually the smaller type like a “pup,” which could be repositioned quickly for different setups.

2003, Christopher Neame, Rungs on a Ladder: Hammer Films Seen Through a Soft Gauze, page 23:

(film, television) A kind of small spotlight.


stunt double

(film, television) A type of body double: a skilled stand-in used for dangerous film or video sequences such as jumping out of a building, leaping from vehicle to vehicle, and fight sequences.


dead space

dead space (countable and uncountable, plural dead spaces)

(film) Picture information that is either masked off or cropped out of viewing area, whether at the top or bottom, or to the sides.


fade in

(film, television) A type of transition used in visual media, in which the transition is at first black, fading to a visual image.


fade in

en-verb

fade in (third-person singular simple present fades in, present participle fading in, simple past and past participle faded in)

fades in (present singular third-person)
fading in (participle present)
faded in (participle past)
faded in (past)

Fade in and out of a daydream / Our waking life torn at the seam / I am the match / You're the gasoline

2024, Jackie Evancho (lyrics and music), “Behind My Eyes”, in Solla:

(film, television, transitive, intransitive) To fade from black to a visual image in a film or other visual media.


fade out

(film, television) A type of transition used in film, usually at the end of a scene, involving a fade to black from the cut.


fade out

fade out (third-person singular simple present fades out, present participle fading out, simple past and past participle faded out)

fades out (present singular third-person)
fading out (participle present)
faded out (participle past)
faded out (past)

(film, television, transitive, intransitive) To fade from a cut to black in a movie.


fallout

en-noun

fallout (countable and uncountable, plural fallouts)

(radio, television, broadcasting) An impromptu guest used to fill in for another guest spot who is a no-show or who has cancelled last minute.


disc jockey

Disc refers to the flat, circular shape of the traditional medium for recorded music. Jockey refers to a diminutive of jock, the Northern English or Scots colloquial equivalent of the first name John, which is also used generically for “boy, or fellow” (compare Jack, Dick), at least since 1529. So, disc jockey / DJ etymologically refers to a young person playing (discs holding) music.
Coined by journalist Walter Winchell in 1935 to describe Martin Block. Appeared in print in Variety in 1941.
Previously also called record man.

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The show he produced first aired on WJMR, a white-owned New Orleans radio station. The show's disc jockey used the name “Poppa Stoppa” and played what would then be called “race music,” the term given to any music produced by African American artists.

2014, Dominic Massa, New Orleans Radio, Arcadia Publishing, →ISBN, page 107:

(dated, radio) A person who conducts a radio program of recorded music combined with talk, news, commercials, weather, etc.

levyjuontaja

person who conducts a radio program with recorded music


write out

en-verb

write out (third-person singular simple present writes out, present participle writing out, simple past wrote out, past participle written out)

writes out (present singular third-person)
writing out (participle present)
wrote out (past)
written out (participle past)

“Jussie Smollett continues to be a consummate professional on set and as we have previously stated, he is not being written out of the show,” 20th Century Fox Television and Fox Entertainment said in a joint statement released on Wednesday.

2019 February 20, Sopan Deb, “Fox Stands by Jussie Smollett: ‘He Is Not Being Written Out of the Show’”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:

(transitive, chiefly television) To exclude (a character in a TV show, etc.) by writing the script so as to explain their disappearance (through death, moving away, etc.).


post-production

en-noun

post-production (usually uncountable, plural post-productions)

(cinematography, television) The stages of film (or audio) production happening between the actual filming (or recording) and the completed product.

postproducció

stages of film production happening between the actual filming and the completed film


special effect

(film, television) An effect that cannot be reasonably achieved by normal means, as for example by the digital manipulation of previously filmed footage.


wind-up

(television) A circular hand gesture, supposed to represent the winding on of film, used to signal to a performer to finish quickly.


box office

box office (countable and uncountable, plural box offices)

1786, presumably from sales of boxes, box seats (“separated private seating”). Sense of “total sales” from 1904.
Folk etymology is that this derives from Elizabethan theatre, where theater admission was collected in a box attached to a long stick, passed around the audience. However, first attestation is over a century later (theaters were closed in 1642), making this highly unlikely.

(countable, film, theater) A place where tickets are sold in a theatre/theater or cinema.

If any further insurance was required, the popularity of the three "Topper" films in the 1930s — based on Thorne Smith's characters — would seem to indicate that amusing ghosts made good box office.

2005, Barry Day, Coward on Film: The Cinema of Noël Coward, page 88:

(uncountable, by extension, film) The total amount of money paid by people worldwide to watch a movie at cinemas/movie theaters.


adaptation

adaptation (countable and uncountable, plural adaptations)

/ˌædæpˈteɪʃən/

From French adaptation, from Medieval Latin adaptātiō, from Latin adaptō (“I fit, adjust, modify; I adapt, fit or adjust to”); see adapt. Equivalent to adapt + -ation.

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Having partly a bibliographic value, and partly confirming the statements above as to Balzac's influence, the following details concerning theatrical adaptations of some of his novels may serve as a supplement to this chapter.

(countable, authorship) An artistic work that has been adapted from a different medium.


trucking

en-noun

trucking (countable and uncountable, plural truckings)

(broadcasting) Lateral movement of the camera.


modified aspect ratio

original aspect ratio
original aspect ratio

(cinematography) An aspect ratio in which a motion picture is formatted to fit a specific type of screen (historically 1.33:1), as opposed to original aspect ratio.


original aspect ratio

original aspect ratio (plural original aspect ratios)

modified aspect ratio
modified aspect ratio

(cinematography) The aspect ratio of the rectangular shape that the director intended his or her motion picture to be viewed in, as opposed to modified aspect ratio.


splatter

splatter (countable and uncountable, plural splatters)

Uncertain. Emerged 1780s.https://www.etymonline.com/word/splatter Possibly a blend of splash + spatter.

(uncountable, radio) Spurious emissions resulting from an abrupt change in a transmitted radio signal.


lolicon

lolicon (usually uncountable, plural lolicons)

Borrowed from Japanese ロリコン (rorikon), clipping of ロリータ・コンプレックス (“Lolita complex”), from the Vladimir Nabokov novel Lolita and English complex (not from English Lolita complex, which comes from the Japanese term). Lolita comes from Spanish Lolita, diminutive of Lola, from the given name Dolores. By surface analysis, loli + -con (“abnormal sexual attraction”).

clipping

ロリータ・コンプレックス

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Innocence’s story—about female sex androids that kill their owners—is possible only in a Lolicon country like Japan. The androids are modeled after little girls[.]

2004, Patrick Macias, Tomohiro Machiyama, Cruising The Anime City: An Otaku Guide to Neo Tokyo, Stone Bridge Press, page 48:

A Japanese term derived from the English phrase “Lolita complex,” lolicon describes a fascination with cartoons of very young-looking girls engaged in varying degrees of erotic behavior.

2014 October 15, Matt Alt, “Pharrell Williams’s Lolicon Video”, in The New Yorker:

(uncountable, anime and manga) Attraction (often erotic) to young or young-looking female characters.

I don't need to hear you are becoming a lolicon.

1993 October 29, "Eldrick Tobin, Master of Perversion" (username), "The Arc: Joyful Noise Omakefic Unit 01: Sentenced: A Fanboys! Crossover "jnomk01.txt" (1/1)", in alt.hentai.sailor-moon, Usenet

Ken's a lolicon (pedophile).

1998 March 9, Chadwick Ngan, “BLAND Manga Capsules 3/4/98”, in rec.arts.manga (Usenet):

Hey, don't take me for a lolicon: I'm not! It is just that I find that kind of anime... fun, refreshing.

2000 July 6, OLF, i.e. Olf Le Fol, “:: chokes :: :: passes out ::”, in alt.hentai.sailor-moon (Usenet):

I like lolis, I consider myself a lolicon, but I'm not attracted to real children. Your argument fails immediately there since most lolicons are not attracted to real children. Am I a pedophile?

2016 July 14, Aiko_Hiroshi, Kono Bijutsubu ni wa Mondai ga Aru! Episode 2 Discussion:

Let me say it again, lolicon and pedo are a different thing. japanese people are just saying it lolicon because in their mind, they already implanted the word of lolicon as pedo, but in anime community, pedo and lolicon are a different thing. why make it different ? so that we can see the difference from people who likes "fictional" little girl and from people who likes "real" little girl.

2016 July 15, YizelTro, Kono Bijutsubu ni wa Mondai ga Aru! Episode 2 Discussion:

(countable, anime and manga) An individual who is attracted to young or young-looking female characters.

If you are into bishojo, loli-con, or bishonen materials, be advised that customs *does* frown on what might be considered pornography.

1989 September 23, Mark Crispin, “bringing stuff into the US from Japan”, in soc.culture.japan (Usenet):

the whole gamut of lolicon and girls-with-guns genres

1993 March 27, Rafael Brown, “Anime Potrayal of Japanese Women”, in rec.arts.anime (Usenet):

Some critics of lolicon claim that those who enjoy it also necessarily enjoy real child porn […]

2006, Lawrence Eng, Otaku Engagements: subcultural appropriation of science and technology, page 168:

Bizarrely, viewing and collecting lolicon seems to have become a subcultural norm, especially in Japan, […]

2010, Sarah D. Goode, Understanding and Addressing Adult Sexual Attraction to Children: a Study of Paedophiles in Contemporary Society, page 29:

Most importantly, because German child pornography and child abuse laws forbid representation of children as sexual objects, there is a complete ban on shota or lolicon.

2010, Paul M. Malone, “From BRAVO to Animexx.de to Export”, in Boys’ Love Manga, page 33:

(uncountable, anime and manga) Erotic or suggestive artwork depicting young or young-looking girls.


typecast

en-verb

typecast (third-person singular simple present typecasts, present participle typecasting, simple past and past participle typecast or typecasted)

typecasts (present singular third-person)
typecasting (participle present)
typecast (participle past)
typecast (past)
typecasted (participle past)
typecasted (past)

конверти́ране на ти́пове

to change an entity of one datatype into another

(acting) To cast an actor in the same kind of role repeatedly.

encasellar

to cast an actor in the same kind of role repeatedly


exeunt

exeunt (third-person singular simple present exit or exeunts, present participle exeunting, simple past and past participle exeunted)

exit (present singular third-person)
exeunts (present singular third-person)
exeunting (participle present)
exeunted (participle past)
exeunted (past)

Borrowed from Latin exeunt (“they leave”), the third-person plural present active indicative of exeō (“leave”).

Get thee to bed, and rest; for thou hast need. [Exeunt Lady Capulet and Nurse.]

c. 1591–1595 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Romeo and Ivliet”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene iii]:

Enter two Devils.
 Wagner. How now sir, will you serve me now?
 Robin. Ay, good Wagner, take away the devils then.
 Wagner. Spirits, away! [Exeunt Devils.] Now, sirrah, follow me.

1589–1592 (date written), Ch[ristopher] Marl[owe], The Tragicall History of D. Faustus. […], London: […] V[alentine] S[immes] for Thomas Bushell, published 1604, →OCLC:

Jane, Ursa, carrying Thomas, and Moss Bud start to exeunt.

1921, Montrose Jonas Moses, A Treasury of Plays for Children, page 504:

On that dixit we exeunted.

1957, Henry Miller, Big Sur and the Oranges of Hieronymus Bosch, page 249:

That let the small problem of getting the van within proximity, running a few yards of cable, spiking the phone line, revving the engine and frying the phones, removing the cable, and exeunting, south

1997, Richard Marcinko with John Weisman, Task Force Blue, page 311:

The lasses picked up their skirts and exeunted.

2003, Neal Stephenson, Quicksilver, page 142:

(archaic, drama) They leave the stage (a stage direction to two or more actors, the plural counterpart of exit).

退场

"they leave", usually in the context of theatre


backstory

From back- (prefix meaning ‘in, into, or towards the past’) + story.


teleplay

(authorship) A script formatted like a screenplay for cinema, but written to be made into an episode of a television show.


feedline

(radio) Physical cabling that carries the radio signal to and from the aerial.


flashback

→ German: Flashback

→ Spanish: flashback

→ Norwegian: flashback

→ Portuguese: flashback

(authorship) A dramatic device in which an earlier event is inserted into the normal chronological flow of a narrative.

salt enrere

a dramatic device in which an earlier event is inserted into the normal chronological flow of a narrative


screenplay

Coordinate term: radioplay

I know Corinne would be happy if I started writing scripts again. Since my last screenplay, I haven't written anything in over four months.

(authorship, cinematography) A script for a movie or a television show; especially, the former specifically.


peripeteia

en-noun

peripeteia (countable and uncountable, plural peripeteias)

/pɛɹɪpɪˈtɪə/

/pɛɹɪpɪˈtaɪə/

/pɛɹɪpɪˈtiə/

/pɛɹɪpɪˈteɪə/

From Late Latin peripetia, and its source Ancient Greek περιπέτεια (peripéteia), from περιπίπτω (peripíptō, “to change suddenly”), from περί (perí, “round, around, about”) + the stem of πίπτω (píptō, “to fall”).

(drama) A sudden reversal of fortune as a plot point in Classical tragedy.

перипетия

a reversal of fortune; a sudden change in circumstances


time shifting

(broadcasting) The practice of recording a broadcast with the intention of watching or listening to it later at a more convenient time.

(television) The practice of network affiliates from different time zones of making television programs/programmes available at multiple times during the day.


upfront

Virginia Heffernan, Times TV critic, reports from this week's TV upfronts, where the networks debut their new schedules.

2007 May 17, Bill Carter, “As the Networks Order New Shows, Fox Moves to Consolidate Its Gains”, in New York Times:

(television) A meeting of network executives with the press and major advertisers, signaling the start of advertising sales for a new season


first unit

(cinematography) The team that shoots footage which is of primary importance for the final cut of the motion picture, including all scenes involving actors, or at least stars of the motion picture.


second unit

It is the apotheosis of what we in modern sport are obliged to call “plotlines”, and if Leni Riefenstahl were still alive, I imagine she’d be shooting second unit on it.

2024 March 5, Marina Hyde, “It’s the Christian Horner paradox: F1 is now hideously dull, but the drama has never been better”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:

(cinematography) A separate team that shoots footage that is of secondary importance for the final cut of the motion picture, as opposed to first unit.


genki

Borrowed from Japanese げんき (“energetic, peppy”).

bor+

(anime and manga) A playful, hyperactive girl.


genki

en-adj

genki (comparative more genki, superlative most genki)

more genki (comparative)
most genki (superlative)

Akira, the genki red head, is accosted by Kyouko, a predatory blond girl in her high school.

2009 July 7, Dave Baranyi, “Aoi Hana - Blue Flowers for a Blue Girl”, in rec.arts.anime.misc (Usenet):

(anime and manga, typically of a girl) Playful and hyperactive.


machinima

en-noun

machinima (countable and uncountable, plural machinimas or machinima)

LL-Q1860 (eng)-Flame, not lame-machinima.wav

Fiona's been off at some kind of anime camp in New Jersey – Quake movies and machinima workshops, Japanese staff who claim not to know a word of English beyond ‘awesome’ and ‘sucks’, which for a vast range of human endeavor, actually, is more than enough…

2013, Thomas Pynchon, Bleeding Edge, Vintage, published 2014, page 135:

(video games, film, countable, uncountable) The rendering of computer-generated imagery using low-end (real time) 3D engines such as those found in video games, as opposed to the high-end, complex 3D engines used by professionals.

(video games, film, uncountable) The genre of films created by such techniques.


fade to black

en-verb

fade to black (third-person singular simple present fades to black, present participle fading to black, simple past and past participle faded to black)

fades to black (present singular third-person)
fading to black (participle present)
faded to black (participle past)
faded to black (past)

From the movie industry, where it was customary to end a scene or session of filming by closing off light to the camera, sometimes for dramatic effect, but often as a practical measure.

They danced the famous Merengue / Now we dolly back / Now we fade to black

1976, Walter Becker, Donald Fagen (lyrics and music), “Haitian Divorce”, in The Royal Scam, performed by Steely Dan:

We don't have to fade to black / Let the sun come in

2023, “Let the Sun Come In”, in Relentless, performed by The Pretenders:

(film) To end a film or a scene of a film by causing the image to be gradually dimmed into black.


anchorman

From anchor + man. Senses 1 and 4 derive from sense 2, sense 3 is literal.

(television, radio) The main host of a television or radio program, particularly one relating to the broadcast of news.

مُذِيع أَخْبَار

muḏīʕ ʔaḵbār


in character

It was difficult to stay in character, because I kept wanting to laugh.

(idiomatic, drama, roleplaying games) Acting as the character, not as oneself.


out of character

I was out of character for most of the first act because those people in the third row wouldn't stop chatting.

(idiomatic, acting) Not in character; not in the zone; not successfully performing within the mindset of a given character in a theatrical performance.

After watching him perform so energetically, it is a bit of a trip to hang out with him when he's out of character. In real life, he's really mellow.

Susan asked the GM, out of character, whether she was able to sense magic in the room.

The comedian stepped out of character to mug directly to the audience.

(idiomatic, acting, roleplaying games) Not acting; not "on"; behaving within one's natural personality rather than that of a character, or taking actions entirely outside the fictional context.


teaser

→ German: Teaser

(television) A brief portion of a television episode shown at the beginning, often before the main title sequence, meant to introduce the story and entice viewers to watch the rest of the episode.


roadshow

In 2004, Gibson’s roadshow tour for The Passion of the Christ saw him visiting church groups and giving impassioned speeches about the film (which Hollywood studios refused to fund or distribute).

2016 August 22, David Sims, “Why ‘Ben-Hur’ Was Hollywood's $100M Mistake”, in The Atlantic:

(film) The showing of a film in selected cinemas prior to its general release.


barn doors

Clip the C-47 to the barn doors.

Some broads have barn doors (see page 115) to block gross light spill into other set areas; others have even an adjustable beam, […]

1976, Herbert Zettl, Television Production Handbook, volume 10, page 105:

(film) Four hinged metal slats that come (or are attachable) on the front of cinema lights, used for shaping light and fastening light gels.


subtitle

(authorship) A heading below or after a title.

Coordinate term: intertitle

Careful viewers have long observed that in the movies, one can not only watch but read cigarettes like subtitles — translating the action on the screen into another language which the camera registers but rarely foregrounds, a part of the thickness of the medium which is almost never brought into focus. […] The cigarette in the scene serves as a subtext, a mute caption or subtitle, sometimes accompanying, sometimes contradicting or diverting the explicit premise of the action or the open meaning of signs.

1995, Richard Klein, “Introduction”, in Cigarettes are sublime, Paperback edition, Durham: Duke University Press, published 1993, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 9:

(cinematography, television) Textual versions of the dialogue in films (and similar media such as television or video games), usually displayed at the bottom of the screen.


hammocking

Hammocking tries to establish a new program, or to recover the audience for a show slipping in popularity […]

1994, Sydney W Head, Christopher H Sterling, Lemuel B Schofield, Broadcasting in America: a survey of electronic media:

Indeed, the acceptance that hammocking and the mixed-schedule is in decline formed an important part of the BBC's argument for new digital channels.

2004, Damian Tambini, Jamie Cowling, From public service broadcasting to public service communications:

Hammocking is a frequently employed strategy. For example, it is often seen in children's cartoon blocks in which a newcomer is sandwiched between two established series.

2005, Philippe Perebinossoff, Brian Gross, Lynne S Gross, Programming for TV, radio, and the Internet:

(broadcasting) The scheduling of a new or unpopular program between two popular ones in the hope that viewers will watch it.


cutting room

(film) A room in which a film is edited to its final form.


yaoi

en-noun

yaoi (countable and uncountable, plural yaoi or yaois)

From Japanese やおい (yaoi), a blend of 山(やま)無(な)し (yama nashi, “no climax”) + 落(お)ち無(な)し (ochi nashi, “no point”) + 意味(いみ)無(な)し (imi nashi, “no meaning”), originally mocking those who criticised early yaoi works for being too focused on sex scenes instead of storylines.

ja-blend

(pornography, anime, manga) A form of hentai involving two or more males in a gay relationship.

ইয়াওই

(anime, manga) A narrative or visual work featuring a romance or sexual relationship between two or more men.


logline

First attested in 1613 as logge-line. A compound of log + line.

Coordinate term: elevator pitch

Screenwriting Tip #12: If you don't know your own logline, you probably don't know what your script is about. Some writers will tell you they don't have a logline. Their screenplay is “too complex” or “too character-driven,” […]

2013, Xander Bennett, Screenwriting Tips, You Hack, page 16:

The first step in outlining is to make sure that your logline, that one-or-two- sentence summary of your movie you first created in chapter 2 (“Jump-starting the Screenplay”), is the best that it can be in capturing what your movie is about now.

2013, Linda Venis, Cut to the Chase: Writing Feature Films with the Pros at UCLA Extension Writers' Program, Penguin, →ISBN:

(authorship) A very short summary of a script or screenplay.


cutline

(journalism, broadcasting) In production, a hypothetical line that separates items that will be executed and publicized, versus items that will be cut.

(journalism, broadcasting) A caption under a photograph, or more narrowly just the explanatory text block under a photograph, excluding the title.


fitter

For the fitter of film music in the silent era visual reference was the surest indicator of content.

2012, Stephen Neale, The Classical Hollywood Reader, page 268:

(film, historical) A person employed to find suitable music to accompany silent films.


puker

(broadcasting, slang) A person who caricatures the manner of speech of a disc jockey or announcer, using affected, back-of-the-throat speech that is likened to puking.


coryphée

Borrowed from French coryphée, from Latin coryphaeus, from Ancient Greek κορυφαῖος (koruphaîos, “leader of the chorus in an Ancient Greek drama”), from κορῠφή (koruphḗ, “top of the head, crown”) (possibly ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *ḱerh₂- (“head, top; horn”)) + -ῐος (-ios, suffix forming adjectives meaning ‘belonging to, pertaining to’).

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The piece [...] contains a passage for men's voices marked "Les Travailleurs," topped by a tenor solo (in alto clef) marked "Coryphée," a term originally meaning leader of the chorus, as in a Greek tragedy. [...] [T]he aforementioned "Coryphée" line grows out of a recitative for first tenor.

1986, Ralph P. Locke, “The Rue Monsigny and Salle Taitbout: Music in the Formative Years”, in Music, Musicians and the Saint-Simonians, Chicago, Ill., London: University of Chicago Press, →ISBN, part 3 (Practice), page 86:

Two coryphées, or coryphæi, the term for the leader of a Greek chorus, were stationed in towers on either side of the stage. A device borrowed from Léon Chancerel's Mission de Jeanne d'Arc, the coryphées are present for the entire length of the drama. Like the messenger, they commented upon the action in a Manichean dialogue: one cheering on Joan of Arc, the other deriding her.

2013, Lucie Kayas, Christopher Brent Murray, “Olivier Messiaen and Portique pour une fille de France”, in Christopher Dingle, Robert Fallon, editors, Messiaen Perspectives, Farnham, Surrey, Burlington, Vt.: Ashgate, →ISBN; republished volumes 1 (Sources and Influences), Abingdon, Oxfordshire, New York, N.Y.: Routledge, 2016, →ISBN, page 52:

(Ancient Greece, drama, historical) The conductor or leader of the chorus of a drama.


barney

Etymology unknown. Often incorrectly thought to be Cockney rhyming slang from Barney Rubble (“trouble”, from the character Barney Rubble on The Flintstones), it actually dates back to the 19th century and its origin is unknown.

unk

Etymology unknown

You can create your own blimp or barney with anything that will deaden the camera noise, such as a changing bag, foam rubber, […]

2015, Peter W. Rea, David K. Irving, Producing and Directing the Short Film and Video, page 209:

(film, television) Synonym of blimp (“soundproof cover for a video camera”)


sound stage

Coordinate term: silent stage

Filmed entirely on a sound stage, with the exception of a single cutaway exterior shot (reproduced exactly in the Swedish version) , the film has all the earmarks of the "canned theatre" style: minimal camera movement[…]

1992, Robert B. Altman, Sound Theory, Sound Practice, Psychology Press, →ISBN, page 145:

(film, television) A soundproof room or building used for the production of movies or of television programmes.


OOV

(broadcasting) An item in a television (especially news) broadcast consisting of pictures alone, to be played on screen while the presenter continues to talk out of vision and provide commentary.


costar

The once famous actor objected to his costar having a bigger dressing room.

(acting) a person who shares star billing

Alas, always a costar but never a star.

(acting) a person who slightly lacks the status to be considered a star


blanking

en-noun

blanking (countable and uncountable, plural blankings)

Thus during each blanking, a line pattern of charges is read into the horizontal register in parallel.

2001, A. M. Dhake, TV and Video Engineering, page 73:

(television) The reduction of the brightness of the scanning beam to zero when it needs to be moved without updating the picture.


back projection

back projection (countable and uncountable, plural back projections)

Coordinate term: back projection

(film) A cinematic technique in which live action is filmed in front of a screen on which the background action or a background scene is projected.


telecine

telecine (countable and uncountable, plural telecines)

(film) The process of transferring motion picture film into electronic form.


rotoscope

(film, television, visual effects) A technique in which animators trace live-action movement frame by frame.


soapy

en-adj

soapy (comparative soapier, superlative soapiest)

soapier (comparative)
soapiest (superlative)

From soap + -y. Compare German Low German sepig (“soapy”), German seifig (“soapy”), Swedish såpig (“soapy”).

The heightened worlds of darkly comedic satire and soapy high-school romance make it easy enough to roll with unrealistic casting choices—and that goes for stage musicals, too, where some level of artifice is built into the format.

2021 September 22, Caroline Siede, “Dear Evan Hansen is a misfire on just about every level”, in AV Club:

This Diana-obsessed series is the very definition of bad writing. Despite the brilliant cast, it’s a crass, soapy dive into the abyss – not least in the atrocious scenes featuring Ghost Diana[.]

2023 November 16, Lucy Mangan, “The Crown season 6 review – so bad it’s basically an out-of-body experience”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:


set piece

What’s so great about the episode is it takes its time. The first 30 minutes of this 79-minute behemoth—a model for season eight’s reportedly extended run-times—are a single set piece, the big parlay in the Dragon Pit at King’s Landing.

2017 August 27, Brandon Nowalk, “Game Of Thrones slows down for the longest, and best, episode of the season (newbies)”, in The Onion AV Club:

The message is that Hynkel is not a brilliant strategist or a mighty leader. He is an overgrown adolescent – as demonstrated in the sublime set piece in which he dances with an inflatable globe, dreaming of being "emperor of the world".

2021 February 5, Nicholas Barber, “The Great Dictator: The film that dared to laugh at Hitler”, in BBC:

(film, video games) An elaborate and interesting scene in a movie or video game, usually the most important and visually iconic scene in the work.


lookup table

(cinematography, specifically) A color filter.


SDR

en-noun

SDR (countable and uncountable, plural SDRs)

(television, retronym) Initialism of standard dynamic range.


evening wrap

(television) The last of a series of news programmes broadcast in the evening.


direct cut

(film) A film punctuation in which there is a direct instantaneous transition between one scene and the next.


dubbing

dubbing (countable and uncountable, plural dubbings)

New genres are thus emerging as a consequence of foreign text dubbings (and subtitlings). Some original cartoons and films are also based on dubbings of foreign cartoons and films.

2013, Carmen Millan-Varela, Francesca Bartrina, The Routledge Handbook of Translation Studies:

(film) The replacement of a voice part in a film or animation, particularly with a translation, revoicing.

(film) The process in which additional or supplementary recordings are "mixed" with original production sound to create the finished soundtrack.

jälkiäänitys

process of mixing additional voice material to a film


coryphaeus

coryphaeus (plural coryphaeuses or coryphaei)

coryphaeuses (plural)
coryphaei (plural)

/ˌkɔɹəˈfiːəs/

/ˌkɒɹɪˈfiːʌs/

Borrowed from Latin coryphaeus, from Ancient Greek κορυφαῖος (koruphaîos, “leader of the chorus in an Ancient Greek drama”), from κορυφή (koruphḗ, “top of the head, crown”) (possibly ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *ḱerh₂- (“head, top; horn”)) + -ῐος (-ios, suffix forming adjectives meaning ‘belonging to, pertaining to’).

Then the coryphæus finishes the remaining part of the strophe. But when they have returned to order, Bacchus again interposes by beginning the antistrophe β', which the coryphæus ought to have done.

1830, Gottfried Hermann, Gottfried Hermann, translated by John Seager, Hermann's Elements of the Doctrine of Metres, page 165:

The chorus, that is those members of the komos who have not become specialized as actors and continue singing and dancing, are headed by a coryphaeus, who sometimes addresses them, exhorting them to action, or to begin the song or the rite, or else anticipates or summarizes their words, or represents them in conversation with the actors.

1975, Francisco Rodríguez Adrados, “Festival, Comedy and Tragedy: The Greek Origins of Theatre”, in Christopher Holme, transl., [1972, Festia, Comedia y Tragedia], page 250:

Post-classical references to the famous ‘chorus-trainer’ Sannio indicate that his role extended to performing and thus taking the coryphaeus role. The coryphaeus was both leader and teacher, and in performance played a crucial role in setting the time that the other dancers followed.

2000, David Wiles, Greek Theatre Performance: An Introduction, page 135:

(Ancient Greece, drama, historical) The conductor or leader of the chorus of a drama.


line feed

It appears that Director Chalmers was the only one who, while reading the final draft, noticed that the wording of one clause required the Post Office to provide a line feed to each station.

1964, Ian K. Mackay, Broadcasting in Nigeria, page 30:

Playing a “gig” in Toronto at the time, Lombardo and his boys arrived at RB to do a live line feed to New York for their regular dance-band series on CBS, just at a mement when Baker's one and only amplifier was in full use on CFRB's own air, broadcasting a lucrative locally-sponsored program of recorded music.

2003, Gil Murray, Nothing On But the Radio, page 33:

The edited output of the picture is then sent out as the “line feed."

2017, Ivan Cury, Directing and Producing for Television, page 281:

(broadcasting) A signal that contains the content about to be broadcast on radio or television.


DTR

(television) Initialism of digital terrestrial receiver.


cheating

cheating (countable and uncountable, plural cheatings)

Cheating is the sixth C of Cinematography ... it is the art of arranging people, objects or actions, during filming or editing

1965, Joseph V. Mascelli, The Five C’s of Cinematography:

(cinematography) The arrangement of people or items in a film so as to give the (false) impression that shots are taken from different angles in the same location.


dramatic beat

(theater, film) The smallest division of action in a play, film or other work of drama; The moment at which increasing dramatic tension produces a noticeable change in the consciousness of one or more characters.


honey wagon

(film, television) A type of multi-room trailer with toilet facilities for use by film and television crews.


reality television

Live, Reality Television

1991, Fred D'Ignazio, "D'Iversions", COMPUTE, November 1991, COMPUTE Publications, page G–22

television programming
television program

(television) A genre of television programming portraying one or more people who are not professional actors and depicting their reactions to given stimuli or goals.


closed matte

a closed matte DVD

(film) Of a soft matte film, transferred to a home video format, especially DVD, with the theatrical mattes intact.


hard matte

(cinematography) A technique where the top and bottom of the film frame are masked off in camera, as opposed to soft matte.


soft matte

(cinematography) A technique where the full frame is filled, and the projectionist is relied upon to matte out the top and bottom of the frame in the theatrical projector.


open matte

an open matte DVD

(film) Of a soft matte film, transferred to a home video format with the full frame exposed, thus having the theatrical mattes removed.


pre-production

pre-production (countable and uncountable, plural pre-productions)

desc

препрода́кшен

→ Russian: препрода́кшен (preprodákšen)

(cinematography) The process of preparing the elements involved in a motion picture, theatrical play, or other performance.


neorealist

en-adj

neorealist (comparative more neorealist, superlative most neorealist)

more neorealist (comparative)
most neorealist (superlative)

(film) Of or pertaining to the post-World War II Italian movement of neorealism, which focused on realistic portrayals of daily life


MOTD

55 years in, save for the odd hiatus when ITV rather rudely claimed the exclusive top-flight highlights rights, MOTD represents the then, now and seemingly forever for the free-to-air armchair football fan.

2019 July 26, Adam Hurrey, “55 years in, the culturally bulletproof Match of the Day can handle the latest threat from its rivals”, in The Daily Telegraph:

(sports, television) Initialism of Match of the Day: a British football-themed television programme introduced in 1964.


deleted scene

(cinematography) A scene removed from, or replaced by another scene in, the final version of a motion picture or television program episode.


director's cut

(film) A specially edited version of a piece of media, especially a film, that is supposed to represent the director's own approved edit of the media, and is released some time after the original release of the media.


greenscreen

en-noun

greenscreen (countable and uncountable, plural greenscreens)

(film) The alternate version of bluescreen, having the background green instead of blue.


scenarist

What was acted out in the American and French Revolutions had been thought out beforehand in the writings of Locke and Rousseau, the scenarists for the drama of modern politics.

1987, Allan Bloom, The Closing of the American Mind: How Higher Education Has Failed Democracy and Impoverished the Souls of Today's Students:

(cinematography) A writer of screenplays; a screenwriter.


screen test

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Alan Ladd's wife spotted the budding beauty and suggested that Julie attend a screen test for a bit part in something called The Girl and the Gorilla.

1990, Wayne Jancik, The Billboard Book of One-Hit Wonders, →ISBN, page 10:

(film) A filmed audition to test (and demonstrate) an actor's screen-acting ability and/or suitability for a particular role.


wraparound host

wraparound host (plural wraparound hosts)

(television) A host or hostess who appears in very short segments before and after a television show.


sandpit

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From Middle English sandpitte, sandpette, sandpütte, from Old English sandpytt (“sandpit”), equivalent to sand + pit.

Originally designed to illustrate Kuwait and the oil pipelines, the 'sandpit', based on maps and photographs to a scale of 1:1,000,000, was extended to include other countries.

1991, British Broadcasting Corporation, “The Annual Report & Accounts”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name):

[…] the commentaries on the battle given by Peter Snow with the aid of a model of the theatre of war, known as the 'Sandpit'.

1992, Richard Hamilton, Simon Wilson, “Richard Hamilton: 17 June - 6 September 1992, Tate Gallery”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name):

[…] a conflict that did not fit so easily into the television studios, with their super-patriotic anchormen, their verbose ex-generals, their model tanks and their bloodless sandpits.

2005, Robert Fisk, “The Great War for civilisation: the conquest of the Middle East”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name):

(television) A small-scale illustrative model of the theater of war in the Middle East.


backhaul

backhaul (countable and uncountable, plural backhauls)

(broadcasting) Uncut program content that is transmitted point-to-point to an individual television or radio station, network or other receiving entity where it will be integrated into a finished show.


toss-up question

toss-up question (plural toss-up questions)

(television, radio) During a classroom quiz or game show, a question posed to two or more opponents where both are able to answer by signaling, and depending on the rules, the one that responds with a correct answer either takes control of the game or proceeds to advance to a subsequent round.