Cinematic techniques

Filmography technique

filmmaking technique

abrupt transition from one film sequence to another

chemical effect

genre of full-length movies filmed (actually or apparently) in a single shot

shooting of a film or television production in a real-world setting rather than a sound stage or backlot

type of film transition

technique deployed in filmmaking

camera angle shot from a medium distance

use of footage as a found object

Ethnofiction is a subfield of ethnography which produces works that introduce art, in the form of storytelling, "thick descriptions and conversational narratives", and even first-person autobiographical accounts, into academic works.

A scriptment is a written work by a movie or television screenwriter that combines elements of a script and treatment, especially the dialogue elements, which are formatted the same as in a screenplay. It is a more elaborate document than a standard draft treatment. Some films have been shot using only a scriptment.

shot taken with a camera mounted on a crane in motion pictures

A packshot (also pack shot) is a still or moving image of a product, usually including its packaging and labeling, used to portray the product's reputation in advertising on TV. or other media. Its goal is to trigger in-store, on-shelf product recognition. The term packshot also refers to product placement in a movie or television show. Packshots often dominate television commercials, taking from two to five seconds of a thirty-second commercial. Forged or leaked packshots for unreleased products have led to controversy or increased interest in the product. Packshots can be a simple photograph

particularly expensive or valuable cinematic sequence

fiction genre

thumb|right|300px|A triptych scene of Napoléon (1927), showing its two vertical seams. Polyvision was the name given by the French film critic Émile Vuillermoz to a specialized widescreen film format devised exclusively for the filming and projection of Abel Gance's 1927 film Napoléon, its three-projector format predating Cinerama by 25 years.

The terms off-screen, off-camera, and off-stage refer to fictional events in theatre, television, or film which are not seen on stage or in frame, but are merely heard by the audience, or described (or implied) by the characters or narrator. Off-screen action often leaves much to the audience's imagination. As a narrative mode and stylistic device, it may be used for a number of dramatic effects. It may also be used to save time in storytelling, to circumvent technical or financial constraints of a production, or to meet content rating standards.

filmmaking technique

In the performing arts, a scenario (, ; ; from Italian , "that which is pinned to the scenery") is a synoptical collage of an event or series of actions and events. In the ''commedia dell'arte, it was an outline of entrances, exits, and action describing the plot of a play, and was literally pinned to the back of the scenery. It is also known as canovaccio'' or "that which is pinned to the canvas" of which the scenery was constructed.

film assembled entirely from found footage

special effect created for motion pictures and television programs using scale models

Yellow color filter sometimes applied in films to depict Mexican locations

camera angle

video editing technique

thumb|right|300px|An example of a cinematography showreel