Glossary
Each notion with the trade term as its title, why it matters in production, how it is written in a generation prompt, and the films where you can see it at work. No tool names.
Image grammar
- Camera move
- What the camera does during the shot: static (locked-off), pan, dolly or tracking, handheld, slow push-in.
- Color grading
- The final adjustment of colours, contrast and density across all shots, so that they belong to the same film.
- Continuity
- The consistency between two consecutive shots: character positions, eyelines, props, light, costume.
- Lens and depth of field
- Focal length sets the angle of view (wide-angle, 35 mm, telephoto); depth of field says what is sharp and what is blurred.
- Lighting
- The source, direction and quality of a shot's light: hard or soft, natural or artificial, time of day. · seen in 1
- Shot size
- How large the subject is in the frame: wide shot, medium shot, medium close-up, close-up, extreme close-up. · seen in 1
Generate
- Image-to-video
- Animating an approved still image rather than generating a shot from a sentence (text-to-video).
- Start frame
- The still image that serves as the first frame of an animated shot, setting its frame, characters and light.
Direct
- Hook
- The first second of a short film: what it shows must raise a question before the viewer decides to scroll on. · seen in 2
- Screen-relative speed
- Describing the speed of an object by the share of the frame it crosses in a given time, rather than with an adjective. · seen in 1
- Shot list
- The list of a film's shots, each with its length, shot size, action and what the voice says. · seen in 2
Keep it consistent
- Anachronism
- A detail that does not belong to the film's period: a garment, an object, a hairstyle, an aircraft. · seen in 1
- Character consistency
- Making sure one character keeps the same face, build and outfit from one shot and one episode to the next. · seen in 2
- Character sheet
- The set of reference images that locks a character: face front and side, full body, gestures, costume. · seen in 2
Voice and sound
- Generated music
- An original track composed by a model from a written brief: style, tempo, instruments, mood, structure. · seen in 3
- Lip-sync
- Matching a generated character's lips to the words he or she says. · seen in 1
- Text-to-speech
- A voice generated from text, chosen among existing timbres, with its language, pace and silences.
Edit and finish
- Archive look
- The treatment that makes an image that is too clean pass for a period reel: grain, frame rate, colours, vignetting, dust. · seen in 2
Produce and publish
- AI disclosure
- The visible, machine-readable indication that a film was generated by AI.
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