List of film techniques
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Provided in this list of film techniques is a categorised (and then alphabetised) list of techniques used in film (motion pictures).
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[edit] Camera view, angle, movement, shot
- Aerial shot
- American shot
- Bird's eye shot
- Close up
- Crane shot
- Dolly zoom
- Dutch angle
- Establishing shot
- "Evangelion" shot
- Follow shot
- Forced perspective
- Freeze frame shot
- Full shot
- Head-on shot
- High-angle shot
- Long shot
- Long take
- Low-angle shot
- Master shot
- Matte
- Medium shot
- Pan shot
- Point of view shot
- Reaction shot
- Sequence shot
- Shot
- Shot reverse shot
- Talking head
- Tracking shot
- Trunk shot
- Two Shot
- Video frame
- Whip pan
[edit] Lighting technique and aesthetics
- Background lighting
- Cameo lighting
- Fill light
- High-key lighting
- Key lighting
- Lens flare
- Mood lighting
- Pool hall lighting
- Rembrandt lighting
- Stage lighting
- Soft light
- Flood Lighting
[edit] Editing and transitional devices
- A Roll
- B Roll
- A and B editing
- Cross cutting
- Cutaway
- Cut in
- Dissolve
- Editing
- Establishing shot
- Fast cutting
- Flashback
- Hairy Arm
- Insert
- Jump cut
- Keying
- L cut ("split edit")
- Master shot
- Match cut
- Montage
- Point of view shot
- Screen direction
- Sequence shot
- Slow cutting
- Split screen
- SMPTE time code
- Shot reverse shot
- Talking head
- Wipe
[edit] Special effects (FX)
- 3-D film for movie history
- 3-D computer graphics
- Bluescreen/Chroma key
- Bullet time
- Computer-generated imagery
- Digital compositing
- Optical effects
- Special effects
- Stereoscopy for 3D technical details
- Stop trick
- Stop motion
