Essential Film Terminology: A Filmmaker’s Glossary

Essential Film Terminology

Producer: Business executive who brings together the artist, contracts, and costs.

Director: Film’s chief artistic coordinator who blocks the camera.
Cinematographer: The artist and technician responsible for the lighting.
Art Director: The artist who designs and selects the sets and locations.
Editor: The person who receives work prints of the film’s takes and cuts them.


Continuity: Ensuring that the details of a scene match and make sense.
Tracking Shot: The camera moving smoothly
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Textual Coherence and Cohesion in Fitness Communication

Fitness Communication

ED Fitness features texts that are well-constructed from a communication point of view. The referential function of language, expressive communication channel, and appellate selection are conditioned by the communicative situation. The communicative code dictates the use of Castilian verbal code, excluding non-verbal codes. The idiomatic range is cultured language, with a formal or colloquial register. The speech range includes narration, description, and genre exposure, related

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Cinematographic Montage: Types, Principles, and Transitions

Types of Cinematographic Montages

According to Scale and Duration of Shots

  • Analytical Montage: Uses short shots, analyzing reality part by part.
  • Synthetic Montage: Employs long shots or shot-sequences, providing a more complete vision of reality without analysis.

According to the Treatment of Time

  • Continuous Linear Montage: Action develops with a unity of time and place.
  • Condensed Linear Montage: Narration is continuous and linear, but includes different stages.
  • Inverted Montage: The passage of time is
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Camera Range, Movements, and Character Roles

Camera Range

Camera range refers to the distance between the camera and the object, influencing how the camera interacts with the subject. Here’s a breakdown of common camera ranges:

  • Extreme Long Shot (ELS) or Extreme Wide Shot (EWS): Captures a vast scene, like a large crowd or expansive scenery, often reaching the horizon. Frequently used as an *establishing shot* to show the location. The subject is often not visible or is very small.
  • Long Shot (LS), Full Shot, or Wide Shot: Shows a situation or
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Literary Pragmatics: Textual Meaning and Analysis

1. Discourse and Text: Literary Pragmatics

Literary pragmatics is the branch of textual pragmatics that examines literary texts, that is, what and how literary texts communicate in an interdisciplinary way. Two of the most attractive goals of literary pragmatics are (a) the study of its texture, i.e., the structural organization and characterization of the literary passage as text, and (b) the analysis of the textual meaning of the passage.

2. Texture, Textualization, and Textuality

In traditional

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Text Types, Properties, and Linguistic Features

Text: Definition and Properties

A text is the result of the verbal activity of an issuer in a particular communicative context and with a specific communicative intention. From the linguistic elements of the text and the context, we recognize the communicative intention of the author, which allows us to interpret the meaning of the text.

Types of Generators and Text Genres

We call text types the forms of expression, structure, and linguistic features that appear with the issuer’s communicative intention.

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