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The C camera is a third camera used in a multi-camera setup to capture even more angles, often focusing on specific details, inserts, or wide establishing shots.

A buzzword in the film industry is a fashionable or trendy term used in marketing, criticism, and production to generate excitement and signify relevance.

A Buzzfeed-style quiz is a popular form of online entertainment where users answer a series of personality-based questions to discover which movie character, faction, or trope they represent.

Buzz marketing is a marketing technique focused on maximizing word-of-mouth promotion for a product or brand, aiming to create organic conversations and excitement.

The Asian Contents & Film Market (ACFM), which runs alongside the Busan International Film Festival, is the most important and comprehensive film industry market in Asia.

The bullied kid is a character archetype representing innocence under threat, whose story often serves as a catalyst for a hero's intervention or a tragic villain origin story.

A visual effect that simulates a frozen or slowed viewpoint moving dynamically around action.

A compact, cylindrical camera designed for unobtrusive point-of-view shots

The estimated cost allocated for a film’s production and marketing.

A buddy film is a genre that centers on the evolving relationship, often a friendship, between two main characters, typically of the same sex.

The buddy cop pair is a film trope featuring two law enforcement officers with clashing personalities who are forced to work together.

The buddy cop film is a subgenre of action-comedy centered on two mismatched law enforcement officers who are forced to work together.

'Buck Shot' is on-set slang for a camera shot that is wide and generic, often used as a simple establishing shot or basic coverage.

The ITU-R recommendation defining HDR television formats and transfer functions.

A Brompton processor is a specialized video processing unit that manages and calibrates the LED panels used in virtual production and live events.

The 'broken record' is a screenwriting technique or acting choice where a character repeats the same line of dialogue multiple times to convey overwhelming emotion or a refusal to be ignored.

The broken pedestal is a narrative trope where a character discovers that their hero, role model, or cherished ideal has a significant, disillusioning flaw.

A broken bird is a character, often female, who has been emotionally, psychologically, or physically damaged by past trauma, resulting in a cynical, withdrawn, or fragile demeanor.

1950s documentary-led movement championing personal, low-budget films about ordinary life.

The British Film Institute (BFI) is the United Kingdom's lead organization for film, responsible for preserving, promoting, and developing the moving image.

Interim financing to cover cash flow needs until long‑term funding is secured.

A breakthrough artist is a creative talent who achieves their first major, career-defining success, transitioning them from an emerging artist to a recognized star.

A performance that catapults an actor from obscurity to widespread recognition.

An actor’s role that elevates them from obscurity to widespread recognition

A narrative technique where characters acknowledge the audience's presence.

Scene-by-scene inventory lists every element—from cast to cows—that must appear on camera.

A breakaway shot shows a secondary action or detail, momentarily diverting attention from the main action before returning to it.

To break the internet is to generate such a massive and sudden surge of online traffic and conversation that it temporarily dominates social media and search trends.

The break into two is the major turning point at the end of Act One where the protagonist leaves their ordinary world and commits to the central conflict.

The break into three is the turning point at the end of Act Two where the protagonist, armed with new insight, creates a final plan to resolve the conflict.

BRAW (Blackmagic RAW) is an efficient, partially de-mosaiced raw codec from Blackmagic Design that combines raw quality with smaller file sizes.

Brand partnerships are strategic collaborations where a commercial brand pays to have its products, services, or logos featured within a movie, providing the production with revenue and the brand with exposure.

A marketing strategy where a brand becomes deeply embedded into a film’s story or identity.

A brand ambassador is an influencer or celebrity contracted to represent and promote a company's brand in a positive light over an extended period.

A branching narrative is a storytelling structure where key decisions made by the audience dynamically alter the plot, leading to multiple possible storylines and endings.

A Brain Bar is the on-set digital command center for an In-Camera VFX production, where technicians and artists control the real-time 3D environment.

A boy band is a vocal group consisting of several young male singers, known for their harmonized pop songs, choreographed dance routines, and appeal to a young audience, with many bands starring in their own films.

A box set is a curated physical media collection of films, often united by a director, franchise, or theme, and typically includes exclusive bonus materials.

A defined geographic market for tracking and reporting film revenue.

'Box Office Poison' is an industry term for an actor whose star power has diminished to the point where their involvement is seen as a financial liability to a film.