A preliminary production meeting where cast and crew read through the script aloud.
Wiki search
Filmmaking Terms Starting With T
The filmmaking terms that begin with T, in alphabetical order.
1–44 of 44 entries
Definitions of Filmmaking Terms Starting With T
Open any entry for the full definition, where the term comes from and the films that show it best.
-
-
A tail slate is the practice of marking a take with the clapperboard at the end of the shot instead of the beginning, often done when slating at the start was impossible.
-
A Tangent panel is a dedicated hardware control surface that provides colorists with physical trackballs, rings, and knobs for tactile, intuitive control over color grading software like DaVinci Resolve or Baselight.
-
A tech scout is a pre-production meeting where key crew members visit a confirmed filming location to plan the technical and logistical execution of the shoot.
-
Written records of technical specifications and issues to guide equipment setup and post‑production.
-
Technicolor is a series of motion picture color processes, most famously the three-strip process, that defined the vibrant, saturated look of Hollywood's Golden Age.
-
A film-to-video transfer process converting motion-picture film into electronic video signals.
-
A temporary music track used during editing to approximate mood and pacing before the final score.
-
The Teradek Bond is a professional video transmission device that combines multiple cellular network connections to create a single, robust, high-bandwidth internet link for streaming video from remote locations.
-
Tessera is the proprietary software platform that runs on Brompton video processors, providing the tools to control and calibrate LED walls for virtual production.
-
Textless elements are clean versions of film shots, delivered without any superimposed titles or graphics, to facilitate international localization.
-
The call sheet is a daily filmmaking document created by the assistant director that details all essential information for a specific day of shooting.
-
A recurring musical piece that embodies a film’s central ideas, characters, or settings.
-
Classic key–fill–back setup creates depth, separation, and flattering contours—still foundational in modern workflows.
-
An early color cinematography process capturing red, green, and blue on separate black-and-white film strips.
-
A tilt-shift lens allows control over perspective and focus plane by tilting and shifting lens elements.
-
A filmmaking technique that freezes action by synchronizing multiple cameras around a subject.
-
Synchronization practice where devices are aligned to a common master timecode to maintain drift-free audio and picture.
-
A timecode slate is a production tool that displays a continuously running, synchronized SMPTE timecode, used to align audio and video from multiple sources in post-production.
-
Timecode is a timing signal that gives every frame of video and audio a unique address, allowing for perfect synchronization in post-production.
-
A creative professional responsible for designing the opening and closing title sequences of a film.
-
The Television Lighting Consistency Index (TLCI) is a highly accurate measure of a light source's color fidelity, specifically developed to predict how colors will be reproduced by a digital camera sensor.
-
A widescreen, high‑resolution film process pioneered for ‘Oklahoma!’
-
A Tommy Gun Dolly is a colloquial term for a small, lightweight, and rapidly deployable camera dolly or slider system, prized for its speed and agility in fast-paced shooting environments.
-
Tone is the filmmaker's attitude toward the film's subject matter and audience, as conveyed through the deliberate use of cinematic style.
-
Tone description is the writer's deliberate use of evocative word choice and sentence structure within the scene description to establish the intended mood and attitude of a scene.
-
A tone meeting is a pre-production meeting where the director and key department heads align on the creative and stylistic vision for a film or episode.
-
Top-light is a lighting setup where the primary light source is placed directly above the subject, creating distinct shadows under the eyes and nose.
-
A topper is a type of long, narrow flag used in lighting to control light spill by cutting it off from the top of the frame.
-
In filmmaking, track refers to the rails on which a camera dolly or crane rides to ensure perfectly smooth and repeatable movements.
-
A Tracking Lock is a mechanism on a camera fluid head or dolly that secures one or more axes of movement, ensuring the camera maintains a fixed orientation during a tracking shot.
-
An editing device that connects two shots or scenes through visual effects.
-
Production culture that recognizes trauma’s impact and designs processes to minimize harm while supporting storytelling.
-
A travel day is a designated day in a film production schedule for moving cast and crew from one location to another.
-
A Tray Shot is a type of low-angle tracking shot where the camera is placed on a simple, flat platform or 'tray,' often with wheels, to achieve a smooth gliding motion just above the floor.
-
A trend forecast is a predictive analysis of future aesthetics, colors, and themes that heavily influences the visual direction of a film, particularly in costume and production design.
-
In sound design, a trigger is a specific visual or narrative event on-screen that initiates or motivates the start of a sound cue.
-
A trim pass is a crucial and efficient final step in audio post-production where a main theatrical mix is adjusted to create versions suitable for different playback formats like home theater and stereo.
-
A lateral camera move performed by mounting on a wheeled platform or dolly
-
A measurement technique that gauges the absolute maximum peak levels in film and broadcast audio.
-
Tungsten lighting refers to a class of incandescent lamps that create light by heating a tungsten filament, known for producing a warm, high-quality light.
-
A slow-motion technique used to capture fluid movement in delicate or underwater scenes.
-
The process of generating intermediate frames between keyframes to produce smooth animation.
-
A camera boom system using two counterbalanced poles for extended reach and stability.
By category
Or Browse by Subject
Eight subject indexes, each with its own alphabetical list: filmmaking, genres and styles, characters, storytelling, industry, fandom, general terms and the rest.
