Filmmaking
Dry for Dry is an editing style for dialogue scenes that exclusively uses clean single shots of each character, which can create a sense of emotional distance.
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190 entries in the Movie Wiki begin with D, listed alphabetically with a one-line definition each. Open any of them for the full explanation.
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Definitions of Film Terms Starting With D
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Industry
DTS (Digital Theater Systems) is a company and a series of multi-channel audio technologies for cinema and home theater, known for its competition with Dolby Digital.
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Industry
DTS:X is an object-based audio codec that allows sound to be placed and moved precisely in a three-dimensional space, creating a more immersive listening experience.
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Characters
Dual identity explores a character who possesses two distinct and often conflicting personalities or personas within the same body.
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Filmmaking
Replacing a film’s original audio with another language localises content for global markets.
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Filmmaking
A dupe is a duplicate copy of a film negative, created for various post-production purposes to protect the original camera negative.
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Filmmaking
Duv is a precise color science metric that measures the green or magenta tint of a light source, working in tandem with the Kelvin scale to define a light's true color.
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Storytelling
The DuVernay Test is a critical framework for analyzing racial representation in film, assessing whether characters of color have fully realized lives independent of the white characters.
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Others
A dynamic NFT (dNFT) is an evolution of the non-fungible token whose metadata, and thus its appearance and properties, can be altered by external data or interactions after it has been created.
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