some unknown film terms

This site I found features some terms that we have not talked about in class. It contains some simple terms like "film review" but goes deeper into explaining "anthropomorphism". By delving deeply into each and ever aspect of everything film this site contains a great deal of valuable information.

A Glossary of Film terms

This website is a large dictionary of different film terms from A to Z. The term is shown and the defintion is given after. The entire glossary is alphabetized with detailed definitons. This is written and designed for the web by Joel Schlemowitz and is part of the New School's Film Production Department.

Film Glossary

One cannot truly understand film without comprehending the terms that go along with cinema. It is very important to understand the film terms so that analyzing the film and cinematography is much more clear and formal. Attached is a link to a film glossary that provides film terms with their definitions. The terms and their definitions are largely drawn from Bordwell/Thompson's Film Art or Monaco's How to Read a Film.

Dictionary of film terms

The website is a link to the Filmsite's Film Terms Glossary were used, with permission and with some modification, as the basis for the Independent Film Channel's (IFC) Film School Multimedia Glossary (IFC's Film School Glossary), created by students for students so that they could learn terms used in the filmmaking industry by actually seeing video clips of those terms "in action."

The film terms range from describing the film and film types to the different camera angles that are used when making any movie.

A Glossary of Film Terms

The web page that is linked to above is an extensive dictionary of film terms. The A-Z links at the top of the page send you directly to the terms that begin with the corresponding letter making this page easy to navigate. The page was written and designed by Joel Schlemowitz.