Movie Training & Film Making Tips – Volume 7
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Prep day – The day before principal photography where the electrical staff organizes the equipment, the truck, and all of the gels.
Reversal film – Also called positive film (as opposed to negative), reversal film captures the actual image instead of a negative version of the image. Common slide film is an everyday example of reversal film.
Room tone – The background noise of the room when no one is talking. The soundman must take about 30 seconds of room tone to make sure that in post-production work (such as an ADR session).
Scrim – Used to cut the amount of light from a light without diffusing it. Usually consists of a steel frame with a tight weave metal grid inside.
Selective focus – Using an aperture setting to provide shallow depth-of-field thereby keeping only the selected actor or object in focus while blurring the
