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Call Sheet
A record of which stars will be needed for which moments, and when they will be needed. Call sheets are designed by associate directors and others.

Cameo
A bit part performed by a popular acting professional who would normally not take such a little sector. Initially significance "a little piece of artwork", the term was borrowed by home Michael Anderson when attempting to entice popular stars to play bit parts in Around the World in 80 Days.

Camera Crew
The group of crewmembers directly involved with operation of the photographic camera. Individual job titles include: clapper-loader, photographic camera, associate cameraman, movie director of digital photography, focus puller, hold, key hold, dolly hold, additional photographic camera. Fictional Movie(s): Ed Wood (1994), Living in Oblivion (1995).

Camera Operator
The process of hiring stars to play the characters in a program, typically done by a casting director, but with some feedback from a director, producer, or studio room. See also CSA.

Cast
A combined phrase for the stars showing in a particular film.

Casting
The process of hiring stars to play the characters in a program, typically done by a casting director, but with some feedback from a director, producer, or studio room. See also CSA.

Censorship
Changes needed of a film by some individual or body system other than the studio or the filmmakers, usually a nationwide or local film classification board. See also certification.

CGI
The use pc design to create or enhance special effects.

Character Actor
An acting professional who focuses primarily on enjoying a particular style of personality, often clichéd, offbeat, or comical.

Children's Film Foundation
Training plan in the UK to provide schoolchildren encounter of all factors of movie making. Now changed by the Kid's Film and Tv Foundation.

Choreographer
A person who programs and guides dancing series within a film.

Chyron
Text graphics which appear at the bottom of a screen used to explain time, place, or name of person on screen; can also explain the technology used to add the text to the bottom of the display.

Cinematographer
A person with skills in the art of catching pictures either digitally or on film stock through use of visible ecording devices and the selection and arrangement of lighting. The chief cinematographer for a film is called the film director of photography.

Close-up
A shot in which the topic is bigger than the structure, exposing much details. The acronym is often used in a slug range.

Compositing
The mixing of visible components from individual resources into single pictures (or series of images), often to make the impression that all those components are parts of the same field. Illustrations might be integrating delivered 3D pictures (CGI) into taken content, or getting components shot in front of blue/green display. Today most compositing is obtained through digital picture adjustment.

Co-Producer
A producer who works a significant part of a innovative generating function, or who is mainly responsible for one or more managing generating features. A co-producer has less liability than a producer for the realization a project. Observe that if a venture has more than one producer, it doesn't mean that these individuals are "co-producers" in the specialized feeling of that phrase. See also executive producer, associate producer, line producer.

Costume
The outfits used by stars when being filmed.

Costume Designer
A individual who styles the outfits for a movie.

Cowboy Shot
A shot created from mid-thigh up. Got its name during the shooting of many westerns, when this was a typical creating used.

Craft Service
The person (or people) available to assist the other crafts which include photographic camera, sound, electricians, grips, props, art director, set decorator, hair and makeup, assistance the other crafts during the actual capturing of a motion picture, with projects such as offering snacks and cleaning the set.

Crane Shot
A shot taken by a photographic camera on a crane; often used to show the actors/action from above. Cranes usually carry both the photographic camera and a photographic camera owner, but some can be managed by remote control.

Crewmembers
A combined phrase for anyone engaged with the production of a film who does not appear in the film. This phrase is usually used to make reference to the more subordinate members of a production team (contrast with filmmakers.)

Critic
A individual who posts a evaluation of a film from either an creative or enjoyment point of view.

Crosscut
The strategy of interweaving items of two or more moments, usually in order to demonstrate simultaneous activities or light up styles.