Previsualization, the Glossary

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1. 80 relations: Adobe Photoshop, American Film Institute, Amiga, Animation, Ansel Adams, Berkshires, Brian De Palma, Camera angle, Chroma key, Cinematography, Clear and Present Danger, Computer graphics, Computer-aided design, Daz Studio, Dennis Muren, Depth of field, Desktop publishing, Digital media, Digital video, E-on Vue, Edward Weston, F/X, Film director, Filmmaking, Focal length, FrameForge 3D Studio, Francis Ford Coppola, George Lucas, IClone, Industrial Light & Magic, John Knoll, Judge Dredd (film), Jurassic Park (film), Leica reel, LightWave 3D, Lynda Weinman, Minor White, Mission: Impossible (film), Moviestorm, Offline editing, One from the Heart, Outline of film, Paramount Pictures, Personal computer, Phillip Noyce, Photography, Poser (software), Real3D, Return of the Jedi, Rick McCallum, ... Expand index (30 more) »

Adobe Photoshop

Adobe Photoshop is a raster graphics editor developed and published by Adobe for Windows and macOS.

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American Film Institute

The American Film Institute (AFI) is an American nonprofit film organization that educates filmmakers and honors the heritage of the motion picture arts in the United States.

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Amiga

Amiga is a family of personal computers introduced by Commodore in 1985.

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Animation

Animation is a filmmaking technique by which still images are manipulated to create moving images.

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Ansel Adams

Ansel Easton Adams (February 20, 1902 – April 22, 1984) was an American landscape photographer and environmentalist known for his black-and-white images of the American West.

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Berkshires

The Berkshires are highlands located in western Massachusetts and northwestern Connecticut in the United States.

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Brian De Palma

Brian Russell De Palma (born September 11, 1940) is an American film director and screenwriter.

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Camera angle

The camera angle marks the specific location at which the movie camera or video camera is placed to take a shot.

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Chroma key

Chroma key compositing, or chroma keying, is a visual-effects and post-production technique for compositing (layering) two or more images or video streams together based on colour hues (chroma range).

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Cinematography

Cinematography is the art of motion picture (and more recently, electronic video camera) photography. Previsualization and Cinematography are film production.

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Clear and Present Danger

Clear and Present Danger is a political thriller novel, written by Tom Clancy and published on August 17, 1989.

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Computer graphics

Computer graphics deals with generating images and art with the aid of computers.

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Computer-aided design

Computer-aided design (CAD) is the use of computers to aid in the creation, modification, analysis, or optimization of a design.

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Daz Studio

Daz Studio is a free media design software developed by Daz 3D.

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Dennis Muren

Dennis Muren, A.S.C (born November 1, 1946) is an American film visual effects artist and supervisor.

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Depth of field

The depth of field (DOF) is the distance between the nearest and the furthest objects that are in acceptably sharp focus in an image captured with a camera.

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Desktop publishing

Desktop publishing (DTP) is the creation of documents using dedicated software on a personal ("desktop") computer.

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In mass communication, digital media is any communication media that operates in conjunction with various encoded machine-readable data formats.

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Digital video

Digital video is an electronic representation of moving visual images (video) in the form of encoded digital data.

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E-on Vue

Vue is a software tool for world generation by Bentley Systems with support for many visual effects, animations and various other features.

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Edward Weston

Edward Henry Weston (March 24, 1886 – January 1, 1958) was an American photographer.

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F/X

F/X (also known as or subtitled Murder by Illusion) is a 1986 American action thriller film directed by Robert Mandel, written by Gregory Fleeman and Robert T. Megginson, and starring Bryan Brown, Brian Dennehy, Diane Venora, Cliff De Young, and Angela Bassett in her film debut.

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Film director

A film director is a person who controls a film's artistic and dramatic aspects and visualizes the screenplay (or script) while guiding the film crew and actors in the fulfillment of that vision.

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Filmmaking

Filmmaking or film production is the process by which a motion picture is produced. Previsualization and Filmmaking are film production.

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Focal length

The focal length of an optical system is a measure of how strongly the system converges or diverges light; it is the inverse of the system's optical power.

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FrameForge 3D Studio

FrameForge Storyboard Studio (formerly FrameForge Previz Studio) is previsualization storyboard software used by directors, cinematographers, VFX Supervisor and other creatives in the fields of filmmaking, television production, filmed advertising, industrial videos and other filmed or video content.

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Francis Ford Coppola

Francis Ford Coppola (born 7 April 1939) is an American film director, producer, and screenwriter.

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George Lucas

George Walton Lucas Jr. (born May 14, 1944) is an American filmmaker and philanthropist.

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IClone

iClone is a real-time 3D animation and rendering software program.

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Industrial Light & Magic

Industrial Light & Magic (ILM) is an American motion picture visual effects company that was founded on May 26, 1975 by George Lucas.

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John Knoll

John Knoll (born October 6, 1962) is an American visual effects supervisor and chief creative officer (CCO) at Industrial Light & Magic (ILM).

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Judge Dredd (film)

Judge Dredd is a 1995 American science fiction action film based on the ''2000 AD'' comics character of the same name.

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Jurassic Park (film)

Jurassic Park is a 1993 American science fiction action film directed by Steven Spielberg, produced by Kathleen Kennedy and Gerald R. Molen, and starring Sam Neill, Laura Dern, Jeff Goldblum, and Richard Attenborough.

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Leica reel

In film, specifically animation, a leica reel (also known as story reel or animatic) is a type of storyboarding device used in the production of potential series or features. Previsualization and leica reel are animation techniques.

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LightWave 3D

LightWave 3D is a 3D computer graphics program developed by LightWave Digital.

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Lynda Weinman

Lynda Susan Weinman (born January 24, 1955) is an American business owner, computer instructor, and author, who founded an online software training website, lynda.com, with her husband, Bruce Heavin.

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Minor White

Minor Martin White (July 9, 1908 – June 24, 1976) was an American photographer, theoretician, critic, and educator.

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Mission: Impossible (film)

Mission: Impossible is a 1996 American action spy film directed by Brian De Palma and produced by and starring Tom Cruise from a screenplay by David Koepp and Robert Towne and story by Koepp and Steven Zaillian.

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Moviestorm

Filmmaker (previously known as Moviestorm) is a real-time 3D animation app published by Moviestorm Ltd.

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Offline editing

Offline editing is the creative storytelling stage of film making and television production where the structure, mood, pacing and story of the final show are defined.

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One from the Heart

One from the Heart is a 1982 American musical romantic drama film co-written and directed by Francis Ford Coppola and starring Frederic Forrest, Teri Garr, Raul Julia, Nastassja Kinski, Lainie Kazan, and Harry Dean Stanton.

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Outline of film

The following outline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to film: Film refers to motion pictures as individual projects and to the field in general.

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Paramount Pictures

Paramount Pictures Corporation, commonly known as Paramount Pictures or simply Paramount, is an American film and television production and distribution company and the namesake subsidiary of Paramount Global.

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Personal computer

A personal computer, often referred to as a PC, is a computer designed for individual use.

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Phillip Noyce

Phillip Noyce (born April 29, 1950) is an Australian film and television director.

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Photography

Photography is the art, application, and practice of creating images by recording light, either electronically by means of an image sensor, or chemically by means of a light-sensitive material such as photographic film.

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Poser (software)

Poser (and Poser Pro) is a figure posing and rendering 3D computer graphics program distributed by Bondware.

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Real3D

Real3D, Inc. was a maker of arcade graphics boards, a spin-off from Lockheed Martin.

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Return of the Jedi

Return of the Jedi (also known as Star Wars: Episode VI – Return of the Jedi is a 1983 American epic space opera film that is a sequel to Star Wars (1977) and The Empire Strikes Back (1980). It is the third installment in the original ''Star Wars'' trilogy and the sixth chronological film in the "Skywalker Saga".

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Rick McCallum

Richard McCallum (born August 22, 1954) is an American film producer.

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Screenplay

A screenplay, or script, is a written work produced for a film, television show, or video game (as opposed to a stage play) by screenwriters. Previsualization and screenplay are film production.

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Script breakdown

A script breakdown is an intermediate step in the production of a play, film, comic book, or any other work that is originally planned using a script. Previsualization and script breakdown are film production.

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Shot (filmmaking)

In filmmaking and video production, a shot is a series of frames that runs for an uninterrupted period of time. Previsualization and shot (filmmaking) are film production.

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Sound effect

A sound effect (or audio effect) is an artificially created or enhanced sound, or sound process used to emphasize artistic or other content of films, television shows, live performance, animation, video games, music, or other media.

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Star Trek V: The Final Frontier

Star Trek V: The Final Frontier is a 1989 American science fiction film directed by William Shatner and based on the television series Star Trek created by Gene Roddenberry.

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Star Wars prequel trilogy

The Star Wars prequel trilogy, colloquially referred to as the prequels, is a series of epic space-opera films written and directed by George Lucas.

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Star Wars: Episode I – The Phantom Menace

Star Wars: Episode I – The Phantom Menace is a 1999 American epic space opera film written and directed by George Lucas in his first directorial effort since 1977.

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Star Wars: Episode II – Attack of the Clones

Star Wars: Episode II – Attack of the Clones is a 2002 American epic space opera film directed by George Lucas and written by Lucas and Jonathan Hales.

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Star Wars: Episode III – Revenge of the Sith

Star Wars: Episode III – Revenge of the Sith is a 2005 American epic space opera film that is the sequel to The Phantom Menace (1999) and Attack of the Clones (2002).

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Starship Enterprise

Enterprise or USS Enterprise, often referred to as the Starship Enterprise, is the name of several fictional spacecraft, some of which are the main craft and setting for various television series and films in the Star Trek science fiction franchise.

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Steven Spielberg

Steven Allan Spielberg (born December 18, 1946) is an American filmmaker.

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Storyboard

A storyboard is a graphic organizer that consists of illustrations or images displayed in sequence for the purpose of pre-visualizing a motion picture, animation, motion graphic or interactive media sequence. Previsualization and storyboard are animation techniques, film production and Infographics.

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Stunt

A stunt is an unusual, difficult, dramatic physical feat that may require a special skill, performed for artistic purposes usually for a public audience, as on television or in theaters or cinema.

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Sydney Pollack

Sydney Irwin Pollack (July 1, 1934 – May 26, 2008) was an American film director, producer, and actor.

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The Abyss

The Abyss is a 1989 American science fiction film written and directed by James Cameron and starring Ed Harris, Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio, and Michael Biehn.

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The Colony (video game)

The Colony is a first-person shooter developed by David Alan Smith.

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The Lord of the Rings (film series)

The Lord of the Rings is a trilogy of epic fantasy adventure films directed by Peter Jackson, based on the novel The Lord of the Rings by British author J. R. R. Tolkien.

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The Matrix (franchise)

The Matrix is an American cyberpunk media franchise consisting of four feature films, beginning with The Matrix (1999) and continuing with three sequels, The Matrix Reloaded, The Matrix Revolutions (both 2003), and The Matrix Resurrections (2021).

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U-matic

U-matic or -inch Type E Helical Scan or SMPTE E is an analogue recording videocassette format first shown by Sony in prototype in October 1969, and introduced to the market in September 1971.

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Video game

A video game or computer game is an electronic game that involves interaction with a user interface or input device (such as a joystick, controller, keyboard, or motion sensing device) to generate visual feedback from a display device, most commonly shown in a video format on a television set, computer monitor, flat-panel display or touchscreen on handheld devices, or a virtual reality headset.

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Video tap

A video tap is an accessory for a motion picture camera used in filmmaking to provide a video signal from the camera lens.

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Video Toaster

The NewTek Video Toaster is a combination of hardware and software for the editing and production of NTSC standard-definition video.

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Visual effects

Visual effects (sometimes abbreviated VFX) is the process by which imagery is created or manipulated outside the context of a live-action shot in filmmaking and video production.

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Walt Disney Pictures

Walt Disney Pictures is an American film production company and subsidiary of Walt Disney Studios, a division of Disney Entertainment, which is owned by The Walt Disney Company.

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War of the Worlds (2005 film)

War of the Worlds is a 2005 American science fiction action-thriller film directed by Steven Spielberg and written by Josh Friedman and David Koepp, loosely based on H. G. Wells' 1898 novel, The War of the Worlds.

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William Shatner

William Shatner (born March 22, 1931) is a Canadian actor.

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X-Men (film)

X-Men is a 2000 American superhero film directed by Bryan Singer from a screenplay by David Hayter and a story by Singer and Tom DeSanto, based on the Marvel Comics superhero team of the same name created by Stan Lee and Jack Kirby.

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X-wing fighter

The X-wing starfighter is a name applied to a family of fictional spacecraft manufactured by the Incom Corporation and later the Incom-FreiTek Corporation from the Star Wars franchise.

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3D computer graphics

3D computer graphics, sometimes called CGI, 3-D-CGI or three-dimensional computer graphics, are graphics that use a three-dimensional representation of geometric data (often Cartesian) that is stored in the computer for the purposes of performing calculations and rendering digital images, usually 2D images but sometimes 3D images.

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3D television

3D television (3DTV) is television that conveys depth perception to the viewer by employing techniques such as stereoscopic display, multi-view display, 2D-plus-depth, or any other form of 3D display.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Previsualization

Also known as Pre Viz, Pre-vis, Pre-visualization, Pre-viz, Previs, Previsualisation, Previz.

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