Film (motion picture)
A work made from a sequence of moving images, usually recorded or digitally produced, and presented in cinemas or on other screens.
Cinematography: The craft and technique of capturing moving images for film and other screen media. Camera placement, lighting, lenses, and movement determine how a film’s images look.
Pre-production: The planning phase of a film, including development, budgeting, casting, and scheduling. It coordinates the decisions and resources needed before filming begins.
Chronophotography: A photographic technique that records successive phases of movement, often on one plate or series of images. Its motion studies helped establish how still photographs could analyze movement.
Documentary film: A film that presents or interprets real events, people, or conditions. It uses film to record, investigate, or argue about the world outside fiction.
Television: A system and medium for transmitting audiovisual programs to receivers, traditionally on a scheduled broadcast. Television historically favored recurring programs and domestic viewing over cinema’s feature presentation.
Film editing: The selection and arrangement of shots and sounds into a finished audiovisual work. Editing shapes a film’s pace, continuity, and ordering of events.
Film production: The process of creating a film, from planning and shooting through post-production. It brings the separate creative and technical contributions into one finished work.
Kinetoscope: A peephole viewing device that displayed moving pictures from a loop of film. It offered an early commercial way to view motion pictures before projected cinema spread.
Animation: The creation of moving images by displaying a sequence of individually made or manipulated frames. Animation produces motion without requiring every image to be photographed from live action.
Video art: Art made with video technology, often presented in galleries or noncommercial settings. Video art shares moving images with film but often follows different exhibition conventions.