Film: A series of small photographs that the camera takes at twenty four photographs per second.
Cinema: A cinema is the palce where audiences view films. Cinemas is also the general term used when discussing and analysing all aspects of film and filmmaking.
Shot: A shot is a continuous piece of filmmaking without interruption from the time the camera is turned on ans starts filming untill it is turned off.
Edit: An edit is a break in the film where one shot finishes and the next shot begins.
Scene: A scene is a collection of shots arranged, through editing, in a specific order.
Frame: The frame is literally the boarder or edge of the screen in the cinema-the physical boundray that contains what the audience sees.
Framing: Framing is the art of deciding what images the audience sees within the frame of the cinema screen.
Diegesis: The diegesis of a film is everything contained within the 'world' of that film. Therefore, a diegetic element is an element within the world of the film, while a non-diegetic element is any element outside the world of the film.
Mise-en-scene: An expression used in ion theatre and film to describe aspects of a production. Only rarely is mise-en-scene used in other art forms, but it has been used effectively to analyse photography.
Cinematography: The making of lighting and camera choices when recording photographic images for the cinema. It is closely related to still photography.
Editing: The process of selecting and preparing images, language, sound, video or film through processes of correction, organization and other modifications in various media. A person who edits is an editor.
