Movie Speak by Tony Bill

Author:Tony Bill
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Workman Publishing Company
Published: 2008-06-13T16:00:00+00:00

pup Any small light.

pushcart A code word among the crew to notify each other of a woman on the set who is sitting in such a manner that one might see up her dress.

put some iron on the chain To add a processing device to affect the sound during the mix.

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raintree A very tall sprinkler used, normally in multiples, to simulate rain. Virtually all rain in movies is created this way. In fact, rain doesn’t show up on film unless it is carefully backlit. Like a cop, it’s never there when you need it and often there when you don’t.

real world As sailors differentiate between being at sea or at land; as prisoners view life outside their walls; as the military sees civilians; so does the film crew differentiate life on the set from life off the set . . . which they call, not altogether dismissively, the real world.

rear projection The projection of a scene (highway, ski slope, surf, passing scenery, etc.) behind the actor(s) during a scene to give the illusion that they are really there, driving, skiing, surfing, etc.

The scene projected is called, oddly, a plate, though it’s obviously a moving image. (Plate may be a holdover from the earliest days of cinema, when it was not necessary for the background to be a motion picture, only a photograph.)

Rear projection is virtually extinct, replaced by front projection. Again, it’s a form of cheat that goes right by the audience, although both forms have been generally replaced by CGI techniques, which are virtually impossible to distinguish from the real thing.

recce The British word for the location scout, derived from “reconnaissance,” although sounding to American ears more like a Girl Scout field trip.

redhead An open-faced 1K light. Also called a mickey.

Rembrandt The generic but well-earned moniker given to the key on-set (or standby) painter. Long on the endangered species list, this term may now be considered virtually extinct. The cry of “Rembrandt!” was once all the prompting necessary to summon this paint-spattered (and seemingly oldest) member of the crew, who would quietly and instantly appear, bucket and brushes in hand, like a country doctor making a house call. It was rare to know the real name of this magician. Imagine, by the way, the lost charm of hearing “Good morning, Rembrandt” every day.

Rembrandt

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