French Terms Related to Movies and Film Festivals

French Terms Related to Movies and Film Festivals Regardless of whether you love going to film celebrations, watching motion pictures, or simply understanding audits, youll need to gain proficiency with some French jargon identified with movies.le film - film, moviele cinã ©ma - film theaterle Festival de Cannes - Cannes Film Festivalla Croisette - minimal cross, promenade which is the focal point of action during the festivalla sã ©lection officielle - official celebration selectionUn certain respect - Cannes classification for especially creative filmsla Palme dOr - brilliant palm, most noteworthy honor given at Cannes Kinds la comã ©die - comedyle documentaire - documentaryle drame - dramale film daction - activity moviele film daventures - adventurele film dã ©pouvante - horrorla sci-fi - science fictionle western - western Acteurs - Cast un acteur - actorune actrice - actressla conveyance - cast listle/la figurant/figurante - extralinterprã ¨te (m or f) - entertainer/actressle head rã'le - male lead, driving actorle chief rã'le fã ©minin - female lead, driving actressle second rã'le - supporting actorle second rã'le fã ©minin - supporting actressla outline - stroll on part/rolela vedette - star Équipe - Â Crew le/la bruiteur/bruiteuse - audio effects engineerle camã ©raman, cadreur - camera operatorle/la cinã ©aste - chief, movie makerle/la coiffeur/coiffeuse - hair stylistle/la dã ©corateur/dã ©coratrice - designerle directeur de la photo(graphie) - cinematographer, chief of photographyle/la maquilleur/maquilleuse - make-up artistle metteur en scã ¨ne - directorle/la monteur/monteuse - editorle preneur de child - sound architect, sound recorderle/la producteur/productrice - producerle producteur exã ©cutif - official producerla productrice exã ©cutivele/la rã ©alisateur/rã ©alisatrice - directorle rã ©gisseur - line maker, collaborator directorle scã ©nariste - screenwriter Scã ¨nes et Plans - Â Scenes and Shots larrã ªt sur picture - freeze framele framework - framedans le champ - in shoten dã ©cor, studio - on seten extã ©rieur - on locationle fondu - disintegrate, fadehors champ - off-camerale panoramique - panningun plan rapprochã ©/serrã © - close uple raccord - coherence Verbes - Verbs bruiter - to add sound effectscadrer - to outline a shotcouper - to cutdiriger - to directinterprã ©ter - to perform, actmonter - to editproduire - to produceprojeter - to extend, showtourner (un movie, une scã ¨ne) - to movie, shoot (a film, scene) Incidental laffiche - appearing, playing, on screenla bande sonore - soundtrackle bruitage - sound effectsle dã ©coupage - story boarddoublã © - dubbedlã ©clairage (m) - lightingle gã ©nã ©rique - credits, subject musicla grue - cranele mã ©trage - lengthle montage - editingle scã ©nario - screenplaysous-titrã © - subtitledle truquage - uncommon effectsVF - form franã §aise (named into French)VO - adaptation originale (in the first language with French captions)