any process whereby artificial movement is created by photographing a series of drawings or computer images one by one.

See camera angle

a lens for making widescreen films using regular Academy ratio frame size. The camera lens takes in a wide field of view and squeezes it onto the frame, and a similar projector lens unsqueezes in onto a wide theatre screen. CinemaScope and Panavision are examples of anamorphic widescreen processes.

the natural light surrounding the subject, usually understood to be soft.

an artistic technique that utilises chance conditions and probability. In aleatory film, images and sounds are not planned in advance.