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 become familiar 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 movement during the festivalla sã ©lection officielle - official celebration selectionUn certain respect - Cannes class for especially creative filmsla Palme dOr - brilliant palm, most noteworthy honor given at Cannes Sorts 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 dissemination - cast listle/la figurant/figurante - extralinterprã ¨te (m or f) - on-screen character/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 cues 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, executive of photographyle/la maquilleur/maquilleuse - make-up artistle metteur en scã ¨ne - directorle/la monteur/monteuse - editorle preneur de child - sound specialist, sound recorderle/la producteur/productrice - producerle producteur exã ©cutif - official producerla productrice exã ©cutivele/la rã ©alisateur/rã ©alisatrice - directorle rã ©gisseur - line maker, right hand directorle scã ©nariste - screenwriter Scã ¨nes et Plans - Â Scenes and Shots larrã ªt sur picture - freeze framele unit - framedans le champ - in shoten dã ©cor, studio - on seten extã ©rieur - on locationle fondu - break up, 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) Random 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 - unique effectsVF - adaptation franã §aise (named into French)VO - form originale (in the first language with French captions)