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D. Write a short film script. Let your fellow students guess what genre it belongs to.

Part III. Movie people and show business

Topical Vocabulary

Assistant director асистент режисера

Art director художник-постановник

Cameraman оператор

Bankable star касова зірка

Casting director помічник режисера по підбору акторів

Director режисер

Director of photography оператор-постановник

Editor редактор

Extra статист

Above-the-line budget прибуток

Below-the-line budget витрати

Filmmaker виробник фільму

Featured actors основні актори

Grip людина, що возить візок з камерою

Make-up artist гример

Ingénue женю, молода перспективна актриса

Producer продюсер

Screenwriter сценарист

Sex goddess сексуально приваблива актриса

Stand-in дублер

Starlet (usually depreciatingly) 1) невелика зірка 2) талановита молода актриса,

майбутня зірка

Star vehicle фільм із зірковим складом

Film celebrity зірка кінеметоргафа

Hollywood celebrity голлівудська знаменитість

Stuntman каскадер

Caption Syn.: title кіно титр, надпис на екрані

Drive-in кінотеатр під відкритим небом, кінотеатр для автомобілістів

Dubbing дубляж

First run прем’єра

Flick=film фільм

Low-budget movie низько бюджетний фільм

High-budget movie високо бюджетний фільм

Majors основні голлівудські кінокомпанії

Picture palace прем’єрний кінотеатр (к-р 1-го класу)

Screenplay, script сценарій

Screen test закритий показ

Silver/blue screen голубий екран

Subtitles субтитри

Vоice over (vo) озвучування, голос за кадром

World premiere світова премія

Scenes

Bit епізодична роль відомого актора

Background задній план, фон

Chase scene сцена переслідування

Closing credits заключні титри

Opening credits титри на початку фільму

To make, produce, shoot a film знімати фільм

To release a film зняти фільм

To show a film показувати фільм

To run in the cinema house іти в кінотеатр

To ban a film заборонити фільм

To censor a film подавати фільм цензурі

Lot місце зйомки, знімальна площадка

Black-and-white film чорно-білий фільм

To work in films працювати в кіно індустрії

To be in the films зніматися в кіно

Color cine film кольорова кіноплівка

Film production staff знімальна група

To run through the film продивлятися фільм

Black-and-white film чорно-біла плівка

The skills and talents of many different people are involved in filmmaking. The stars and other actors who appear on the screen are only part of the story; most of what goes into a production takes place off-camera. Depending on the size, or scale, of the production, and the financing available, thousands of people may have a part in producing a motion picture.

1. Director

The director controls all the actors and technicians on a film set. He or she decides how to shoot each scene and is generally in charge of the movie’s creative development.

2. Producer

Producers look after the business side of a film. First they find the money to start a project. Then they control the budget while it’s made. Finally, they are in charge of the film’s publicity and release.

3. Editor

An editor’s job is to ‘cut’ all the film shot by the director into a final two or three hour version.

4. Screenplay by…

This refers to the script-writer – the person who has written a ‘play’ for the ‘screen’. Screenplay adapted by…means that the story was originally a book or a stage-play.

5. Casting director

Casting directors choose actors for the various roles in a film. This includes selecting everyone from top international stars to ‘extras’.

6. Art Director

The person in charge of a film’s overall visual design is called the art director (or sometimes the ‘production designer’). His or her responsibilities include the sets and costumes.

7. Second Unit Director

To save time, movies are often made in two places at once. For example, while the leading actors are working in London, a car chase may be filmed in New York. The technicians who make these ‘action’ sequences (or scenes with lots of extras) are called the Second Unit, and their boss is the Second Unit Director.

8. Gaffer

The electrician in charge of lightning on set.

9. Best Boy

Assistant to the gaffer.

10. Key Grip

A key grip moves the camera from one position to another on the set or location.

11. Focus-Puller

This job involves keeping the camera in focus and changing lenses when necessary.

12. Clapper-Loader

The clapper-board is two pieces of wood. These are brought together with a ‘clap!’ at the start of each ‘take’. They have information written on them which helps the director and editor to keep the takes in order. The clapper-loader operates the clapper-board and also puts film in the camera.

13. Dubbing Editor

This job starts after shooting is over. It involves mixing dialogue, music and sound-effects to produce the film’s final ‘sound-track’.

14. Sound Mixer

Sound mixers control the equipment which records sounds picked up by the microphone.

15. Continuity Supervisor

The scenes in the film are usually shot out of order. For example, the end may be shot before the beginning. A continuity supervisor’s job is to make sure that costumes, sets, props, etc. are all consistent.

16. Boom Operator

The boom is a long pole with a microphone on the one end. The boom operator holds the microphone above the actors’ heads to recorder what they are saying.

A. Many people are involved in film making. Read what each person says about his/her job; fill in the missing words from the brackets into the gaps. Match the description with the name of the job.

- Production coordinator

• Continuity girl

• Stunt man

• Clapperboard man

• Sound editor

• Location manager

a) I have to add atmosphere to the original dialogue in order to create a fuller, richer of_ _________. For example, when a character rides in the rain, I can the of thunder to add an extra dimension. All these effects, which include teacups clinking on saucers and fires cracking, have to be recorded on a , which is called the “footsteps_________”, so when the film is sold to other countries, they can on the dialogue in their own language, without loosing all the sound effects.

(dub, lay the sound, texture of sound, separate track, track)

b) I should build up contact between the and the and_______. It’s my job to book all the hotel rooms we need during filming (and re-book them when the changes!), to organize car hire, medicals, insurance. I distribute and , __________rewrites, schedules, movement orders. On the social side, I am the only one who has the information about everyone’s birth dates – so I organize the birthday cakes!

(script, production team, crew, cast, crew list, schedule, cast)

c) I’m often called a script , but in fact I am a second pair of eyes and ears for the director. I’m there in the and , taking notes of any action or dialogue changes and the camera moves. On the the director will give an idea of the _______he wants, so I make a note of each one – a here or a panning there. I make notes for the film editor, listing which ‘ ’ the director wants to use and why; this helps the editor to see quickly what we’ve .

(“takes”, filming, shot, supervisor, rehearsals, a close-up, shot, set, shots)

d) Some of the tricks require real skills of an acrobat, so I was employed to perform several ___________as a for the leading actor. For me it wasn’t the first experience of jumping from a high cliff onto a passing-by boat, through there’s always an element of risk in it.

(stand-in, stunts)

e) We will be filming in our for six weeks, for both and _________scenes, so everything has to be very special. We would be making a lot of demands on it. We need a drawing room, dining room, library, large hall, staircase, landings and three bedrooms, as well as extensive gardens. Some need a helping hand: for example, one of the location owners has mowed a part of the lawn so it has modern strips on it. I’ll have to _________this with an instant hedge.

(disguise, interior, main location, exterior, shots)

f) During the filming I might suggest a way the may be extended or improved, as through the eye I see everything that is being filmed. Perhaps, I’ll ask to alter the composition, i.e. for furniture or to be moved slightly to make a better . The can be hand-held but is usually on tripod or a ‘dolly’, a little truck on wheels that can be moved on a smooth floor, specially laid boards or a track, rather like a railway line, so that the can ‘walk’ beside actors as they move.

(camera, shot, camera, mounted, props, picture, camera)

g) My job requires accuracy and precision. I the film, put marks on the ground for the actors so they always hit the right spot during the scene and, when the camera is rolling, announce the scene and shot and bang the clapper , so that sound and could be synchronized.

(vision, load, board)

B. Try to guess the names of the jobs which are common in the cinema world.

1. The person who writes the script.

2. The person who chooses the actors.

3. The collective name for the actors in the film.

4. The most important acting role.

5. A subsidiary acting role.

6. A well-known actor or actress in cinema pictures.

7. The person who operates the camera.

8. The audio element of the film.

9. The names of the people involved, which appear on the screen at the end of the film.

10. The first showing of the new film.

11. The person who decides how to shoot each scene and is generally in charge of the movie’s creative development.

12. The person who makes sure that costumes, sets, props, etc. are all consistent.

13. The person who finds and controls the budget and is in charge of the film’s publicity and release.

C. Game: match each person (1-5) with what they would say (a-e).

1. Director a. Can’t you get on with the shooting? This is costing me money.

2. Producer b. Scene 24. Take 25!

3. Continuity girl c. Your make-up’s thicker and you are wearing a different dress.

4. Clapperboard man d. Clear the set! This is supposed to be a film studio! Get those damned extras out of here! Action! Cut!

5. Cameraman e. Rolling!

D. You are a film producer. You are going to hire a crew for shooting a new film. Write a job ad to a newspaper with a list of jobs you need and their description. Don’t forget to mention the requirements to the employees.