Amateur film: the low-budget hobbyist art of film practiced for passion and enjoyment and not for business purposes.
Camera positioning: ELS, LS, MS, SU, ESU
Camera angles: Birds-eye, High, Eye, Low, Oblique
Improvisation: the art of thinking on the spot
Script: a write-up of everything that is going to happen in the movie
Storyboard: a sequence of pictures describing the scenes in a film
Scene: a section of a movie that takes place with a single setting or follows a specific part of the plot, many scenes in the right order make up an entire film.
Genre: types of films such as horror, comedy and action
Dolly: a dolly is a cart that holds the video camera on it allowing the camera to move smoothly following the action of the scene.
Setting: every scene has a setting that dictates what is going on in the background as the main characters act.
Visualization: figuring out how what you’re film will look like and planning for it before shooting.
Shooting: the act of filming a scene
Effects: additions made to the film after shooting, normally done digitally in the 21st century
Screenwriting: the art of creating a movie script
Extras: actors in a film that do not play a leading roll and normally don’t even have lines