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Rack Focus - A shot where
focus is changed while shooting. Unlike a Follow
Focus shot, a rack focus shot is usually done not from the
necessity of keeping someone in focus but to shift attention from one
thing to another.
Rank - A respectable and
commonly used brand of Telecine
machines. The word is sometimes used interchangeably with telecine in much
the same way as “Steenbeck” is used in place of “flatbed.”
Raw Stock - Unexposed film.
Reaction Shot - 1.: A shot of someone looking
off screen. Used either to lead into a P.O.V.
Shot (and let the viewer know that it is a P.O.V. shot), or to
show a reaction right after a P.O.V. shot. 2.: A reaction shot can
also be a shot of someone in a conversation where they are not given a
line of dialogue but are just listening to the other person
speak.
Recans - Leftover film that was loaded
into a magazine but (unlike a Shortend)
not even partially shot, and then loaded back in the film can. Basically,
it is a roll a film that has been opened, but not used.
Reduction Print - An optical reduction of a film
from one gauge to another, such as 35mm to 16mm.
Reel - 1.: A metal or plastic spool for holding
film, either for projection or editing. 2.: In 35mm a reel is 1,000
feet of film (or usually a little less). Also known as a Single
Reel.
Reflective Light Reading - A
reflective light reading measures the amount of light bouncing off the
subject. You take a reflective reading with a light meter equipped with a
honey-comb or lensed grid. The meter is pointed at the subject, so as to
read only the light bouncing off the subject. The other type of light
reading is an Incident
Light Reading.
Reflector Board or
Reflector Card - see Bounce
Card.
Reflex - A viewfinding system
in a camera where the image you see in the viewfinder is viewed through
the same lens that is used to photograph the image on film.
Registration - The degree to which one frame
lines up with the next is registration. A camera with poor registration
will create an image that will gently bobble when projected. Projectors
too can have good or poor registration (sometimes making it difficult to
tell if it was the camera). Good registration is most important for
certain types of special effects shots where images are layered and will
call attention to themselves if they are gently bobbling out of sync with
each other.
Registration Pin - A
registration pin is found in the movement certain cameras, such as the
Arriflex and the Eclair, and acts to steady the image during exposure.
Release Print - This is a print made
after the answer print has been approved. It is not retimed, but struck
using the same timing as the final answer print. Because it is not retimed
it is generally much cheaper than an answer print. On a big production,
these are the prints released to movie theaters, hence the name.
Resolver - A device that governs the speed of a tape
recorder during the transfer to mag, insuring the sound will be in sync
with picture. The resolver uses the pilottone as a reference for adjusting
the playback speed, hence something can only be resolved if it has been
recorded with a properly equipped tape recorder. The Nagra IV has a
built-in resolver.
Reversal - A type of
film and method of processing that yields a positive original. This is the
movie-film equivalent of slide film and processing, in still
photography.
Reverse Shot - A shot from
the other side of the previous shot (though preferably on the same side of
the 180°
Line), such as cutting between two characters talking, a person
exiting and entering though a doorway, a reaction shot and P.O.V. shot,
etc.
Rewinds - A simple device for winding
film, consisting of a crank and a spindle for mounting one or more reels,
typically found mounted on either side of an editing bench.
Rivas - A type of tape splicer which uses perforated
splicing tape. Two models exist: One for straight cuts used for picture,
and one for slanted cuts used for sound.
Room
Tone - A recording of the “silence” of a room or any location, to be
used to fill in gaps when editing the sound. The silence of a location is
really not very silent at all, and the room tone of one location is not a
substitute for another, so a sync sound shoot will usually end with the
sound recordist asking everyone to be quiet for the recording of 30
seconds of room tone.
Rough Cut - The
edited film, between the stages of being an assembly and a fine
cut.
Rushes - The workprint, when it is just
back from the lab, unedited, called the rushes because of the rush to see
that everything came out alright. Also known as Dailies,
in honor of the minority of labs that will have it later that
day.
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