SOCIALBILITTY • GLOSSARY DEPARTMENT
Editorial, color, visual effects, compositing, CGI, animation, storyboards, and the workflows used to assemble, enhance, and finish recorded material.
Dailies are the picture and sound from recently completed photography prepared for review by authorized creative and production personnel. Dailies allow teams to evaluate performance, coverage, focus, exposure, continuity, technical quality, and other aspects of the material before production moves too far ahead.
View Definition →Post-Production is the phase after or alongside photography in which recorded material is organized, edited, finished, and prepared for delivery. It may include picture editing, sound editing, ADR, Foley, music, visual effects, color grading, titles, mixing, mastering, quality control, and creation of final distribution deliverables.
View Definition →The Visual Effects Supervisor (VFX Supervisor) leads the planning and execution of visual-effects work for a production. The supervisor helps determine what should be achieved practically or digitally, advises on photography and data capture, coordinates vendors and VFX teams, and works with the Director, Director of Photography, production, editorial, and post-production through final delivery.
View Definition →A Colorist is a post-production professional who adjusts and shapes the color, contrast, density, exposure relationships, and overall visual consistency of finished images. Working with the Director and Director of Photography, the Colorist helps establish the final look across shots, scenes, cameras, visual effects, and delivery formats.
View Definition →Chroma Key is a compositing technique that removes a selected color from an image—commonly green or blue—so another image or visual element can replace it. The process is widely used in film, television, weather broadcasting, virtual production, and visual-effects workflows.
View Definition →In visual effects, a Matte is an image, mask, or defined area used to control which parts of one image are visible when combining multiple elements into a composite. Traditional matte paintings extended or replaced photographed environments; modern digital mattes and masks perform similar functions within compositing and visual-effects software.
View Definition →A Storyboard is a sequence of drawings, illustrations, or digital frames used to previsualize how shots and scenes may appear on screen. Storyboards can communicate composition, camera position, movement, blocking, action, visual effects, and editing transitions before filming begins.
View Definition →Animation is the creation of moving images from a sequence of drawings, digital artwork, models, puppets, photographs, or computer-generated frames. Animation techniques include hand-drawn, stop-motion, 2D digital, 3D computer animation, motion graphics, and hybrid methods used in film, television, commercials, games, and visual effects.
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