Wikipedia:WikiProject Filmmaking

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WikiProject Filmmaking is a WikiProject which aspires to comprehensively cover and standardize articles involving the technologies and disciplines involved in all stages of professional filmmaking.

Contents 1 Scope 1.1 Topics explicitly outside of the project scope 2 Goals 3 Announcements 4 Articles 5 Participants 6 Open Tasks 6.1 Project notice template 6.2 Assessment 6.3 Requested articles, images, and cleanup 6.4 To do list 6.5 Featured articles 7 Collaboration 8 Templates 8.1 Infoboxes 8.2 Navigational templates 8.3 Stub templates 8.4 Talk space templates 8.5 Userbox 9 Categories 9.1 Featured articles 9.2 Featured pictures 9.3 Featured lists 10 Related WikiProjects

[edit] Scope

Our focus is on all aspects and departments involved in the making of a film from development along to release.

Specifically:

• equipment and resources used in the process of filmmaking
• jobs frequently involved in filmmaking
• technical concepts and processes used with or developed for films
• commonly practiced techniques directly applicable to film work
• companies and suppliers directly concerned with the film industry

[edit] Topics explicitly outside of the project scope

• individual film titles - see Wikipedia:WikiProject Films
• filmmakers or other people - see Wikipedia:WikiProject Biography
• fictional characters, places, or events - see Wikipedia:WikiProject Council/Directory/Culture
• critical theory of film - see Wikipedia:WikiProject Critical Theory
• places (excepting those exclusively used for filmmaking, such as a studio) - see Wikipedia:WikiProject Council/Directory/Geographical
• how-to guides or manuals - this should be coordinated through Wikibooks:Movie Making Manual

[edit] Goals

Specifically, we are interested in:

• standardizing the articles as much as possible through infoboxes, templates, and consistent terminology
• providing verifiable citable references for all pertinent information
• coordinating our work using guidelines, recommendations, and review
• acting as the focal point of discussion regarding filmmaking articles
• creating consensus on stylistic issues
• engaging industry professionals - preferably from a wide range of fields and geographic regions
• removing systematic bias - such as excessive or exclusive focus on a particular region's industry or a certain type of filmmaking (i.e. features, television, commercials, music videos, shorts, etc.)
• welcoming anyone with a serious interest in the topics

Oh, and most importantly,

1. Finding someone with a better design sense to help make this page look better! :)

[edit] Announcements

• The Cinema Collaboration of the Week currently includes the article on primary topic Film as a nominated collaboration. As the root topic for both WikiProject Films and WikiProject Filmmaking, it's been suggested that the two projects work in a combined effort to improve the article to featured status. If you are in favor, please support the nomination!
• B movie has been promoted to Featured article status! Another thorough job from DCGeist, who worked as the primary editor and brought the article from this to its current state.
• Editors willing to "adopt" GA-Class and A-Class articles in order to guide them through peer review and/or FAC are wanted. We've been steadily adding new featured articles and want more. These articles are deemed to be the closest in their current state to reaching featured status, and thus are low(er)-hanging fruits for the picking.
• Bad news - both Panavision and WGA screenwriting credit system are in danger of being demoted from featured status, and have each been added to featured article review. The main problem is the lack of inline citations. If you can contribute in any way to improving these articles, your immediate help will be well appreciated.
• Panavision has been reclassified as a Featured Article. Woo-hoo!
• Bad news - B movie has been set for featured article review. Please join the review process to save the Featured Article status.

[edit] Articles

You can find a complete list of articles tagged by the project at Category:WikiProject Filmmaking articles.

Also you can take a look at the bot search result feed User:AlexNewArtBot/CinemaSearchResult tracking down recently created film and filmmaking-related articles. The feed is shared with Wikipedia:WikiProject Films/New articles. You can put the feed to whatever place you want by using {{subst:User:AlexNewArtBot/Announcement|Cinema}}.

[edit] Participants

Please feel free to add your name if you wish to help out, you can also put the tag {{User WikiProject Filmmaking}} on your user page. Please also list any particular fields within the project that most interest you; we may create departments to coordinate work in fields with significant numbers of interested editors.

1. Girolamo Savonarola (talk • contribs) (camera, labs, projection)
2. LACameraman (talk • contribs) (cameras, formats, lenses, lighting, electric)
3. Megapixie (talk • contribs) (diagrams and photographs)
4. Janke (talk • contribs) (animation, special effects)
5. Kostian (talk • contribs) (Grip, Electric, Camera, Cinematic Motion and expression)
6. HamillianActor (talk • contribs) (Grip, Camera, lighting, sound, copy-editing, stub sorting, templates)
7. Glennchan (talk • contribs) (color grading, engineering)
8. Deleuze (talk • contribs) (Editing)
9. Stephen B Streater (talk • contribs) (Logging, editing, reviewing, publishing - particularly over the Internet)
10. GangstaEB (talk • contribs) (I'll help with POV issues)
11. Walloon (talk • contribs) (silent era, history of color and sound)
12. NegMan (talk • contribs) (Negative cutting, Keykode, Timecode)
13. NftaDaedalus (talk • contribs) (Sound: recording, editing; 3D imagery)
14. The Photoplayer (talk • contribs) (Color processes, sound processes, stereoscopic photography, laboratory work, technical history)
15. Ibaranoff24 (talk • contribs)
16. Djdickmutt (talk • contribs) (non-linear digital editing)
17. Kylehamilton (talk • contribs) (Film Student at the Brooks Institute of Photography)
18. OldCommentator (talk • contribs) (15+ yrs in industry,[1] film-crew organization, art department, production design, stop-motion, mocap)
19. GHcool (talk • contribs) (film crew, procedures, art and craft of editing, art and craft of production, art and craft of sound mixing, definition of key terms)
20. Lordwow (talk • contribs) (Film student. Producing, Editing, Low-Budget Shooting)
21. WikiCats (talk • contribs) (Broadcasting/Television Production - Technical Producer, Australia)
22. Feureau (talk • contribs) (Directing, Special Effects (particularly CGI since I use Maya+Renderman for living)
23. iluvcapra (talk • contribs) (Sound designer, assistant sound editor)
24. Ottovonguericke (talk • contribs) (Cinematography, Guerilla Filmmaking, Student at Chapman Film School.)
25. Fadookie (talk • contribs) (Editing, Audio, Production. Student at Chapman Film School.)
26. tonsofpcs (talk • contribs) (Broadcasting/TV: Video and Film seperation -- they are different mediums and the difference need to be kept clear, even if Film now tends to be converted to video for edits)
27. Cate (talk • contribs) (Editing, film crew)
28. DCGeist (talk • contribs) (producing, editing, distributing, cinema as a business)
29. LetterRip (talk • contribs) (3D Software, open source)
30. cvanp (talk • contribs) (general filmmaking enthusiast, film school in a year or so. Directing, low budget/guerilla techniques)
31. Rcnet (talk • contribs) (Broadcast equipment manufacturer, CoolTouch Monitors, formerly Wohler - I can help on the equipment and market side of things.
32. Bradtcordeiro (talk • contribs) (Post-Production)
33. jslasher (talk • contribs) (Kinopanorama, widescreen, film music and composers, independent record labels, phonograph cylinders)
34. grawis (talk • contribs) Television photographer, Norway
35. Roger the red (talk • contribs) (Author, lecturer, film history, film production)
36. Badbilltucker (talk • contribs) - primarily directly-project-related activities
37. Binba (talk • contribs) (Film & video AC, Non-linear and linear editing, formats & conversions, telecine & CC, location sound)
38. Pedant (talk • contribs) (screenwriter, camera operator, editor, animator, motion graphics artist, dilettante)
39. AvidLiquid (talk • contribs) (Non-Linear editing systems, video compression, video routing)
40. Taric25 (talk • contribs) (Subtitle (captioning) & Closed captioning)
41. Cmacd123 (talk • contribs) (Older 16mm technology)
42. Jhawkinson (talk • contribs) (Projection, standards)
43. Chris Kenny (talk • contribs) (Digital cinematography)
44. Cocoma (talk • contribs) (PowerPoint animation Many years of experience in PowerPoint industries, especially on animations factor. Able to work on areas ranging from general to programming PowerPoint.)
45. Cinjun (talk • contribs) (Production & Post-Production)
46. rrhobbs (talk • contribs) (Location Scouting, Location Manager)

[edit] Open Tasks

[edit] Project notice template

Place the {{WikiProject Filmmaking}} template on the Talk: pages of all relevant articles. Please add to the talk pages of any relevant articles you see missing them.

[edit] Assessment

Assess all articles listed at Category:Unassessed Filmmaking articles. Don't forget you can assess articles when you add the project notice! See the Assessment Department for more details on how to do this.

[edit] Requested articles, images, and cleanup

You can request or create articles and images at our Requests subpage. Articles with cleanup templates are periodically listed by a bot.

[edit] To do list

We have a to do list which is transcluded onto the sidebar. Please also feel free to update it as fit.

[edit] Featured articles

Help us bring all of our articles up to featured article status - this is our paramount and ultimate goal. Good target articles include A-Class articles and GA-Class articles, but you can bring any article to featured status or even write one from scratch expressly for the purpose. Peer review often is a good step prior to jumping into the nomination pool. Also see featured article guidelines for an idea of what the project is looking for.

[edit] Collaboration

Our current collaboration is Filmmaking.

Our last collaboration, 35 mm film, has since become a featured article!

[edit] Templates

Feel free to add other useful and project-related templates

[edit] Infoboxes

What to type

What it makes

{{Infobox Movie Camera}} Talk

{{{cameraline}}} [[Image:{{{image}}}|300px|]] {{{caption}}} Variant Models {{{models}}} Manufacturer {{{manufacturer}}} Introduced {{{introduced}}} Gauge {{{gauge}}} Weight {{{weight}}} Movement {{{movement}}} Speed {{{speed}}} Aperture Size {{{aperturesize}}} Aperture plate {{{apertureplate}}} Motor {{{motor}}} Operating Noise Level {{{operatingnoiselevel}}} Indicators {{{indicators}}} Lens mount {{{lensmount}}} Lens control {{{lenscontrol}}} Shutter {{{shutter}}} Viewfinder {{{viewfinder}}} Video assist {{{videoassist}}} Ground glass {{{groundglass}}} Magazines {{{magazines}}} Magazine loading {{{magazinetype}}} Film cores {{{filmcores}}} Matte boxes {{{matteboxes}}} Electronic accessories {{{electronicaccessories}}} Optical accessories {{{opticalaccessories}}} Other accessories {{{otheraccessories}}} Batteries {{{batteries}}} Environment protection {{{environmentprotection}}} Camera support {{{camerasupport}}}

[edit] Navigational templates

What to type	What it makes
{{Continuity Editing}} Talk	Continuity editing topics Establishing shot | Shot reverse shot | 180 degree rule | Eyeline match | 30 degree rule | Cutting on action | Cutaway | Insert | Cross-cutting
{{Filmmaking paper trail}} Talk	The Filmmaking Paper Trail: Pre-production: Screenplay | Breaking down the script | Script breakdown sheet | Production strip | Production board | Day out of Days | One liner schedule | Shooting schedule | Film budgeting Production: Daily call sheet | Daily editor log | Daily progress report | Film inventory report (daily raw stock log) | Sound report | Daily production report (DPR) | Cost report
{{Film crew}} Talk	v • d • e Film crew Actor · Art director · Assistant director · Best boy · Boom operator · Camera operator · Cinematographer · Clapper loader · Color grader · Costume designer · Dialogue editor · Dolly grip · Executive producer · Film director · Film editor · Film producer · Focus puller · Foley artist · Gaffer · Grip · Key grip · Lighting technician · Line producer · Location manager · Production assistant · Production designer · Production sound mixer · Property master · Script supervisor · Set decorator · Sound designer · Sound editor · Utility sound technician

[edit] Stub templates

What to type	What it makes
{{Filming-stub}} Talk	This filming or film-technique article is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it.

[edit] Talk space templates

Place this template in the discussion page of all articles which fall under the project scope.

What to type	What it makes
{{WikiProject Filmmaking}} Talk	This article is within the scope of Wikipedia:WikiProject Filmmaking, an attempt to better organize information in articles related to filmmaking. If you would like to participate, you can edit the article attached to this page, or visit the project page, where you can join the project and/or contribute to the discussion. NA This article has been rated as NA-Class on the assessment scale.

[edit] Userbox

Place this userbox on your user page to let people know you are a member of WP:FMK!

What to type	What it makes
{{User WikiProject Filmmaking}} Talk	This user is a member of WikiProject Filmmaking.

[edit] Categories

• Category:Film and video technology

[edit] Featured articles

• 35 mm film also a WikiProject collaboration article
• B movie
• Kinetoscope
• Panavision
• Sound film

[edit] Featured pictures

• Animated horse by User:Janke
• Computer generated image by User:Gilles Tran
• Geneva drive by User:Mike1024
• Muybridge racehorse by Eadweard Muybridge with animation by User:Waugsberg

[edit] Featured lists

[edit] Related WikiProjects

• Wikipedia:WikiProject Films
• Wikipedia:WikiProject Screenwriters
• Wikipedia:WikiProject Stagecraft