Version History

Version 1.0 (March 2009)

Initial release version

Version 1.01 (April 2009)

• Made CD-ROM entirely ISO 9660 Level 2 compliant
• Replaced "Readme.txt" with validated HTML 4.01 Transitional "README.HTM" including minor corrections
• Replaced "Liesmich.txt" with validated HTML 4.01 Transitional "LIESMICH.HTM" including minor corrections
• Added contact information to "README.HTM" and "LIESMICH.HTM"
• Added the "@EXEDRV@" parameter to "AUTORUN.INF" to fix a file allocation problem in Windows Vista

Version 1.1 (August 2009)

• Added official Philips Compact disc-logo for ISO 9660 compliant CD-ROMs to CD design
• Minor correction in list of "Works Cited"
• Minor correction in the entry for "scene"
• Slight changes in "Note to the digital edition"
• Added website information to "README.HTM" and "LIESMICH.HTM"
• Added meta information to all PDF files
• Corrected initial zoom level in "180.PDF"

• Added extract from The Color of Money (1986) as example of "rack focus"
• Added extract from 12 Angry Men (1957) as example of "tilt"

Version 1.2 (November 2009)

• Made definition of "follow focus" more precise
• Added information to the entries for "slow motion" and "accelerated motion"
• Made definition of "split screen" less restrictive
• Incorporated changes made in the 6th edition of The Film Encyclopedia
• Minor correction in list of "Works Cited"
• Completed and corrected the entry for "Wipe"
• Added explanations to the "screenplay" sample of the digital edition
• Changed font color of entries to R:0 G:124 B:195 to facilitate color space changes and offset printing
• Changed spelling of "intra-diegetic" and "extra-diegetic" to more common "intadiegetic" and "extradiegetic"
• Changed background color of CD design
• Tidied up metadata of PDFs
• Fixed problem with PDF/A viewing mode
• Added metadata to QuickTime video files: Information on the title, the director, and the year is now shown in the player's title bar
• Added Joliet extension to file system to prevent upper case filename conversion (Linux) from producing filenames that do not correspond to links.

• Added extract from Marathon Man (1976) as example of "flashback"
• Added extract from Weekend (1967) to "sound image relations" as example of intradiegetic sound (on and off screen)
• Added extract from Father of the Bride (1950) as example of "focus-in/focus-out"

Version 1.21 (December 2009)

• Cross-referenced contents of the main document ("SYNTAX.PDF")

Version 2.0 (November 2011)

• Included French definitions with grammatical gender
• Corrected formatting of "180.PDF" headline
• Changed orientation of "LIGHTING.PDF"
• Minor corrections in French bibliography
• Tidied up fonts
• Fixed broken link to Father of the Bride
• Began authoring PDFs with Adobe Acrobat Distiller

• Added extract from The Talented Mr. Ripley (1999) as example of "roll"

Version 3.0 (October 2012)

• Matches third printed edition
• New layout/structure
• 24 pages including cover
• Due to space requirements the glossary is now stored on DVD-ROM

• Signs: Sign, connotation, denotation, icon, index, symbol
• Units: Frame, sequence shot
• Distance: Two shot
• Focus: Depth of field
• Point of View: Ocularization, eyeline match
• Communication: Diegesis, story/discourse, diegetic break, hypermediacy, immediacy
• Editing: Continuity, continuity editing, 30-degree rule
• Duration: Frozen time
• Digital Cinematography: Digital effects, computer animation, computer-generated imagery (CGI), morphing
• Sound: Auricularization, theme, effects track, sound track, soundtrack
• Pre-Production: Shooting script

• 35mm celluloid frame
• Visualisation of angles in vertical plane
• Aspects of story and discourse
• Depth of field
• Frozen time production stills
• Diegesis and levels of communication
• Pivotal camera movement around axes
• Sign
• Characteristics of signs
• Spatiotemporal relations

• Waking Life (2001): "icon"
• Midnight Cowboy (1969): "index"
• La Nuit am&eacutericaine (1973): "diegesis"
• The Purple Rose of Cairo (1984): "diegesis"
• Annie Hall (1977): "diegetic break"
• Touch of Evil (1958): "sequence shot"
• The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers (2002): "flashforward"
• M (1931): "match cut"
• "The Diplomatic Corpse" (1957): "30-degree rule"
• Koyaanisqatsi (1983): "accelerated motion"
• Powaqqatsi (1988): "slow motion"
• The Matrix (1999): "frozen time"
• Jurassic Park (1993): "computer-generated imagery"
• Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991): "morphing"
• The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers (2002): "morphing"
• "La Muette" (1965): "auricularization"
• Gone with the Wind (1939): "theme"

Version 3.1 (August 2013)

• Combined second and third English and second French editions on one DVD-ROM
• Fixed broken link to The Color of Money

Version 3.2 (January 2015)

• Annie Hall (1977): "caméra subjective"
• "La Muette" (1965): "synchronisme"

Version 3.3 (November 2015)

• The Big Lebowski (1998): "voice over"
• Die Hard 2 (1990): "180-degree rule"

Version 3.4 (January 2016)

• Made definition of "sound image relations" less restrictive

• Sunset Blvd. (1950): "voice over"

Version 4 (March 2017)

• New cover
• Replaced binary "his or her" with singular they
• Added diagram to "voice over"
• Fixed broken link (August 2018)

Version 4.1 aka Online Version (tba)

• Colored cover
• Slight changes to "levels.pdf"

• Editing: Focalization

• Fight Club (1999): "focalization"
• Apollo 13 (1995): "focalization"
• "A Study in Pink" (2010): "focalization"
• Film (1965): "focalization
• Out of Sight (1998): "focalization"