M for Martini shot

By: Nazia Adnin

1) Magic Hour:
The time just around sunset and sunrise, where light levels change drastically and quickly but create perfect border lines of golden and blue color to shot.

2) Magnetic Soundtrack:
AKA: Magnetic Print
A composite print in which the soundtrack is recorded on the attached strip of magnetic tape. Largely obsolete due to high cost and maintenance difficulties.

3) Maintenance Engineer:
A person responsible for general maintenance and repair.
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4) Majors:
The major Hollywood movie producer/distributor studios (MGM/UA, 20th Century Fox, Sony Pictures, Warner Bros, Paramount Pictures, Universal, and Disney).

​5) Martini Shot:
AKA: Mattematician
A person who creates artwork (usually for the background of a shot) which is included in the movie either via a matte shot or optical printing.
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6) Matte Shot
A photographic technique whereby artwork - usually on glass - from a matte artist is combined with live action. Contrast this with back projection or a travelling matte.

7) Modeler: 
A person who develops any three-dimensional object (either inanimate or animate) via specialized software in 3D computer graphics.

​8) MOS aka “Mit out Sound”:
A shot which is usually shot without recording sound during filming and adding sound later.

9) Motion Control:
A camera setup which records the motion of a camera during a shot so that visual effects can be easily synchronized with the photographed scene.
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10) Move match: aka: Match move, Matchmoving, Camera tracking
the use of computer programs to combine and synthesize real footage with CGI effects. The person that makes the integration possible between CG with live action footage is called "Matchmove artist", "Matchmover", "Integration artist" or "Camera tracking artist"