Technical: Preproduction

Preproduction Commentary will eventually go here.
Don't hate the planning.
What're you doing?
Okay, go do it.

The treatment, the research, the shooting script, the Terminology.

The Treatment

"The treatment is the "story" of the film, presented in straightforward, plain language, uncluttered with technical jargon. The object is to enable everyone concerned to study the project, whether they have knowledge of film terminology or not, and then give their opinion on the style, emphasis, mood and shape of the film as it will finally emerge. This manner of presenting the subject has many advantages. it is far easier to grasp the idea of the film as a whole from a concise treatment in plain language than is is from a shooting script, embellished as it must be with instructions to camera crew, sound recordists, film editors and so on. And when suggestions for alterations are received — as they are very likely to be — the labor of rewriting is so much less."
W. Hugh Baddeley The Technique of Documentary Film Production 1963


The Terminology
Exterior
Any scene shot in the open air.
Interior
Any scene shot indoors; it might be useful to note the need of artificial lighting.
Pan
To move the camera horizontally.
Tilt
To move the camera in the vertical plane, the direction usually indicated: tilt up or tilt down
Track (or Dolly)
To move the camera forward or backwards, using a "dolly" - a camera support on wheels.
Zoom
1) To operate a zoom lens on the camera to bring the subject optically nearer or farther. Thus Zoom In or Zoom Out, sometime applied yet further to Zoom from Medium shot to Close Up.
2) The noise of a fast cartoon character.
Dissolve
The merging of one scene into the next.
Fade
The gradual darkening of a scene until the screen becomes black (Fade Out) or the transition from a black screen to a normal picture (Fade In).
Wipe
A line moving across the screen "wiping" off one scene and revealing the next. Most editing programs, like Final Cut, have a million different kinds of wipes.