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French term or phrase:	les prises de vues
English translation:	camera work
Entered by:	mediamatrix

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18:38 Nov 3, 2009

French to English translations [PRO]
Art/Literary - Cinema, Film, TV, Drama

French term or phrase: les prises de vues

as an aspect of the film that can be polled in a preview audience survey

gilbob
United States

camera work

Explanation:
An alternative...

BTW, in Asker's context it clearly refers to the results achieved using the motion-picture (or video) camera, not a still-picture camera.

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mediamatrix
Chile
Local time: 08:35

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4 +3

camera work

mediamatrix

4 +1

stills / snapshots

hjs45

footage

Euqinimod

cinematography

Lianne Wilson

photography

philgoddard

3 -1

trailers and clips

Verginia Ophof

Summary of reference entries provided

stills/Wikipedia

Carol Gullidge

Discussion entries: 4

Answers

15 mins confidence:

peer agreement (net): -1

trailers and clips

Explanation:
suggestion

Verginia Ophof
Belize
Local time: 05:35
Native speaker of:

English

49 mins confidence:

peer agreement (net): +3

camera work

Explanation:
An alternative...

BTW, in Asker's context it clearly refers to the results achieved using the motion-picture (or video) camera, not a still-picture camera.

mediamatrix
Chile
Local time: 08:35
Specializes in field
Native speaker of:

English
PRO pts in category: 30

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Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)

neutral

philgoddard: This is the right idea (I'd vote for it, except I'd be voting against myself!) It's more properly spelled as one word.

11 mins

agree

Cath St Clair: I imagine this is a lay-audience survey, so yes, I would go for "camera work." If other aspects of the camera work were also being evaluated, then this would have to be "camera angles," but I think it's doubtful. The asker will know...

10 hrs

agree

Tony M: Yes, in the absence of more context that might pin it down, I'd go for this catch-all solution; in everyday lanauge, we might say "the way it was shot"

14 hrs

agree

David Hayes: I agree with this answer, which is by far the clearest and simplest of the suggestions provided. Has anyone noticed that this answer is also readily available in the standard French reference dictionaries?

16 hrs

26 mins confidence:

photography

Explanation:
Literally, it means the shots or camera angles, but this is what we'd say in English and in this context. We've had this lots of times before.

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Note added at 56 mins (2009-11-03 19:34:26 GMT)
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Photography can refer to still pictures or (in this case) films, where it's also referred to as cinemaphotography.

philgoddard
United States
Local time: 05:35
Specializes in field
Native speaker of:

English

43 mins confidence:

peer agreement (net): +1

stills / snapshots

Explanation:
I agree that the word "photography" is used, but I've seen "stills" used in this particular context on loads of occasions. Indeed, check IMDB and that's what you'll see advertised.

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Note added at 1 hr (2009-11-03 19:59:30 GMT)
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I'd like to add that I think I may have misinterpreted. I thought we were discussing images shown to people before the film came out (my fault for scanning and seeing "preview"), which are "stills". If in fact we're talking about cinematography, then clearly "stills" is totally inappropriate and "camerawork" or "photography" are correct.

hjs45
Spain
Local time: 12:35
Specializes in field
Native speaker of:

English

15 hrs confidence:

cinematography

Explanation:
'Prises de vues' is often followed with 'cinématographiques' (E.g. "Specification pour les luminaires pour prises de vues photographiques et cinématographiques") but can be taken to mean such in this context even without this addition.

This is the term used to described what in still shots would be referred to as 'photography'. It describes the choices of shots in terms of lighting, camera angle and movement, framing, etc. and is very well known amongst film afficionados.

I also think the majority of the general public will understand this term, but if you feel iffy about it you could perhaps go for 'camera work', 'shots' or 'screen imagery' or something. Cinematography is best though.

Reference: http://www.thefreedictionary.com/cinematography
Reference: http://www.camera-forum.fr/index.php?showtopic=2401&view=fin...

Lianne Wilson
United Kingdom
Local time: 11:35
Native speaker of:

English
PRO pts in category: 4

1 day2 hrs confidence:

footage

Explanation:
See definitions of this term at :
http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/footage : 3. a motion-picture scene or scenes: newsreel footage; jungle footage.

http://www.yourdictionary.com/footage: a length of film that has been shot.

http://www.thefreedictionary.com/footage: b. A shot or series of shots of a specified nature or subject: news footage of the royal wedding.

http://translation.babylon.com/english/to-french/Footage
Babylon English-French
footage
n. mesure de dimension en pied; scène, séquence de film

The best Glossary by Kelkouli Rédha
footage
footage ['fLtNdF] n
(a)(length) longueur f (en pieds);
(b)Cin métrage m (d'un film etc);
they had some footage of the rioting, ils avaient des séquences sur les émeutes.

Cambridge dictionary
footage= a piece of film that has been shot
"they had stock footage of lightning, tornados and hurricanes", "he edited the news footage"

Euqinimod
France
Local time: 12:35
Works in field
Native speaker of:

French
PRO pts in category: 7

Reference comments

49 mins peer agreement (net): +1

Reference: stills/Wikipedia

Reference information:
A film still, sometimes called a publicity still, is a photograph taken on the set of a movie or television program during production by a movie stills photographer, primarily used for promotional purposes....

...Types of stills

Shots can be taken as part of the filming or separately posed.
[edit]Part of filming
Generally, a still photographer is present on the set, shooting alongside principal photography, using "Sound Blimp" to silence the noise of the SLR's shutter so that they do not interfere with the shooting.
[edit]Posed
Some shots are posed and taken separately from the shooting of the movie proper, and this was done particularly in the early stages of film – one of the most famous images in film, Marlene Dietrich in The Blue Angel, singing on a barrel, was a posed still

Reference: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Film_still

Carol Gullidge
United Kingdom
Works in field
Native speaker of:

English
PRO pts in category: 7