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Saturation
Saturated colours are rich and intense.

Script
A detailed written description of a film, including dialogue.

Sepia
The scene only contains a brownish colour, like an old photograph.

Sequence
A linked series of shots.

Setting
Where the action of a film or scene takes place.

Shallow focus
Only one part of the scene is in focus.

Shot
A shot is a single section of video or film. Shots are edited together into sequences.

Shot/reverse shot
The normal way of combining shots in continuity editing, so that each shot is filmed in, or close to, the opposite direction from the one before it.

Sound bridge
A type of split edit which is used to link two separate scenes.

Soundtrack
The sound you can hear on a film or video

Split edit
An edit where the sound and picture change at different times.

Storyboard
A series of drawings or photographs, used to plan a sequence, with each drawing showing a separate shot.