Glossary

All 166 terms on one page: English name, Chinese name, category and a one-line summary. Click a name for its page, which has the prompt templates and pitfalls.

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Sorted by category and group, 166 terms in total. The table is only an index; each term's page has the prompt templates, pitfalls and parameter tips.
Term	中文	Category	In one line
Dolly In / Push In	推	Camera Move · Basics	The whole camera travels toward the subject. The change in perspective creates pressure or intimacy; it is not the same as enlarging the image.
Dolly Out / Pull Back	拉	Camera Move · Basics	Pull away from the subject and hand the surroundings back to the audience.
Pan	摇	Camera Move · Basics	The camera turns left or right on the spot, like a person turning their head.
Truck / Track Left-Right	移（横移）	Camera Move · Basics	The camera slides sideways while facing the same way, like walking past a row of things.
Following Shot	跟	Camera Move · Basics	Move along with a moving subject, keeping them the same size in frame.
Over-the-shoulder	过肩	Camera Move · Basics	Look at one person from behind another person's shoulder.
Foreground Wipe	前景遮挡转场	Camera Move · Basics	Something sweeps across the lens and blocks the frame; the moment it covers everything is the cut.
Tilt Up / Down	摇（上下摇）	Camera Move · Basics	The camera stays in place and turns up or down, like a person looking up or down.
Crane Up / Down	升降	Camera Move · Advanced	The whole camera moves up or down, using height to change how much you see.
Orbit / Arc Shot	环绕	Camera Move · Advanced	The camera moves in an arc around the subject, keeping them roughly in the center of the frame.
Dolly Zoom	变焦推拉（眩晕变焦）	Camera Move · Advanced	The camera moves forward or back while zooming the opposite way: the subject stays the same size while the background stretches away or rushes in.
Macro Push-in	微距推进	Camera Move · Advanced	Get extremely close and keep pushing in, magnifying textures you normally can't see.
Steadicam Walk-through	稳定器跟拍（一镜到底感）	Camera Move · Advanced	Glide smoothly after a person through a space, without cuts and without shake.
Rise + Orbit	升降环绕	Camera Move · Advanced	Rising while circling: the move that looks most like a blockbuster.
Aerial Reveal	航拍揭示	Camera Move · Advanced	A drone flies out from low down or from behind cover and rises, suddenly revealing a vast landscape or city.
Top Shot / Bird's-eye	俯拍（顶视）	Camera Move · Perspective	Looking almost straight down, so the frame becomes a flat composition.
Low Angle	仰拍	Camera Move · Perspective	Looking up from below, making the subject bigger, stronger, more imposing.
Dutch Angle	荷兰角（倾斜构图）	Camera Move · Perspective	The whole frame is tilted and the horizon is crooked.
POV	主观镜头	Camera Move · Perspective	The audience is the character and sees what the character sees.
Handheld	手持	Camera Move · Stylized	Slight, irregular shake that simulates someone holding the camera on location.
Whip Pan	甩镜	Camera Move · Stylized	Pan so fast the frame turns to blur, then snap to a stop on a new subject.
FPV Drone	穿越机	Camera Move · Stylized	High-speed flying through gaps, diving, skimming the ground; the audience gets dragged along.
Crash Zoom	急推变焦	Camera Move · Stylized	The focal length slams in and the frame rushes onto a face. Unlike a push-in, it's a zoom, with no change in perspective.
Extreme Wide Shot	大远景	Shot Size · Basics	The person is just a dot in the frame; the emphasis goes to the setting and geography.
Wide / Full Shot	全景	Shot Size · Basics	The person's whole body is in frame, with just a little margin above and below.
Medium Shot	中景	Shot Size · Basics	From the waist up: both the action and the expression are clear.
Close-Up	特写	Shot Size · Basics	A face or a single object fills the frame and everything else is excluded.
Over-the-Shoulder	过肩	Shot Size · Basics	Look past one person's shoulder at another, showing their relationship and eyeline.
Medium Close-Up	近景	Shot Size · Basics	From the chest up: the expression is clear, with a little body and setting. The most common size for dialogue.
Extreme Close-Up	大特写	Shot Size · Advanced	Only a part is left, such as an eye, a finger or lips, forcing the audience to look at detail.
Wide-Angle Lens	广角	Lens · Basics	A wide field of view with exaggerated depth; both foreground and background get pulled into frame.
Telephoto Compression	长焦压缩	Lens · Basics	Distant things are pulled close and flattened, front and back layers stacked together.
Shallow Depth of Field	浅景深	Lens · Basics	Only the subject is sharp and everything in front and behind is blurred, locking the audience's eye in one place.
Macro Lens	微距	Lens · Advanced	Get close enough to almost touch the subject and make millimeter-scale detail the whole picture.
Anamorphic	变形宽银幕	Lens · Advanced	A wide frame plus horizontal blue flares, one of the sources of the cinematic look.
Rack Focus	焦点转移	Lens · Advanced	The frame doesn't move, but focus shifts from a person or object in front to the background, moving the audience's attention.
Fisheye	鱼眼	Lens · Stylized	The whole image is wrapped in a spherical curve, with the edges bulging strongly outward.
Rembrandt Lighting	伦勃朗光	Lighting · Basics	Key light 45° to the side and above, leaving a triangle of light on the shadow-side cheek.
Rim / Backlight	逆光轮廓	Lighting · Basics	The light source is behind the subject, leaving only a bright edge around it.
Hard Light	硬光	Lighting · Basics	A small source shining directly, with sharp-edged shadows and strong contrast.
Soft Light	柔光	Lighting · Basics	Broad, diffused light with gentle shadow transitions and clean skin.
Golden Hour	黄金时刻	Lighting · Basics	Warm, low-angle light in the hour after sunrise or before sunset.
Practical Neon	霓虹实景	Lighting · Advanced	Signs and light boxes are the key light themselves; the color comes from the environment.
Teal and Orange	青橙	Color · Basics	Skin pushed orange, shadows pushed teal: the most universal blockbuster palette.
Warm / Cool Contrast	冷暖对撞	Color · Basics	One side of the frame warm and the other cool, dividing it into zones of color.
Muted Grade	低饱和	Color · Basics	Colors drained overall and blacks slightly lifted, looking restrained and old.
High Saturation	高饱和	Color · Basics	Rich, bright colors that put the emotion right out front.
Monochrome Grade	单色调	Color · Advanced	Only one hue in the whole frame, with layers built from brightness.
Rule of Thirds	三分法	Composition · Basics	Put the subject on an intersection of a 3×3 grid and leave space in the direction they face.
Symmetry	对称构图	Composition · Basics	Mirrored around a central axis: stable and ceremonial.
Leading Lines	引导线	Composition · Basics	Use roads, railings and lines of light to deliver the eye to the subject.
Negative Space	留白	Composition · Advanced	A large empty area presses on the subject; the empty space does the talking.
Frame within a Frame	框中框	Composition · Advanced	Frame the subject a second time with a door, window or mirror.
Film Grain	胶片颗粒	Texture · Basics	Fine random grain over the whole frame, taking away the clean digital look.
Clean Digital	干净数码	Texture · Basics	No noise, no grain, sharp edges, clear information.
Matte Finish	哑光	Texture · Basics	Low-reflection, rough surfaces that soak up the light evenly.
Wet Surface	湿润高光	Texture · Advanced	Surfaces covered in water, highlights broken into many small points and trickles.
VHS Look	磁带质感	Texture · Stylized	Low resolution, color bleed, scan lines and a timestamp.
Long Take	长镜头	Pacing · Basics	One shot that runs a long time without a cut, so time flows for real inside the frame.
Fast Cutting	快切	Pacing · Basics	One or two seconds per shot or even less, driving the emotion with density.
Slow Motion	升格慢动作	Pacing · Advanced	Shoot at high speed and play back slowly, stretching an instant into something you can watch.
Montage	蒙太奇	Pacing · Advanced	Several discontinuous fragments placed side by side, so the juxtaposition creates new meaning.
Static Hold	静止凝视	Pacing · Advanced	The camera doesn't move at all and lets the image play for a while on its own.
Hard Cut	硬切	Transition · Basics	The last frame of one shot goes straight to the first frame of the next, with no transition.
Fade	淡入淡出	Transition · Basics	The image dissolves into black or white over time, then the next scene fades up.
Dissolve	叠化	Transition · Basics	As one image slowly fades away, the next slowly appears, and the two briefly overlap.
Cut on Action	动作剪辑	Transition · Basics	Cut to another angle in the middle of an action, and finish the action in the next shot, so the audience can't see the cut.
Match Cut	匹配剪辑	Transition · Advanced	Stitch two scenes together through similar shape, movement or composition.
Jump Cut	跳切	Transition · Advanced	Same angle, same subject, with the time in between cut out, so the image jumps.
Occlusion Transition / Hidden Cut	遮挡转场	Transition · Advanced	A foreground object sweeps across the lens and covers the frame, and the cut happens on the fully covered frame. It's the editing side of the same trick as the foreground wipe camera move.
Cross-Cutting	交叉剪辑	Transition · Advanced	Cut back and forth between two things happening at the same time, faster and faster, pushing both lines toward one moment.
J-Cut / L-Cut	J/L 剪辑（声音先行）	Transition · Advanced	Sound and picture don't cut at the same moment: the next scene's sound comes in first (J), or the last scene's sound carries over into the next (L).
Sync Sound	同期声	Sound · Basics	Dialogue and action sounds come from the scene itself, not added later.
Ambience Bed	环境底噪	Sound · Basics	A continuous bed of room tone that makes you believe the place really exists.
Score / Music	配乐	Sound · Basics	Music written for emotion: it tells the audience whether to be tense, cry or laugh right now.
Voice-over	画外音 / 旁白	Sound · Basics	No one on screen speaks; the voice comes from outside the frame: a memory, an inner monologue or a narrator.
Foley	拟音	Sound · Advanced	The sounds of actions are made separately and amplified, clearer than real life.
Riser	上升音	Sound · Advanced	Pitch and volume climb steadily, pushing the audience to the breaking point.
Silence	静默	Sound · Advanced	Pull out all the sound and let the emptiness hit.
Cyberpunk	赛博朋克	Genre · Genre	A dense city, neon and wet streets, technology side by side with poverty.
Wuxia	武侠	Genre · Genre	Empty space, wind, flowing sleeves and weapons; the action is poetic rather than realistic.
Western	西部	Genre · Genre	Wasteland, long shadows, wind and dust, and standoffs in vast open space.
Hard Sci-Fi	硬科幻	Genre · Genre	Technical details that hold together, believable interfaces, light and physics with a basis.
Documentary	纪录片	Genre · Genre	Imperfect framing and real ambient sound, putting credibility ahead of looking good.
Documentary Realism	写实纪录	Style · Realistic	Looks shot on a documentary camera or a phone, with no trace of lighting or grading.
Macro High-speed	微观高速摄影	Style · Realistic	A thousand frames per second, stretching an instant.
Hand-drawn 2D Animation	手绘二维动画	Style · Animation	Lines that are drawn, flat colors and movement at a limited frame rate.
Claymation	黏土定格	Style · Animation	Clay with fingerprints, miniature sets, moving one frame at a time.
Stylized 3D	风格化三维	Style · Animation	Rounded shapes, big eyes and soft global illumination, like a mainstream animated feature.
Cyberpunk Neon	赛博朋克	Style · Genre	High-contrast neon, reflections on wet ground, always raining.
16mm Film	16mm 胶片	Style · Genre	Visible grain, slight light leaks and warm color, like old film transferred to digital.
90s Hong Kong Film	90 年代港片	Style · Genre	A green-teal cast, neon signs, grain, a wide lens close to the face.
Black-and-white Noir	黑白高反差（noir）	Style · Genre	Hard light, deep shadows, the stripes of light thrown by venetian blinds.
Ink Wash	水墨	Style · East Asian	Rice paper, ink from dark to pale, large areas of empty space.
Character Consistency	角色一致性	AI Workflow · Basics	The same character looks and dresses the same in every shot. The hardest and most important thing in an AI short.
Image-to-Video	图生视频	AI Workflow · Basics	Make the image with an image model first, then have a video model bring it to life. Far more controllable than going straight from text to video.
One Shot per Prompt	一镜一提示	AI Workflow · Basics	One prompt describes one shot and one main action. If you want several shots, generate them separately and edit them together.
First & Last Frame	首尾帧	AI Workflow · Advanced	Give both a starting and an ending image and let the model generate what happens in between. You decide how the shot begins and ends.
Negative Prompt	负面提示	AI Workflow · Advanced	Tell the model what you don't want: extra fingers, garbled text, distortion, watermarks. Some tools have a separate field, others take it at the end.
Lip Sync	对口型	AI Workflow · Advanced	Make the on-screen character's mouth match the lines and voice. All the dialogue in a narrative film depends on it.
Centered Symmetry	中心对称	Composition · Basics	The subject sits on the central axis with both sides mirrored, as stable as architecture.
Rule of Thirds	三分法	Composition · Basics	The subject lands on a grid intersection, so the image doesn't feel static.
Flat Lay	平铺俯拍	Composition · Basics	Shot straight down from above with objects laid flat, like an illustrated guide spread across a table.
Negative Space	负空间	Composition · Advanced	A large empty area presses down on a small subject, letting the empty space speak.
Frame within a Frame	框中框	Composition · Advanced	Add another frame with a door, window or mirror, creating depth and a sense of looking in.
Diagonal Composition	对角线构图	Composition · Advanced	The subject or main lines run along a diagonal, giving the image instant momentum.
Window Light	窗光	Lighting · Basics	Natural light from a window on one side: one side bright, the other softly dark.
Side Light	侧光	Lighting · Basics	Light from 90° to the side, bringing out every surface texture.
Backlight	逆光	Lighting · Basics	The light source is behind the subject, the edges glow, and the subject is close to a silhouette.
Softbox Studio	柔光棚拍	Lighting · Basics	A large source diffused at close range, so the shadows almost disappear: clean and crisp.
Golden Hour	黄金时刻	Lighting · Basics	Warm sun at a low angle, long shadows, gold in the air.
Silhouette	剪影	Lighting · Basics	The subject goes completely black, just an outline against a bright background, speaking through shape.
Hard Light Shadow	硬光投影	Lighting · Advanced	A small source throws a big, sharp-edged shadow, and the shadow itself becomes the composition.
Neon Mixed Light	霓虹混光	Lighting · Advanced	Two or more colored practical lights hit the subject at once, rewriting the skin tones with the environment.
High-Key Lighting	高调	Lighting · Advanced	The whole image is bright with very few shadows, mostly white and pale tones: clean and light.
Low-Key Lighting	低调	Lighting · Advanced	Most of the image is dark, with a single beam of light revealing the key part. Mysterious, heavy, dramatic.
Morandi Palette	莫兰迪灰	Color · Basics	Every color has gray added to lower its saturation, so none of them clash.
High Saturation Clash	高饱和撞色	Color · Basics	Two or three pure colors clash head-on for direct visual impact.
Blue Hour	蓝调时刻	Color · Basics	The deep blue skylight after sunset, just as the city lights come on.
Earthy Palette	大地色	Color · Basics	Brown, ochre, beige and olive: colors that look like they grew out of the soil.
Monochrome	单色调	Color · Advanced	Only one hue in the whole image, reading shapes through light and dark.
Wide Environmental Portrait	广角环境人像	Lens · Basics	A small person in a big scene, letting the setting say who this is.
Telephoto Portrait	长焦人像压缩	Lens · Basics	85 to 135mm: undistorted features and a background compressed into soft blur.
Shallow Depth of Field / Bokeh	大光圈虚化	Lens · Basics	Only the subject is sharp and the background melts into creamy bokeh. The most common source of a premium look.
Macro Detail	微距细节	Lens · Advanced	Get to the minimum focusing distance and make the texture the whole picture.
Tilt-Shift Miniature	移轴微缩	Lens · Stylized	Keep just one horizontal band sharp, turning a real scene into a model.
Full Body	全身	Shot Size · Basics	Head to toe fully in frame, showing the outfit and pose.
Half Body	半身	Shot Size · Basics	From the waist up, covering both expression and hand gestures.
Hero Product Shot	产品主体	Shot Size · Basics	The product fills most of the frame so its function and material are clear at a glance.
Eye Close-Up	眼部特写	Shot Size · Advanced	Only the eye: the texture of the iris and everything in the gaze.
Film Grain	胶片颗粒	Texture · Basics	Fine grain covering the image, soft highlights, edges not too sharp.
Wet Gloss	湿润光泽	Texture · Basics	Surfaces beaded with water or oil, highlights broken into many bright points.
Silver Gelatin	银盐黑白	Texture · Advanced	Black and white with very deep tonal range, delicate midtones and detail still in the shadows.
Brushed Metal	拉丝金属	Texture · Advanced	Fine scratches all running the same way stretch the highlight into a long streak.
Long Exposure	长曝光	Texture · Advanced	The shutter stays open a long time: headlights become light trails, water becomes silk, crowds become ghosts, while still things stay sharp.
Watercolor Paper	水彩纸感	Texture · Stylized	Color blooms across the paper grain, with pooled water marks at the edges.
Pixel Art	像素画	Genre · Stylized	A limited palette and little squares, building tone with outlines and dithering.
Editorial Fashion	时尚编辑大片	Genre · Realistic	Strong styling, hard light or a minimal background, attitude over prettiness.
Cyberpunk	赛博朋克	Genre · Genre	A dense neon city where piled-up technology and poverty coexist.
Chinese Ink Wash	水墨	Genre · East Asian	Ink in five shades, large areas of empty space, solid and void giving rise to each other.
Ukiyo-e	浮世绘	Genre · East Asian	Flat blocks of color outlined in black, with bold, daring crops.
CCD Retro Digital	CCD 复古数码	Style · Stylized	The blown highlights, color casts and noise of early digital cameras, like a 2000s snapshot.
Cinematic Still	电影剧照感	Style · Realistic	Like a frame pulled from a film, with a story before and after it.
Airy Japanese Look	日系通透	Style · Realistic	High brightness, low contrast, light in the air, colors pale and clean.
Collage Poster	拼贴海报	Style · Genre	Clippings, color blocks and type pasted together, making impact through clash.
3D Render Look	三维渲染感	Style · Genre	Clean volumes, soft global illumination, materials slightly plastic or clay-like.
Character Sheet / Turnaround	角色设定图	AI Workflow · Basics	The front, side and back views of one character plus a few expressions on one sheet; every later shot uses it as the reference.
Style Reference	风格参考图	AI Workflow · Basics	Upload an image you like and have the model learn its color, light and brushwork, not its content.
Aspect Ratio	画幅比例	AI Workflow · Basics	The width-to-height ratio of the frame. It decides the composition and where it goes: 9:16 for vertical short video, 16:9 for landscape, 1:1 and 4:5 for social images.
Inpainting	局部重绘	AI Workflow · Advanced	Mark only the part of the image you're unhappy with and regenerate it, keeping the rest. Fixing hands, swapping props and changing expressions all rely on it.
Logline	一句话梗概	Screenwriting · Basics	One sentence that says who, wants what, and what stands in the way. If you can't say it, you haven't worked out the story yet.
Opening Hook / Cold Open	开场钩子	Screenwriting · Basics	In the first 3 seconds, throw out a question, something odd or a conflict, so people don't swipe away.
Three-Act Structure	三幕结构	Screenwriting · Basics	Beginning (set up the character, something happens), confrontation (it gets harder and harder), resolution (resolved after the peak): the most reliable skeleton for a story.
Conflict	冲突	Screenwriting · Basics	What the protagonist wants is blocked by a person, the environment or themselves. Without conflict, no one watches to the end, however good it looks.
Cliffhanger	结尾钩子	Screenwriting · Basics	Stop at the most urgent moment of the question, forcing viewers to tap the next episode. The lifeblood of short drama.
Setup & Payoff	伏笔与回收	Screenwriting · Advanced	Something shown in passing early on turns out to matter at the key moment later. The audience thinks, “So that's why.”
Plot Twist	反转	Screenwriting · Advanced	Reveal a new piece of information that makes the audience reinterpret everything they've seen.
Subtext	潜台词	Screenwriting · Advanced	Saying one thing while meaning another. Good dialogue doesn't state the emotion outright.
Shot List / Storyboard	分镜表	Directing · Basics	Break the script into individual shots, each with shot size, camera move, what's in frame and duration. AI video generates one shot at a time, so the shot list is your production checklist.
Establishing Shot	建立镜头	Directing · Basics	Before a scene starts, use a wide shot to tell the audience where and when this is.
180-Degree Rule	轴线（180 度原则）	Directing · Basics	When two people talk, imagine a line between them and keep the camera on one side of it. Cross it, and left and right flip.
Shot / Reverse Shot	正反打	Directing · Basics	Cut back and forth between two people in a conversation: film A speaking, then B listening or answering.
Insert Shot	插入镜头	Directing · Basics	Cut in a close-up of an object in the middle of a scene: a letter, a message, a trembling hand.
Reaction Shot	反应镜头	Directing · Basics	Film the listener, not the speaker. The audience's emotion usually follows the reaction shot.
Eyeline Match	视线匹配	Directing · Advanced	A character looks somewhere off screen, and the next shot shows what they see, with directions that match.
Blocking	走位调度	Directing · Advanced	Design how characters move through the space, where they stop and how that works with the camera. The blocking itself tells the story.