Hallo, alle. As we've been doing for the last several videos in this series,
today we're going to be talking about more vocabulary on a specific topic.
Today we're talking about films.
As you can probably expect a lot of the vocabulary we had in the previous video
is probably going to overlap in this video as all of the genres are going to be the same names
So what this video is going to be focusing on
is things like the director or actor or the vocabulary for the people involved
and the things involved in specifically making a film
The first thing that people probably think of whenever they think of films
are the "Schauspieler" or "Schauspielerin".
These are the people who are front and center they are the actors or actresses.
You can also use the word "Darsteller" or "Darstellerin".
You could say
"Robert Downey Jr. ist der Hauptdarsteller von Iron Man. Er spielt die Rolle von Tony Stark.
You probably noticed that i use the word "Haupt-" in front of the word "Darsteller".
The prefix "Haupt-" means that it's the main one
and so this case it means that he is the main character of the movie Iron Man.
If you're watching a film that has been dubbed from its original language into another language,
and all that it did was change the audio files over,
you may want to know who this Synchronsprecher.
Synchronsprecher is the person who is doing the voice over work
Also it's interesting to note that the Synchronsprecher for a lot of American actors are actually the same people.
For example the Sychronsprecher for Dan Aykroyd, Sylverster Stallone, and Arnold Schwarzenegger
are all the same person, Thomas Danneberg.
"Der Filmproduzent" or sometimes just called "der Produzent"
is the person who works behind the scenes from start to finish
to make sure that everything in the entire film works without a hitch.
They work with the technical side of things. They also work with the writing aspect of things
and they basically do everything behind the scenes that your wouldn't expect the director to do.
Another important person in this industry is the director which in German we call "Regisseur".
Sometimes it's also just called "Regie".
This is the person that tells the "Schauspieler" or "Schauspielterin" how to "spiel" or "act".
Normally, when you see the German credits you will see the words "ein Film von..." and then that person's name.
That's how you can identify the director or "Regie".
"Stab und Besetzung" are the cast and crew,
although in German technically it's the crew and cast. It's kind of swapped
Usually, this is a huge list of people.
I'm just gonna cover the basics of this topic today
so make sure that you watch a German film whenever you get done with this and watch the credits for once,
so as you can see the rest of the vocabulary that i left off.
The screenplay is known as a "Drehbuch".
The production manager is the "Herstellungsleiter".
"Produktionsleiter" is the production manager.
"Das Szenenbild" the word for production design.
This is the person who sets up all of the sets.
"Der Ton" is the sound and you use the "das Schnitt" to describe the editing process,
but the word "Redaktion", "die Redaktion" is actually the word for the production editorial office.
Obviously as with any other topic that involves a lot of technical words,
there are a lot of American words that have just been kind of adopted into the German language.
and then given a gender of a noun.
This would include things like "das Casting",
"die Kamera", "das Kostüm", "die Musik", and "das Make-up",
although you can also call that "die Maske".
I believe that should be all for today, but I also want to say a little about my favorite film.
My favorite film is "Lucky Number Slevin".
It is a very cool film with Josh Hartnett, Lucy Lui, Bruce Willis, Morgan Freeman, and Ben Kingsley.
Josh Hartnett plays the role of "Nick Fisher",
but he says in this film, that he isn't Nick Fisher.
Ben Kingsley und Morgan Freeman are both gangsters in this film
and they want to kill each other.
Bruce Willis is a contract killer who is supposed to kill Nick Fisher,
after Nick Fisher kills either Morgan Freeman or Ben Kingsley.
I personally like this film, because it uses the English language in a way that one seldom sees.
If you want to see what I mean, there is a link in the description where you can find the trailer.
If you want to see a good German film, there is a link down below to "Good-Bye Lenin".
It is a really cool German film.
That is all for today. Thanks for watching. Until next time. Bye.