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anteplano

English translation: foreground to short focus plane

16:36 Jan 31, 2011
Spanish to English translations [PRO]
Art/Literary - Cinema, Film, TV, Drama
Spanish term or phrase: anteplano
La verdad yo no sabía el significado de esta palabra y tampoco encontré una definición en internet, por lo que tuve que consultar a los escritores del guión de esta película en la que estoy trabajando hace un tiempo.
Me explicaron que es una palabra bastante técnica que significa que hay un objeto delante del otro en el plano (shot).
Revisé varias guías con terminología de guiones en inglés, pero no encontré nada que se adecuara a esta descripción.
Supongo que podría llegar a explicarlo con palabras, pero sería muy bueno si alguien conociera cuál es el término en inglés (si existe, claro está). En caso de duda, estoy traduciendo a EN-UK.

Mil gracias!
Emiliano Firpo
Local time: 02:28
English translation:foreground to short focus plane
Explanation:
I've looked at his and although although emiliano's explanation is not perfectly clear, my take is that it refers to the foreground in front of the plane of focus of the shot. I can't find a specific term other than short focus which could refer to this and the reverse.

The term is very rare and I doubt it is simply 'foreground' which is 'primer plano'.


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http://www.brighthub.com/electronics/cameras-camcorders/arti...



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Also, I very much doubt whether film makers would consider 'foreground' as a rather technical term.

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In other words the foreground is out of focus, and the plane of focus is further back in the shot.

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or put more simply you could say

Area in front of plane of focus

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EMILIANO - yes that would make sense, it is what I said but I would use my second suggestion, i.e. area in front of the plane of focus. So the moto is probably not in focus and the viewer concentrates on Clever. This would make complete sense I think.

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I think anteplano here literally means ante=in front of, plano=plane (of focus of the camera).
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Bill Harrison (X)
Local time: 06:28
Grading comment
Many thanks for all you help... Cheers!
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Summary of answers provided
4 +3foreground
Steven Huddleston
3 +1foreground to short focus plane
Bill Harrison (X)
4blurred/fuzzy foreground or Bokeh
Yvonne Gallagher
3American shot / two shot
Mónica Hanlan
3close foreground
Rachel Fell


Discussion entries: 2





  

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3 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5 peer agreement (net): +3
foreground


Explanation:
Sic.


    Reference: http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/foreground
Steven Huddleston
Mexico
Local time: 23:28
Works in field
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish, Native in SpanishSpanish

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  Anthony Mazzorana (X): ..or forefront if you prefer. Either one.
40 mins
  -> Thank you, Anthony!
agree  Robert Forstag
52 mins
  -> Thank you, Robert!
agree  Catherine Gilsenan
2 hrs
  -> Thank you, Catherine!
agree  Muriel Vasconcellos
2 hrs
  -> Thank you, Muriel!
disagree  Jennifer Levey: The source text refers to a very specific type of 'foreground' object, not to the foreground itself.
3 hrs
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15 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 3/5Answerer confidence 3/5
American shot / two shot


Explanation:
I am not sure if this is exactly what you are looking for as these shots refer to people, not objects. However, I thought you could consider this.


    Reference: http://www.google.co.uk/search?hl=en&q=%22american+shot%22%2...
    Reference: http://www.google.co.uk/search?hl=en&q=%22two+shot%22%2Bfilm...
Mónica Hanlan
United Kingdom
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Native speaker of: Native in SpanishSpanish
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1 hr   confidence: Answerer confidence 3/5Answerer confidence 3/5 peer agreement (net): +1
foreground to short focus plane


Explanation:
I've looked at his and although although emiliano's explanation is not perfectly clear, my take is that it refers to the foreground in front of the plane of focus of the shot. I can't find a specific term other than short focus which could refer to this and the reverse.

The term is very rare and I doubt it is simply 'foreground' which is 'primer plano'.


See
http://www.brighthub.com/electronics/cameras-camcorders/arti...



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Note added at 1 hr (2011-01-31 17:43:16 GMT)
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Also, I very much doubt whether film makers would consider 'foreground' as a rather technical term.

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Note added at 1 hr (2011-01-31 17:46:16 GMT)
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In other words the foreground is out of focus, and the plane of focus is further back in the shot.

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Note added at 1 hr (2011-01-31 17:52:35 GMT)
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or put more simply you could say

Area in front of plane of focus

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Note added at 1 hr (2011-01-31 18:05:04 GMT)
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EMILIANO - yes that would make sense, it is what I said but I would use my second suggestion, i.e. area in front of the plane of focus. So the moto is probably not in focus and the viewer concentrates on Clever. This would make complete sense I think.

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Note added at 1 hr (2011-01-31 18:07:07 GMT)
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I think anteplano here literally means ante=in front of, plano=plane (of focus of the camera).

Bill Harrison (X)
Local time: 06:28
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish
PRO pts in category: 4
Grading comment
Many thanks for all you help... Cheers!
Notes to answerer
Asker: I don´t think that it means foreground either, but here it goes the original sentence in which the term appears: "Se ve la moto en anteplano y a Clever acercándose por una calle de pedregullo hasta detenerse frente al vehículo." Hope it helps you to help me.... thanks man!


Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  Jennifer Levey: I'm not sure about your proposed translation, but your reasoning is most certainly correct. It is common to focus on the main subject and see the background out of focus; in this case, there is something in front of the subject which is out of focus.
2 hrs
  -> Thank you. I thought a lot about this one but in the end I prefer my second suggestion. I'm glad somebody agrees with this. IE. 'in front of the plane of focus'.
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3 hrs   confidence: Answerer confidence 3/5Answerer confidence 3/5
close foreground


Explanation:
I think it might be this -

- Plano de la imagen: disposición de personajes y objetos en profundidad. Se habla de un anteplano, de un primer plano, de un segundo y tercer planos y de un plano de fondo.
http://es.catholic.net/biblioteca/libro.phtml?consecutivo=21...

Photo Stitching Digital Panoramas
Handheld or tripod-mounted photographs with no close foreground subject matter. Tripod-mounted photographs with foreground subject matter in multiple frames ...
www.cambridgeincolour.com/tutorials/digital-panoramas.htm - Cached -

- sorry, no time to look further at the moment.

Rachel Fell
United Kingdom
Local time: 06:28
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish
PRO pts in category: 8
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19 hrs   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5
blurred/fuzzy foreground or Bokeh


Explanation:
...with subject in sharp focus in middle ground

Not disagreeing with what Bill is saying, just his terminology.

Bokeh is explained in these links and may be the technical term you were looking for

Bokeh is a Japanese term used to describe the portion of an image that is perceptibly out of focus. A lens with "good" bokeh will produce a soft fuzzy edge to objects out of focus. If the object includes a pinpoint light source, the pinpoint highlight will appear as a soft edge fuzzy circle. Several pinpoints close together may produce overlapping soft fuzzy circles. "Bad" bokeh can be caused by a number of phenomena. It may have a harsh (versus soft and fuzzy) edge, or it may be a distinct polygon in the shape of the aperture (usually 6 or 8 blades producing a hexagon or octagon). "Coma" is a lens damage, build flaw or design shortcoming that causes out of focus points to produce a slight tail also giving them a shape similar to a coma. Any combination of these effects causes the bokeh to be harsher than the ideal fuzzy edge circle...

Using selective focus to create a foreground and background blurred and out of focus with the subject in sharp focus allows isolating the subject from an ...
johnlind.tripod.com/art/artdof.html - Cached - Similar


Bokeh is not how far something is out-of-focus, bokeh is the character of ... fuzzy in my foregrounds by moving the camera or the foreground object. ...
www.kenrockwell.com/tech/bokeh.htm - Cached - Similar


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try 1st link again as is good explanation with images

,,,allows isolating the subject from an ...
johnlind.tripod.com/art/artdof.html - Cached - Similar


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It's generally a good idea to try to keep the objects in the foreground in reasonable focus. Humans tend to accept a fuzzy background, ...
e-articles.info/e/a/title/Bokeh-pictures-How-to-make-one-easily/

Will your subject be sharply focused or fuzzy? Will you have the foreground and the subject in focus but the background fuzzy? How fuzzy will the background ...
photography.about.com/od/introduction/a/photointro.htm - Cached - Similar


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Whether this line is an object or series of objects or shadows, it should be sharply focused. A fuzzy, out-of-focus foreground usually irritates the senses ...
photoinf.com/General/NAVY/Contrast_and_Framing.htm - Cached - Similar


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links not woking, grr!!!

4 Apr 2010 ... The center of the image is in focus, but the foreground and background aren't. This is because I shot this with a "wide open" aperture. ...
www.thecoffeeshopblog.com/.../photography-and-depth-of-fiel... - Cached


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sorry, forgot to say that the "ante" part could be translated as "immediate" =near/close as in

"blurred/fuzzy immediate foreground" but I'. really not sure it's necessary

Yvonne Gallagher
Ireland
Local time: 06:28
Works in field
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish
PRO pts in category: 8
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