A vamp is a femme fatale or woman with a bad reputation, usually seductive and scheming in nature or behavior.

Variety is a respected, oft-quoted show-biz periodical or trade paper (or one of the trades) that reports and provides coverage on the entertainment industry (including the film industry), and best known for its goofy, shorthand "Varietyese" headlines, using made-up words, e.g. "dee jay" (disc jockey), or "B.O." (box office or boffo).

Vaudeville is a stage variety entertainment show, featuring a series of short acts of songs, dancing, acrobatics, comedy skits, and animal acts. Vaudeville was highly popular in America from the late 1880s to the 1920s, when it became overtaken by sound films and radio. Most of the early film, radio and TV comedians found their start on the vaudeville circuit.

VCR, an abbreviation for Video-Cassette Recorder, is a consumer-level machine for home entertainment that plays back and records images and sounds from TV on magnetized tape in a videotape cassette. VHS stands for "Video Home System" or the 1/2 inch video cassette tape format. See also "U-matic" or "beta."

Vertical integration is a term for when the producer and the distributor are one entity, or the distributor and the exhibitor are one entity.

Vertigo effect refers to a camera technique created by tracking backward while simultaneously zooming in, making the person or object in the center of the image seem stationary while their surroundings change. Also known as "contrazoom."

Short for visual effects, VFX is the process by which imagery is created or manipulated outside the context of a live-action shot in filmmaking and video production. The VFX supervisor and coordinator provide guidance and suggestions on set to make effects run smoothly when they move into post-production.

Video, which means "to see," is the visual or pictured image (either projected, taped, etc.), as opposed to the audio aspect of film. Video also refers to the visual component of television; digital video refers to a video signal represented by a series of binary numbers that are readable by computer. Compare with "analog video." Also known as "vid" for short.

Video nasty is a British term from the 1980s that refers to a select group of ultra-violent videos (low-budget films produced in Italy and the US) that were considered highly objectionable and to be regulated.

A vigilante film is a type of action film in which the protagonist takes the law into their own hands as a self-appointed doer of justice, revenge, and payback.

Vignette is a scene in a film that can stand on its own. Vignette refers to a masking device, often with soft edges.

Anything added to a movie that was not in the original shot under the subcategory of special effects. They can either be achieved through CGI or special techniques, such as rear projection and double exposures.

Voice-over refers to recorded dialogue that comes from off-screen or is unseen in the frame. It is often done to convey a character’s thoughts or from a narrator. In a script, a voice-over is abbreviated as “V.O.”

Vorkapich is a film term was named after Serbian-American film director/editor Slavko Vorkapich. The term was popularized in screenplays of the 1930s and 1940s. It meant a "montage sequence," that Vorkapich himself called "symphonies of visual movement."

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