Essential vocabulary for Chinese students taking IELTS examinations

🇨🇳 IELTS: Vocabulary for TV, Film, Theatre & Books (CHINESE)

lllusions or visual tricks used in theatre, film and television, often produced by using a computer

The script of a film, including acting instructions and scene directions

The art of photography and camerawork in film-making or TV

A recording of the musical accompaniment of a film or TV show

The group of actors who make up a film, TV show or stage play

A creative professional who oversees the artistic aspects of a film production and supervises the actors and other staff

A classification or ranking of a film or TV show based on a comparative assessment of its quality or performance

The first performance of a musical or theatrical work or the first showing of a film

1.  A place at a theatre, cinema, etc. where tickets are bought or reserved
2. Used to refer to the commercial success of a film, play, or actor in terms of the audience size or money made

A person who professionally judges the merits of literary or artistic works, often for news channels

A type of film or TV programme that tells an exciting and usually serious story

A television or radio programme, or a film, which shows real events or provides information about a particular subject

A video (such as a television show or movie) that is made from a series of drawings, computer graphics or photographs of inanimate objects

A style of animation originating in Japan that is characterized by stark colorful graphics depicting vibrant characters in action-filled plots often with fantastic or futuristic themes

A type of TV show, film, play or book that is intentionally funny

Speculative fiction that contains imagined elements that don't exist in the real world. Science fiction spans a wide range of themes that often explore time travel, space travel, and are set in the future.

A fiction story that primary focuses on the relationship and romantic love between two or more people

A film, shows book or play that deals with love in a light, humorous way.

A film dramatizing the life of a particular person, typically a public or historical figure

A written account of someone's life by someone else

A dramatic work set in the past, which presents historical events and characters with degrees of fictional elements such as creative dialogue or fiction or storylines

A frightening film, play, book, or other performance, often a story about unnatural things happening, for example dead people coming to life

Films or books that belong to the fantasy genre with fantastic themes, usually magic, supernatural events, mythology, folklore or exotic fantasy worlds

TV programmes in which ordinary people are continuously filmed, designed to be entertaining rather than informative

A person whose profession is acting on the stage, in films or on TV

American awards for artistic and technical merit for the film industry

A film that is produced outside the major film studio system, usually with little budget

An award-winning person or movie, show or book has won an award, especially an important or valuable one

A book of a person's life written by that person