Use the arrow keys to move between letters. Press Enter or Space on the first letter of a word, then again on the last letter. Press Escape to cancel.
A few of the words
- MEGAPHONE
- Early film sets were noisy, outdoor affairs, directors used megaphones to project commands across the chaos long before wireless headsets existed.Find this word in the grid to read its note.
- SLATE
- The clapperboard, or slate, does double duty: its sharp clap lets editors sync picture to sound, a technique that has been standard practice since the late 1920s.Find this word in the grid to read its note.
- DOLLY
- A camera dolly is a wheeled platform that glides the lens smoothly toward or away from a subject, creating the intimate push-in shot that has defined countless cinematic moments.Find this word in the grid to read its note.
- CRANE
- The camera crane traces its roots to early Hollywood epics, giving directors a sweeping bird's-eye perspective that no handheld rig could ever match.Find this word in the grid to read its note.
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The Directors: a free large-print word search
The Directors, a free, large-print word search celebrating the visionaries who call "Action!" and shape every frame we love.
About The Directors
Before a single frame is exposed, the director has already lived the film a hundred times, in the script margins, in quiet conversations with the cast, in the geometry of a lens choice made at dawn. On set, the folding canvas chair and the handheld megaphone became their iconic insignia, as recognizable as a conductor's baton. From the first slate crack to the final edit, theirs is the singular vision that transforms a written scene into the image that stays with an audience forever.
How to play
- 1Find a word.Tap its first letter, then tap along to its last — the trail fills in and finishes itself when it spells a word. Or press the first letter and drag.
- 2Words run in straight lines.Across and down, and on the harder difficulties diagonally and backwards.
- 3It marks itself.Each word you find takes on its own soft colour on the grid and is crossed off the list.
- 4Choose a difficulty.Relaxed, Classic or Challenging set those directions and how much the word list helps — never the grid size. Tap the A buttons at the top to enlarge the letters, or pinch the grid.
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