Audio Visual Vocab
Often used to describe mediums that involve sounds and visuals.
What is Audiovisual?
The adjustable opening in a camera lens that controls the amount of light entering the camera.
What is aperture?
The process of transmitting audiovisual content over the internet in real-time, allowing viewers to access and watch the content without downloading it.
What is pre-production?
The study of color and its psychological effects on human perception, including principles such as color harmony, contrast, saturation, and temperature
What is color theory?
A series of related shots that together form a cohesive narrative unit within a video production, often depicting a specific location, time, or event.
What is scene?
The distribution of audiovisual content to a wide audience through mediums like radio and television.
What is Broadcasting?
The range of distance in a scene that appears acceptably sharp in an image or video.
what is depth of field?
Content delivered over the internet directly to viewers, bypassing traditional distribution channels like cable.
What is Over-The-Top?
The phase of a project during which the content is recorded or filmed.
What is production?
A predefined selection of colors used consistently throughout an audiovisual production to establish mood, tone, and visual identity.
What is color palette?
The individual responsible for overseeing the creative vision and execution of a video production, guiding actors, crew members, and other collaborators to achieve the desired outcome.
what is director?
A visual outline of the sequence of scenes in a production
What is storyboard?
What is shutter speed?
The conversion of audiovisual content from one digital format to another.
What is transcoding?
The process of creating a written script or screenplay that outlines the dialogue, scenes and actions for production.
What is scriptwriting?
The visual and tactile quality of surfaces and materials within a composition, conveying depth, realism, and sensory richness through variations in patterns, grain, and surface details.
What is Texture?
The individual or team responsible for managing the overall production process, including budgeting, scheduling, hiring personnel, and ensuring that the project is completed on time and within budget.
What is producer?
A written outline of the dialogue, scenes and actions for a production.
What is a script?
The adjustment of colors in a photograph to accurately represent the tones of reality.
What is white balance?
The distribution of audiovisual content across multiple platforms and devices.
What is multiplatform distribution?
The process of selecting and hiring actors or performers for roles in a production, based on criteria such as talent, appearance, and suitability for the characters.
What is casting?
Repetitive visual elements or motifs within a composition, used to create rhythm, unity, and visual interest through variations in color, shape, and scale.
What is pattern?
The composition and arrangement of elements within the frame of a shot, including the placement of subjects, objects, and negative space, which influences the visual narrative and viewer's attention.
what is framing?
Computer-generate imagery used to enhance or manipulate visuals in production.
What is a visual effect?
A file format that stores unprocessed image data directly from the camera's sensor. You have greater flexibility in editing.
What is camera RAW?
The practice of restricting access to audiovisual content based on the viewer's geographical location.
What is geoblocking?
The allocation and management of financial resources for a production, including expenses like equipment rentals, crew salaries, location fees and post-production costs.
What is budgeting?
The degree to which an object or surface allows light to pass through, creating visual effects such as opacity, translucency, and reflection.
What is transparency?
The position and perspective from which a camera captures a shot, such as high angle, low angle, or eye-level, affecting the viewer's perception of the subject or scene.
What is camera angle?
The clarity and detail of visual images in production. Measured in pixels.
What is resolution?
The arrangement of elements within the frame of a photograph to create visually appealing and balanced images.
What is composition?
The process of dynamically inserting targeted advertisements into audiovisual content during playback, often used to monetize streaming services.
What is ad insertion?
The process of finding and evaluating suitable locations for filming or recording.
What is location scouting?
The technique of creating the illusion of motion and change over time through the rapid display of a sequence of static images or frames, including traditional animation, computer animation, and stop motion.
What is animation?
The process of selecting, arranging, and manipulating video and audio clips to create a coherent narrative and visual sequence in a video production, often performed using non-linear editing software.
what is editing?
the process of reducing the file size by removing unnecessary data.
What is compression?
A graphical representation of the distribution of tones in a photography, displays the brightness levels from shadows to highlights.
What is histogram?
Descriptive information associated with audiovisual content, including title, descriptions and timestamps.
What is metadata?
The process of creating and integrating sound elements, like dialogue, music, and sound effects.
What is sound design?
The introductory sequence of a film or video production that typically includes the title, credits, and other graphical elements, often designed to set the mood, tone, and visual style of the production.
What is Title Sequence?
A visual or auditory effect used to move between shots or scenes in a video production, such as cuts, fades, dissolves, wipes, or animations, which can convey temporal, spatial, or thematic connections.
What is transition?
The process of recording additional dialogue or sound effects to replace or enhance existing audio tracks.
What is looping?
The total amount of light that reaches the camera's sensor during the process of a taking a photograph.
What is exposure?
A platform or service that facilitates the distribution of audiovisual content to end-users, providing infrastructure and tools for streaming, hosting and monetization.
What is Content Delivery Platform?
A producer responsible for managing the day-to-day operations and logistics of a production, including coordinating crew members, scheduling shoots, and overseeing budget expenditures.
What is line producer?
A visual effects technique used to remove a specific color (usually green or blue) from a video or image, allowing a separate background to be inserted behind the subject during post-production.
What is chroma keying?
A camera movement achieved by physically moving the camera along a track or wheeled platform, used to create smooth and fluid motion in video productions.
What is a dolly shot?
Supplementary footage used in productions to provide context, transitions, or visual interest. Often overlaid with narration or dialogue.
What is B-roll?
The camera's ability to automatically adjust the focus of the lens to ensure that the subject is sharp and clear.
What is Auto Focus?
A set of protocols and tools that allow different software applications and systems to communicate and integrate with each other.
What is Application Programming Interface?
The process of identifying, assessing and mitigating potential risks and uncertainties that may impact the successful completion of a production project.
The process of combining multiple visual elements, such as images, videos, and graphics, into a single cohesive image or scene using software tools such as Adobe After Effects.
What is compositing?
A sequence of short shots or images edited together to condense time, convey information, or evoke emotions in a video production, commonly used in filmmaking and music videos.
What is a montage?
The art of creating and recording sound effects to be added to productions to enhance realism and immersion.
What is foley?
The range of tones between the darkest and lightest areas of a photograph.
what is dynamic range?
Technology used to protect and manage the distribution of copyrighted audiovisual content, controlling access and usage rights to prevent unauthorized copying or sharing.
What is Digital Rights Management?
A structured strategy outlining how information will be shared, disseminated and communicated among project stakeholders throughout the production process.
A painted or digitally created background used to extend or enhance a live-action or CGI scene, often used in filmmaking and visual effects to create realistic environments.
What is matte painting?
A technique in video production that alternates between two or more separate scenes or storylines, often used to build tension, create suspense, or convey simultaneous action.
What is crosscutting?
The amount of data processed in a given amount of time, usually expressed in bits per second.
Random variations in color or brightness that appear as grainy or speckled artifacts in digital photographs.
What is noise?
The licensing and distribution of audiovisual content to third-party platforms or broadcasters for wider dissemination and monetization.
A systematic process for collecting, analyzing and incorporating feedback from stakeholders to improved the quality and effectiveness of the production.
What is Feedback Loop?
The art and technique of arranging and designing text, including fonts, sizes, spacing, and alignment, to enhance readability and convey meaning in audiovisual content.
What is typography?
A video effect achieved by playing footage backward, creating surreal or unnatural movement in a video production.
What is reverse motion?
The proportional relationship between the width and height of a visual image or screen.
What is aspect ratio?
A metering mode that divides the frame into multiple zones and analyzes the brightness of each area to determine the optimal exposure.
What is Matrix Metering?
A streaming technology that automatically adjusts the quality of audiovisual content based on the viewer's internet connection speed and device capabilities, ensuring smooth playback.
What is adaptive bitrate streaming?
The tendency for project scope to expand or change over time, leading to increased complexity, costs and risks if not properly managed and controlled.
The planning and implementation of artificial and natural light sources within a scene to enhance mood, atmosphere, and visual impact in audiovisual production.
What is lighting design?
A technique used to preserve the original aspect ratio of a video by adding black bars above and below the image to fit it within a wider or narrower frame, commonly used when displaying content on screens with different aspect ratios.
What is letterboxing?
The frequency at which consecutive images or frames are displayed in a video. typically seen as fps.
The technique of taking multiple photographs of the same scene at different exposure settings.
A network of servers distributed geographically to efficiently deliver audiovisual content to users based on their location, reducing latency and improving streaming performance.
What is content delivery network?
The process of acquiring goods and services or resources needed for the production project. Equipment rentals, permits and props.
A framework of intersecting horizontal and vertical lines used to organize and align visual elements within a composition, providing structure and coherence.
What is grid system?
A visual technique in video production that divides the screen into two or more sections to show multiple scenes or perspectives simultaneously, often used for comparison or juxtaposition.
What is split screen?
Audiovisual content that allows viewers to actively engage and interact with material.
What is interactive media?
The aesthetic quality of the out-of-focus areas in a photograph, determined by factors like aperture shape and lens characteristics.
What is bokeh?
software used to organize, store, and manage audiovisual content, including metadata, for distribution across various platforms and channels.
What is Content Management System?
A retrospective review and analysis of the production project upon completion, identifying successes, lessons learned, and areas for improvement.
The technique of representing three-dimensional space and objects on a two-dimensional surface, conveying depth and spatial relationships through techniques such as foreshortening and vanishing points.
What is perspective?
A video effect achieved by recording footage at a higher frame rate than the playback rate, resulting in smooth and fluid motion that appears slower than real-time.
What is slow motion?
The process of converting audiovisual content into a digital format for storage, transmission or playback.
What is encoding?
The adjustment of exposure settings to intentionally overexpose or underexpose a photograph for creative or technical purposes.
What is exposure compensation?
A service or platform that collects and distributes audiovisual content from multiple sources, providing viewers with curated selections of programming.
What is content aggregator?
A proactive strategy or set of actions designed to address and mitigate potential disruptions, delays or unforeseen challenges that may arise during the production.
What is Contingency Plan?
The distinctive aesthetic characteristics and design choices that define the look and feel of an audiovisual production, including art direction, cinematography, and set design.
What is visual style?
The horizontal movement of a camera or viewpoint across a scene, used to follow subjects, reveal new areas of interest, or create a sense of motion and dynamism in video production.
what is panning?