a camera angle that shows the subject from below; camera is angled up towards the subject
What is Low Angle
100
a camera angle that looks at the talking subject from the listener's perspective, literally over the shoulder
What is Over the Shoulder
100
a camera movement that scans a scene horizontally
What is Panning
100
a planning tool that includes the "spoken" text of a video production
What is Script
100
video that is not custom shot for use in a specific film (archive footage)
What is Stock Footage
200
a series of sketches that are used as a planning tool to visually show how the action of a story unfolds
What is Storyboard
200
a camera movement that scans a scene vertically
What is Tilting
200
person recording with a video camera
What is Videographer
200
camera setting that adjusts lighting in order to make white objects appear white in photos
What is White Balance
200
altering the lens making a subject appear closer or further away
What is Zooming
300
the relationship between the width and height of an image; convention video and TV is 4:3; widescreen is 16:9
What is Aspect Ratio
300
supplemental or alternate footage intercut with the main shot in an interview or documentary
What is b-roll (cut away)
300
the process of transferring or recording data to an optical disk, i.e. DVD
What is Burning
300
the span between the in point and the out point of a video clip
What is Duration
300
one image slowly dissolves to display the next image or fades to black
What is Fading
400
reducing file size of video while maintaining acceptable quality
What is File Compression
400
the number of frames recorded per second
What is Frame Rate
400
also referred to as resolution; expressed by the horizontal and vertical dimensions of a frame
What is Frame Size
400
in the television industry, an element placed in the lower area of the screen, though not necessarily the entire lower third; example, sports scores or news highlights across the bottom of the screen
What is Lower Thirds
400
natural sounds; the sounds that would naturally occur where video is being shot
What is nat sounds
500
broadcast standard used in North America; uses 4:3 aspect ratio with 29.97fps
What is NTSC
500
broadcast standard used in most of Europe and the rest of the world; uses 4:3 ratio with 25fps
What is PAL
500
to build a preview of a project from the source files such as video clips, audio clips, titles, graphics, transitions, etc.
What is render
500
credits at the end of a video production that gradually roll up the screen in a continuous list