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100
Credits that move up the screen
Credit Roll
100
Document which is a general notice given to all parents indicating that, from time to time, organizations outside the school system may request permission to video record inside the school building.
Passive Talent Release
100
A set of laws to protect a company’s brand identification including logos.
Trademark Law
100
The relationship of the width of the television screen to the height of the television screen, as in 4:3 or 16:9.
Aspect Ratio
100
Creates a sharp, distinct, and very dark shadow.
Hard Light
100
A flexible metal rod with a flat piece of metal attached to the end; used to block light from hitting certain objects on the set.
Flag
100
Refers to the most common kind of incandescent light bulb used to provide artificial light to indoor areas such as your home or office in a professional studio.
Tungsten Light 
100
A device that attaches to fluorescent instruments to reduce the shape and size of the light beam, making the light more directional and easier to control. Also known as egg-crate or grid.
Honeycomb
200
Basic information provided by the interviewee recorded at the beginning of every interview (name, position, & contact information)
Interview Lead
200
When the person is aware that they are being recorded and they do not object.
Consent by Conduct
200
Music that is no longer copyrighted due to passage of time or 70 years after the death of the composter. No permission is necessary.
Public Domain
200
A measure of the brightness or lightness of a video image.
Luminance
200
Type of hard light instrument that creates a circle of light in varying diameters.
Spot Light
200
Type of lamp that functions when electricity is applied and makes a filament inside the lamp glow brightly (consumer light bulb)
Incandescent Lamp
200
A common lighting technique that uses three lighting instruments for each person or object photographed: a key light, a fill light, and a backlight. Also called triangle lighting
Three-Point Lighting
300
Shots of anything mentioned visually during the interview and any natural sound associated with the story. (Shoot Wide, medium, & Tight shots)
B-Roll
300
A document that give video producers permission to photograph the talent and/or to use audio of the talent’s voice.
Talent Release
300
A band’s rendition of another band’s copyrighted song.
Cover Music
300
Black bars above and below a film.
Letterbox
300
A hard light instrument that is lightweight and easily focused with rings on the lens.
Fresnel ( Fruh-NEL)
300
A white spot or star shaped reflection of a lighting instrument or sunlight off of a highly reflective surface on the set.
Light Hit
300
The lighting instrument that provides the main source of illumination on the person or object in a shot
Key light 
400
A section of the Copyright Law that provides guidelines for the limited use of copyrighted materials without obtaining permission from the copyright holder(s).
Fair Use
400
Property that is owned by local, state, or national government organizations. Usually legal to film on premises but a permit is sometimes needed for the cost of traffic problems, cleanup, security, etc.
Public property
400
Credits on the top or bottom of the screen that move from left to right.
Credit Crawl
400
The professional name in film for a part of lighting instrument that glows when electricity is supplied.
Lamp
400
A flood light with a concentrated focus (Shaped like a cone).
Scoop Light
400
Flaps that shape light from a lamp.
Barndoors
400
A lighting instrument that is placed opposite the key light and above the talent to provide illumination on the other side of the talent’s face or object in the shot
Fill light 
500
Protects the creators of original materials from having their materials and creative work used without proper permission and compensation.
Copyright Law
500
A signed document that grants a video team permission to shoot on private property.
Property Release
500
The rate at which individual pictures are displayed in a motion picture and on television, expressed as frames per second.
FPS (Frames Per Second)
500
The device into which a lamp is installed to provide illumination on a set.
Instrument
500
Creates indistinct shadows.
Soft Light
500
Type of lamp that functions when electricity excites a gas in the lamp, which causes the material coating the inside of the lamp to glow.
Fluorescent Lamps
500
A lighting instrument that is placed above and behind the talent or object in a shot, at the twelve o’clock position, to separate the talent or object from the background. Also known as a hair light.
Back Light -
600
A lighting support with three or four legs and a long vertical pole to which a lighting instrument is attached.
Floor Stand
600
A pipe system that hangs from the studio ceiling and support the lighting instruments.
Grid
600
The raceway supplies electricity for the instruments.
Raceway
600
A piece of metal in the shape of an alphabet used to attach lighting instruments to the grid.
C-Clamp
600
A scale developed by a scientist for measuring color temperatures of light in degrees K.
Kelvin Color Temperature Scale
600
The temperature of white light in degrees Kelvin. (indoors)
3200 ° Kelvin
600
A lighting technique that uses four lighting instruments for each person or object photographed: two key lights and two fill lights. The two key lights are positioned diagonally opposite each other, and the two fill lights are placed in the remaining two corners.
Four-point lighting
700
A heat resistant, thick sheet of plastic placed in front of a lighting instrument to turn white light from a lamp into a colored light.
Gel
700
When the intensity of light is softened and reduced without altering the color temperature
Diffusion
700
A wire mesh or woven material placed in front of an instrument to reduce the intensity of light.
Scrim
700
A lighting technique where a lighting instrument is not pointed directly at the subject of the shot, but the light is reflected off of another object, such as a ceiling, wall, or the ground.
Bounce lighting
700
A diagram developed by the lighting designer that indicates the placement of lighting instruments on the set of a program.
Light plot
700
The temperature of outdoor light in degrees Kelvin.
5600K
700
A lighting technique that covers more than one person or object in the lighting spread using only two key lights and one back light.
Cross-key lighting