The process of preparing all the elements involved in a media production that occurs before shooting begins.
What is Pre-production?
100
Video productions which are intended as training to teach specific knowledge or skill.
What is Instructional Video?
100
An idea or creation of the mind made real in a form we can touch, see, or hear, for which the law provides exclusive rights to the creator.
What is Intellectual Property?
100
A form of expression that we can touch, see, or hear (even if in digital form).
What is Tangible Form?
100
A payment made to the owner of a copyright, patent, trademark, or trade secret for each use of the protected property.
What is Royalty?
200
The actual shooting or recording of the media production, video or film.
What is Production?
200
Video productions which are intended to capture and present real world issues or events and may be educational and entertaining.
What is Documentary?
200
A legally protected exclusive IP right granted by government to an invention of a non-obvious item, software or process.
What is Patent?
200
When a creative work is NOT protected by copyright law but instead belongs to the public as a whole.
What is Public Domain?
200
A copyright license purchased for a flat fee, that does not require payment of a royalty each time you use the item.
What is Royalty Free?
300
Characteristics of an audience or group of people in terms of age, gender, income, or other social factors.
What is Demographics?
300
Video productions which are designed to persuade viewers to take action.
What is Promotional Video?
300
A legally protected exclusive IP right to use a design or words like a slogan or logo to identify a company, products or services.
What is Trademark?
300
A legal defense that allows limited use of copyrighted material for certain purposes such as news reporting or education, without acquiring permission.
What is Fair Use.
300
A legal document granting permission to use a persons face and/or voice in a video production or photograph.
What is Talent Release?
400
A written narrative which describes a media production and summarizes the story in paragraph form.
What is Treatment?
400
Generic film or video clips that can be inserted into other programs as background or b-roll footage.
What is Stock Footage?
400
A legally protected exclusive IP right to a formula, process, or information, which is not generally known, by which a business can obtain an advantage over competitors.
What is Trade Secret?
400
Any creation that includes major, copyright-protected elements of an original, previously created work.
What is Derivative Work?
400
A legal document granting permission to shoot on private property.
What is Property Release?
500
A visualization method that creates a series of drawings of what the shot sequence should be in a media production.
What is Storyboard?
500
Video and or audio recorded after a production shoot to provide additional insert into a program as b-roll.
What is Pickup Footage?
500
A legally protected exclusive IP right to copy, publish, or sell original works of authorship that are fixed in a tangible form of expression.
What is Copyright?
500
A copyright license where creators retain copyright ownership, while allowing others to copy, distribute, for NON COMMERCIAL uses of their work for the public good.
What is Creative Commons?
500
The unauthorized, illegal use of copyrighted works.