Script
An entire program committed to paper, including dialog, music, camera angles, stage direction, camera direction, and CG notations.
Script
Cooking shows, how-to-shows, and infomercials and sometimes uses props.
Lecture/Demonstration
Breaks each major event in a program into the fewest number of words possible, and places each on a different line.
Outline
The approach or point of view used to tell the story.
Angle
Other comments in a package (answers) made by the reporter.
The Little “A”
A specific area (topic or geographic location) regularly covered by a reporter.
Beat
Lecture, demonstration, panel discussion, interview, documentary, newscast, magazine, drama, public service announcement/ad and music video are categories of?
Television Programs
A program format comprised of feature packages, each addressing a different story for 7 to 11 minutes. (Etc. 60 minutes or Real Sports with Bryant Gumbel).
Magazine
A Story that an anchor simply reads aloud from the teleprompter for the viewing audience to hear.
Reader
Informal language used in writing how people speak.
Writing for the Ear
The conclusion of a story, sometimes a punch line that sums up the story.
Close
A package covering soft news stories. Also called a feature or news feature.
Feature Package
Lecture
A program that is 30 or 60 seconds in length and aims to inform the public or to convince the public to do (or not to do) something in the interest of common good.
Public Service Announcement (PSA)
A type of story that incorporates B-Roll view rolled in from the control room.
Voiceover
Can be emotional statements made by the interviewees, narration, or simple a good turn phrase.
The Big “A”
The organization of stories and sequence of a newscast in written form.
Rundown
Graphic, design, or box with text overlaying the upper left or right portion of the screen.
Over the Shoulder Graphic (OSG)
This program is essentially a research paper for television. The audio is both on and off camera narration.
Documentary
A document created by the scriptwriter that contains general information about the program: basic idea, format, message, intended audience, budget, location, & tentative schedule. Presented to the Executive Producer for funding.
Program Proposal
A type of story in which the audience sees B-Roll video and hears both the anchor reading from the teleprompter and footage of a comment from the a principal player in the story.
Voiceover Sound On Tape (VO-SOT)
The very first line of a story.
Lead
Everything spoken by the reporter in a package.
Reporter Track
A human-interest story that focuses on one person.
Personality Feature
This discussion format uses a wide shot and provides viewers with interesting information that uses more than one person.
Panel Discussion
Sketches that portray the way the image on television should look in the finished program.
Storyboard
Footage of a principal player connected to a story, which includes voice/audio that supports the story.
Sound On Tape (SOT)
The first line of a story that begins the story abruptly and immediate presents the most important information.
Hard Lead
The first line of a story that communicates the general idea of a story, but does not offer any facts.
Soft Lead
Graphic that are stills, text, graphs, maps, diagrams, etc that cover the full screen.
Full Screen Graphic (FSG)
Essentially, a narrative written from the outline that tells the story in paragraph form.
Treatment
Television news programming that is expected to provide a fair and unbiased presentation of facts, without any particular bias.
Mainstream Media
Stretches and exaggerates facts by dealing with sensational stories. Entertainment and sometimes fictional “Gotcha Stories”.
Tabloid Media
A line of communication between the anchors and the producer in the control room (earpiece worn by anchor).
Interrupted Feedback (IFB)
A story that is about 1 1/2 to 2 minutes in length, contains its own intro and outro, is edited and can be inserted into a live program at any time the producer chooses.
Package
Footage in a package that depicts a reporter standing in front of the camera, speaking directly to the viewers from the location of the story.
Stand-up