Business & Careers
Non-technical skills necessary to keep a job, such as punctuality and communication.
What are Employability Skills?
The specific group of people a media message is aimed at.
What is the Target Audience?
The unit of measurement for Frequency (pitch).
What is Hertz (Hz)?
Information embedded inside a file, like Artist Name or Track Title.
What is Metadata?
The phase of production that involves planning and scriptwriting.
What is Pre-Production?
While slander is spoken defamation, this term refers to defamation that is written or visual.
What is Libel?
Writing "WADZ-worth" instead of "Wadsworth" on a script is an example of this technique to help anchors pronounce words correctly.
What is Phonetic Spelling?
The unit of measurement for Amplitude (loudness/volume).
What is the Decibel (dB)?
A file format like WAV that preserves the highest quality audio.
What is Uncompressed?
The muscle responsible for proper breath support.
What is the Diaphragm?
As part of FCC regulations, adult material protected by the 1st Amendment, as well as offensive language, are restricted to 10 p.m. - 6 p.m., which are referred to as ______.
What are Safe Harbor Hours?
A conversation between two or more characters in a script.
What is Dialogue?
The science of sound and how it behaves in a space.
What are Acoustics?
A file format like MP3 that is smaller and better for streaming.
What is Compressed?
This pitch variation is used by broadcast talent to emphasize meaning or emotion, helping avoid a monotone.
What is Inflection?
This legal doctrine allows for the limited use of copyrighted material for purposes such as news reporting, education, or parody without permission.
What is Fair Use?
This journalism writing style places the most important information (Who, What, When, Where, Why) in the very first sentence.
What is an Inverted Pyramid?
When it comes to audio cables, what is the key difference between balanced and unbalanced cables?
What is The Noise-Cancelling Feature?
The process of sending audio out of your DAW (Digital Audio Workstation; i.e., Adobe Audition) to a final file format.
What is Exporting?
Accuracy of pitch—being "in tune."
What is Intonation?
Three potential careers in this industry include Audio Engineer, Producer, and this "sound effects" specialist.
What is a Foley Artist?
This type of writing focuses on journalism, marketing, and entertainment.
What is Written Content Creation?
To accurately capture a frequency, this theorem explains that the sampling rate must be at least twice the highest frequency being recorded.
What is The Nyquist Theorem?
The number of audio snapshots taken per second (e.g., 44.1kHz).
What is Sample Rate?
The variation in loudness or intensity within a performance.
What are Dynamics?