A camera angle which shows the subject as we would expect to see them in real life
What is Eye level?
100
A series of sketches that are used as a planning tool to visually show how the action of a story unfolds
What is Storyboard?
100
Person recording with a video camera
What is Videographer?
100
A camera angle that shows the subject from above; camera is angled down towards the subject; not as extreme as bird's eye view
What is High angle?
100
Camera setting that adjusts for lighting in order to make white objects appear white in photos
What is White balance?
200
Video that is not custom shot for use in a specific film (archive footage)
What is Stock footage?
200
Altering the lens making a subject appear closer or further away
What is Zooming?
200
A camera angle that shows the subject from below; camera is angled up towards the subject
What is Low Angle?
200
The process of transferring or recording data to an optical disk, i.e. DVD
What is Burning?
200
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?
300
Natural sounds; the sounds that would naturally occur where video is being shot
What is Nat sounds?
300
Reducing the file size of video while maintaining acceptable quality
What is File compression?
300
Broadcast standard used in most of Europe and the rest of the world; uses 4:3 ratio with 25 fps
What is PAL?
300
The number of frames recorded per second
What is Frame rate?
400
Broadcast standard used in North America; uses 4:3 aspect ratio with 29.97 fps
What is NTSC?
400
To build a preview of a project from the source files such as video clips, audio clips, titles, graphics, transitions, etc.
What is Render?
400
A camera angle that looks at the talking subject from the listener's perspective, literally over the shoulder
What is Over the shoulder?
400
Supplemental or alternate footage intercut with the main shot in an interview or documentary
What is B-roll (cut away)?
400
A planning tool that includes the "spoken" text of a video production
What is Script?
500
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?
500
A camera movement that scans a scene vertically
What is Tilting?
500
The relationship between the width and height of an image; conventional video and TV is 4:3; widescreen 16:9
What is Aspect Ratio
500
A camera movement that scans a scene horizontally
What is Panning?
500
Also referred to as resolution, expressed by the horizontal and vertical dimensions of a frame