Who, What, When, Where, How, and Why? All the questions that need to be answered in a story.
What is 5 W's?
100
an abrupt transition
What is jump cut?
100
Manipulate the lens of a camera to create the appearance of moving closer or farther away from the subject.
What is zoom?
100
Stories that are considered to be not immediately important or significant to a wide audience such as personality feature stories or "news you can use" columns.
What is soft news?
100
Copy used under or with a photograph. It identifies what or who is in the picture and where it is taken. (Also called cutline)
What is caption?
200
Readers are asked a direct question, much like a rhetorical question in a speech.
What is question lead?
200
voice over voice of unseen person heard during a film
What is voiceover?
200
The cutting or marking of a photograph to eliminate unneccessary material and highlight important elements.
What is cropping?
200
A story that focuses more on entertaining than on simply informing the audience. These may be written on virtually any topic.
What is feature story?
200
A brief description of the contents of a news story printed in larger type, usually above the story.
What is headline.
300
The use of any part of another's writing and passing it off as your own.
What is plagarism?
300
simply text that is usually accompanied with a complementary background graphic and is positioned on the lower third of the view able area.
lower third
300
the sound lining up properly with the image.
What is sync?
300
A relatively short, usually unsigned column offering the opinion of the newspaper on a variety of topics.
What is editorial?
300
A person assigned to check the same news source for each issue of the paper (for example, art, music, theater, police administration).
What is beat reporter?
400
To put a speaker's words into the reporter's own words without changing the meaning or inserting opinion. Used to clarify lengthy, fuzzy or complicated thoughts. They do not have to be used in quotation marks.
What is paraphrase?
400
process of assembling your edited video project into a single file that can then be played back on it's own, shared, or uploaded
What is export?
400
the dissolve transition between a normal image and a black screen
What is fade?
400
One in which newsworthy events occur over several days or weeks.
What is developing story?
400
A chief copy editor.
What is news editor?
500
a style of writing most commonly applied to news stories in which the most important facts appear early in the story and less important facts later in the story
What is inverted pyramid?
500
sequence of frames recorded slowly over time, shown at a normal or fast speed
What is time lapse?
500
Person or body that owns, runs, or controls a publication, setting braod guidelines and general policies.
What is publisher?
500
Reporting that uses extensive research and interviews to provide a detailed account of a significant story.
What is in-depth reporting?
500
Method of composing photographs in which the field of vision is divided into thirds horizontally and vertically and the image placed at the intersection of any two lines.