Broadcast
AP Style Rules
interviewing skills
Design Rules
Photography
100
This is what camera angle.
What is eye level?
100
These months should never be abbreviated with dates.
What is March, April, May, June, and July?
100
These types of questions should NOT be asked in an interview.
What are YES/NO questions?
100
All photos, video and page designs should have this.
What is a focal point?
100
This controls the speed of the eyelid of the lens.
What is the shutter speed?
200
This is when the camera follows the subject along.
What is continuous shot.
200
These are the only times double digit numbers should NOT be numerals.
What is when they are at the beginning of a sentence?
200
These active listening skills can be used show your subject you are paying attention.
What is clarifying, questioning, connecting and elaborating?
200
The main subject should sit here in the frame.
What is the rule of thirds?
200
These are the two things you have to make sure you bring with you when taking a manual camera.
What are the SD card and charged battery?
300
This is a movement when the camera moves from left to right or vice versa.
What is a pan?
300
This is the one symbol that should be written out next to numbers.
What is the percent sign? %
300
You should always prepare this many questions ahead of time and do some research on your subject ahead of time.
What is 8-10?
300
This is technical term for the words describing what happened in the photo. It comes from the alternate word for a photo in design.
What is a cutline?
300
This controls the size of the hole and how much light gets let into the shot.
What is aperature?
400
This is the background footage used in packages to add interest.
What is B-roll?
400
This punctuation mark is used in place of "and" in a headline.
What is a comma?
400
You should always interview at least this many people for a news or feature story when possible, although you may only ask a couple questions to all but one.
What is three?
400
This is a type of font that has no tails on it.
What is sans serif?
400
The bigger this the grainier the picture.
What is ISO?
500
If the volume levels are all over the place on your video, you can adjust this on Adobe Premiere.
What is audio gain?
500
This is done to all titles in a story.
What is put it in quotation marks?
500
When possible you should record your interviews, use a mic and ask them to say this at the beginning of the interview.
What is year plus spell first and last name?
500
This type of headline cannot stand alone but is an excellent way to get attention for a story.
What is a kicker?
500
This must be done to the background before you can delete it on a layer in Adobe Photoshop.
What is unlock?