General
The identifier placed in front of the camera at the beginning of the take.
What is slate?
The chief electrician in a production unit.
What is a gaffer?
Abbreviation for microphone.
What is mic?
Creating a dissolve or superimposition via the switcher.
What is a mixer?
A small television set that displays the picture as generated by the camera.
What is Viewfinder?
The filled out slate and clap display to sync the video and audio for editing.
What is the marker?
A device that controls the intensity of light by throttling the electric current flowing to the lamp.
What is a dimmer?
A thick audio cable that has multiple audio cables inside an outer jacket.
What is snake?
A row of buttons that correspond to video sources.
What is a bus?
The way a picture looks when it is sharp and clear on screen.
What is Focus?
The go ahead to move a show out of development into production.
What is the green light?
Another phrase for temperature scale.
What is a Kelvin Scale?
Combining two or more sounds in specific proportions as determined by the show.
What is the mixer?
High quality television set used in the television studio and control room.
What is a monitor?
Iris opening on the lens, usually measured in f-stops.
What is a aperture?
Speaker that carries the program sound independent of the line-out.
What is the monitor?
A ellipsoidal profile spot light that provides a fixed beam angle. It was named after its creators Joseph Levy and Edward Kook.
What is a Leko?
The area in which all objects, located at different distances from the camera appear in focus.
What is Depth of Field
A panel with rows of buttons that allows the selection and assembly of various video sources through a variety of transition devices, and the creation of electronic special affects.
What is a switcher?
A stepped convex, soft-edged spotlight lens. It was named after its creator Augustin-Jean Fresnel.
What is a Fresnel?