Pre-Production
Production
Post-Production
Camera Shots & Angles
Special Terms
100

This stage is where ideas are developed, scripts written, and logistics planned.

What is Pre-Production?

100

The phase when the video is filmed.

What is Production?

100

This stage is when editing and finalizing the video happens.

Post-Production?

100

Captures the subject’s full body and environment.

What is a Wide Shot (WS)?

100

The name of the one-sentence summary of a film idea.

What is a Logline?

200

A one-sentence summary of a project’s main concept.

What is a Logline?

200

A continuous block of storytelling in a single location.

What is a Scene?

200

The stage where you add effects, color correction, and audio.

What is Post-Production?

200

Frames the subject from the waist up.

Frames the subject from the waist up.

200

An essential document with all shots planned for filming.

What is a Shot List?

300

A checklist of all camera shots required during filming.

What is a Shot List?

300

The process of creating video content from planning to distribution.

What is Video Production?  

300

Combining multiple shots together to create a sequence.

What is Editing?

300

Focuses tightly on a subject’s face or object.

What is a Close-Up (CU)?

300

A written plan for actors’ dialogue and directions.

What is a Script?

400

A prose summary of a video before the script is written.

What is a Treatment?  

400

Written dialogue and directions used in video production.

What is a Script?

400

Enhancing a video’s colors, brightness, and contrast.

What is Color Correction?

400

A shot that moves smoothly along a track or stabilizer.

What is a Tracking/Dolly Shot?

400

The combination of multiple drawings to visualize a project.

What is a Storyboard?

500

A sequence of drawings representing shots planned for a video.

What is a Storyboard?

500

A single uninterrupted take recorded by a camera.

What is a Shot?

500

The final version of the video before release.

What is a Final Cut?

500

A camera angle shot from above, looking down on the subject.

What is a High Angle Shot?

500

The complete written summary before the script.

What is a Treatment?