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TV Studio Terms
Some assignment for TV studio.
Term | Definition |
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Super | Graphics - usually words - superimposed over a television image giving details about it, such as a person’s name or where they are. |
Talent | Someone invited to be interviewed on radio or television. |
Package | A story told by a separate talent, usually tossed to by the anchor. Usually includes voice-over, graphics, Sound-on-tape, stand-up, etc. |
Tease | When the talent sells a story that is coming up later, to convince the viewer to stay tuned. |
Icebreaker | To ask the interviewee "can you please say and spell your name, please?" at the beginning of the interview. |
Rule of thirds | To center the eyes of the interviewee in the top third of the frame. |
B-roll | The video that is shot for the purpose of background for Voice-over footage |
Bug | A super that appears in the lower corner of the screen to identify the station or program |
Transcript | A word-for-word written version of an interview or other spoken segment. |
Run | To publish or broadcast a story. |
Royalties | Money paid to someone for using their work. |
Spin | Putting a positive slant on something bad or emphasising only the positive aspects while ignoring the negatives. |
Scoop | An important or significant news published or broadcast before other competing media know of it. |
Wob | White text on a black or dark coloured background. |
Voice over | A television technique in which a reporter or narrator speaks while vision is being shown on screen. |
Pan | Slowly moving a television camera left or right in an arc parallel to the ground. |
Objective journalism | A basic type of journalism practiced in democracies in which the journalists do not allow their personal biases to affect their work, they take a neutral stance even on difficult matters and give a fair representation of events and issues. |
News | Information which is new, unusually and interesting or significant to the recipient. It is usually about people or related in some way to their lives. |
Multimedia | The way of presenting a subject using different types of media, such as video, audio, text and images in combination. |
Live | Being broadcast as it happens. |
Kill | To cancel or delete all or part of a story. |
Inverted Pyramid | The most common structure for writing a news story, with the main news at the start and the rest of the detail following in decreasing order of importance. |
Interview | A formal, usually structured conversation between a journalist and a source to get information for a story. |
Follow-up | A story which is written to report new or more detailed information on a story which has already been published or broadcast. |
Feature | A longer article or radio story, usually in greater depth and complexity than a simple news item. |
Cross fade | To move from one audio or video source to another, by fading down the first while fading up the second. |
Crawl | Type moving across the top or bottom of a television screen. Used by news stations to show the main headlines of the moment, stock exchange prices, the weather or other useful current information. |
Copyright | The legal right to control the use of a literary, musical, dramatic or artistic work, more specifically by making or using copies of that work. |
Chroma key | A process by which a person is filmed in front of a blank screen, onto which is then added still or moving pictures, often to make it appear they are at the scene. |
Attribute | To identify who said something, either as a quote or as reported speech. Attribution is important to maintain credibility. |
Ad-lib | Unscripted talking, usually by a broadcaster. |
Transition | In news reporting, a way of moving smoothly from one story or section of a story to another. |
Tip | Information given to a reporter about a possible story. |
Stock Footage | Shots of common events held in a newsroom’s video library and used to illustrate parts of television stories. |