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BVP Vocabulary Cards
BroadCasting Video Production Vocabulary
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Linear editing | Analog or digital editing that uses tape-based systems. The selection of shots is nonrandom. |
| News production personnel | People assigned exclusively to the production of news, documentaries, and special events. |
| Production | The actual activities in which an event is recorded and/or televised. |
| Preproduction | The preparation of all production details |
| Technical Production Personnel | People who operate the production equipment. |
| demographics | Audience research factors concerned with such data as age, gender, marital status, and income. |
| Target Audience | The audience selected or desired to received a specific message. |
| Treatment | A brief narrative description of a television program. |
| A/V Format | Another name for the two-column AV (audio/video). |
| Classical Dramaturgy | The technique of dramatic composition. |
| Event Order | The way event details are sequenced. |
| Goal-Directed Information | Program content intended to be learned by the viewer. |
| Partial Two-Column A/V Script | Describes a show for which the dialogue is indicated but not completely written out. |
| Coding | To change the quantized values into a binary code, represented by 0's and 1's. Also called encoding. |
| Binary | A number system with the base 2. |
| Decoding | The reconstruction of a video or an audio signal from a digital code. |
| Digital | Usually means the binary system - the representation of data in the form of binary digits (on/off pulses). |
| RGB | Stands for red, green, blue- the basics color |
| Refresh Rate | The number of complete digital scanning cycles (frames) per second |
| Sync Generator | Part of the camera chain; produces an electronic synchronization signal. |
| Sensor | The CCD or CMOS imaging device in a video camera. |
| Hue | One of the three basic color attributes; hue is the color itself-red, green yellow, and so on. |
| Saturation | The color attributes that describes a colors richness or strength. |
| ENG/EFP Camcorder | High -quality portable field production camera with the recording device built-up |
| Aperture | Iris opening of a lens, usually measured in f-stops. |