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| Effect to cause model (1) |
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| moving from idea to desired effect on the viewer, then backing up to the specific medium requirements to produce such an effect |
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| EFP (Electronic Field Production) (1) |
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| TV production outside the studio that is normally shot for post-production. Part of field production. Usually a single camera and microphone. |
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| ENG (Electronic News Gathering) (1) |
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| The use of portable cameras with seperate portable video recorders, lights, and sound equipment for the production of daily news stories. Not usually planned in advance and is often transmitted live or immediately after postproduction |
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| analog or digital editing that uses tape-based systems. the selection of shots is nonrandom |
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| All content elements, production elements and people needed to generate the defined process message |
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| News production personnel (1) |
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| People assigned exclusively to the production of news, documentaries, and special events |
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| Nonlinear edition (NLE) (1) |
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| allows instant random access to shots and sequences and easy rearrangement. the video and audio information is stored in digital form on computer hard drives |
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| Nontechnical production personnel (1) |
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| people concerned primarily with nontechnical production matters that lead from the basic idea to the final screen image. Producer, Executive Producer, Associate Producer, Line producer, field producer, production manager, production assistant, director, associate director, floor manager, floor persons, writers, art director, makeup/costume |
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| any production activity that occurs after the production. usually refers to either video editing or audio sweetening |
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| the preparation of all production details (coordinators, producers, writers, etc) |
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| the message actually perceived by the viewer in the process of watching the TV program |
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| the actual activities in which an event is recorded and/or televised |
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| Technical production personnel (1) |
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| people who operate the production equipment. Technical director, camera operators, director of photography, lighting director, video operator, audio technition, video-record operator, character generator operator, video editor, digital graphic artist |
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| equipment and people who operate the equipment for the production of specific programs. the basic tv system consists of a tv camera and a microphone, which convert pictures and sound into electrical signals and a tv set and a loudspeaker which convert the signals back into pictures and sound |
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| compact internal optical system of prisms within a camera that separates white light into Red Green Blue. also called prism block |
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| the color attribute that determines how dark or light a color appears on the monochrome tv screen or how much light the color reflects. also called lightness and luminance |
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| the camera head, camera control unit (CCU), sync generator, and power supply |
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| CCU (camera control unit) (5) |
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| equipment, seperate from the camera head, that contains various video controls, including iris, white balance. the CCU enables the video operator to adjust the camera picture during a show |
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| CCD (charge-coupled device) (5) |
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| the imaging sensor in a TV camera. it consists of horizontal and vertical rows of tiny image-sensing elements, called pixels, that transduces the optical light into an electric charge that eventually becomes the video signal |
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| A camera imaging sensor similar to a CCD but which operates on a different technology. It transduces light into an electronic video charge that eventually becomes video signal |
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| The difference between the brightest and the darkest portions in the picture (often measures by reflected light in foot-candles) the contrast ratio for low-end cameras is normally 50:1 which means that the brightest spot in the picture should be no more than 50 times brighter than the darkest portion without causing loss of detail in the dark or light areas, High end digital cameras can reach 1,000:1 or more |
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| Digital cinema camera (5) |
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| a HD TV camera that has a native fram rate of 24 frames per second and a variable frame rate for slow and accelertaed motion. most digital cinema cameras use high quality CCD's or CMOS sensors, state of the art lenses, and HD viewfinders |
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| high quality portable shoulder mounted field production camera that must be connected to an external video recorder. |
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| high quality portable field production camera with the recording device built in |
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| one of the 3 basic color attributes. hue is the color itself: red, green, blue, yellow, etc. |
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| the imaging element in a tv camera. its sencor (CCD or CMOS) transduces light into electric energy that becomes the video signal. |
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| Short for picture element (1) a single imaging element that can be identified by a computer. The more pixels per picture area, the higher the picture quality. (2) the light-sensitive elements on a CCD that contain a charge |
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| the measurment of picture detail, expressed int he number of pixels per scanning line and the number of visible scanning lines, Resolution is influenced by the imaging device, the lens, and the TV set that shows the camera picture. Often used synonymously with definition |
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| the color attribute that describes a color's richness or strength |
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| The CCD or CMOS imaging device in a video camera |
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| A system based on the NTSC scanning system of 525 (480 visible) interlaced lines |
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| part of the camera chain; produces an electronic synchronization signal |
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| the adjustments of the color circuits in the camera to produce a white color in lighting of various color temperatures (relative reddishness or bluishness of white light) |
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| Iris opening of a lens, usually measured in f-stop |
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| automated feature where the camera focuses on what it senses to be the target object |
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| the area in which all objects, located at different distances from the camera, appear in focus. depth of field depends on the focal length of the lens, its f-stop, and the distance between the object and the camera |
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| Simulated zoom by cropping the center portion of an image and electronically enlarging it. Digital zooms lose focus settings |
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| A lens that permits a relatively great amount of light to pass through at its maximum aperture (relatively low f-stop number at its lowest setting). can be used in low light conditions |
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| The portion of a scene visible through a particular lens; its vista. Expressed in symbols such as CU for lose up |
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| The distance from the optical center of the lens to the from surface of the camera's imaging device at which the image appears in focus with the lens set at infinity. Focal lengths are measured in millimeters or inches. Short focal length lenses have a wide angle view. long vocal length lens have a |
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