Video Production Jargon

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Video Production Jargon
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Pre-production Brainstorm

• A sharing technique, suggesting multiple
  approaches to a problem without stopping to
  fine-tune or criticize any particular approach
• There are no bad ideas!

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Pre-production Screenplay

• A written plan for a production
• Includes dialogue, sluglines, descriptions

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Pre-production Storyboard

• Series of cartoon-like sketches illustrating key
  visual shots or scenes
• Often includes dialogue, shot sizes, movements,
  angles, point-of-view

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Pre-production Shot

• A single recorded segment of video defined by the
  record button
• Deliberate, isolated camera views that
  collectively comprise a scene

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Pre-production Shot Size

• Apparent distance to the subject or setting
• Includes Wide, Normal or Medium, Close-Up,
  Extreme Close-up

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Pre-production Camera Movement

• Direction and manner of camera motion during a
  shot
• Includes pan, tilt, dolly, truck, arc, boom, zoom

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Pre-production Point-of-View

• Orientation of camera in relation to the subject
• Includes horizontal, vertical, size,level/off
  level, and lens focal length positions

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Production Talent

• Characters who appear on camera

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Production Gaffer

• Troubleshooter who organizes cables, positions
  props, prepares for camera movements

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Production Director

• Organizes/Collaborates/Supervises as he or she
  works with writers, talent, camera persons, sound
  persons on a production
• Carries ultimate responsibility for success of
  project

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Production Continuity

• Creating an impression that all shots are part of
  single, continuous whole

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Production Backlighting

• Illumination of subject from behind
• Used correctly, separates subject from background
• Used incorrectly, causes severe silhouetting

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Production Prop

• Any physical components of a set

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Production Set

• Real or contrived location for the action of a
  shot

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Production Blocking

• Pre-planned positions and movements for talent
• Blocking often dictates camera position/movement,
  microphone selection and placement

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Production Shot Protocol

• A regular procedure for securing shots in order
  to facilitate post-production
• Typical Shot Protocol Roll Camera, Scene 1,
  Shot 1, Take 1, Action, Cut

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Production Pre/Post Roll

• 10-20 seconds of dead air recorded before and
  after action
• Provides ease of editing in post production

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Production Tally Light

• Red of blinking signal that recording is in
  progress

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Production Focus

• The sharpness of an image as controlled through
  auto or manual focus
• Auto focus is one mark of an amateur

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Production In-Camera Editing

• Assembling a finished program on the fly
• Performed by simply activating and pausing
  record function
• Allows less control but imposes quality
  concessions

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Production Cutaway

• Shot of other than principal action
• Frequently used as transitional footage or to
  avoid a jump cut

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Jump Cut

• Unnatural, abrupt switch from and to shots
  identical in subject but slightly different in
  screen location
• Makes subject appear to jump from one screen
  location to another

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Production Two-Shot

• Shot including two subjects

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Production Frame

• The viewable area in a shot
• For instance, Are you framing the whole door?
• Also, a single still image in video which changes
  each 30th of a second, giving the impression of
  full motion

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Production Dialogue

• What the talent says in a shot

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Production Microphone or Mic

• How sound is captured in a shot
• Directors must select from internal/external,
  hard-wired/wireless, lapel, shotgun, boom,
  handheld, boundary microphones

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Production Headphones or Cans

• Vital to monitoring sound in a shot

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Production Viewfinder

• Cameras representation of what is being recorded
• Sometimes a monitor is a better solution that
  using a viewfinder to effectively judge color,
  brightness, etc. of a shot

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Post Production Capture

• Downloading shot video to an editing component
• Termed Record on Avio System

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Post Production Scene

• Avios term for a shot

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Post Production Split

• Dividing continuous video into separate clips,
  shots, or scenes

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Post Production Trim

• Reducing the size of a scene or clip be
  subtracting frames from the beginning or end

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Post Production Assemble

• Adding split and trimmed clips consecutively to
  build a program

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Post Production Insert

• Editing a clip into a previously assembled
  program (video is replaced, audio is not)

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Post Production Mix

• The soundtrack of a program, composed of
  dialogue, music, sound effects

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Post Production Title

• Words that appear on the screen

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Post Production Transition

• The border between two shots
• Includes fades, dissolves, cuts, wipes, etc.

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Post Production Render

• The digital mixing of transitions, titles,
  special effects with shots or clips