Pre-Production Terminology 

Script – a planned, written guide for filming or production. Scripts should be complete, practiced, and annotated before filming begins.

Storyboard – a graphic organizer for planning the sequence of images or camera shots for the purpose of pre-visualizing a video, commercial, or live production.

Teleprompter- A visual of the text for the video and/or broadcast. A teleprompter is similar to using cues cards.

Common Formats -

Student Roles Terminology 

Producer – creates the conditions for filming such as location and assigning roles to other group members and finds the materials needed for filming such a props, talent, equipment.

Director – coordinate all roles and facilitate production. Directors should be in constant communication with all members of the team and prepared for trouble shooting issues as needed.

Audio Engineer – positions microphones, secures appropriate background music, performs sound checks, and arranges for quiet filming conditions.

Camera Operator – operates the camera to incorporate appropriate shots and capture the footage desired.

Teleprompter Operator – operates the teleprompter to insure pacing and natural, professional delivery. Teleprompter operator should also make edits and revisions to the script as needed.

Talent – delivers the script on air or on camera in a professional and engaging manner.

Editor – Synthesizes the script or story board with captured footage to create a polished and published video or broadcast.

Camera Terminology 

Tripod - A three-legged frame used to support the camera and promote smooth camera shots.

Focus – Camera focus can be adjusted to place emphasis or direct attention for desired effect.

White Balance – A setting that can be adjusted based on the lighting available. This setting helps to make white objects appear white and colors appear closer to their intended hue.

Iris Adjustment – The iris controls the amount of light in a shot. The more open the iris the brighter the light in the shot and vice versa.

Rule of Thirds - The rule of thirds is a concept in video and film production in which the frame is divided into nine imaginary sections, as illustrated on the right. This creates reference points which act as guides for framing the image. Points (or lines) of interest should occur at 1/3 or 2/3 of the way up (or across) the frame, rather than in the center. Like many rules of framing, this is not always necessary (or desirable) but it is one of those rules you should understand well before you break it. (http://www.mediacollege.com/video/shots/rule-of-thirds.html )

Frame a Shot – shots should be about creating a composed and effective image for an intended audience. Different shots have different effects. Definitions below are adapted from http://www.mediacollege.com/video/camera/tutorial/01-framing.html

Extreme Wide Shot - In the EWS, the view is so far from the subject that he isn't even visible. The point of this shot is to show the subject's surroundings. The EWS is often used as an establishing shot — the first shot of a new scene, designed to show the audience where the action is taking place.

Wide Shot - In the WS, the subject takes up the full frame. In this case, the boy's feet are almost at the bottom of frame, and his head is almost at the top. Obviously the subject doesn't take up the whole width of the frame, since this is as close as we can get without losing any part of him. The small amount of room above and below the subject can be thought of as safety room — you don't want to be cutting the top of the head off. It would also look uncomfortable if the feet and head were exactly at the top and bottom of frame.

Medium Shot - The MS shows some part of the subject in more detail, whilst still showing enough for the audience to feel as if they were looking at the whole subject. In fact, this is an approximation of how you would see a person "in the flesh" if you were having a casual conversation. You wouldn't be paying any attention to their lower body, so that part of the picture is unnecessary.

Close Up - In the CU, a certain feature or part of the subject takes up the whole frame. A close up of a person usually means a close up of their face.

Extreme Close Up - The ECU gets right in and shows extreme detail. For people, the ECU is used to convey emotion.

Headroom - Headroom is the amount of space between the top of the subject's head and the top of the frame. A common mistake in amateur video is to have far too much headroom, which doesn't look good and wastes frame space. In any "person shot" tighter than a MS, there should be very little headroom.

Lead room - refers to the amount of room in the frame which is strategically left empty. The shot of the baby crawling has some leading room for him to crawl into, and the shot of his mother has some looking room for her to look into. Without this empty space, the framing will look uncomfortable.

Zoom - In & out, appearing as if the camera is moving closer to or further away from the subject. When a shot zooms in closer to the subject, it is said to be getting "tighter". As the shot zooms out, it is getting "looser".

Pan - The framing moves left & right, with no vertical movement.

Tilt - The framing moves up & down, with no horizontal movement.

Truck - The camera is mounted on a cart which travels right or left along tracks for a very smooth movement.

Dolly - The camera is mounted on a cart which travels right or left along tracks for a very smooth movement.

Tilt -Vertical movement of the camera angle, i.e. pointing the camera up and down (as opposed to moving the whole camera up and down).

Pedestal - Moving the camera position vertically with respect to the subject.

Arc - the camera moves in a rough semi-circle around the subject.

Over-the-shoulder shot - This shot is framed from behind a person who is looking at the subject. The person facing the subject should usually occupy about 1/3 of the frame.

This shot helps to establish the position of each person, and get the feel of looking at one person from the other's point of view.

It's common to cut between these shots during a conversation, alternating the view between the different speakers.

Reaction Shot - Reaction shot is a shot which cuts away from the main scene in order to show the reaction of a character to it.

Low Angle Shot - In cinematography, a low-angle shot, is a shot from a camera angle positioned low on the vertical axis, anywhere below the eye line, looking up. Sometimes, it is even directly below the subject's feet. Psychologically, the effect of the low-angle shot is that it makes the subject look strong and powerful.

High Angle Shot - A high-angle shot is a cinematic technique where the camera looks down on the subject from a high angle and the point of focus often gets "swallowed up." High-angle shots can make the subject seem vulnerable or chicken when applied with the correct mood, setting, and effects.

B-roll - Supplementary pictures and/or video used as a cut away feature in video production. 

Editing Terminology 

Capturing – transferring video or photo material from the source to an editing software or tool. *only occurs in analog systems*

Movie Maker – video editing software by Windows that is user friendly and intuitive. Video, photos, and music can be edited with captions, title slides, and credit to create a professional video.

Adobe Creative Suite (this is not for beginners) - Creative Cloud gives you our entire collection of creative tools for your desktop, like Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign and Adobe Premiere Pro.

Adobe Premiere- Adobe Premiere Pro is a timeline-based video editing software application. It is part of the Adobe Creative Cloud, which includes video editing, graphic design, and web development programs.

Tricaster - a product that merges live video switching, broadcast graphics, virtual sets, special effects, audio mixing, recording, social media publishing and web streaming into an integrated, portable and compact appliance.

Video Switcher - is a device used to select between several different video sources and in some cases compositing (mix) video sources together to create special effects

Keying - Keying is defining transparency by a particular color value or luminance value in an image. When you key out a value, all pixels that have colors or luminance values similar to that value become transparent.

Keying: Keying makes it easy to replace a background, which is especially useful when you work with objects too complex to mask easily. When you place a keyed layer over another layer, the result forms a composite, in which the background is visible wherever the keyed layer is transparent. You often see composites made with keying techniques in movies, for example, when an actor appears to dangle from a helicopter or float in outer space. To create this effect, the actor is filmed in an appropriate position against a solid-color background screen. The background color is then keyed out and the scene with the actor is composited over a new background.

The technique of keying out a background of a consistent color is often called bluescreening or greenscreening, although you don’t have to use a blue or green screen; you can use any solid color for a background. Red screens are often used for shooting non-human objects, such as miniature models of cars and space ships. Magenta screens have been used for keying work in some feature films renowned for their visual effects. Other common terms for this kind of keying are color keying and chroma keying.

Green Screen - The chroma keying technique is commonly used in video production and post-production. This technique is also referred to as color keying, colour-separation overlay (CSO; primarily by the BBC[2]), or by various terms for specific color-related variants such as green screen, and blue screen – chroma keying can be done with backgrounds of any color that are uniform and distinct, but green and blue backgrounds are more commonly used because they differ most distinctly in hue from most human skin colors.

Chroma Key - Chroma key compositing, or chroma keying, is a special effects / post-production technique for compositing (layering) two images or video streams together based on color hues (chroma range). The technique has been used heavily in many fields to remove a background from the subject of a photo or video – particularly the newscasting, motion picture and videogame industries. A color range in the foreground footage is made transparent, allowing separately filmed background footage or a static image to be inserted into the scene.  Green Screen Tips, Tricks and Materials - Chromakey Tutorial

Filming Terminology 

Audio Terminology 

Publishing Terminology 

Channels – a channel refers to an outlet for broadcast or published material. Some options include – Safari Montage, Youtube, Schooltube, Vimeo, TeacherTube, Student Television Network