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MASS MEDIA VOCABULARY

3D: Three dimensional. When images are created giving the illusion of depth.

Aerial filming: Filming from the sky using drones or helicopters.

Animatic: A short, basic animation, used as a test.

Animation: A video made of designs or drawings rather than real life footage.

After Effects: Software used for animation or visual effects.

Camera Operator: The member of crew responsible for using the camera and
capturing the footage.

Depth of Field: The visual effect that separates the foreground from the background
in a video image.

Editor: The person who edits the film. Works with the director to choose the best
shots, form the overall narrative and assemble your film.

Executive Producer: The senior person in charge of the entire project.

Frame rate: Refers to the number of the frames in one second.

Graphic: Graphics in a video refers to a static graphic element. Moving graphics are
referred to as animations or motion graphics.

Lens: The lens is the part that delivers the light to the sensor.

Location: The place where the filming takes place. Could be interior or exterior.

Post-production: Once a video has been filmed, post-production is when it is edited,

graded, sound mixed, and finished to become the final film.

Pre-production: Before filming, pre-production is the process of developing the

concept, writing a treatment and/or script, storyboarding and generally planning the
production of the video.

Production: The process where the actual video is filmed with a camera crew, or the
animation is created by the artists, illustrators and motion graphics designers.

Sensor: The sensor is the part of the camera which actually captures the light
coming through the lens.

Storyboard: A series of still images to help you imagine what the film will look like.
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Subtitles: On-screen text of what a person in a video is saying, usually for hearing-
impaired audiences or translations.

Timeline: A visual representation of the film in editing software. Video clips, titles,
logos, music all appear as coloured blocks which are rearranged on the timeline. See
‘Sequence’

MUSIC VOCABULARY
Ambient music: a style of gentle, largely electronic instrumental music with no
persistent beat, used to create or enhance a mood or atmosphere.

Back cuening: the ability to wind the record backwards.

Back spin: the act of manually manipulating a vinyl record (currently playing on a
turntable), using enough force to cause the record to spin backward.

Beat: the basic unit of time.

Chillout: suitable for relaxation after energetic dancing in a disco/festival (it can algo be
the verb “relax”).

Club mix: A version of a dance song with an extended intro/conclusion to allow for
live mixing by a DJ.

Douet: A musical arrangement forplaying two records at the same time.