50 Terminologies related to Writing Non-Dramatic Materials

1. Adaptation
2. Animation
3. Archive
4. Blind audition
5. Casting
6. Chronicle
7. Closed captioning
8. Commentary
9. Countdown
10. Coverage
11. Cue
12. Cutline
13. Dateline
14. Dead air
15. Dingbat
16. Dubbing
17. Emcee
18. Expository
19. Feature news
20. Hard news
21. Infringement
22. Intelligence
23. Inverted pyramid
24. Jingle
25. Mockumentary
26. Moderator
27. Narration
28. Nat/VO (video only with natural sound)
29. OOV (out of vision)
30. OTT (Over-the-top-content)
31. Panel of experts
32. Pep talk
33. Pilot
34. Public affairs
35. Public Service Announcement
36. Rating
37. Reenactment
38. Remark
39. Rundown or run of show
40. Scout
41. Screenplay
42. Self-deprecation
 43. Sitcom
44. Slapstick
45. Socio-cultural stories
46. Sound on tape
47. Soundtrack
48. Sting operation
49. Thought provoking
50. Transcript
51. Voiceover

50 terminologies for visual direction and techniques

1. Accelerated montage
2. Accent light
3. Actual movement
4. Aerial perspective
5. Anticlimax
6. Apparent movement
7. Aspect ratio
8. Autofocus
9. Blocking
10. Bridging shot
11. Cameo lighting
12. Centrality
13. Chroma keying
14. Color grading
15. Color key
16. Cross-cut
17. Diegetic sound
18. Direct address
19. Dolly
20. Double-system recording
21. Dropping the light
22. Eyeline match
23. Frame rate conversion
24. Frames per second
25. Graphics
26. Induced movement
27. Intercutting
28. Juxtaposition
29. Letter box
30. Montage
31. Motion picture
 32. Non-diegetic sound
33. Off-screen
34. Pan
35. Pointed lighting
36. Pull-back shot
37. Relative movement
38. Salience
39. Scenography/ scenographic set-up
40. Sequential image
41. Silhouette
42. Soft focus
43. Stop motion
44. Telephoto lens
45. Tilt
46. Translucent image
47. Vector
48. Visual dynamics
49. Visual perception
50. Watermark

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What Is Slapstick Comedy? History, Examples, and Advice