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| camcorder | an appliance that both captures moving images (camera) and stores them on tape or other media (recorder). |
| digitize | To record images and sounds as numerical data, either directly in a camcorder or in the process of importing them to a computer. |
| film | an audiovisual medium that records images on transparent plastic strips by means of photosensitive chemicals |
| live | recorded and usually transmitted for display continuously and in real time |
| shoot | to record film or video; also, "a shoot" is an informal term for the production phase of a film or video project |
| television | studio-based, multi-camera video that is often produced and transmitted "live" |
| video | an audovisual medium that records on magnetic tape or other media by electronic means; also, single-camera taped program creation in the manner of film production rather than studio television |
| visual literacy | the ability to evaluate the content of visual media through an understanding of the way in which it is recorded and presented |
| broadcast | The distribution of TV programs through electrial signals sent throught the air. |
| grayscale | The range of brightness values in an image, from black to white. |
| high definition video | Video whose images show much finer detail than those of traditional video. |
| image | A single video picture, like a single work in speech. |
| postproduction | Editing the audio and video raw materials of a production phase of a film or video project |
| preproduction | Preparing the program content and organizing the shoot, before production actually starts. |
| production | The process of actually videotaping the material for a program. |
| resolution | The amount of fine detail carried by an image. |
| scene | A group of closely related shots, like a verbal paragraph. |
| shot | A set of continuous images, comparable to a verbal sentence. |
| video world | An imaginary world behind the video screen that looks like the real one but opoerates by quite different rules. |
| sequence | A group of related scenes, like a chapter in a verbal compostiton. |
