| A | B |
|---|
| A person who is playing a role/character | Actor |
| a step down from director, gets non-talent ready for shooting | Assistant Director (film) |
| a step down from director | Assistant Director (TV) |
| the portion of a program that one can hear | Audio |
| a person responsible for the audio/sound quality on the production | Audio Engineer |
| a person who runs the piece of equipment that captures the video images of the program | Camera Operator |
| the collective name given to all the talent participating in a production | Cast |
| a person who creates the titles for the program using a Character Generator | CG Operator |
| a person hired to work with the scriptwriter | Content Specialist |
| Production personnel that are normally not seen by the camera and generally includes equipment operators | Crew |
| a person who is in charge of the creative aspects of the program and interacts with the entire staff | Director |
| the person responsible for putting various pieces of the entire program together | Editor |
| the person, or people, who provide(s) the funding necessary to produce the program | Executive Producer |
| Media with a cinematic quality/style | Film |
| the director's "eyes and ears"; wears a headset and relays the director's commands to all studio personnel except the camera operators | Floor Manager/Director |
| placing items in the picture by operating the camera and tripod | Framing |
| the actual edge of the video picture | Frame |
| person who often does the actual hauling of heavy instruments up and down ladders | Gaffer |
| person responsible for all artwork required for production | Graphic Artist |
| person who moves the equipment, scenery, and props on a studio set | Grip |
| person who decides the placement of lighting instruments, the appropriate color of light to use, and which lamps should be used in the instruments | Lighting Director |
| person responsible for applying cosmetics to the talent's face and body, giving them the intended appearance in front of the camera | Make-up Artist |
| means of communication | Media |
| anything done after the program has been shot | Post Production |
| any activity on the program that occurs prior to the time that the cameras begin rolling | Pre-Production |
| purchases materials and services in the creation of a finished program | Producer |
| actual shooting of the program | Production |
| the general aesthetics of the show | Production Values |
| person who provides general assistance around the studio/production facility | Production Assistant |
| everyone who involved in the production, both the staff and talent | Production Team |
| something that stops the distant view of the camera | Scenery |
| person responsible for placing the entire production on paper | Scriptwriter |
| anything the audience sees in a video picture that did not really happen the way it appears on the screen | Special Effect |
| production personnel that work behind the scenes and generally includes management and designers | Staff |
| anyone seen by the camera, whether or not they have a speaking or any other significant role in the program, as well as individuals who provide only their vocal skills to the production | Talent |
| the portion of the program one can see | Video |
| person responsible for the technical quality of the video system | Video Engineer |
| person in charge of recording the program to videotape by correctly operating the VTR equipment | VTR Operator |
| number of fields per every frame | 2 |
| number of frames per second | 30 |
| NISC | National Television Standards Committee |
| European equivalent to NISC | PAL |
| fps in US video | 30 |
| fps in European video | 25 |
| fps in film | 24 |
| one of the millions of dots that make up the TV picture | Pixel |
| height/width ratio of television | Aspect Ratio |
| to bend the light and squeeze the shot together | Anamorphic |
| anything wider than standard | Widescreen |
| placing black bars on the top and bottom of the screen to make it normal | Letterbox Format |
| 480 horizontal Lines of Resolution; 480x720 | Standard Definition (SD) |
| any resolution larger than SD, 1080X1920 | High Definition (HD) |
| 1080 30i | 1080X1920, 30 frames per second, interlaced |
| a method of shooting HD which uses mPEG compression; not very good | HDV |
| method used for DVDs; uses long GOP compression | mPEG Compression |
| poor job with HDV, used with mPEG 4 and DVDs | Long GOP |
| maintains color | Chroma (chrominance) |
| maintains brightness | Luma (luminance) |
| order of colors in color bars | white yellow chyron green magenta red blue black (WYCGMRBB) |
| a device that provides a sync signal to all equipment | Sync Generator |
| resolution for digital cinematography | 2K, 4K, etc. |
| popular industry camera for digital cinematography | Red |
| untouched, original footage | Raw Footage |
| physical, actual film | Analog |
| binary code; composed of numbers; non-physical computer file | Digital |
| one entire pass of the electron beam, spraying every other line from the top to the bottom of the screen | Field |
| a feature that allows the equipment to ignore its internal sync generator when an external sync signal is applied | Genlock |
| concept of alternatively firing odd and even lines | Interlace |
