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| Anchor | The person who is the host for a news show. The anchor reads the news and introduces reporter stories, usually in a studio. |
| B-Roll | The video used for covering a reporter's narration in a news story. |
| Camcorder | A small video camera. |
| Cutaway | Cutaways Shots that allow you to cut easily from one part of an event to another. For example, a cutaway allows you to cut from one remark by the President to another statement. |
| NAT Sound | (natural sound) The sound, other than a reporter or interview subject's voice, recorded while video is being shot. |
| Package | A complete edited story from a reporter. It is usually 2 minutes or less in length. Some features are longer-up to 4 minutes. CNN recommends that your stories come in at about 2.5 minutes. It would likely require a "lead" that is read by an anchor to introduce the package. |
| Reporter | The person who is chiefly responsible for gathering information for a story and then writing the script. The reporter's voice is used to narrate the report and often the reporter will appear on camera. |
| Stand-Up(SU) | The part of a reporter's package in which the reporter appears on camera while delivering part of the script. |
| Voice-over(VO) | When an anchor or reporter reads a script while video relating to the news story is seen on the screen. |
| Zoom | When a photographer goes from a wide shot of a scene or subject to a closer shot of the same scene or subject in one continuous shot. |
| Cut | Defines the point in a sequence where one clip ends and another begins |
| Crowd Shot | Ranges anywhere from a small group of people to thousands in a stadium. |
| Dissolve | The editing effect used to make one segment of video seem to melt into the next so that only the second piece is finally seen. |
| Duration | The length of a sequence or clip from In point to Out point. |
| Lead-in | The words the news anchor reads to introduce the story. |
| On-camera | When a person is seen on camera without video covering him or her. |
| SIG-out | The last audio of the package where the reporter states his/her name, bureau, and location. |
| Quicktime | A multimedia platform developed by Apple Computer that plays media on Macintosh and Windows platforms. |
