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| Broadcast | The distribution of TV programs through electrical signals sent through the air |
| Camcorder | An appliance that both captures moving images (camera) and stores them on tape (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 |
| Gray scale | 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 tranditional video |
| Image | A single video picture, like a single word in speech |
| Live | Recorded and (usually) transmitted for display continuously and in real time |
| Postproduction | Editing the audio and video raw materials of a production to create a finished program |
| Preproduction | Preparing the program content and organizing the shoot, before production really 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 |
| Shoot | To record film or video; also, an information term for the production phase of a film or video project |
| Sequence | A group of related scenes, like a chapter in a verbal composition |
| Shot | A set of continuous images, comparable to a verbal sentence |
| Television | Studio-based, multicamera video that is often produced and transmitted "live" |
| Video | An audiovisual medium that records on magnetic tape or disk by electronic means; also, single-camera taped program creation in the manner of film production, rather than studio television |
| Video world | An imaginary world behind the video screen that looks like the real one but operates by quite different rules |
| Visual literacy | The ability to evaluate the content of visual media through an understanding of the way in which it is recorded and presented. |
