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camcorder |
an appliance that both captures moving images and stores them on a tap |
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digitize |
to record images and sounds as numerical data, either directly in a cmcorder or in the process of importing them to a compuer |
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film |
an audiovisual medium that records iamges on transparent plastic strips by means of photosensitive chemicals |
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live |
recorded and (usually) transmitted for display continuously and in real time |
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shoot |
to record film or video; also, " a shoot" is an informal term for hte prodcution phase of a film or video project |
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television |
studio-based, multicamera video that is often produced and transmitted live |
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video |
an audiovisual medium that records on magnetic tape or disk by electrong means; also single camerca taped program creation in the manner of film production rather than studio television |
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visual literacy |
the ability to evaluate the content of visual media through an understanding of the way in which it is recorded and presented |
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head room |
the distance between the top of a subjects head and the upper edge of the frame |
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lead room |
the distance between the top of a subject and the edge of the frame toward which it is moving |
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look room |
the distance between the top of a subject and the edge of the frame toward which it is moving |
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pan |
to pivot the camera horizontally on its support |
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roll to raw stock |
to advance a video tape through previously recorded sections to blank tape, in preparation for additional recording |
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rule of thirds |
an aid to the composition in the form on an imaginary tic-tac-toe grid superimpoed on the images. Important picture components are aligned with the lines and intersections of the grid |
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white balance |
a camera system that neutralizes the color tins of different light sources, such as sunshine and halogen lamps |
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zoom |
to magnify or reduce the size of a subject by changing the focal length of the lens while recording |
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