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1. Montage

A TV news story during which a news anchor or reporter reads a script live as video is played up to a place when a news maker video/audio sound bite is played. At the end of the SOT, the reporter or anchor resumes reading with or without additional video.Refers either to the estimated time or the actual time of a newscast. Producers/editors should always estimate the running time of the newscast based on the actual time of each recorded report and her or his best guess as to the time of each intro and each story to be read by the anchor.Graphic(s) - a label to identify a subject; a full-screen; lower third; a picture or graph; relevant images; etc.A production devise that allows a gradual change in a relationship or a lengthy time passage to occur in a very short amount of screen time by showing a series of silent shots accompanied by music

2. Running Time

Refers either to the estimated time or the actual time of a newscast. Producers/editors should always estimate the running time of the newscast based on the actual time of each recorded report and her or his best guess as to the time of each intro and each story to be read by the anchor.A TV news story during which a news anchor or reporter reads a script live as video is played up to a place when a news maker video/audio sound bite is played. At the end of the SOT, the reporter or anchor resumes reading with or without additional video.A production devise that allows a gradual change in a relationship or a lengthy time passage to occur in a very short amount of screen time by showing a series of silent shots accompanied by musicGraphic(s) - a label to identify a subject; a full-screen; lower third; a picture or graph; relevant images; etc.

3. GFX

A production devise that allows a gradual change in a relationship or a lengthy time passage to occur in a very short amount of screen time by showing a series of silent shots accompanied by musicRefers either to the estimated time or the actual time of a newscast. Producers/editors should always estimate the running time of the newscast based on the actual time of each recorded report and her or his best guess as to the time of each intro and each story to be read by the anchor.A TV news story during which a news anchor or reporter reads a script live as video is played up to a place when a news maker video/audio sound bite is played. At the end of the SOT, the reporter or anchor resumes reading with or without additional video.Graphic(s) - a label to identify a subject; a full-screen; lower third; a picture or graph; relevant images; etc.

4. Voiceover-to-sound(VO/SOT)

A production devise that allows a gradual change in a relationship or a lengthy time passage to occur in a very short amount of screen time by showing a series of silent shots accompanied by musicGraphic(s) - a label to identify a subject; a full-screen; lower third; a picture or graph; relevant images; etc.A TV news story during which a news anchor or reporter reads a script live as video is played up to a place when a news maker video/audio sound bite is played. At the end of the SOT, the reporter or anchor resumes reading with or without additional video.Refers either to the estimated time or the actual time of a newscast. Producers/editors should always estimate the running time of the newscast based on the actual time of each recorded report and her or his best guess as to the time of each intro and each story to be read by the anchor.

5. Reader

Graphic(s) - a label to identify a subject; a full-screen; lower third; a picture or graph; relevant images; etc.A production devise that allows a gradual change in a relationship or a lengthy time passage to occur in a very short amount of screen time by showing a series of silent shots accompanied by musicRefers either to the estimated time or the actual time of a newscast. Producers/editors should always estimate the running time of the newscast based on the actual time of each recorded report and her or his best guess as to the time of each intro and each story to be read by the anchor.A story read by anchor without any audio/video.

6. Attribution

Crediting the source of information used in a story.A production devise that allows a gradual change in a relationship or a lengthy time passage to occur in a very short amount of screen time by showing a series of silent shots accompanied by musicGraphic(s) - a label to identify a subject; a full-screen; lower third; a picture or graph; relevant images; etc.Refers either to the estimated time or the actual time of a newscast. Producers/editors should always estimate the running time of the newscast based on the actual time of each recorded report and her or his best guess as to the time of each intro and each story to be read by the anchor.

7. Script

Refers either to the estimated time or the actual time of a newscast. Producers/editors should always estimate the running time of the newscast based on the actual time of each recorded report and her or his best guess as to the time of each intro and each story to be read by the anchor.Graphic(s) - a label to identify a subject; a full-screen; lower third; a picture or graph; relevant images; etc.An entire program committed to paper, including dialog, music, camera angles, stage direction, camera direction, and computer graphics (CG) notationsA production devise that allows a gradual change in a relationship or a lengthy time passage to occur in a very short amount of screen time by showing a series of silent shots accompanied by music

8. Two-Column Script

Refers either to the estimated time or the actual time of a newscast. Producers/editors should always estimate the running time of the newscast based on the actual time of each recorded report and her or his best guess as to the time of each intro and each story to be read by the anchor.Displays different elements of the story on two sides of a page or screen to define what is both to be seen and heard. Uses abbreviations as shorthand to label shot elements.Graphic(s) - a label to identify a subject; a full-screen; lower third; a picture or graph; relevant images; etc.A production devise that allows a gradual change in a relationship or a lengthy time passage to occur in a very short amount of screen time by showing a series of silent shots accompanied by music

9. Cue

Refers either to the estimated time or the actual time of a newscast. Producers/editors should always estimate the running time of the newscast based on the actual time of each recorded report and her or his best guess as to the time of each intro and each story to be read by the anchor.Graphic(s) - a label to identify a subject; a full-screen; lower third; a picture or graph; relevant images; etc.usually a physical signal by engineer or other technical person indicting to anchor to perform a task (start reading, wrap up, go to break).A production devise that allows a gradual change in a relationship or a lengthy time passage to occur in a very short amount of screen time by showing a series of silent shots accompanied by music

10. Patter

The spontaneous on-air conversation or small talk between anchors or anchors and reporters.Graphic(s) - a label to identify a subject; a full-screen; lower third; a picture or graph; relevant images; etc.Refers either to the estimated time or the actual time of a newscast. Producers/editors should always estimate the running time of the newscast based on the actual time of each recorded report and her or his best guess as to the time of each intro and each story to be read by the anchor.A production devise that allows a gradual change in a relationship or a lengthy time passage to occur in a very short amount of screen time by showing a series of silent shots accompanied by music

11. Call Letters

Graphic(s) - a label to identify a subject; a full-screen; lower third; a picture or graph; relevant images; etc.A station's legal ID (for example, WBIZ-EAU CLAIRE) is a legal ID, Z-104 is not a legal ID).Refers either to the estimated time or the actual time of a newscast. Producers/editors should always estimate the running time of the newscast based on the actual time of each recorded report and her or his best guess as to the time of each intro and each story to be read by the anchor.A production devise that allows a gradual change in a relationship or a lengthy time passage to occur in a very short amount of screen time by showing a series of silent shots accompanied by music

12. Spots (aka Commercials)

A production devise that allows a gradual change in a relationship or a lengthy time passage to occur in a very short amount of screen time by showing a series of silent shots accompanied by musicindividual commercials that run during breaks.Graphic(s) - a label to identify a subject; a full-screen; lower third; a picture or graph; relevant images; etc.Refers either to the estimated time or the actual time of a newscast. Producers/editors should always estimate the running time of the newscast based on the actual time of each recorded report and her or his best guess as to the time of each intro and each story to be read by the anchor.

13. P-S-A aka Public Service Announcement

Refers either to the estimated time or the actual time of a newscast. Producers/editors should always estimate the running time of the newscast based on the actual time of each recorded report and her or his best guess as to the time of each intro and each story to be read by the anchor.An advertisement for a not- for-profit organization such as the American Heart Association, Partnership for a Drug-Free America, etc..).A production devise that allows a gradual change in a relationship or a lengthy time passage to occur in a very short amount of screen time by showing a series of silent shots accompanied by musicGraphic(s) - a label to identify a subject; a full-screen; lower third; a picture or graph; relevant images; etc.

14. Headlines

A kind of 'tease' read at the beginning of a newscast.A production devise that allows a gradual change in a relationship or a lengthy time passage to occur in a very short amount of screen time by showing a series of silent shots accompanied by musicRefers either to the estimated time or the actual time of a newscast. Producers/editors should always estimate the running time of the newscast based on the actual time of each recorded report and her or his best guess as to the time of each intro and each story to be read by the anchor.Graphic(s) - a label to identify a subject; a full-screen; lower third; a picture or graph; relevant images; etc.

15. Edit (physical)

to cut tape with a razor. -- electronic - putting segments of a story together in a sequential mannerRefers either to the estimated time or the actual time of a newscast. Producers/editors should always estimate the running time of the newscast based on the actual time of each recorded report and her or his best guess as to the time of each intro and each story to be read by the anchor.Graphic(s) - a label to identify a subject; a full-screen; lower third; a picture or graph; relevant images; etc.A production devise that allows a gradual change in a relationship or a lengthy time passage to occur in a very short amount of screen time by showing a series of silent shots accompanied by music

16. Edit (content)

Refers either to the estimated time or the actual time of a newscast. Producers/editors should always estimate the running time of the newscast based on the actual time of each recorded report and her or his best guess as to the time of each intro and each story to be read by the anchor.A production devise that allows a gradual change in a relationship or a lengthy time passage to occur in a very short amount of screen time by showing a series of silent shots accompanied by musicGraphic(s) - a label to identify a subject; a full-screen; lower third; a picture or graph; relevant images; etc.to demand a re-focus or rewrite of a story.

17. Affiliate

A production devise that allows a gradual change in a relationship or a lengthy time passage to occur in a very short amount of screen time by showing a series of silent shots accompanied by musicRefers either to the estimated time or the actual time of a newscast. Producers/editors should always estimate the running time of the newscast based on the actual time of each recorded report and her or his best guess as to the time of each intro and each story to be read by the anchor.A local station that subscribes to the services and programs of a network.Graphic(s) - a label to identify a subject; a full-screen; lower third; a picture or graph; relevant images; etc.

18. Personality Feature

Graphic(s) - a label to identify a subject; a full-screen; lower third; a picture or graph; relevant images; etc.Type of human interest story that focuses on one person and why that person is newsworthy.A production devise that allows a gradual change in a relationship or a lengthy time passage to occur in a very short amount of screen time by showing a series of silent shots accompanied by musicRefers either to the estimated time or the actual time of a newscast. Producers/editors should always estimate the running time of the newscast based on the actual time of each recorded report and her or his best guess as to the time of each intro and each story to be read by the anchor.

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20. Nod Shots

A cutaway shot often used in interview programs and usually recorded after the interviewee has left the set. In a not shot, the interviewer doe snot say anything, but simply 'nods' naturally as if listening to the answer to a questionRefers either to the estimated time or the actual time of a newscast. Producers/editors should always estimate the running time of the newscast based on the actual time of each recorded report and her or his best guess as to the time of each intro and each story to be read by the anchor.A production devise that allows a gradual change in a relationship or a lengthy time passage to occur in a very short amount of screen time by showing a series of silent shots accompanied by musicGraphic(s) - a label to identify a subject; a full-screen; lower third; a picture or graph; relevant images; etc.

21. Lead story

Graphic(s) - a label to identify a subject; a full-screen; lower third; a picture or graph; relevant images; etc.first story in a newscast or segment (in broadcasting) or a story that is above the fold in print-this considered the most important news story of the day.A production devise that allows a gradual change in a relationship or a lengthy time passage to occur in a very short amount of screen time by showing a series of silent shots accompanied by musicRefers either to the estimated time or the actual time of a newscast. Producers/editors should always estimate the running time of the newscast based on the actual time of each recorded report and her or his best guess as to the time of each intro and each story to be read by the anchor.

22. Live shot/Live Report

A TV news story during which a news anchor or reporter is live at a remote location. Within this report can be included a SOT, VO/SOT or PKG.Graphic(s) - a label to identify a subject; a full-screen; lower third; a picture or graph; relevant images; etc.A production devise that allows a gradual change in a relationship or a lengthy time passage to occur in a very short amount of screen time by showing a series of silent shots accompanied by musicRefers either to the estimated time or the actual time of a newscast. Producers/editors should always estimate the running time of the newscast based on the actual time of each recorded report and her or his best guess as to the time of each intro and each story to be read by the anchor.

23. MS

A production devise that allows a gradual change in a relationship or a lengthy time passage to occur in a very short amount of screen time by showing a series of silent shots accompanied by musicMedium Shot - Camera is physically moved or zoomed about the mid-section of the subjectRefers either to the estimated time or the actual time of a newscast. Producers/editors should always estimate the running time of the newscast based on the actual time of each recorded report and her or his best guess as to the time of each intro and each story to be read by the anchor.Graphic(s) - a label to identify a subject; a full-screen; lower third; a picture or graph; relevant images; etc.

24. CU

A production devise that allows a gradual change in a relationship or a lengthy time passage to occur in a very short amount of screen time by showing a series of silent shots accompanied by musicGraphic(s) - a label to identify a subject; a full-screen; lower third; a picture or graph; relevant images; etc.Close-up - Camera is physically moved or zoomed into a close shot of the subjectRefers either to the estimated time or the actual time of a newscast. Producers/editors should always estimate the running time of the newscast based on the actual time of each recorded report and her or his best guess as to the time of each intro and each story to be read by the anchor.

25. Package

Graphic(s) - a label to identify a subject; a full-screen; lower third; a picture or graph; relevant images; etc.A production devise that allows a gradual change in a relationship or a lengthy time passage to occur in a very short amount of screen time by showing a series of silent shots accompanied by musicA story that is about 1 1/2-2 minutes in length, contains its own intro and outdo, is edited, and can be inserted into a live program at any time the producer chooses.Refers either to the estimated time or the actual time of a newscast. Producers/editors should always estimate the running time of the newscast based on the actual time of each recorded report and her or his best guess as to the time of each intro and each story to be read by the anchor.

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