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Communications Media 10 Glossary


 * Action safe **: Area that can be considered the “margin” of the television screen in that picture elements are generally kept out of this area to create a buffer around the edge of the screen so elements do not butt up against the edge of the screen.


 * AIFF **: An audio file format standard used for storing sound data for personal computers and other electronic audio devices.


 * Ambient light **: Any source of light that is not explicitly supplied by the photographer for the purpose of taking photos.


 * Available light **: The natural and/or artificial light that already exists at a location.


 * Blog **: Short for web log; it is a type of website or part of a website usually maintained by an individual with regular entries of commentary, descriptions of events, or other material such as graphics or video. Entries are commonly displayed in reverse-chronological order. “Blog” can also be used as a verb, meaning to maintain or add content to a blog.


 * CCD (Charge-Coupled Device): ** One type of camera imaging chip that converts optical images into electronic signals.


 * Continuity **: The organization of video material into a coherent presentation.


 * Copyrights **<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">: The exclusive rights in literary, artistic, dramatic, or musical works (including computer programs) and three other subject matters known as: performances, sound recordings, and communication signals.


 * <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Creative Commons **<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">: A non-profit organization devoted to expanding the range of creative works available for others to build upon legally and to share.


 * <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Cut: **<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"> The instantaneous change from one shot (image) to another.


 * <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Depth of field **<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">: The distance range, near-to-far, within which subjects appear sharp in the image.


 * <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Digital **<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">: A recording that repeatedly samples the original continuous signal and records the numerical values of the samples, instead of the signal itself.


 * <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Digitize **<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">: To record images and sounds as numerical data, either directly in a camera or in the process of importing them to a computer.


 * <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Dissolve **<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">: A fade-in that coincides with a fade-out, so that the incoming shot gradually replaces the outgoing shot. Typically used as a transition between sequences that are fairly closely related.


 * <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Documentary **<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">: A type of nonfiction program purporting to communicate information about a real-world topic.


 * <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Embedded media **<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">: A term used to describe animation, video, audio, or other types of media that are displayed within a web page.


 * <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Industrial design **<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">: The visual features of shape, configuration, pattern, or ornament - or any combination of these features - applied to a finished article made by hand tool or machine


 * <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Intellectual property: **<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"> A form of creative endeavour that can be protected through a patent, trademark, copyright, industrial design, or integrated circuit topography.


 * <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Interactive media **<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">: A computer-driven program which gives the participant some control over what to see and how to see it as well as some opportunity to respond or have input.


 * <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Manipulated lighting **<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">: Lighting used deliberately by a photographer or videographer to produce a desired effect.


 * <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Motivated lighting **<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">: Lighting that imitates real world lighting sources at the location.


 * <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">MP3 **<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">: An audio file format standard used for storing sound data for personal computers and other electronic audio devices.


 * <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Multiple platform **<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">: The use of two or more media types to convey an overall message.


 * <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Open source **<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">: The practices in production and development that promote access to the end product’s source materials.


 * <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Patent **<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">: A right, granted by government, to exclude others from making, using, or selling your invention in Canada.


 * <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Perspective **<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">: The simulation of depth in a two-dimensional image.


 * <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Podcast **<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">: An audio program in a compressed digital format, delivered via an RSS feed over the Internet to a subscriber and designed for playback on computers or portable digital audio players.


 * <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Presence **<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">: A quality of poise and effectiveness that enables a performer to achieve a close relationship with his audience.


 * <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Public domain **<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">: Works are in the public domain if they are not covered by intellectual property rights at all, if the intellectual property rights have expired, and/or if the intellectual property rights are forfeited or unclaimed.


 * <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Rule of thirds **<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">: An aid to composition in the form of an imaginary tic-tac-toe grid superimposed on the image. Important picture components are aligned with the lines and intersections of the grid.


 * <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Social networking **<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">: A social process consisting of individuals who are connected by one or more specific types of interdependency, such as friendship, kinship, or common interest; generally web-based and provide means for users to interact over the Internet, such as e-mail and instant messaging.


 * <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Storyboard **<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">: Program documentation in graphic panels, like a comic book, with or without dialogue, narration, stage directions, and effects.


 * <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Three-point lighting **<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">: The triangular arrangement of key, back, and fill lights. Also called the photographic principle.


 * <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Title safe **<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">: The area on a video frame where titles can be added [during editing] and within which overscanning will not result in the titles being cut off or distorted by the edge of the screen.


 * <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Transmedia **<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">: Storytelling across multiple forms of media with each element making distinctive contributions to the audience’s understanding of the entire story.


 * <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Two-point lighting **<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">: Arrangement of lights including a key light and a less intense fill light.


 * <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">WAV **<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">: short for Waveform Audio File Format is a Microsoft and IBM audio file format standard for storing an audio


 * <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">White balance **<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">: The camera setting selected to compensate for the colour temperature of the light source that is illuminating the subject.


 * <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Wiki: **<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"> A website that allows the easy creation and editing of any number of interlinked web pages via a web browser using a simplified markup language.