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BACKGROUND

GLOSSARY

Autocue – a prompting system showing the script on a screen, used by newsreaders and presenters

Boom – an extendable pole holding a microphone, usually held above the action and out of camera shot

Crawler – a line of text moving across the screen from right to left

Continuity – the process of ensuring that all the different pieces of film match, so costumes, position, weather, lighting, camera angles, etc, are the same

Gaffer – chief electrician on the set

Gaffer tape – strong adhesive tape used for just about everything

Gallery – studio production control room

Green room – borrowed from the theatre, this is a place where guests wait before needed and where hospitality may be served

It's a wrap – filming's completed

Live – on-air and appearing on television

Off-line – when the film is roughly edited before going into the more expensive on-line edit suites

On-line – where the final master tape is produced

Props – furniture and other items making up the film set

Time code – a digital signal recorded on the tape to identify each frame of video by hour, minute, second and frame, to make identifying frames for editing more precise.