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Superglossary - TV Category: Technical and IT > TV Date & country: 09/12/2013, USA Words: 643

Serial
A narrative form of television that presents daily/weekly episodes, with a multiple set of recurring

Series
A narrative form that presents weekly episodes, usually self-contained, with a defined set of recurr

Set Designer (Scenic Designer)
Person who builds or selects elements in constructing the setting of a television program.

Set-Top Box (STB)
These receivers (named because they typically sit on top of a television set) convert and display br

Sexual Politics
In feminist studies, the power relationship between men and women.

Shallow Focus
A small depth of field, with just one plane (foreground, middle-ground, or background) in focus.

Shallow Space Blocking
A type of blocking associated with multiple-camera, studio set productions, where, due to the shallo

Share
In the context of TV ratings, the percentage of homes with turned-on television sets that are tuned

Share
The percent of households (or persons) using television who are tuned to a specific program, network

Shooting Script
Generally speaking, a written description of a program, wherein each scene is described shot-by-shot

Sign
In semiotics, the smallest unit of meaning--composed of a signifier and its signified.

Signified
The meaning communicated by the signifier

Signifier
The physical aspect of a sign, such as ink on a page, chalk on a chalkboard, a blinking light, light

Signs Of Character
The various signifiers--viewer foreknowledge, character name, appearance, objective correlatives, di

Signs Of Performance
The actor's facial, gestural, corporeal and vocal signifiers that contribute to the development of c

Simulcast
The broadcast of programming over two separate channels or forms of media at the same time. For exam

Simulcasts
Programs, particularly in the late 1940s and early 1950s, which are simultaneously broadcast on both

Single-Camera Production
A mode of production wherein one camera operates at a time and the shots are done in the most econom

Social Actor
Real people as used in nonfiction television programs

Soft Focus
An entire image that is slightly out-of-focus.

Soft Light
A diffused light source, resulting in indistinct, blurred outlines and minimal shadows.

Soft News
News stories that examine the personal, such as gossip, scandal, murder, mayhem, and 'human interest

Solar Outage
Solar outages occur when a satellite dish is looking at a satellite, and the sun passes behind the s

Sound Bite
In a news package, a short piece of audio that was recorded on location.

Sound Editor
Technician who, in post-production, manipulates a program's soundtrack.

Sound Stage
A large room designed for the filming or videotaping of programs. Sets are arranged on the stage in

Soundies
Produced in the 1940s, short films of performances by popular musicians presented on coin-operated m

Spectrum
A range of frequencies available for over-the-air transmission.

Spill-In
The penetration of a television signal transmitted from outside the market area.

Spill-Out
The transmission of a television signal beyond its own market area.

Splitter
A splitter is a passive device or diplexer (one with no active electronic components) which distribu

Sponsorship
The purchase of all or part of a television program by one advertiser.

Spot Beam
A spot beam is a satellite transmission that is focused on a specific area within the footprint, or

Spot TV
The advertising time purchased from individual stations. There are two major types local and nationa

Stand-Up
The feature of a television news package, in which the reporter stands before a site significant to

Standard Error
The estimated standard deviation of a statistic (margin of error). Standard error of a sample mean e

Star Image
A representation of an actor that is fabricated through the media texts of promotion, publicity, tel

Steadicam
Registered trademark for a gyroscopically balanced camera mount that attaches to a camera operator's

Stereotype
A conventionalized character type that is demeaning to a particular social group.

Story Time
The amount of time that transpires within a program's narrative. See screen time.

Storyboard
A written description of a program consisting of small drawings of individual shots. When used in an

Strip
Refers to a television program aired five days a week, mainly Monday - Friday.

Stripped Syndication
A programming strategy in which syndicated shows are scheduled Monday through Friday in the same tim

Structured Polysemy
The organization and emphasis/repression of meanings within television's polysemy.

Studio Set
Three-walled, ceilingless set erected on a sound stage

Subject
In the contemporary psychoanalysis, the human psyche--formed chiefly through the Oedipal Complex. In

Subjective Shot
A shot wherein the camera is positioned as if it were inside a character's head, looking out of his

Subtitling
The process in which the original dialogue of a film or television program is both heard and printed

Subtractive Color
The process wherein, as white light passes through a piece of film, yellow, magenta and cyan colors

Super VGA
A common name for new PC graphics cards which are compatible with original VGA card but provide bett

Superstation
A station that provides satellite transmission of its signal to cable systems throughout the country

Superstructure
In Marxist terms, a society's ideological constructs, which grow out of its economic base.

Sw-21 Sw-44 Sw-64
These are all multi-sat switches used by DISH Network systems. The first number refers to the numbe

Sweeps
Time period during which Nielsen Media Research conducts seasonal ratings of network television prog

Sweetening
A post-production sound effects process wherein the sound technicians add more applause and laughter

Switcher
A technical device that allows a director to change between various video cameras while recording a

Symbolic Sign (Symbol)
In semiotics, a type of sign in which the signifier and the signified are connected solely through c

Sync (Or Synch)
The synchronization of sound and image. See lip sync.

Syndicated Program
A program that is produced for national distribution, but which is shown on individual local station

Syndication
The distribution or leasing of television programs to stations and networks by their production comp

Syntagm
In semiotics, a first level ordering of signs--e.g., in narrative television, an individual scene. T

Syntagmatic Structure
In semiotics, the manner in which signs are linearly and/or temporally organized. E.g., the batting

Take
A single shot, lasting from the starting to the stopping of the camera.

Target Audience
The audience most desired by advertisers in terms of potential product/service usage and revenue pot

Teasers
On television news, brief announcements of upcoming stories used to maintain viewer attention.

Technicolor
A type of color film process, used mostly from the late 1930s to the 1950s.

Telephoto Lens
A long focal length which creates a narrow, but magnified view of an object or person.

Telescriptions
Produced by Louis Snader in the 1950s, short films of musical performances that were marketed to tel

Television Apparatus
The combined work of all of the various factions (bankers, media corporations, directors, scriptwrit

Television Criticism
Non-empirical, analytical methods (e.g., auteurism, genre study, semiotics and feminism) employed to

Television Households
An estimate of the number of households that have one or more television sets.

Televisual
Characteristic of television.

Terrestrial Broadcasting
A broadcast signal transmitted 'over-the-air' from a ground-based transmitter to an antenna.

Text
A segment of the televisual flow, such as an individual program, a commercial, a newscast, even an e

Theatrical Film
Films originally designed to be shown in theaters, as opposed to made-for-TV films (mows).

Three Shot
As with the two shot, the conventional framing of three characters in a medium shot.

Three-Point Lighting
An aesthetic convention in which an actor or object is lit from three sources or points of light of

Threshold
The measure of sensitivity of a satellite TV system receiver measured in decibels (db).

Ticker
Information moving across the bottom of the screen--such as sports scores and weather updates.

Tilting
The action of rotating the camera up and down, on a horizontal axis in a stationary body. Tilt also

Timbre (Tone)
A characteristic of television sound referring to the tonal quality of a note and/or voice.

Time Base Corrector (TBC)
A TBC synchronizes video signals, allowing the signals to be locked into switcher timing.

Total Audience
Percent of households tuning to all or to any portion of a program for at least 6 minutes.

Total Survey Area (TSA)
A geographic area term

Track
An area along the length of recording tape (like the lanes on a highway) in a multi-track tape recor

Tracking
Any sideways or forward/backward movement of the camera dolly--sometimes on actual tracks.

Transponder
It is a satellite component that receives, modulates, amplifies, and re-broadcast a signal back to E

Treatment
A written description of a program, containing only a basic outline of the action

Triple Lnb
An 18' x 20' dish with three lnbs and four outputs. This dish looks at satellites in three different

Trucking (Crabbing)
In television studio production, any sideways movement of the camera.

Tuner
A unit similar to today's cable boxes, which is capable of receiving and decoding DTV broadcasts. A

Tv Usage
Households Using Television (HUT) and Persons Using Television (PUT)

Tweening
A process in animation by which frames are created that constitute a character's movement. These fra

Twin 500 LNB
A twin 500 LNB is a combination of an LNBF and a multi-sat switch component for DISH 500 systems, ac

Two Shot
The framing of two characters in a medium shot.

Typecasting
When the star image perfectly fits the character he or she portrays.

UHF Remote
Ultra High Frequency remote control that can operate the receiver from another room. An IR (Infra Re

Ultra High Frequency (UHF)
An area of the broadcast spectrum that carries television signals for stations with channels 14 thro

Underscan
The picture content does not fill the whole picture tube area which means that there are borders aro

Unidirectional Microphone
A microphone that picks up sound from a specific direction.