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News service

Of or pertaining to any organisation, agency or person engaged in the business of selling news to the public.

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titles

News service; Journalism

Text which appears on screen at the beginning - and sometimes the end - of a television program or movie, usually with music in the background. Credits are titles which list the ...

chroma key

News service; Journalism

A process by which a person is filmed in front of a blank screen, onto which is then added still or moving pictures, often to make it appear they are at the scene. Also called ...

cut

News service; Journalism

(1) To remove text from an article or whole stories or to reduce the length of a program item. (2) Another word for a grab or separate segments of audio in a sequence, e.g. Cut 1, ...

off mic

News service; Journalism

Short for off microphone. (1) Sounds which are muffled or faint because they are not directed straight into the microphone. (2) Comments which are unintentionally picked up by a ...

digital television (DTV)

News service; Journalism

The modern method of transmitting sound and images in a data stream. DTV is higher quality than the old analogue TV. High definition digital TV (HDTV) is higher quality still. ...

justification

News service; Journalism

Where each line in a column of text aligns to the same left and right margins. This is achieved by stretching or shrinking the width of letters or spaces between words. Sometimes ...

over-dub

News service; Journalism

To dub sound on top of another sound, so the original sound can still be heard in the background. Usually used to put voice over background or wild sound or to put a translation ...