This document provides definitions for motion graphics, compositing video, interactive menus, animated captions, web banners, video format, screen ratio, resolution, frame rate, and compression. It discusses techniques like animation, visual effects, color rendering, graphics, and movement used in a Citroen website. It notes the website uses movement but no other techniques. It also notes the video format is widescreen but struggles to find other technical details like ratio and frame rate.

1. Salford City College
Eccles Centre
Creative Media Production
Use of text:
(Title, Credits, animated captions, stings,
indents, interactive menus, web banner)
http://www.citroen.co.uk/home/
Brief description: Well i see a line of options just underneath the images there’s a bar which you can move from
What do you see? left to right to see all options ‘you can try this buy clicking on the link above’ this is interactive
menu because you can move and click on any option you would like.
Techniques used:
Animation, Visual Effects, Colour Rendering, It has no animation techniques used because i see no cartoon type of drawing in the image,
Graphics, Movement there is a lot of movement because obviously the whole page is moving and there are no visual
effects because the images are all real.
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2. Salford City College
Eccles Centre
Creative Media Production
Advanced techniques: I wouldn’t add anything because it is great how it looks it doesn’t need any opacity or
Blur, Sharpen, Distortion, Rotation, Opacity definitely no rotation.
Technical comments: I struggled to find the ratio and rates but the video format is widescreen
Video Format, Screen Ratio, Resolution,
Frame rate, Compression
Motion Graphics and Video Compositing Unit 64
Glossary
Motion graphics - Graphics that use video footage and/or animation technology to create the illusion of motion or rotation, graphics are
usually combined with audio for use in multimedia projects.
Compositing video - When there are several different clips of video are layered over one another to create a single image.
Interactive Menus – DVD Interface or Interactive Menus on a web page
Ident – The ‘call sign’ of a channel or production company to identify themselves on screen, usually shown before a programme.
Animated Captions – Animated Graphics layered over an image / video
Web Banners – A form of web advertising that is embedded into a web page. They are used to attract a viewer to their website. A Web
Banner usually a mix of motion graphics and video
Video Format - 3 Main Formats HD, PAL, NTSC. HD is the highest resolution (720 or 1080 vertical lines in the image). PAL is the UK
Standard definition image (576 vertical lines). NTSC is the US Standard definition image (480 vertical lines). Now in the
digital age we now look at video format in terms of pixels (i.e. High definition 1080; 1920 x 1080 or 2,073,600 pixels)
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3. Salford City College
Eccles Centre
Creative Media Production
Screen ratio – Standard TV ratio is 4:3; this means that for every 4 units wide it is 3 units high. It is likely that the screen ratio will be
Widescreen (16:9) in a cinematic sequence.
Resolution – The amount of detail in an image or signal, such as Standard TV Definition and High Definition. See Video Format.
Frame Rate - The number of video or film frames displayed each second (frames per second; fps). PAL frame (standard UK TV) is 25
fps, NTSC (standard US TV) is 30 fps, film is 24 fps. This means as NTSC updates more regularly there is less strobing
(jerkiness).
Compression – The use of Codecs (WMV, DivX) to reduce the file size of a video by a variety of methods. This sometimes means a loss in
image quality (a “lossy”). Codecs are found in Video Cameras, DVD players / recorders, Editing Packages, Video upload
sites)
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