This document provides information about techniques used in media production at Salford City College's Eccles Centre, including: - Animation, visual effects, color rendering, graphics, and movement are techniques used. Advanced techniques include blur, sharpen, distortion, rotation, and opacity. - The technical details include a video format of 300:200 at 3:2 ratio and standard definitions of terms like motion graphics, compositing video, interactive menus, and video compression. - A glossary defines terms used in media production like motion graphics, compositing video, interactive menus, video format, screen ratio, resolution, frame rate, and compression.

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Creative Media Production
Use of text:
(Title, Credits, animated captions, stings,
indents, interactive menus, web banner)
Brief description: I see the ending to a film or maybe short cartoon this is because it has an animated caption
What do you see? such as (The End also saying a Warner Bros- first national picture).
Techniques used: The techniques used in this image are visual effects because of the use of notes in the
Animation, Visual Effects, Colour Rendering, background looks so visually realistic.
Graphics, Movement
Advanced techniques: The advance technique used in this photograph is opacity because the background is much
Blur, Sharpen, Distortion, Rotation, Opacity lighter than the fore ground u can easily tell the colour difference.
Technical comments: The screen ration of this photograph is 300:200 3:2
Video Format, Screen Ratio, Resolution,
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Creative Media Production
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)
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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