imedia

• What does a campaign manager do?

  Plan and manage marketing campaign, timings and talking to clients
• What does a production manager do?

  Scheduling, budgets, talking to departments, organise multiple people and resources
• What does a creative director do?

  Shape creative direction of the project, lead teams of creative job role
• What is a symbolic code?

  Created by acting, colour or props
• What is a technical code?

  Created by camera techniques, transitions, movement, lighting and audio
• What is a written code?

  Style of language, typography
• What does resolution mean?

  Total number of pixels on the screen
• What does OFCOM stand for?

  Office of Communications
• What does OFCOM do?

  Regulates TV and radio
• What does BBFC stand for?

  British Board of Film Classification
• What does the BBFC do?

  Classifies DVD and blueray
• What is data protection?

  Ensures data kept by companies is: used for a specific purpose, relevant and no more than needed, accurate, stored securely, not kept longer than nessecary
• Resources in work plans

  People, hardware, software
• Components of workplans

  Tasks, activities, workflow, timescales, milestones, contingencies, resources
• Libel

  False statement that has been published
• Slander

  Defamation in speech
• Data protection:

  rights for recording images/taking photographs in public places

  • permissions for recording images/taking photographs on private property

  permissions for publishing and commercial use of images and photographs taken

  • harassment and invasion of privacy
• What protects Intellectual Property

  Copyright, patents, trademark
• Using copyrighted materials

  fair dealing, creative commons license, watermarks/symbols, permissions fees and licenses
• What media products create an explosion?

  VFX and SFX
• How is data stored safely?

  Personal data is not stolen since staff have a particular code to access it
• What is an appropriate resolution for a video on a big screen?

  high definition
• What video file has lossy compression?

  MOV
• Explain why lossy compression format is used rather than a lossless compression format

  A lossy compression will lose some original data in the compression process which the lossless format won't but this results in smaller file sizes
• What must storyboards have?

  Numbered panels, consistency of information and effects needed
• Type of physical media

  DVD disk
• What is a milestone?

  They give a sense of accomplishment but they are not a task themselves
• What is the content of visualisation diagrams?

  images, graphics, logos, text
• What is the content of scripts?


  scene location, direction, shot type, camera movement, sounds, characters, dialogue, formatting and layout
• JPEG


  compressible, lossy compression
• RAW


  lossless, very large file sizes
• TIFF


  lossless, high quality, uncompressed, large file sizes, can take a long time to open and download
• GIF


  small file size, can apply simple animations, poor image quality
• EPS


  high quality for illustrations and vector, cannot be easily opened without special software
• PDF


  reproduces text well, very accessible, not free to edit once created
• Describe vector graphics


  digital line diagrams, not made up of pixels
• Describe raster images


  pixels, type of bitmap image
• MP3


  very small files, works on most devices, not good enough quality for professional recording
• AAC


  better sound quality than MP3, standard for apple devices, not compatible with all devices
• FLAC


  free, studio quality sound, very large file sizes