Friday, May 11, 2007

We Make Up Words

One of the most widely used made-up words is “efforting,“ We use this word when we are trying to get a specific piece of video or sound. Often times I’ll say to my producer, we are efforting video of the scene. In short, we are trying to get it.

Another term we don’t use properly is “spray.“ Ask any photographer and they will tell you the desk loves this word. We use this word when we are asking a photographer to grab a few quick shots of video. We are looking for literally a minute of video and that’s it. As such, the desk will ask the photographer to go spray video of a particular house or place.

Finally, there is “mos.“ No, this is not the green fungus that grows in your yard. This is what we refer to as “man on the street.“ We use this term to describe the type of interviews we may be looking for on that particular day, story or topic. In short, it means to talk to people out and about (not necessarily on the street) and certainly not in the street.

There are other words we make up but I will save those for a rainy day.
I hope you all have a wonderful weekend. I’ll see you back here on Monday!

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-Jason