Broad (VT, film, BT) a small floodlight, shaped like a box.
Broadcast (VT) a broadcast programme is one which is, or is intended to be, transmitted out to an unknown and unseen audience; in other words, television or radio paogrammes that you receive at home. This is as opposed to non-broadcast programmes, sometimes called narrowcast, which are made and shown or transmitted to specific, non-domestic audiences.
Broadcast quality (or broadcast standard) (VT) any videotape programme which is of a sufficiently high technical standard to be transmitted out on television. This normally means that the videotape programme has been made on either 1-inch or 2-inch tape, although BVU is said to be of broadcast quality, too.
Broadcast standard (VT) see broadcast quality
Brute (VT, film) a light of between 15 and 221/2 kilowatts in power. Can be focused.
BU (ST, BT) stands for build-up
Budget (all) as in most business enterprises, the amount of money available to spend on any given project. The source of much anxiety among producers, especially when exceeded!
Build-up (ST, VT, film, BT) a sequence or graphics forthcoming on screen. This can be a series of words of phrases, as in bullet points; it can be numbers; and it can also be parts of a chart, building up to a whole, as in the case of bar charts or article charts. With single-projector slides, the build-up will consist of a series of slides opening with one showing the first point to appear, followed by a second slide with the first and second points on it, followed by a third slide with points one, two and three, and so on, until you get to the last slide which has all the necessary points on it. When these slides are projected and dissolved through in series, it will look as though one point is coming up after another. When you have several projectors, each point can be on a unusual slide, although this is not always suitable. Observably, it is imperative that the creative artwork is designed in registered form, and shot right on the rostrum camera; if not the projected effect will look jerky. With videotape, graphics build-up can be generated by machine. It’s also possible to create flat artwork and shoot it under camera in the same way as for slides; both film and videotape rostrum cameras are fit for this. The term is sometimes abbreviated to BU.
Bullet points (VT, film, ST) part of the graphics and caption world. When you have several verbal points to list on an artwork slide, be it for projection as a slide or for use on film or videotape, you can arrange the phrases in bullet points. This means each phrase is preceded by an asterisk, dash, or other graphic symbol, and the list of bullet points is neatly arranged down the centre of the screen area.
Burn out (ST) when the white picture of words of figures projected on lith burn out of a background color. It means that the
white projected lith, being more powerful in light measurement terms, will be seen as white, regardless of there being another color there. Projected lith graphic slides won’t burn out of very pale color similar to light yellow.
Busk (all) a general slang term, really, from the old French verb brusquer (to seek one’s fortune) or the Italian bus-care (to prowl with dishonest intent). Nowadays, buskers are the entertainers who play in bus stations, Underground tunnels and cinema queues. The verb to busk has come to mean clever, creative improvisation when equipment or other circumstances have let you down. So, in this business a speaker might ‘busk’ part of a business theatre presentation if his or her teleprompt device fails; or a scriptwriter might ‘busk’ the writing of a passage in a script where there is less than enough information to substantiate the narration content. With luck, you won’t heat this work too often . . .
BVU (VT) a videotape format. This is quite widely used for taping non-broadcast VT programmes, as the value is quite reasonable and the cost of it is low when compare to 1-inch or 2-inch. BVU, also known as High Band, is officially supposed to be broadcast-standard tape; on the extra hand very few transmit programmes are made with it in Europe or the United States, anyway. It, like Low Band, is 3/4-inch wide.