Terms

• Album:
  A collection of recordings issued as a single item on CD, record, or another medium.
• Animation:
  A moving image production element created from static drawings or objects.
• Clip:
  A short excerpt taken from a moving image or audio resource. A clip may not convey a complete intellectual concept.
• Collection:
  A group of materials with some unifying characteristic. – 2. Materials assembled by a person, organization, or repository from a variety of sources; an artificial collection.
• Compilation:
  A single asset containing multiple different sub-assets; for example, a reel with programs, clips, and raw footage.
• Episode:
  A single installment of a series, whether linearly relate to other episodes in the series, or simply presented under the same branding.
• Miniseries:
  A multi-episode resource of limited duration, aired daily or weekly, usually with a total running time of less than 15 hours.
• Program:
  A resource that has been prepared for broadcast/publication and is presented as a single work, with no series branding.
• Promo:
  An edited piece of audio or video announcing an upcoming work (like a program or series).
• Raw Footage:
  Originally captured footage or other unedited content, not intended for broadcast in its current form.
• Segment:
  A self-contained portion of a program/episode, which serves its own function, but operates within the larger program/episode.
• Series:
  A set of episodes broadcast in sequence, usually conceived without a definte end and aired on a regular schedule. Typically all episodes within a single series follow a specific theme or continuous storyline, or are all broadcast under the same series title and branding.
• Season:
  A set of episodes from a series, which were all aired in the same broadcast period.
• Subseries:
  A set of episodes that makes up its own series, which is broadcast under an umbrella series with its own branding.

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