show package

[Tudor “ted” jelescu]

Like Dave and you I never heard the term before- it may just be an animated graphic element that moves the shot off the screen while bringing in another (horizontal wipe like Dave mentioned). I would also ask without being embarrassed that I do not know the term and I’ve been doing this for over 17 years now.

Tudor “Ted” Jelescu
Senior VFX Artist

[Michael Szalapski]

With two veterans of television telling you they haven’t heard of it, I’m going to say you can go ahead and ask.

My (complete and total) guess would be that it would be a graphic that comes in along the entire side of the screen and the main video slides a bit in the same direction so that whatever was centered in the shot remains centered in the newly narrower video area.
They do this on the SD broadcast of The Colbert Report quite often.

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[Heather Crank]

Thanks Dave!

[Heather Crank]

Thanks Ted, I am asking now.

[Heather Crank]

Thanks Michael,

Ok, I asked and it’s like a lower third but animates on from the left side and includes the show logo, with a title template and bullet point template.

Thanks everyone!

[Tudor “ted” jelescu]

I learned something new today- thanks for sharing.

Tudor “Ted” Jelescu
Senior VFX Artist

[Joseph W. bourke]

Hi Heather –

In my broadcast station days, we called this an “animated snipe”. It’s really an offshoot of the “bug”, which, before these things got animated, was just the station, or show, logo in the lower third area, usually on the right, so as not to conflict with network graphics or other graphical elements. I’m sure you’ll find as many different names as there are stations. Many of the terms come from the printing industry, from looong before there was television, bug and snipe in particular.

Joe Bourke
Owner/Creative Director
Bourke Media
http://www.bourkemedia.com