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Audio Video Production Basics

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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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Match each statement with the correct term.
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1. title safe and action safe were made by...
Audio Interchange File Format
Local
SMPTE
Apple l

2. ideal lens for location scout?
When and where the movie is set.
Packets
50mm
Overwrite clip

3. when can you cross the axis
-6
Black
View entire sequence
When you show the footage of you crossing the axis

4. establishing shot is what kind of shot?
Turning on wireframe
More informative - less artistic
All tracks forward
Wide shot

5. What mics do newscasters typically use?
Lavaliers
Passing over the imaginary axis
Overwrite clip
Command and apple are the same.

6. Default transition is how many frames?
Turning on wireframe
Lavaliers
30 frames.
SMPTE

7. tttt means...
All tracks forward
Professionals
When you show the footage of you crossing the axis
Nope

8. slug means ______ in fcp.
Local
Objective
Black
Passing over the imaginary axis

9. f9 is a shortcut for...
Medium close up
Insert clip
Audio Interchange File Format
Decibells

10. Do all mics change electric energy into sound energy?
Turning on wireframe
Nope
Tracking pan
Objective

11. Default font?
No
Black
Mounted camera move
Lucinda Grande.

12. control tab is used for...
Modifying text
It renders the footage.
View entire sequence
Fcp

13. Title safe percentage is...
Professionals
Projectors
80%
Lucinda Grande.

14. usb transfers by
Packets
16/9
It renders the footage.
4 pin to 6 pin firewire

15. What does the establishing shot tell you?
Modifying text
In the browser
4 pin to 6 pin firewire
When and where the movie is set.

16. Overscan does not apply to...
Mounted camera move
Cross dissolve
Projectors
Brings the speed changer up.

17. Letterboxing is...
When movies are showed in widescreen on a 4/3 tv
Humans - accessibility - power - sound
Brings the speed changer up.
NOW

18. What is 'pan and scan' on a 4/3 ration tv?
Full screen
Local
Decibells
P

19. What mic is used to get dialogue on movie sets?
NOW
Shotgun
Local
4 pin to 6 pin firewire

20. Overscan does not apply to...
Projectors
When and where the movie is set.
Medium close up
Patch panel

21. Apple j does what?
Brings the speed changer up.
Apple 8
Projectors
Packets

22. Composition is...
In the browser
Fcp
ESC
The arrangement of visual elements

23. shift z lets you...
Full screen
View entire sequence
Animatics
Passing over the imaginary axis

24. AIFF stands for...
Audio Interchange File Format
Long shot
Cross dissolve
50mm

25. After capturing footage press
When and where the movie is set.
It restores all windows to standard layout view.
ESC
Professionals

26. Default transition is...
Cross dissolve
Command and apple are the same.
Professionals
Black

27. f9 is a shortcut for...
SMPTE
Composition.
Overwrite clip
Insert clip

28. w is a shortcut for...
Passing over the imaginary axis
When movies are shown full screen on a 4/3 tv
Lavaliers
Turning on wireframe

29. mounted cam 'following' is...
Projectors
Turning on wireframe
Humans - accessibility - power - sound
Tracking pan

30. Option i does what?
Removes in-point.
10 sec.
Mounted camera move
Patch panel

31. What does option are do?
Omni
Mounted camera move
J
It renders the footage.

32. Crossing the line means...
Lavaliers
Medium close up
Passing over the imaginary axis
Packets

33. Command and what key are the same?
Command and apple are the same.
Part of the footage you can't see on screen.
When movies are shown full screen on a 4/3 tv
10 sec.

34. Default transition is how many frames?
When and where the movie is set.
90%
30 frames.
Wide shot

35. What comes after 4-shot?
Black
Group shot.
That the cam is off
Passing over the imaginary axis

36. Default transition is...
Cross dissolve
Its displayed width/it's displayed height
Professionals
Medium close up

37. When the cam is further from the axis the viewer becomes more emotionally
Full screen
Part of the footage you can't see on screen.
More informative - less artistic
Objective

38. Composition is...
80%
The arrangement of visual elements
50mm
90%

39. Default font?
Lucinda Grande.
No
Objective
Its displayed width/it's displayed height

40. HAPS stands for...
Local
It restores all windows to standard layout view.
Animatics
Humans - accessibility - power - sound

41. What does the establishing shot tell you?
Audio Interchange File Format
Shotgun
Part of the footage you can't see on screen.
When and where the movie is set.

42. What is the function of Control you
Apple l
No
It restores all windows to standard layout view.
-6

43. animated story boards are called...
Locking mechanism
Part of the footage you can't see on screen.
Animatics
Patch panel

44. What mic captures sounds all around it?
Omni
Locking mechanism
Tracking pan
Audio Interchange File Format

45. location pics must be
When you show the footage of you crossing the axis
Audio Interchange File Format
Start & stop on an end shot
More informative - less artistic

46. A freeze frame without handles is how long?
Mounted camera move
10 sec.
Tracking pan
You right click above the patch panel.

47. Apple j does what?
Audio Interchange File Format
Full screen
Brings the speed changer up.
-6

48. What mic is used to get dialogue on movie sets?
Shotgun
View entire sequence
Mp3
It renders the footage.

49. What is the shot called if it includes the entire human body?
When and where the movie is set.
Long shot
80%
Snapping

50. Action safe percentage is...
90%
Patch panel
P
Audio Interchange File Format