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Intro To Film Production
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Subjects
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performing-arts
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film
Instructions:
Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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Match each statement with the correct term.
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1. Works closely with the director on the visual interprataino of the script and the photographic look of the movie (cinematography). This involves lighting - film stocks - video format - expressive camera angles - compositions - exposures - and f
Lens Speed
Zoom Lens (Variable Focal Length Lens)
Director of Photography
Elliptical Editing
2. The range of apparent focus along the z-axis
Fine Cut
Depth of Field
Shot Size
Setting Levels
3. Legal document - signed before cameras roll - simply stating that the performer gives you the right to use his image and voice in your film
Ambient Sound
1/3 - 2/3 Rule
Headshot/Bio
Talent Release
4. Frequency - Amplitude - Timbre - and Velocity
Cable Wrangler
Four Basic Properties of Sound
Back Light
Rule of Thirds
5. Revolve around conflict - and express ideas and cocepts through stories in which a character who needs to accomplish something encounters obastacles and much struggle to get what they need
Media File Indicators
Narrative Films
'In the Mud'
Master Shot
6. Two-thirds of the depth range along the z-axis is behind the focus point and one-third is in front of the focus point
Zooming Out
Cutaway Shot
1/3 - 2/3 Rule
Rule of Thirds
7. Drawings of each scene from a bird's eye perspective. They help figure out important details like the axis of action - camera placement - and blocking.
Focus Puller
Overheads
Back Light
Combination Move
8. The recording of sync dialogue in a studio in cases where the production sound is not usable
Automatic Dialogue Replacement
Reverse Shots
Cutaway Shot
Low-Key Lighting
9. Sets up cables - holds second boom when necessary - and wrangles the cables when the boom operator follows a moving shot
Media File Indicators
Five Ways to Create a Parallel Action Sequence
Cable Wrangler
Unmotivated Move
10. To alternate between two or more scenes when editing a sequence
Cross Cutting
Ambient Sound
Three Pre-Visualization Tools
Treatment
11. Shots that don't require any actors to be present like landscapes - location-establishing shots - and shots of objects and cutaways
Pick-Ups
Narrative Films
Peak Meter
Master Shot
12. Controlling the strength of the signal
Spike
High-Key Lighting
Reverse Shots
Setting Levels
13. Narrative technique that involves intercutting between two or more separate areas of action in such a way that the viewer assumes the scenes are occurring simulataneously
Author's Draft
Media File Indicators
Parallel Action
Depth of Field
14. Dramatic Structure Matches - Content and Activity Matches - Matched Action Cuts - Graphic Matches - and Sound Bridges
Five Ways to Create a Parallel Action Sequence
Gaffer
Blocking
Four Basic Elements in the Visual Language of Cinema
15. The ability of a lens to gather light is determined by the largest possible f-stop of that particular lens (a fast lens can open up to allow more light than a slow lens)
Lens Speed
Reverberation
Props
Levels
16. The subject of the story - the central character whom the audience will follow as they attempt to achieve their goal
Protagonist
Lens Speed
Gaffer
Levels
17. A shot of a detail within your scene other than the characters' faces
Three Pre-Visualization Tools
Cutaway Shot
Setting Levels
1/3 - 2/3 Rule
18. Form used in film production to keep track of all the mise-en-sc
Coverage
Script Breakdown Sheet
Cutaway Shot
Four Basic Properties of Sound
19. Loud - sudden sound that exceeds 0dB
Shot Size
Plot
Unmotivated Move
Spike
20. Character - Goal - and Conflict or Obstacles
Sound Recordist
Cutaway Shot
Four Basic Elements in the Visual Language of Cinema
Three Essential Elements of Drama
21. Simple but comprehensive prose description of a film's plot
Treatment
Boom Operator
Parallel Action
Motivated Lighting
22. Reading from the script pages that actors are given minutes before the audition
Side Light
Cold Reading
Shot Size
1/3 - 2/3 Rule
23. Adjusted to take into account the amount of light that is lost - dissipated - or absorbed by that particular lens
Lens Speed
T-Stops
Camera Setup
Shot List
24. All camera moves need to be...
Storyboards
Motivated Move
Treatment
'In the Mud'
25. List of all the shots that make up the film in the order in which they will be shot
3/4 Back Light
Treatment
Plot
Shot List
26. Another name for backlight because of the effect it gives the actor
Low-Key Lighting
Reverse Shots
Rim Light
Focus Puller
27. Removing extraneous time and territory
Parallel Action
Reverberation
Elliptical Editing
Spike
28. Sound that includes both room acoustics and background noise
Fine Cut
Ambient Sound
Cable Wrangler
Nonlinear Editing System
29. Shot - Shot Sequence - Scene - and Dramatic Sequence
Four Basic Elements in the Visual Language of Cinema
Talent Release
Protagonist
Nondestructive Editing
30. Recording is too low
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31. Controlling the strength of the signal
Setting Levels
Fill Light
Cable Wrangler
Motivated Move
32. Sound bouncing off surfaces. Results in a booming or echo-y sound as the signal duplicates itself over and over again which is refereed to as 'acoustically live.'
Cold Reading
Reverse Shots
Dramatization
Reverberation
33. Changing the plane of critical focus during a take while the camera is running
Pulling Focus
Script Breakdown Sheet
Props
Parallel Action
34. Finessing all of the edits one-by-one
Reverberation
Shot List
Fine Cut
Key Light
35. Organized process by which you schedule and work with a number of potential performers to determine their suitability to your film
Boom Operator
Coverage
Location Technical Survey
Audition
36. Often used as a guide for framing human subjects and for composition in general. The frame is divided into thirds with imaginary lines along the horizontal and vertical axes and then place significant objects - focus points - and elements of intere
Four Basic Elements in the Visual Language of Cinema
Director of Photography
Side Light
Rule of Thirds
37. The look of the environment in which your scenes take place - and the choice and design of the objects and costumes employed in the film have a profound impact on the tone - the characterizations - and the meaning of your movie.
Art Direction
Peak Meter
High-Key Lighting
Dramatization
38. Dramatic Structure Matches - Content and Activity Matches - Matched Action Cuts - Graphic Matches - and Sound Bridges
Direct Address
Fill Light
Media File Indicators
Five Ways to Create a Parallel Action Sequence
39. Lens that has one fixed focal length for more precise manipulation of image quality
Storyboards
Zoom Lens (Variable Focal Length Lens)
Lens Speed
Prime Lens
40. Separate comfortable waiting space to put the next-in line actor. A place where actors can relax - drink some water - and go over their lines.
Direct Address
Green Room
Rim Light
Headshot/Bio
41. The subject of the story - the central character whom the audience will follow as they attempt to achieve their goal
Talent Release
Direct Address
Three Pre-Visualization Tools
Protagonist
42. Lighting unit that is position 90
Gaffer
Author's Draft
Reverberation
Side Light
43. Shooting Script - Overheads - and Storyboards
Three Pre-Visualization Tools
Reverse Shots
Script Breakdown Sheet
Zooming Out
44. Any cutting - arranging - trimming - corrections - or effects you might perform occur only virtually - in a preview mode. Original media files are not altered in any way. (Digital NLE is an example)
Zoom Lens (Variable Focal Length Lens)
Location Scouting
Nondestructive Editing
Overheads
45. First complete version of the narrative in proper screenplay format
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46. Adjusting the optical center back toward the focal plane causing the image to become more wide-angle
Zooming Out
3/4 Back Light
Cable Wrangler
Levels
47. Character - Goal - and Conflict or Obstacles
Setting Levels
Three Essential Elements of Drama
Location Technical Survey
Headroom
48. The person who pulls focus
Media File Indicators
Storyboards
Master Shot
Focus Puller
49. Clearly shows both subjects in the scene and defines the spatial relationship of the two to each other and the space around them
Plot
T-Stops
Master Shot
Zooming In
50. The movement of characters in the space
Treatment
Cross Cutting
T-Stops
Blocking