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Intro To Film Production
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Study First
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.
Don't refresh. All questions and answers are randomly picked and ordered every time you load a test.
This is a study tool. The 3 wrong answers for each question are randomly chosen from answers to other questions. So, you might find at times the answers obvious, but you will see it re-enforces your understanding as you take the test each time.
1. Measures the strength of the incoming signal.
Ambient Sound
Peak Meter
Protagonist
Back Light
2. 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.
Prime Lens
Overheads
Four Basic Properties of Sound
1/3 - 2/3 Rule
3. Clearly shows both subjects in the scene and defines the spatial relationship of the two to each other and the space around them
Master Shot
Treatment
Circle of Confusion
Treatment
4. 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)
Lens Speed
Headshot/Bio
Motivated Move
Nondestructive Editing
5. Simple but comprehensive prose description of a film's plot
Treatment
Peak Meter
Nondestructive Editing
High-Key Lighting
6. Lighting unit that is position 90
Motivated Lighting
Reverse Shots
Side Light
Cross Cutting
7. Sets up cables - holds second boom when necessary - and wrangles the cables when the boom operator follows a moving shot
Cable Wrangler
Levels
Parallel Action
Nonlinear Editing System
8. Lighting unit that is position 90
Side Light
Cable Wrangler
Coverage
Prime Lens
9. The things that our characters actually handle in a scene
Call Sheets
Assistant Camera
Props
Wild Sound (Non-Sync Sound)
10. Lens that has one fixed focal length for more precise manipulation of image quality
Prime Lens
Rule of Thirds
Back Light
Zoom Lens (Variable Focal Length Lens)
11. Legal document - signed before cameras roll - simply stating that the performer gives you the right to use his image and voice in your film
Plot
Low-Key Lighting
Talent Release
Prime Lens
12. First complete version of the narrative in proper screenplay format
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13. Deciding where you want to shoot (the look - the access - the logistics - the sound - and securing it)
Location Scouting
Low-Key Lighting
Sound Recordist
Headshot/Bio
14. Sets up cables - holds second boom when necessary - and wrangles the cables when the boom operator follows a moving shot
Cable Wrangler
Talent Release
Rule of Thirds
'In the Mud'
15. 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
Location Technical Survey
Zooming In
Talent Release
Narrative Films
16. The strategy of using movie lights to duplicate where light would logically be emanating from
Levels
Shooting (Lined) Script
Assistant Camera
Motivated Lighting
17. A type of location sound that isn't recorded simultaneously with the picture. Two types are Ambient Sound and Location Sound.
Storyboards
Wild Sound (Non-Sync Sound)
Three Essential Elements of Drama
Art Direction
18. Character - Goal - and Conflict or Obstacles
Headroom
Author's Draft
Cable Wrangler
Three Essential Elements of Drama
19. Frequency - Amplitude - Timbre - and Velocity
Pulling Focus
Four Basic Properties of Sound
Gaffer
Key Light
20. Ensures visibility in all parts of your scene with overall bright and even illumination. Minimizes shadows - texture and dimensionality.
Overheads
Peak Meter
High-Key Lighting
Setting Levels
21. 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.
Four Basic Elements in the Visual Language of Cinema
Overheads
Rule of Thirds
Dramatization
22. Yields very dark and prominent shadow areas. Occurs when the fill light is considerable lower than the key - allowing areas to be submerged in shadows.
Nonlinear Editing System
Nondestructive Editing
Talent Release
Low-Key Lighting
23. Executing more than one move at a time
Spike
Boom Operator
Combination Move
Master Shot
24. Recording is too low
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25. Responsible for the proper use and actual placement of the microphones for optimal quality
Treatment
Cover-Set
Boom Operator
Author's Draft
26. Another name for backlight because of the effect it gives the actor
Camera Setup
Rim Light
Assistant Camera
Author's Draft
27. Expresses the director's visual strategy for every scene in the film. It shows you what shots are used to cover a scene and in how they connect together as an edited scene. Camera angles - shot sizes - camera moves - etc. are all marked.
Shooting (Lined) Script
Dramatization
Location Technical Survey
Treatment
28. 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.
Blocking
Art Direction
Treatment
Prime Lens
29. Transforming what is vague and internal into a series of viewable and audible actions and events
Dramatization
Location Scouting
Call Sheets
Automatic Dialogue Replacement
30. Not limited by the linear characteristics of video tape. We can move around in the footage in any direction - instantaneously. All film projects - whether shot on film of DV are edited on NLE. All visual and aural components must be turned into dig
Nondestructive Editing
Parallel Action
Back Light
Nonlinear Editing System
31. The range between -12dB and 0dB that gives a buffer for any unforeseen audio spikes
Protagonist
Sound Recordist
T-Stops
Headroom
32. This type of move breaks the promise of showing something else to the viewer
Unmotivated Move
Peak Meter
Parallel Action
Master Shot
33. Removing extraneous time and territory
Side Light
Elliptical Editing
Ambient Sound
Cross Cutting
34. Organized process by which you schedule and work with a number of potential performers to determine their suitability to your film
Ambient Sound
Audition
Setting Levels
Master Shot
35. Process of combining the video and audio with the applied effect to create a new media file
Rendering
Motivated Lighting
Three Pre-Visualization Tools
Coverage
36. Shot - Shot Sequence - Scene - and Dramatic Sequence
Key Light
Four Basic Elements in the Visual Language of Cinema
T-Stops
Director of Photography
37. Measures the strength of the incoming signal.
Zooming In
Peak Meter
Reverse Shots
Combination Move
38. The range of apparent focus along the z-axis
Combination Move
Depth of Field
Prime Lens
Gaffer
39. Sheets for each shooting day; they detail what portion of the script is being shot on a specific day - who needs to be on the set - when they need to be there - and how to get to the set.
Reverberation
Rim Light
Call Sheets
Plot
40. Reading from the script pages that actors are given minutes before the audition
Cross Cutting
Cold Reading
Sound Recordist
3/4 Back Light
41. Shot - Shot Sequence - Scene - and Dramatic Sequence
Cable Wrangler
Author's Draft
Art Direction
Four Basic Elements in the Visual Language of Cinema
42. 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)
Nondestructive Editing
Depth of Field
Three Essential Elements of Drama
Peak Meter
43. A shot of a detail within your scene other than the characters' faces
Pulling Focus
Master Shot
Cutaway Shot
Back Light
44. Frequency - Amplitude - Timbre - and Velocity
Depth of Field
Four Basic Properties of Sound
Peak Meter
Reverse Shots
45. Legal document - signed before cameras roll - simply stating that the performer gives you the right to use his image and voice in your film
Overheads
Shooting (Lined) Script
Cover-Set
Talent Release
46. 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
Combination Move
Ambient Sound
1/3 - 2/3 Rule
Media File Indicators
47. Adjusted to take into account the amount of light that is lost - dissipated - or absorbed by that particular lens
Location Technical Survey
Cold Reading
T-Stops
Elliptical Editing
48. An interior scene that can be used in case your exterior shoot is cancelled because of bad weather
Cover-Set
Boom Operator
3/4 Back Light
Cold Reading
49. The head of the sound department responsible for recording the best possible quality sound. Chooses the appropriate microphones and mic placement for each and every scene that requires sound. They also monitor and maintain proper recording levels.
Sound Recordist
Headroom
Call Sheets
Four Basic Properties of Sound
50. All camera moves need to be...
Cover-Set
Reverse Shots
Blocking
Motivated Move