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Intro To Film Production
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1. Camera and lens expert. They are responsible for the proper functioning of the camera - which includes setting it up - cleaning the gate - checking and pulling focus - and selecting filters and lenses. They know precise details about what various
Low-Key Lighting
Assistant Camera
Location Scouting
Combination Move
2. The subject of the story - the central character whom the audience will follow as they attempt to achieve their goal
Lens Speed
Spike
Protagonist
Shot Size
3. 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
Key Light
Rule of Thirds
Three Pre-Visualization Tools
Props
4. Lens that has one fixed focal length for more precise manipulation of image quality
Prime Lens
High-Key Lighting
Fill Light
Nondestructive Editing
5. Sound that includes both room acoustics and background noise
Four Basic Elements in the Visual Language of Cinema
Parallel Action
Ambient Sound
Zooming In
6. 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.'
Zoom Lens (Variable Focal Length Lens)
Art Direction
Gaffer
Reverberation
7. Form used in film production to keep track of all the mise-en-sc
Script Breakdown Sheet
Nondestructive Editing
Wild Sound (Non-Sync Sound)
Art Direction
8. Adjusting the optical center back toward the focal plane causing the image to become more wide-angle
Automatic Dialogue Replacement
Blocking
Dramatization
Zooming Out
9. Adjusting the optical center away from the focal plane and therefore increasing the magnification power of the lens (telephoto)
Art Direction
Zooming In
Nondestructive Editing
Location Scouting
10. This type of move breaks the promise of showing something else to the viewer
Unmotivated Move
Script Breakdown Sheet
Cutaway Shot
Automatic Dialogue Replacement
11. Drawings of shots - arranged on paper in the order they appear in a sequence
Props
Elliptical Editing
Storyboards
Peak Meter
12. Simple but comprehensive prose description of a film's plot
Fine Cut
Treatment
Spike
Call Sheets
13. The range between -12dB and 0dB that gives a buffer for any unforeseen audio spikes
3/4 Back Light
Location Scouting
Levels
Headroom
14. Form used in film production to keep track of all the mise-en-sc
Script Breakdown Sheet
Blocking
Peak Meter
Elliptical Editing
15. Ensures visibility in all parts of your scene with overall bright and even illumination. Minimizes shadows - texture and dimensionality.
Setting Levels
High-Key Lighting
Dramatization
Pick-Ups
16. Closer shots of the subjects in the scene from and angle that includes a portion of the other person's shoulder or head. This is also called and over-the-shoulder shot.
Reverse Shots
Circle of Confusion
Back Light
Three Pre-Visualization Tools
17. The range between -12dB and 0dB that gives a buffer for any unforeseen audio spikes
Setting Levels
3/4 Back Light
Headroom
Fine Cut
18. The person who pulls focus
Setting Levels
Focus Puller
Three Essential Elements of Drama
Camera Setup
19. Controlling the strength of the signal
Setting Levels
Three Pre-Visualization Tools
Shooting (Lined) Script
Peak Meter
20. An interior scene that can be used in case your exterior shoot is cancelled because of bad weather
Cover-Set
Headshot/Bio
Call Sheets
Wild Sound (Non-Sync Sound)
21. 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
Treatment
Green Room
Coverage
22. The movement of characters in the space
Setting Levels
Pick-Ups
Shot List
Blocking
23. Refers to the size of your subject in the frame
Master Shot
Cold Reading
Shot Size
Gaffer
24. Deciding where you want to shoot (the look - the access - the logistics - the sound - and securing it)
Location Scouting
Cross Cutting
Gaffer
Three Pre-Visualization Tools
25. Closely scrutinizing the location for its technical and aesthetic capabilities
Spike
Pick-Ups
Location Technical Survey
Four Basic Properties of Sound
26. Recording is too low
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27. Drawings of shots - arranged on paper in the order they appear in a sequence
Blocking
Ambient Sound
Rendering
Storyboards
28. Finessing all of the edits one-by-one
Treatment
Treatment
Fine Cut
Cover-Set
29. Organized process by which you schedule and work with a number of potential performers to determine their suitability to your film
Audition
Nondestructive Editing
Lens Speed
Motivated Move
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
Nonlinear Editing System
Low-Key Lighting
Back Light
Shot Size
31. 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.
Combination Move
Five Ways to Create a Parallel Action Sequence
Location Scouting
Art Direction
32. Another name for backlight because of the effect it gives the actor
'In the Mud'
Fill Light
Rim Light
Wild Sound (Non-Sync Sound)
33. A shot of a detail within your scene other than the characters' faces
Camera Setup
Rim Light
Cutaway Shot
Director of Photography
34. 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.
Shooting (Lined) Script
Art Direction
Cable Wrangler
Setting Levels
35. 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.
Plot
Parallel Action
Call Sheets
Fill Light
36. 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)
Wild Sound (Non-Sync Sound)
Audition
Three Pre-Visualization Tools
Nondestructive Editing
37. Clearly shows both subjects in the scene and defines the spatial relationship of the two to each other and the space around them
Elliptical Editing
Boom Operator
Master Shot
Circle of Confusion
38. Removing extraneous time and territory
Location Technical Survey
Zooming Out
Key Light
Elliptical Editing
39. Measures the strength of the incoming signal.
Sound Recordist
Peak Meter
3/4 Back Light
Reverse Shots
40. Process of combining the video and audio with the applied effect to create a new media file
Unmotivated Move
Rendering
Lens Speed
Lens Speed
41. Adjusted to take into account the amount of light that is lost - dissipated - or absorbed by that particular lens
Lens Speed
T-Stops
Narrative Films
Rendering
42. Refers to the size of your subject in the frame
Treatment
Master Shot
Ambient Sound
Shot Size
43. The subject of the story - the central character whom the audience will follow as they attempt to achieve their goal
Master Shot
Cable Wrangler
Zoom Lens (Variable Focal Length Lens)
Protagonist
44. 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
Fine Cut
Protagonist
Assistant Camera
1/3 - 2/3 Rule
45. Camera and lens expert. They are responsible for the proper functioning of the camera - which includes setting it up - cleaning the gate - checking and pulling focus - and selecting filters and lenses. They know precise details about what various
Three Pre-Visualization Tools
Assistant Camera
Side Light
Setting Levels
46. An interior scene that can be used in case your exterior shoot is cancelled because of bad weather
Call Sheets
Plot
Call Sheets
Cover-Set
47. Soft light that fills in the shadows created by the Key Light
Overheads
Motivated Move
Fill Light
Setting Levels
48. Responsible for the proper use and actual placement of the microphones for optimal quality
Boom Operator
Cutaway Shot
Treatment
Rule of Thirds
49. Deciding where you want to shoot (the look - the access - the logistics - the sound - and securing it)
Protagonist
Prime Lens
Location Scouting
Cutaway Shot
50. 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
Director of Photography
Depth of Field
Headshot/Bio
Dramatization
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