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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. Primary source of illumination in your scene. Usually it is a motivated light source.
Key Light
Master Shot
Back Light
Pulling Focus
2. Adjusting the optical center back toward the focal plane causing the image to become more wide-angle
Zooming Out
Props
Treatment
T-Stops
3. A shot in which the subject looks directly at the camera
Back Light
Shot Size
Direct Address
Author's Draft
4. The movement of characters in the space
Reverse Shots
Blocking
Three Essential Elements of Drama
Script Breakdown Sheet
5. 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
Prime Lens
Treatment
Protagonist
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.'
Blocking
Script Breakdown Sheet
Protagonist
Reverberation
7. Drawings of shots - arranged on paper in the order they appear in a sequence
Green Room
Shooting (Lined) Script
Storyboards
Zoom Lens (Variable Focal Length Lens)
8. Executing more than one move at a time
Four Basic Properties of Sound
Reverberation
Combination Move
'In the Mud'
9. Ensures visibility in all parts of your scene with overall bright and even illumination. Minimizes shadows - texture and dimensionality.
Pick-Ups
Overheads
Master Shot
High-Key Lighting
10. Light that separates the subject from the background by positioning a somewhat lower intensity light at a high angle and behind the subject. It traces the edges of the figure and creates depth.
Cross Cutting
Back Light
Cover-Set
Headshot/Bio
11. Drawings of shots - arranged on paper in the order they appear in a sequence
Rendering
Storyboards
Rendering
Audition
12. Refers to the loudness of a signal as it enters the audio recorder which determines the strength of the recorded audio signal
Protagonist
Plot
Levels
Wild Sound (Non-Sync Sound)
13. List of all the shots that make up the film in the order in which they will be shot
Levels
Setting Levels
Side Light
Shot List
14. Deciding where you want to shoot (the look - the access - the logistics - the sound - and securing it)
Cutaway Shot
Media File Indicators
Key Light
Location Scouting
15. 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
Location Technical Survey
Media File Indicators
Storyboards
16. Closely scrutinizing the location for its technical and aesthetic capabilities
Rendering
Direct Address
Location Technical Survey
Key Light
17. Transforming what is vague and internal into a series of viewable and audible actions and events
Media File Indicators
Fine Cut
Dramatization
Gaffer
18. 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
Coverage
Script Breakdown Sheet
Overheads
19. 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.
Pulling Focus
Art Direction
Reverse Shots
Storyboards
20. Point to the original data without altering the media file
Unmotivated Move
Narrative Films
Media File Indicators
Master Shot
21. Shooting Script - Overheads - and Storyboards
Three Pre-Visualization Tools
Reverberation
Back Light
Green Room
22. 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.
Coverage
Fine Cut
Blocking
Call Sheets
23. Shots that don't require any actors to be present like landscapes - location-establishing shots - and shots of objects and cutaways
Pick-Ups
1/3 - 2/3 Rule
Headroom
Nondestructive Editing
24. Primary source of illumination in your scene. Usually it is a motivated light source.
Overheads
Rule of Thirds
Shooting (Lined) Script
Key Light
25. 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.
T-Stops
Three Pre-Visualization Tools
Prime Lens
Low-Key Lighting
26. List of all the shots that make up the film in the order in which they will be shot
Peak Meter
Low-Key Lighting
Cross Cutting
Shot List
27. 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.
Treatment
Motivated Lighting
Focus Puller
Call Sheets
28. The physical placement of the camera on the set necessary to get each shot in your shooting script
Camera Setup
Narrative Films
Dramatization
Direct Address
29. The range between -12dB and 0dB that gives a buffer for any unforeseen audio spikes
Combination Move
Cable Wrangler
Lens Speed
Headroom
30. Form used in film production to keep track of all the mise-en-sc
Cover-Set
Fill Light
Script Breakdown Sheet
Location Technical Survey
31. To alternate between two or more scenes when editing a sequence
Cross Cutting
Location Scouting
Script Breakdown Sheet
Overheads
32. Simple but comprehensive prose description of a film's plot
Gaffer
Three Essential Elements of Drama
Treatment
Pick-Ups
33. 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
Shooting (Lined) Script
Cold Reading
Director of Photography
Ambient Sound
34. Shots that don't require any actors to be present like landscapes - location-establishing shots - and shots of objects and cutaways
Pick-Ups
Location Scouting
Cold Reading
Coverage
35. The things that our characters actually handle in a scene
Talent Release
Rendering
Props
Shot Size
36. Measures the strength of the incoming signal.
Treatment
Author's Draft
Peak Meter
Lens Speed
37. The person who pulls focus
Plot
Three Essential Elements of Drama
Coverage
Focus Puller
38. The things that our characters actually handle in a scene
Props
Protagonist
Talent Release
Coverage
39. 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.
Plot
Coverage
Coverage
Art Direction
40. 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
Three Pre-Visualization Tools
Art Direction
Narrative Films
Cold Reading
41. Changing the plane of critical focus during a take while the camera is running
Pulling Focus
Media File Indicators
Narrative Films
Combination Move
42. Standard calling card. 8x10 photograph on one side and a resume on the other.
Headshot/Bio
Call Sheets
Rendering
Green Room
43. All camera moves need to be...
Cover-Set
Motivated Move
Props
Dramatization
44. Process of combining the video and audio with the applied effect to create a new media file
Rendering
Back Light
Sound Recordist
Setting Levels
45. Simple but comprehensive prose description of a film's plot
Shooting (Lined) Script
3/4 Back Light
Cutaway Shot
Treatment
46. The measurement of acceptable diameter which creates the appearance of focus
Audition
Circle of Confusion
Pulling Focus
Fill Light
47. The physical placement of the camera on the set necessary to get each shot in your shooting script
Pulling Focus
Script Breakdown Sheet
Low-Key Lighting
Camera Setup
48. An interior scene that can be used in case your exterior shoot is cancelled because of bad weather
Four Basic Elements in the Visual Language of Cinema
Zooming In
Zooming Out
Cover-Set
49. 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
Cable Wrangler
Cross Cutting
1/3 - 2/3 Rule
Shot Size
50. The recording of sync dialogue in a studio in cases where the production sound is not usable
Four Basic Properties of Sound
Location Scouting
Automatic Dialogue Replacement
Shot List