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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. Shots that don't require any actors to be present like landscapes - location-establishing shots - and shots of objects and cutaways
Pick-Ups
Circle of Confusion
Spike
Pulling Focus
2. Simple but comprehensive prose description of a film's plot
Overheads
Treatment
Fill Light
Camera Setup
3. 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
Author's Draft
Rule of Thirds
Director of Photography
Nondestructive Editing
4. Shooting a scene from various angles
Three Pre-Visualization Tools
Coverage
Cover-Set
Narrative Films
5. Refers to the size of your subject in the frame
Shot Size
Levels
'In the Mud'
Zooming In
6. Adjusted to take into account the amount of light that is lost - dissipated - or absorbed by that particular lens
Circle of Confusion
Back Light
T-Stops
Cutaway Shot
7. Shooting a scene from various angles
Coverage
Blocking
Motivated Move
Narrative Films
8. The measurement of acceptable diameter which creates the appearance of focus
Rendering
Circle of Confusion
Pick-Ups
Shot Size
9. This type of move breaks the promise of showing something else to the viewer
Setting Levels
Focus Puller
Low-Key Lighting
Unmotivated Move
10. Recording is too low
11. The subject of the story - the central character whom the audience will follow as they attempt to achieve their goal
Talent Release
Protagonist
3/4 Back Light
Narrative Films
12. A type of location sound that isn't recorded simultaneously with the picture. Two types are Ambient Sound and Location Sound.
Assistant Camera
Wild Sound (Non-Sync Sound)
Nondestructive Editing
Overheads
13. Sets up cables - holds second boom when necessary - and wrangles the cables when the boom operator follows a moving shot
Master Shot
Protagonist
Cable Wrangler
Master Shot
14. 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
Motivated Lighting
Parallel Action
Dramatization
Call Sheets
15. Transforming what is vague and internal into a series of viewable and audible actions and events
Overheads
Gaffer
Dramatization
Gaffer
16. A shot of a detail within your scene other than the characters' faces
Script Breakdown Sheet
Three Pre-Visualization Tools
Levels
Cutaway Shot
17. 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.
Call Sheets
Side Light
Parallel Action
Reverse Shots
18. 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
Green Room
Cable Wrangler
Four Basic Properties of Sound
Parallel Action
19. The movement of characters in the space
Blocking
Automatic Dialogue Replacement
Prime Lens
Reverse Shots
20. The person who pulls focus
Automatic Dialogue Replacement
Camera Setup
Location Scouting
Focus Puller
21. Organized process by which you schedule and work with a number of potential performers to determine their suitability to your film
Location Technical Survey
Setting Levels
Audition
1/3 - 2/3 Rule
22. This type of move breaks the promise of showing something else to the viewer
Rule of Thirds
Unmotivated Move
Talent Release
Setting Levels
23. All camera moves need to be...
Location Technical Survey
Unmotivated Move
Motivated Move
Shot Size
24. Dramatic Structure Matches - Content and Activity Matches - Matched Action Cuts - Graphic Matches - and Sound Bridges
Motivated Move
Five Ways to Create a Parallel Action Sequence
Cold Reading
Shooting (Lined) Script
25. Standard calling card. 8x10 photograph on one side and a resume on the other.
1/3 - 2/3 Rule
3/4 Back Light
Wild Sound (Non-Sync Sound)
Headshot/Bio
26. 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
Script Breakdown Sheet
Motivated Move
Lens Speed
27. Character - Goal - and Conflict or Obstacles
Blocking
Shot List
Three Essential Elements of Drama
Headroom
28. Soft light that fills in the shadows created by the Key Light
Protagonist
Location Technical Survey
Key Light
Fill Light
29. Measures the strength of the incoming signal.
Peak Meter
Author's Draft
Props
Audition
30. 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
Rule of Thirds
Shot Size
Headshot/Bio
Narrative Films
31. 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
Five Ways to Create a Parallel Action Sequence
3/4 Back Light
Elliptical Editing
Rule of Thirds
32. List of all the shots that make up the film in the order in which they will be shot
Parallel Action
Four Basic Elements in the Visual Language of Cinema
Shot List
Peak Meter
33. The range between -12dB and 0dB that gives a buffer for any unforeseen audio spikes
Call Sheets
Headshot/Bio
Combination Move
Headroom
34. 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.
Coverage
Reverse Shots
Low-Key Lighting
Treatment
35. Form used in film production to keep track of all the mise-en-sc
Side Light
Location Scouting
Audition
Script Breakdown Sheet
36. Simple but comprehensive prose description of a film's plot
Elliptical Editing
Automatic Dialogue Replacement
Cold Reading
Treatment
37. Process of combining the video and audio with the applied effect to create a new media file
Rendering
Lens Speed
Cutaway Shot
Call Sheets
38. Refers to the size of your subject in the frame
Shooting (Lined) Script
Gaffer
Dramatization
Shot Size
39. Adjusting the optical center back toward the focal plane causing the image to become more wide-angle
Fine Cut
Zooming Out
Headroom
Pulling Focus
40. Deciding where you want to shoot (the look - the access - the logistics - the sound - and securing it)
Treatment
Green Room
Four Basic Properties of Sound
Location Scouting
41. Soft light that fills in the shadows created by the Key Light
Ambient Sound
Peak Meter
Unmotivated Move
Fill Light
42. Lens that offers a continuous range of focal lengths in one lens housing
Zoom Lens (Variable Focal Length Lens)
Dramatization
Five Ways to Create a Parallel Action Sequence
Location Scouting
43. Lighting unit that is position 90
1/3 - 2/3 Rule
Low-Key Lighting
Motivated Lighting
Side Light
44. Hands-on lighting person who implements the lighting designs of the Director of Photography. In charge of setup and proper functioning of the lights.
Plot
Assistant Camera
Gaffer
Audition
45. Removing extraneous time and territory
Reverberation
Elliptical Editing
Cable Wrangler
Unmotivated Move
46. Transforming what is vague and internal into a series of viewable and audible actions and events
Rule of Thirds
Reverse Shots
Key Light
Dramatization
47. Measures the strength of the incoming signal.
Peak Meter
Master Shot
Director of Photography
Parallel Action
48. 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
Audition
Narrative Films
Cover-Set
Nondestructive Editing
49. Responsible for the proper use and actual placement of the microphones for optimal quality
Cold Reading
Gaffer
Narrative Films
Boom Operator
50. Deciding where you want to shoot (the look - the access - the logistics - the sound - and securing it)
Unmotivated Move
Location Scouting
Direct Address
Media File Indicators