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TV Production Basics
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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. Sincerity - Organize--don't memorize cue cards - On camera clothing - Make-up and hair
Aspect Ratios
Interruptible Feedback
Video Shader
Performer Tips
2. Interns - Cable Pullers - 2nd Assistant Directors
Audio Operator (A1) (A2)
How to focus a camera like a pro
Grunts
Editor
3. combination of studio and field production. Sports - parades
Remotes
Long shot (head to toe)
crane
Performer Tips
4. A camera view of the subject from a relatively great distance - usually showing the subject in its entirety.
Art Director
Technical Director
Tripod
Long shot (head to toe)
5. Indicates that the camera is level
Producer
Producer
Engineer
Horizon Line
6. 1) To pivot the camera vertically by pointing the camera mounting head up or down. 2) the shot produced by tilting a camera.
Horizon Line
Headroom
Tilt
HD
7. Additional framing space in a camera picture on the side toward which a subject is looking or moving
Lead room
Master Control
Rack focus
Iris
8. A series of digital television formats developed by the Advanced Television Systems Committee.
Interruptible Feedback
ATSC
HDTV
Executive Producer
9. A person who oversees several production.
Camera Operators
Lighting Director
Executive Producer
Stage Manager
10. The period of time - after individual program segments have been produced and recorded - when elements of a program are assembled.
Post-Production
HD
The Studio
Grunts
11. The ratio of the height of a television screen to its width.
Producer
Aspect Ratios
Lead room
Art Director
12. The person who oversees the lighting of the set and makes lighting changes - if they are needed - during production.
Lighting Director
Tripod
ECU
crane
13. A person who sets mics in a studio or location setting and/ or operates the audio console.
Pre-production
Audio Operator (A1) (A2)
The Studio
Production
14. The directors key assistant in charge of all production concerns on the floor. Example: communicate with talent
Grunts
Stage Manager
Camera Operators
Producer
15. The ratio of the height of a television screen to its width.
Set Production Designer
Director
Green Rooms
Aspect Ratios
16. focual length determines how wide or narrow the viewing range (field of view) is. The longer the lens the more narrow the field of view - shorter lens gives wider shots
Lead room
Lens
VTR
CU
17. The creator and originator of a television program - usually in charge of elements such as writing - music clearance - financial considerations - and hiring the director.
Producer
Medium Shot (head to toe)
Editor
Interruptible Feedback
18. Makes sure camera match - lighting
Digital
Video Shader
Studio Production
Post-Production
19. With the advent of high- definition television - this term is used to refer to NTSC television and ATSC formats that have a 4:3 aspect ration.
Performer Tips
Standard Definition
Tilt
Horizon Line
20. The space between the top of a subjects head and the upper edge of the camera frame.
Headroom
HDTV
Art Director
crane
21. The original television standard approved in the United States in the 1940s. The letter stand for National Television System Committee.
NTSC
trucking
Control Room
Angle of Elevation
22. A person who creates words - drawings and some visual effects that are incorporated with a production.
Foreground
Horizon Line
Graphics Operator
Aspect Ratios
23. The area where all video signals are mixed. The director and technical director (and other crew members) control all program elements from this location.
Pedestal mount
Stage Manager
Art Director
Control Room
24. Extreme close up- A very close shot of a person or object - used to intensify drama or show close detail.
Talent
White Balance
Macro focus
ECU
25. A person who deals with the look of sets and other artistic aspects of a television program.
Interruptible Feedback
Remotes
Macro focus
Art Director
26. A digital interface that allows the simultaneous transfer of audio and video information.
Studio Production
Firewire (IEE-1394)
trucking
Medium Shot (head to toe)
27. A camera view of the subject from a relatively great distance usually showing the subject in its entirety.
Long shot (head to toe)
long lens
Graphics Operator
Green Rooms
28. Automatic gain control. An internal control device - for either audio or video signals - that automatically increases or decreases the strength of the incoming sound of picture to maintain optimum strength.
dolly
Servo
Interruptible Feedback
AGC
29. A method of representing video or audio signals that uses discrete 'on' and 'off' pulses. The value of a digital signal at any point can be either 'off'(0) or 'on'(1)
long lens
Digital
Talent
Tilt
30. A camera shot that starts with one object in focus - then changes to focus on another object.
Rack focus
Macro focus
trucking
Engineer
31. A method of representing video or audio signals using a 'wave' of continuously.
Analog
Standard Definition
Lead room
Editor
32. A digital interface that allows the simultaneous transfer of audio and video information.
Firewire (IEE-1394)
Digital
Pedestal mount
Tilt
33. An electronic adjustment of a camera to compensate for differences in color temperatures so that a pure white object will appear on-screen as pure white.
Pre-production
trucking
White Balance
Performer Tips
34. The directors key assistant in charge of all production concerns on the floor. Example: communicate with talent
Control Room
Editor
Stage Manager
Analog
35. A view of the subject from a comfortable distance between a wide shot and close-up.
long lens
Tally light
Rule of thirds
Medium Shot (head to toe)
36. The person in charge of the creative aspects of a production and all the procedures that occur in the studio or field.
Director
White Balance
Executive Producer
Tally light
37. A device used to record video and audio information onto a magnetic tape. Stands for videotape recorder
Rack focus
VTR
Associate Director
Control Room
38. Automatic gain control. An internal control device - for either audio or video signals - that automatically increases or decreases the strength of the incoming sound of picture to maintain optimum strength.
Angle of Elevation
crane
Standard Definition
AGC
39. The place in a studio complex where people who are about to appear on a TV show can wait.
Director
Green Rooms
Headroom
Servo
40. Makes sure camera match - lighting
Horizon Line
Firewire (IEE-1394)
Video Shader
Talent
41. combination of studio and field production. Sports - parades
Remotes
Engineer
Executive Producer
Pedestal mount
42. The part of the lens that allows light to pass through.
Headroom
Tilt
Producer
Iris
43. Close up- A view of a subject from a relatively short distance. A close-up of a person - for instance - might include only the person's face.
Producer
CU
Rack focus
Remotes
44. A person who creates words - drawings and some visual effects that are incorporated with a production.
Rack focus
crane
Director
Graphics Operator
45. With the advent of high- definition television - this term is used to refer to NTSC television and ATSC formats that have a 4:3 aspect ration.
Long shot (head to toe)
Foreground
Production
Standard Definition
46. A camera shot that starts with one object in focus - then changes to focus on another object.
Rack focus
Pan
The Studio
O/S
47. A television format with more lines of resolution and a wider aspect ratio than standard-definition NTSC television.
ECU
Field Production
HD
NTSC
48. The part of the lens that allows light to pass through.
Firewire (IEE-1394)
Iris
Digital
Video Shader
49. A device used to record video and audio information onto a magnetic tape. Stands for videotape recorder
NTSC
VTR
Firewire (IEE-1394)
Engineer
50. A camera view of the subject from a relatively great distance - usually showing the subject in its entirety.
Iris
Teleprompter Operartor
long lens
Long shot (head to toe)