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TV Production Basics
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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Match each statement with the correct term.
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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. Camera and video cable with a central insulted conducting wire and a concentrically arranged outer wire.
ECU
Coaxial Cable
Standard Definition
Set Production Designer
2. 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.
White Balance
Camera Operators
Tilt
Servo
3. The person who assembles raw footage into a final program.
Stage Manager
Editor
Field Production
AGC
4. The person who frames the shots for a production. Must have knowledge of camera - lens - angles
Art Director
Camera Operators
long lens
Tilt
5. helps with routine stuff - anything the director needs - timing of production
Associate Director
Teleprompter Operartor
Director
Executive Producer
6. A television format with more lines of resolution and a wider aspect ratio than standard-definition NTSC television.
Tripod
HDTV
Art Director
Production
7. in control room
Engineer
Field Production
long lens
Servo
8. Interns - Cable Pullers - 2nd Assistant Directors
Grunts
Horizon Line
AGC
Talent
9. punched switcher
Technical Director
HDTV
Grunts
Remotes
10. A three legged camera mount - sometimes equipped with casters to facilitate camera movement.
Tripod
Green Rooms
Set Production Designer
Teleprompter Operartor
11. 1) To pivot the camera vertically by pointing the camera mounting head up or down. 2) the shot produced by tilting a camera.
Tilt
Stage Manager
Medium Shot (head to toe)
Aspect Ratios
12. The original television standard approved in the United States in the 1940s. The letter stand for National Television System Committee.
long lens
crane
The Studio
NTSC
13. An audio setup that allows the talent - wearing a small earpiece - to hear program audio or receive instruction from the director or someone.
Tripod
Interruptible Feedback
AGC
long lens
14. 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.
AGC
NTSC
trucking
Green Rooms
15. Over the shoulder
O/S
Technical Director
NTSC
trucking
16. helps with routine stuff - anything the director needs - timing of production
CU
Technical Director
Art Director
Associate Director
17. Camera and video cable with a central insulted conducting wire and a concentrically arranged outer wire.
Green Rooms
Tilt
Coaxial Cable
Rack focus
18. A camera mount - usually used in studio productions - that facilitates smooth movement of the camera across the studio floor and limited range of camera height adjustment.
HDTV
HDTV
Pedestal mount
Master Control
19. Indicates that the camera is level
Horizon Line
ECU
Iris
Associate Director
20. 1) A large camera mount with an extended boom arm for a camera and a seat for a camera operator - all placed on a large four-wheeled base. 2) To move the boom arm of a crane up and down.
Standard Definition
Master Control
crane
Pedestal mount
21. A feature found on some zoom lenses that allows the operator to focus on objects very close to the lens.
Executive Producer
Lighting Director
Macro focus
Green Rooms
22. A television format with more lines of resolution and a wider aspect ratio than standard-definition NTSC television.
HDTV
Master Control
Talent
Producer
23. A camera view of the subject from a relatively great distance usually showing the subject in its entirety.
Aspect Ratios
long lens
Producer
Iris
24. A person who creates words - drawings and some visual effects that are incorporated with a production.
The Studio
Graphics Operator
Grunts
Engineer
25. The primary engineering control center where all video and audio signals are ultimately channeled; program input - camera controls and transmitter distribution often are handled from this location.
Master Control
HDTV
Talent
Lighting Director
26. Sincerity - Organize--don't memorize cue cards - On camera clothing - Make-up and hair
Performer Tips
Aspect Ratios
VTR
Graphics Operator
27. 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)
Control Room
Digital
Talent
ATSC
28. A person who creates words - drawings and some visual effects that are incorporated with a production.
NTSC
Graphics Operator
long lens
CU
29. Program creation that takes place in a controlled environment meant for it - as opposed to production that takes place in the field
Studio Production
Rack focus
Production
Field Production
30. The space between the top of a subjects head and the upper edge of the camera frame.
Headroom
AGC
Graphics Operator
Associate Director
31. Extreme close up- A very close shot of a person or object - used to intensify drama or show close detail.
AGC
Firewire (IEE-1394)
ECU
Production
32. A feature found on some zoom lenses that allows the operator to focus on objects very close to the lens.
HD
ECU
Macro focus
Pedestal mount
33. 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
Firewire (IEE-1394)
Engineer
HDTV
34. To move the camera and its mount laterally to the right or left.
trucking
Technical Director
Interruptible Feedback
Control Room
35. creates great depth and interest
Associate Director
Tripod
Foreground
Pan
36. 1) To turn a camera horizontally by rotating the camera mounting head. 2) The shot produced by panning a camera. 3) A rectangular floodlight
Pan
Producer
Firewire (IEE-1394)
HD
37. 1) To pivot the camera vertically by pointing the camera mounting head up or down. 2) the shot produced by tilting a camera.
Producer
Talent
Tilt
Set Production Designer
38. A person who oversees several production.
Executive Producer
Grunts
O/S
ATSC
39. large room at least 20 feet by 30 feet without any posts obstructing its space. Best located on the ground floor. The space where all acting or performing takes place.
Grunts
Technical Director
Iris
The Studio
40. The place in a studio complex where people who are about to appear on a TV show can wait.
Field Production
Set Production Designer
Green Rooms
Lens
41. To move the camera and its mount closer to or farther from the subject.
Teleprompter Operartor
dolly
Grunts
NTSC
42. 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.
Firewire (IEE-1394)
Engineer
Headroom
White Balance
43. The primary engineering control center where all video and audio signals are ultimately channeled; program input - camera controls and transmitter distribution often are handled from this location.
Master Control
Standard Definition
Production
Lighting Director
44. The person who determines the environment where the production takes place.
Set Production Designer
HDTV
The Studio
NTSC
45. The directors key assistant in charge of all production concerns on the floor. Example: communicate with talent
Stage Manager
Audio Operator (A1) (A2)
Interruptible Feedback
Studio Production
46. A digital interface that allows the simultaneous transfer of audio and video information.
Firewire (IEE-1394)
Lead room
Pedestal mount
O/S
47. The space between the top of a subjects head and the upper edge of the camera frame.
Headroom
Camera Operators
Field Production
VTR
48. 1) A large camera mount with an extended boom arm for a camera and a seat for a camera operator - all placed on a large four-wheeled base. 2) To move the boom arm of a crane up and down.
Field Production
Engineer
Editor
crane
49. creates great depth and interest
Headroom
Foreground
Long shot (head to toe)
Studio Production
50. The person in charge of the creative aspects of a production and all the procedures that occur in the studio or field.
Talent
Interruptible Feedback
Director
Teleprompter Operartor