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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. 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.
The Studio
Video Shader
Camera Operators
Engineer
2. The part of a tape recorder or player that pulls the tape through the machine at the proper speed.
trucking
White Balance
AGC
Servo
3. Program creation that takes place in a controlled environment meant for it - as opposed to production that takes place in the field
Engineer
Tilt
Tally light
Studio Production
4. The area where all video signals are mixed. The director and technical director (and other crew members) control all program elements from this location.
HD
Tripod
Aspect Ratios
Control Room
5. Camcorder is essential because this is when you are filming outdoors or not in a studio. 'real world' shooting
Aspect Ratios
Engineer
Field Production
Tripod
6. A person who creates words - drawings and some visual effects that are incorporated with a production.
Studio Production
Graphics Operator
Macro focus
Post-Production
7. 1) To turn a camera horizontally by rotating the camera mounting head. 2) The shot produced by panning a camera. 3) A rectangular floodlight
Grunts
Pan
Standard Definition
O/S
8. Program creation that takes place in a controlled environment meant for it - as opposed to production that takes place in the field
Studio Production
Long shot (head to toe)
Lens
Lead room
9. The person who assembles raw footage into a final program.
Green Rooms
Editor
Graphics Operator
Green Rooms
10. A person who oversees several production.
Executive Producer
ATSC
Production
White Balance
11. A series of digital television formats developed by the Advanced Television Systems Committee.
How to focus a camera like a pro
How to focus a camera like a pro
ATSC
Video Shader
12. A camera view of the subject from a relatively great distance usually showing the subject in its entirety.
dolly
Firewire (IEE-1394)
Pan
long lens
13. 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.
White Balance
Foreground
The Studio
Iris
14. 1) To pivot the camera vertically by pointing the camera mounting head up or down. 2) the shot produced by tilting a camera.
Control Room
Teleprompter Operartor
Tilt
Pre-production
15. Camera and video cable with a central insulted conducting wire and a concentrically arranged outer wire.
Long shot (head to toe)
VTR
Coaxial Cable
Production
16. Extreme close up- A very close shot of a person or object - used to intensify drama or show close detail.
CU
ECU
HDTV
Associate Director
17. To move the camera and its mount laterally to the right or left.
O/S
Headroom
Pre-production
trucking
18. The person in charge of the creative aspects of a production and all the procedures that occur in the studio or field.
Director
Lead room
dolly
Green Rooms
19. 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.
Pedestal mount
Tripod
Digital
AGC
20. 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.
Talent
crane
Horizon Line
AGC
21. Planning the project
Pre-production
Set Production Designer
Executive Producer
Interruptible Feedback
22. Indicates that the camera is level
Horizon Line
Technical Director
dolly
Performer Tips
23. The person who oversees the lighting of the set and makes lighting changes - if they are needed - during production.
Camera Operators
Performer Tips
Lighting Director
Stage Manager
24. helps with routine stuff - anything the director needs - timing of production
Set Production Designer
Rule of thirds
How to focus a camera like a pro
Associate Director
25. A view of the subject from a comfortable distance between a wide shot and close-up.
Camera Operators
Medium Shot (head to toe)
Set Production Designer
Horizon Line
26. The part of the lens that allows light to pass through.
Iris
Teleprompter Operartor
Associate Director
crane
27. The directors key assistant in charge of all production concerns on the floor. Example: communicate with talent
Stage Manager
Digital
AGC
ATSC
28. small red indicators on a camera to let the talent and camera operator know that the camera is on the air or recording
Director
Tally light
Standard Definition
long lens
29. punched switcher
Medium Shot (head to toe)
Horizon Line
Lighting Director
Technical Director
30. 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.
Standard Definition
Tally light
VTR
Associate Director
31. 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.
crane
Interruptible Feedback
Executive Producer
AGC
32. A series of digital television formats developed by the Advanced Television Systems Committee.
Field Production
ATSC
Camera Operators
Lens
33. The part of a tape recorder or player that pulls the tape through the machine at the proper speed.
The Studio
Lighting Director
ATSC
Servo
34. The person in charge of the creative aspects of a production and all the procedures that occur in the studio or field.
trucking
HD
Director
Producer
35. The person who makes sure the script is appearing on the right part of the prompter screen so the talent can read it properly.
Coaxial Cable
Digital
O/S
Teleprompter Operartor
36. The period of time - after individual program segments have been produced and recorded - when elements of a program are assembled.
Post-Production
Aspect Ratios
How to focus a camera like a pro
How to focus a camera like a pro
37. 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.
Grunts
Tripod
Master Control
Headroom
38. The space between the top of a subjects head and the upper edge of the camera frame.
Teleprompter Operartor
Coaxial Cable
Pan
Headroom
39. A method of representing video or audio signals using a 'wave' of continuously.
Engineer
Pan
Analog
Stage Manager
40. combination of studio and field production. Sports - parades
Remotes
Performer Tips
Audio Operator (A1) (A2)
Horizon Line
41. An audio setup that allows the talent - wearing a small earpiece - to hear program audio or receive instruction from the director or someone.
Interruptible Feedback
AGC
Engineer
Audio Operator (A1) (A2)
42. The directors key assistant in charge of all production concerns on the floor. Example: communicate with talent
Engineer
Master Control
Editor
Stage Manager
43. The person who oversees the lighting of the set and makes lighting changes - if they are needed - during production.
Tripod
The Studio
Lighting Director
Art Director
44. A three legged camera mount - sometimes equipped with casters to facilitate camera movement.
Control Room
HDTV
trucking
Tripod
45. A camera view of the subject from a relatively great distance - usually showing the subject in its entirety.
Long shot (head to toe)
trucking
Macro focus
Tripod
46. Additional framing space in a camera picture on the side toward which a subject is looking or moving
Lead room
long lens
Grunts
Control Room
47. Planning the project
Graphics Operator
Pre-production
long lens
Post-Production
48. Over the shoulder
Tally light
Master Control
Technical Director
O/S
49. A feature found on some zoom lenses that allows the operator to focus on objects very close to the lens.
Interruptible Feedback
Long shot (head to toe)
Technical Director
Macro focus
50. Interns - Cable Pullers - 2nd Assistant Directors
Grunts
Tally light
Field Production
Camera Operators