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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. The directors key assistant in charge of all production concerns on the floor. Example: communicate with talent
Set Production Designer
Remotes
Rack focus
Stage Manager
2. The person who oversees the lighting of the set and makes lighting changes - if they are needed - during production.
Lead room
Rule of thirds
Lighting Director
O/S
3. A person who oversees several production.
Executive Producer
Talent
Aspect Ratios
Tally light
4. The person who determines the environment where the production takes place.
Pan
Engineer
ECU
Set Production Designer
5. A method of representing video or audio signals using a 'wave' of continuously.
Analog
long lens
Master Control
Servo
6. ...
Grunts
How to focus a camera like a pro
VTR
Engineer
7. The part of the lens that allows light to pass through.
Headroom
Iris
Performer Tips
dolly
8. creates great depth and interest
Analog
Macro focus
Aspect Ratios
Foreground
9. To move the camera and its mount laterally to the right or left.
trucking
Macro focus
Foreground
HD
10. 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
Servo
Stage Manager
Long shot (head to toe)
11. 1) To turn a camera horizontally by rotating the camera mounting head. 2) The shot produced by panning a camera. 3) A rectangular floodlight
Studio Production
Set Production Designer
Pan
CU
12. The area where all video signals are mixed. The director and technical director (and other crew members) control all program elements from this location.
Control Room
The Studio
Lighting Director
Associate Director
13. helps with routine stuff - anything the director needs - timing of production
Master Control
Executive Producer
Headroom
Associate Director
14. 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)
dolly
Talent
Digital
Rack focus
15. The person in charge of the creative aspects of a production and all the procedures that occur in the studio or field.
Graphics Operator
Director
VTR
Aspect Ratios
16. A person who sets mics in a studio or location setting and/ or operates the audio console.
Audio Operator (A1) (A2)
Producer
Studio Production
O/S
17. A person who deals with the look of sets and other artistic aspects of a television program.
Art Director
dolly
Foreground
ECU
18. The period of time - after individual program segments have been produced and recorded - when elements of a program are assembled.
Medium Shot (head to toe)
CU
Green Rooms
Post-Production
19. Camera and video cable with a central insulted conducting wire and a concentrically arranged outer wire.
Coaxial Cable
Aspect Ratios
Remotes
Green Rooms
20. A series of digital television formats developed by the Advanced Television Systems Committee.
ATSC
Analog
Interruptible Feedback
Producer
21. To move the camera and its mount closer to or farther from the subject.
dolly
long lens
Rule of thirds
Studio Production
22. A digital interface that allows the simultaneous transfer of audio and video information.
Graphics Operator
Pre-production
Firewire (IEE-1394)
Aspect Ratios
23. To move the camera and its mount laterally to the right or left.
Pan
Lighting Director
Performer Tips
trucking
24. in control room
Engineer
Remotes
Horizon Line
Video Shader
25. The creator and originator of a television program - usually in charge of elements such as writing - music clearance - financial considerations - and hiring the director.
Stage Manager
Analog
Producer
Pre-production
26. The directors key assistant in charge of all production concerns on the floor. Example: communicate with talent
Producer
Stage Manager
Coaxial Cable
Set Production Designer
27. Interns - Cable Pullers - 2nd Assistant Directors
Grunts
Tripod
O/S
Angle of Elevation
28. A view of the subject from a comfortable distance between a wide shot and close-up.
Teleprompter Operartor
Medium Shot (head to toe)
Iris
Remotes
29. 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.
Coaxial Cable
Standard Definition
Editor
Pedestal mount
30. A series of digital television formats developed by the Advanced Television Systems Committee.
Technical Director
ATSC
Graphics Operator
Lead room
31. Sincerity - Organize--don't memorize cue cards - On camera clothing - Make-up and hair
Performer Tips
Remotes
Executive Producer
Field Production
32. Over the shoulder
The Studio
O/S
dolly
Rule of thirds
33. Additional framing space in a camera picture on the side toward which a subject is looking or moving
Lead room
Lens
Associate Director
Pre-production
34. A feature found on some zoom lenses that allows the operator to focus on objects very close to the lens.
ATSC
Technical Director
Tilt
Macro focus
35. The part of a tape recorder or player that pulls the tape through the machine at the proper speed.
Medium Shot (head to toe)
trucking
Post-Production
Servo
36. A digital interface that allows the simultaneous transfer of audio and video information.
Firewire (IEE-1394)
Tilt
Foreground
Audio Operator (A1) (A2)
37. A feature found on some zoom lenses that allows the operator to focus on objects very close to the lens.
Video Shader
Interruptible Feedback
The Studio
Macro focus
38. The place in a studio complex where people who are about to appear on a TV show can wait.
Remotes
Stage Manager
Art Director
Green Rooms
39. Camera and video cable with a central insulted conducting wire and a concentrically arranged outer wire.
Headroom
Control Room
Lead room
Coaxial Cable
40. Pointing the camera down or up
Digital
Interruptible Feedback
Angle of Elevation
Field Production
41. A principle of composition that divides the TV screen into thirds - horizontally and vertically and places objects of interest at the points where the lines intersect.
Horizon Line
Engineer
Rule of thirds
Field Production
42. Extreme close up- A very close shot of a person or object - used to intensify drama or show close detail.
Remotes
Control Room
Tilt
ECU
43. Indicates that the camera is level
HD
Macro focus
Horizon Line
Coaxial Cable
44. The part of a tape recorder or player that pulls the tape through the machine at the proper speed.
Standard Definition
Servo
Tilt
Graphics Operator
45. Makes sure camera match - lighting
Control Room
CU
Editor
Video Shader
46. Program creation that takes place in a controlled environment meant for it - as opposed to production that takes place in the field
Studio Production
AGC
Camera Operators
ATSC
47. 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)
Production
Producer
Digital
Director
48. Program creation that takes place in a controlled environment meant for it - as opposed to production that takes place in the field
Pre-production
Studio Production
Horizon Line
NTSC
49. A camera shot that starts with one object in focus - then changes to focus on another object.
ECU
Rack focus
Editor
Producer
50. The area where all video signals are mixed. The director and technical director (and other crew members) control all program elements from this location.
Control Room
Angle of Elevation
Pedestal mount
Talent