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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. A method of representing video or audio signals using a 'wave' of continuously.
Teleprompter Operartor
Analog
trucking
Set Production Designer
2. The part of a tape recorder or player that pulls the tape through the machine at the proper speed.
AGC
dolly
Foreground
Servo
3. Additional framing space in a camera picture on the side toward which a subject is looking or moving
Lead room
O/S
Art Director
Talent
4. A person who oversees several production.
Foreground
Grunts
Servo
Executive Producer
5. The space between the top of a subjects head and the upper edge of the camera frame.
Headroom
Macro focus
Executive Producer
Tally light
6. A camera view of the subject from a relatively great distance usually showing the subject in its entirety.
Technical Director
long lens
Master Control
Pre-production
7. The person in charge of the creative aspects of a production and all the procedures that occur in the studio or field.
Art Director
CU
VTR
Director
8. 1) To turn a camera horizontally by rotating the camera mounting head. 2) The shot produced by panning a camera. 3) A rectangular floodlight
HDTV
Post-Production
Rack focus
Pan
9. The space between the top of a subjects head and the upper edge of the camera frame.
How to focus a camera like a pro
Production
Green Rooms
Headroom
10. 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.
Audio Operator (A1) (A2)
Pedestal mount
CU
Production
11. 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.
CU
AGC
Post-Production
HD
12. The stage during which all the shooting for a program is undertaken.
Horizon Line
O/S
Firewire (IEE-1394)
Production
13. The place in a studio complex where people who are about to appear on a TV show can wait.
Medium Shot (head to toe)
Art Director
Green Rooms
Engineer
14. creates great depth and interest
Foreground
AGC
Technical Director
HD
15. The area where all video signals are mixed. The director and technical director (and other crew members) control all program elements from this location.
Art Director
Control Room
Talent
Producer
16. The original television standard approved in the United States in the 1940s. The letter stand for National Television System Committee.
NTSC
Aspect Ratios
ECU
Associate Director
17. A person who deals with the look of sets and other artistic aspects of a television program.
Art Director
Performer Tips
Editor
CU
18. Pointing the camera down or up
Talent
Angle of Elevation
CU
CU
19. A feature found on some zoom lenses that allows the operator to focus on objects very close to the lens.
Macro focus
ATSC
Pre-production
Coaxial Cable
20. people who deliver lines
Aspect Ratios
Talent
Macro focus
Pedestal mount
21. A television format with more lines of resolution and a wider aspect ratio than standard-definition NTSC television.
HDTV
Camera Operators
Director
ECU
22. Program creation that takes place in a controlled environment meant for it - as opposed to production that takes place in the field
trucking
Studio Production
Digital
The Studio
23. A person who creates words - drawings and some visual effects that are incorporated with a production.
Lens
Lead room
Graphics Operator
Post-Production
24. A person who sets mics in a studio or location setting and/ or operates the audio console.
Audio Operator (A1) (A2)
dolly
Tilt
CU
25. Extreme close up- A very close shot of a person or object - used to intensify drama or show close detail.
ECU
Analog
Teleprompter Operartor
ATSC
26. Extreme close up- A very close shot of a person or object - used to intensify drama or show close detail.
ECU
Associate Director
Producer
Firewire (IEE-1394)
27. The person who determines the environment where the production takes place.
Interruptible Feedback
Set Production Designer
Aspect Ratios
Standard Definition
28. ...
Lens
How to focus a camera like a pro
Angle of Elevation
Performer Tips
29. The person who assembles raw footage into a final program.
Executive Producer
Camera Operators
Editor
Green Rooms
30. in control room
Engineer
Iris
The Studio
Lighting Director
31. A method of representing video or audio signals using a 'wave' of continuously.
Lead room
Firewire (IEE-1394)
Analog
Lens
32. Interns - Cable Pullers - 2nd Assistant Directors
Grunts
ATSC
Field Production
Servo
33. The person who determines the environment where the production takes place.
Long shot (head to toe)
Set Production Designer
Digital
Post-Production
34. small red indicators on a camera to let the talent and camera operator know that the camera is on the air or recording
Interruptible Feedback
ECU
Tally light
The Studio
35. To move the camera and its mount laterally to the right or left.
trucking
Control Room
Green Rooms
Coaxial Cable
36. Makes sure camera match - lighting
Coaxial Cable
Rack focus
Video Shader
Art Director
37. The part of the lens that allows light to pass through.
Remotes
Field Production
Long shot (head to toe)
Iris
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.
Engineer
AGC
Tilt
Executive Producer
39. Program creation that takes place in a controlled environment meant for it - as opposed to production that takes place in the field
Editor
Studio Production
VTR
Medium Shot (head to toe)
40. 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.
The Studio
Technical Director
CU
crane
41. To move the camera and its mount closer to or farther from the subject.
Digital
dolly
Studio Production
Horizon Line
42. Planning the project
crane
Green Rooms
dolly
Pre-production
43. The period of time - after individual program segments have been produced and recorded - when elements of a program are assembled.
Video Shader
Macro focus
Post-Production
Firewire (IEE-1394)
44. 1) To pivot the camera vertically by pointing the camera mounting head up or down. 2) the shot produced by tilting a camera.
Grunts
Control Room
Tilt
Remotes
45. A digital interface that allows the simultaneous transfer of audio and video information.
Rack focus
Audio Operator (A1) (A2)
Standard Definition
Firewire (IEE-1394)
46. A television format with more lines of resolution and a wider aspect ratio than standard-definition NTSC television.
White Balance
dolly
HD
Headroom
47. The person who makes sure the script is appearing on the right part of the prompter screen so the talent can read it properly.
Medium Shot (head to toe)
Rack focus
Digital
Teleprompter Operartor
48. A digital interface that allows the simultaneous transfer of audio and video information.
The Studio
Pedestal mount
Firewire (IEE-1394)
Analog
49. creates great depth and interest
HDTV
Set Production Designer
Foreground
White Balance
50. The part of a tape recorder or player that pulls the tape through the machine at the proper speed.
Executive Producer
Servo
Green Rooms
HD