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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. The stage during which all the shooting for a program is undertaken.
Angle of Elevation
Production
Pedestal mount
NTSC
2. creates great depth and interest
Lens
Pan
Iris
Foreground
3. Camera and video cable with a central insulted conducting wire and a concentrically arranged outer wire.
Coaxial Cable
AGC
VTR
Post-Production
4. combination of studio and field production. Sports - parades
Producer
Foreground
Lead room
Remotes
5. in control room
White Balance
ECU
Engineer
Pan
6. 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
Iris
Executive Producer
Tally light
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
Iris
Director
Stage Manager
Pan
8. 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
Lens
Set Production Designer
ECU
Angle of Elevation
9. The period of time - after individual program segments have been produced and recorded - when elements of a program are assembled.
Production
Post-Production
crane
Headroom
10. The person who makes sure the script is appearing on the right part of the prompter screen so the talent can read it properly.
dolly
Master Control
NTSC
Teleprompter Operartor
11. The person who frames the shots for a production. Must have knowledge of camera - lens - angles
Foreground
Rack focus
The Studio
Camera Operators
12. To move the camera and its mount closer to or farther from the subject.
Macro focus
Producer
dolly
VTR
13. 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
Digital
Angle of Elevation
14. The person in charge of the creative aspects of a production and all the procedures that occur in the studio or field.
Grunts
Director
Horizon Line
Producer
15. The ratio of the height of a television screen to its width.
ECU
Aspect Ratios
Standard Definition
Lead room
16. people who deliver lines
Talent
Foreground
HD
Pre-production
17. The person who determines the environment where the production takes place.
Coaxial Cable
Set Production Designer
Director
Standard Definition
18. 1) To pivot the camera vertically by pointing the camera mounting head up or down. 2) the shot produced by tilting a camera.
Lead room
Tilt
Stage Manager
The Studio
19. A person who deals with the look of sets and other artistic aspects of a television program.
Editor
crane
Field Production
Art Director
20. A series of digital television formats developed by the Advanced Television Systems Committee.
Lighting Director
Master Control
ATSC
Macro focus
21. A person who creates words - drawings and some visual effects that are incorporated with a production.
Control Room
Graphics Operator
Macro focus
Macro focus
22. Camcorder is essential because this is when you are filming outdoors or not in a studio. 'real world' shooting
Video Shader
Coaxial Cable
Field Production
Rule of thirds
23. A person who creates words - drawings and some visual effects that are incorporated with a production.
Graphics Operator
Macro focus
Interruptible Feedback
Iris
24. Interns - Cable Pullers - 2nd Assistant Directors
Grunts
Lead room
Graphics Operator
dolly
25. 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.
Rule of thirds
The Studio
trucking
CU
26. The person who assembles raw footage into a final program.
Post-Production
Engineer
Editor
Field Production
27. The ratio of the height of a television screen to its width.
HD
Aspect Ratios
Executive Producer
Field Production
28. The part of the lens that allows light to pass through.
Aspect Ratios
Iris
Stage Manager
How to focus a camera like a pro
29. in control room
Servo
Audio Operator (A1) (A2)
Engineer
O/S
30. Makes sure camera match - lighting
Executive Producer
Aspect Ratios
crane
Video Shader
31. A device used to record video and audio information onto a magnetic tape. Stands for videotape recorder
Associate Director
Angle of Elevation
VTR
Producer
32. Additional framing space in a camera picture on the side toward which a subject is looking or moving
O/S
Foreground
Post-Production
Lead room
33. 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.
Rule of thirds
Tilt
Headroom
dolly
34. A person who oversees several production.
Executive Producer
Audio Operator (A1) (A2)
VTR
Lead room
35. creates great depth and interest
Teleprompter Operartor
Set Production Designer
Production
Foreground
36. The part of a tape recorder or player that pulls the tape through the machine at the proper speed.
Servo
Executive Producer
long lens
Lighting Director
37. The original television standard approved in the United States in the 1940s. The letter stand for National Television System Committee.
long lens
Digital
NTSC
AGC
38. small red indicators on a camera to let the talent and camera operator know that the camera is on the air or recording
Tally light
The Studio
Stage Manager
Stage Manager
39. 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.
Tilt
White Balance
Pedestal mount
Camera Operators
40. ...
crane
How to focus a camera like a pro
Engineer
Editor
41. A camera shot that starts with one object in focus - then changes to focus on another object.
Director
Rack focus
Stage Manager
Tripod
42. 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
Set Production Designer
Coaxial Cable
Executive Producer
43. A view of the subject from a comfortable distance between a wide shot and close-up.
Pan
Firewire (IEE-1394)
Lighting Director
Medium Shot (head to toe)
44. Extreme close up- A very close shot of a person or object - used to intensify drama or show close detail.
ECU
Horizon Line
Angle of Elevation
Production
45. 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
Editor
HDTV
Interruptible Feedback
46. A camera view of the subject from a relatively great distance usually showing the subject in its entirety.
Post-Production
Director
Iris
long lens
47. A digital interface that allows the simultaneous transfer of audio and video information.
CU
Firewire (IEE-1394)
Performer Tips
Teleprompter Operartor
48. 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.
Rule of thirds
Director
Green Rooms
Lighting Director
49. The person who determines the environment where the production takes place.
ECU
ATSC
Set Production Designer
Field Production
50. 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.
Teleprompter Operartor
Camera Operators
White Balance
HD