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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. Sincerity - Organize--don't memorize cue cards - On camera clothing - Make-up and hair
Performer Tips
Camera Operators
Rack focus
Production
2. A device used to record video and audio information onto a magnetic tape. Stands for videotape recorder
White Balance
Grunts
Art Director
VTR
3. Camcorder is essential because this is when you are filming outdoors or not in a studio. 'real world' shooting
Tilt
Long shot (head to toe)
Field Production
Grunts
4. The person who frames the shots for a production. Must have knowledge of camera - lens - angles
Digital
Engineer
Grunts
Camera Operators
5. A three legged camera mount - sometimes equipped with casters to facilitate camera movement.
Remotes
Coaxial Cable
Tripod
Standard Definition
6. ...
How to focus a camera like a pro
HD
Pre-production
Rule of thirds
7. A method of representing video or audio signals using a 'wave' of continuously.
Video Shader
Foreground
Analog
White Balance
8. punched switcher
Remotes
Talent
Technical Director
NTSC
9. 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.
Interruptible Feedback
Rule of thirds
Tally light
Pedestal mount
10. Extreme close up- A very close shot of a person or object - used to intensify drama or show close detail.
Art Director
Production
Coaxial Cable
ECU
11. 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.
dolly
Standard Definition
How to focus a camera like a pro
Green Rooms
12. A camera view of the subject from a relatively great distance - usually showing the subject in its entirety.
Long shot (head to toe)
Remotes
Analog
Tilt
13. people who deliver lines
trucking
Pre-production
Talent
Analog
14. The person who makes sure the script is appearing on the right part of the prompter screen so the talent can read it properly.
Teleprompter Operartor
Stage Manager
Standard Definition
crane
15. combination of studio and field production. Sports - parades
Remotes
Set Production Designer
Medium Shot (head to toe)
AGC
16. people who deliver lines
Iris
Coaxial Cable
Talent
Art Director
17. A person who oversees several production.
Grunts
Executive Producer
ECU
ATSC
18. 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.
The Studio
Lighting Director
VTR
White Balance
19. 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.
Pan
Set Production Designer
long lens
Standard Definition
20. A method of representing video or audio signals using a 'wave' of continuously.
Analog
Servo
Master Control
Pre-production
21. A person who oversees several production.
Tripod
Executive Producer
dolly
Angle of Elevation
22. 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.
Tally light
crane
VTR
Executive Producer
23. To move the camera and its mount closer to or farther from the subject.
Pedestal mount
Coaxial Cable
dolly
Camera Operators
24. A digital interface that allows the simultaneous transfer of audio and video information.
HDTV
Lighting Director
Interruptible Feedback
Firewire (IEE-1394)
25. Program creation that takes place in a controlled environment meant for it - as opposed to production that takes place in the field
Studio Production
ATSC
Rack focus
Production
26. 1) To pivot the camera vertically by pointing the camera mounting head up or down. 2) the shot produced by tilting a camera.
Production
Tripod
Talent
Tilt
27. Camera and video cable with a central insulted conducting wire and a concentrically arranged outer wire.
Tilt
Master Control
Coaxial Cable
dolly
28. The part of a tape recorder or player that pulls the tape through the machine at the proper speed.
Pre-production
Servo
Firewire (IEE-1394)
Pedestal mount
29. 1) To turn a camera horizontally by rotating the camera mounting head. 2) The shot produced by panning a camera. 3) A rectangular floodlight
VTR
Interruptible Feedback
Pan
Tally light
30. 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.
Standard Definition
AGC
Post-Production
Performer Tips
31. The person who determines the environment where the production takes place.
Set Production Designer
Rack focus
Studio Production
The Studio
32. The area where all video signals are mixed. The director and technical director (and other crew members) control all program elements from this location.
Aspect Ratios
trucking
Control Room
Firewire (IEE-1394)
33. helps with routine stuff - anything the director needs - timing of production
Grunts
Aspect Ratios
Associate Director
Post-Production
34. A camera shot that starts with one object in focus - then changes to focus on another object.
Stage Manager
Field Production
Rack focus
Tripod
35. Camera and video cable with a central insulted conducting wire and a concentrically arranged outer wire.
Tripod
Coaxial Cable
Pre-production
Tripod
36. A camera view of the subject from a relatively great distance usually showing the subject in its entirety.
Horizon Line
Video Shader
long lens
Lead room
37. The directors key assistant in charge of all production concerns on the floor. Example: communicate with talent
Stage Manager
Servo
Producer
Medium Shot (head to toe)
38. A person who sets mics in a studio or location setting and/ or operates the audio console.
Audio Operator (A1) (A2)
Servo
Stage Manager
trucking
39. The area where all video signals are mixed. The director and technical director (and other crew members) control all program elements from this location.
Studio Production
Macro focus
Technical Director
Control Room
40. 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
Medium Shot (head to toe)
Engineer
Talent
41. Over the shoulder
VTR
Control Room
crane
O/S
42. A television format with more lines of resolution and a wider aspect ratio than standard-definition NTSC television.
Remotes
Video Shader
Teleprompter Operartor
HDTV
43. The person in charge of the creative aspects of a production and all the procedures that occur in the studio or field.
Iris
Director
CU
Macro focus
44. The place in a studio complex where people who are about to appear on a TV show can wait.
Green Rooms
Camera Operators
Coaxial Cable
Master Control
45. 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.
Lens
Interruptible Feedback
Iris
The Studio
46. A series of digital television formats developed by the Advanced Television Systems Committee.
ATSC
Post-Production
Pedestal mount
Graphics Operator
47. 1) To pivot the camera vertically by pointing the camera mounting head up or down. 2) the shot produced by tilting a camera.
Servo
crane
Tilt
Long shot (head to toe)
48. The person who assembles raw footage into a final program.
HD
Post-Production
Editor
Camera Operators
49. 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.
Studio Production
Video Shader
Lighting Director
Rule of thirds
50. 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.
Field Production
CU
Control Room
Tilt