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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 person who makes sure the script is appearing on the right part of the prompter screen so the talent can read it properly.
Iris
Tilt
trucking
Teleprompter Operartor
2. Indicates that the camera is level
Field Production
Performer Tips
ATSC
Horizon Line
3. 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
Horizon Line
Performer Tips
Field Production
4. 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.
Executive Producer
White Balance
The Studio
Long shot (head to toe)
5. in control room
Studio Production
Engineer
Studio Production
Field Production
6. A television format with more lines of resolution and a wider aspect ratio than standard-definition NTSC television.
Audio Operator (A1) (A2)
Camera Operators
HDTV
Tally light
7. 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.
Master Control
Production
CU
White Balance
8. The person who frames the shots for a production. Must have knowledge of camera - lens - angles
Camera Operators
ATSC
How to focus a camera like a pro
Tilt
9. The directors key assistant in charge of all production concerns on the floor. Example: communicate with talent
Teleprompter Operartor
Field Production
Pre-production
Stage Manager
10. The ratio of the height of a television screen to its width.
Servo
Macro focus
Aspect Ratios
Talent
11. A digital interface that allows the simultaneous transfer of audio and video information.
O/S
Stage Manager
Tilt
Firewire (IEE-1394)
12. Extreme close up- A very close shot of a person or object - used to intensify drama or show close detail.
Production
ECU
Horizon Line
Lighting Director
13. 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
VTR
ATSC
ECU
14. The person who oversees the lighting of the set and makes lighting changes - if they are needed - during production.
Rack focus
Lighting Director
Camera Operators
How to focus a camera like a pro
15. 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)
Digital
CU
Coaxial Cable
Field Production
16. Program creation that takes place in a controlled environment meant for it - as opposed to production that takes place in the field
Field Production
Rack focus
O/S
Studio Production
17. 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
Coaxial Cable
Angle of Elevation
Editor
Lens
18. A person who sets mics in a studio or location setting and/ or operates the audio console.
Servo
Engineer
Audio Operator (A1) (A2)
Director
19. 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
NTSC
Remotes
Producer
20. Sincerity - Organize--don't memorize cue cards - On camera clothing - Make-up and hair
Teleprompter Operartor
Horizon Line
Performer Tips
Medium Shot (head to toe)
21. Program creation that takes place in a controlled environment meant for it - as opposed to production that takes place in the field
Studio Production
Remotes
How to focus a camera like a pro
Stage Manager
22. The person who determines the environment where the production takes place.
ECU
White Balance
Executive Producer
Set Production Designer
23. 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
trucking
crane
Tally light
24. ...
ATSC
Lead room
How to focus a camera like a pro
Pedestal mount
25. The stage during which all the shooting for a program is undertaken.
Executive Producer
trucking
Production
ECU
26. An audio setup that allows the talent - wearing a small earpiece - to hear program audio or receive instruction from the director or someone.
Rack focus
Headroom
Pre-production
Interruptible Feedback
27. Planning the project
Pre-production
dolly
Teleprompter Operartor
Camera Operators
28. The part of the lens that allows light to pass through.
crane
Set Production Designer
Tripod
Iris
29. The place in a studio complex where people who are about to appear on a TV show can wait.
Green Rooms
Graphics Operator
Angle of Elevation
Engineer
30. Interns - Cable Pullers - 2nd Assistant Directors
Master Control
Tilt
AGC
Grunts
31. Pointing the camera down or up
Control Room
Art Director
Rule of thirds
Angle of Elevation
32. A person who creates words - drawings and some visual effects that are incorporated with a production.
Foreground
Graphics Operator
Art Director
Talent
33. A series of digital television formats developed by the Advanced Television Systems Committee.
AGC
Pre-production
Servo
ATSC
34. The person who frames the shots for a production. Must have knowledge of camera - lens - angles
Camera Operators
Interruptible Feedback
Iris
Coaxial Cable
35. Camcorder is essential because this is when you are filming outdoors or not in a studio. 'real world' shooting
Field Production
Grunts
Engineer
Standard Definition
36. To move the camera and its mount laterally to the right or left.
Producer
Executive Producer
Aspect Ratios
trucking
37. A series of digital television formats developed by the Advanced Television Systems Committee.
ATSC
Interruptible Feedback
White Balance
Lead room
38. 1) To pivot the camera vertically by pointing the camera mounting head up or down. 2) the shot produced by tilting a camera.
Digital
Grunts
Pre-production
Tilt
39. 1) To turn a camera horizontally by rotating the camera mounting head. 2) The shot produced by panning a camera. 3) A rectangular floodlight
Medium Shot (head to toe)
Rule of thirds
CU
Pan
40. 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)
The Studio
Digital
Video Shader
NTSC
41. A camera view of the subject from a relatively great distance usually showing the subject in its entirety.
O/S
Control Room
long lens
Headroom
42. 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
Lens
HDTV
Servo
43. The period of time - after individual program segments have been produced and recorded - when elements of a program are assembled.
Headroom
trucking
Remotes
Post-Production
44. 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.
Rule of thirds
HDTV
Remotes
crane
45. The person in charge of the creative aspects of a production and all the procedures that occur in the studio or field.
Remotes
Director
Lens
Servo
46. A person who oversees several production.
Firewire (IEE-1394)
Lens
Executive Producer
Tripod
47. The area where all video signals are mixed. The director and technical director (and other crew members) control all program elements from this location.
Remotes
Iris
Control Room
Lens
48. A television format with more lines of resolution and a wider aspect ratio than standard-definition NTSC television.
crane
HD
Macro focus
Headroom
49. To move the camera and its mount closer to or farther from the subject.
dolly
Video Shader
crane
Post-Production
50. Additional framing space in a camera picture on the side toward which a subject is looking or moving
Lead room
NTSC
Angle of Elevation
long lens