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Audio Video Production Basics

Instructions:

Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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Match each statement with the correct term.
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1. What do you press to play clip backwards?
Apple l
Locking mechanism
Part of the footage you can't see on screen.
J

2. What does the establishing shot tell you?
Snapping
When and where the movie is set.
Apple l
Turning on wireframe

3. What is Apple S?
16/9
Its displayed width/it's displayed height
Shortcut for saving
NOW

4. usb transfers by
Black
Overwrite clip
Packets
The arrangement of visual elements

5. f9 is a shortcut for...
Nope
ESC
Insert clip
Audio Interchange File Format

6. Overscan does not apply to...
Projectors
Removes in-point.
It renders the footage.
Humans - accessibility - power - sound

7. Title safe percentage is...
80%
Command and apple are the same.
NOW
Projectors

8. establishing shot is what kind of shot?
Turning on wireframe
Cross dissolve
Modifying text
Wide shot

9. What mic is used to get dialogue on movie sets?
Shotgun
A cutaway
Black
Start & stop on an end shot

10. Composition is...
The arrangement of visual elements
Shotgun
-6
Insert clip

11. To start capturing footage you depress what button
Insert clip
NOW
It renders the footage.
In the browser

12. Apple j does what?
Lucinda Grande.
Group shot.
Brings the speed changer up.
Nope

13. the max volume you should start with on a project is...
-6
Omni
10 sec.
Packets

14. a location scout must be a...
Local
Modifying text
Shortcut for saving
NOW

15. title safe and action safe were made by...
Lucinda Grande.
It renders the footage.
Snapping
SMPTE

16. What program should you close before connecting cam with firewire?
Full screen
P
Animatics
Fcp

17. title safe and action safe were made by...
SMPTE
Mounted camera move
Wide shot
Snapping

18. XLR cables are used by
Omni
Professionals
30 frames.
A cutaway

19. establishing shot is what kind of shot?
The arrangement of visual elements
Wide shot
Humans - accessibility - power - sound
Shortcut for saving

20. Where will you find source/ destination?
Patch panel
90%
Cross dissolve
Removes in-point.

21. Headroom is a principle of...
Composition.
Modifying text
Lucinda Grande.
4 pin to 6 pin firewire

22. What is 'pan and scan' on a 4/3 ration tv?
16/9
Full screen
Start & stop on an end shot
Lavaliers

23. Default transition is how many frames?
Shotgun
30 frames.
When you show the footage of you crossing the axis
90%

24. f9 is a shortcut for...
Insert clip
It restores all windows to standard layout view.
When you show the footage of you crossing the axis
Full screen

25. slug means ______ in fcp.
Black
Projectors
J
Command and apple are the same.

26. a shortcut for the pen tool is...
Composition.
P
Part of the footage you can't see on screen.
Snapping

27. ideal lens for location scout?
Turning on wireframe
4 pin to 6 pin firewire
Full screen
50mm

28. XLR cables are used by
Humans - accessibility - power - sound
Packets
Visual weight
Professionals

29. Rule of pan...
When movies are showed in widescreen on a 4/3 tv
Humans - accessibility - power - sound
-6
Start & stop on an end shot

30. Shortcut for log and capture
No
Apple 8
Part of the footage you can't see on screen.
Tracking pan

31. What is the function of Control you
That the cam is off
Medium close up
Passing over the imaginary axis
It restores all windows to standard layout view.

32. n is a shortcut for...
Snapping
Apple l
Lucinda Grande.
4 pin to 6 pin firewire

33. Pan and scan is...
When movies are shown full screen on a 4/3 tv
Medium close up
Snapping
Lavaliers

34. Make sure of what before plugging in your fire wire
That the cam is off
Patch panel
Animatics
When and where the movie is set.

35. Headroom is a principle of...
Turning on wireframe
Group shot.
Composition.
Omni

36. What shot is used on newscasters?
Medium close up
J
Black
When you show the footage of you crossing the axis

37. Composition is...
You right click above the patch panel.
10 sec.
J
The arrangement of visual elements

38. how many times can you record on a tape before degration
Composition.
Cross dissolve
16/9
9 times

39. What type of mics to reality shows use?
Passing over the imaginary axis
Lavaliers
-6
Audio Interchange File Format

40. shift z lets you...
Objective
View entire sequence
Wide shot
NOW

41. animated story boards are called...
Humans - accessibility - power - sound
Animatics
Snapping
Tracking pan

42. What do you press to play clip backwards?
J
Decibells
Overwrite clip
10 sec.

43. tttt means...
Part of the footage you can't see on screen.
Packets
16/9
All tracks forward

44. Overscan does not apply to...
Medium close up
Brings the speed changer up.
Lucinda Grande.
Projectors

45. w is a shortcut for...
10 sec.
Lavaliers
Turning on wireframe
Medium close up

46. Pan and scan is...
Local
When movies are shown full screen on a 4/3 tv
Brings the speed changer up.
Passing over the imaginary axis

47. usb transfers by
Mounted camera move
Modifying text
9 times
Packets

48. Crossing the line means...
Snapping
Passing over the imaginary axis
80%
Long shot

49. What shot is used on newscasters?
J
80%
Medium close up
Long shot

50. When you film something other than the main characters - What is it?
Start & stop on an end shot
A cutaway
Professionals
Shortcut for saving