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Audio Video Production Basics

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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. What does the establishing shot tell you?
Visual weight
Cross dissolve
When and where the movie is set.
Turning on wireframe

2. What mic is used to get dialogue on movie sets?
It restores all windows to standard layout view.
Turning on wireframe
P
Shotgun

3. Rule of pan...
Long shot
4 pin to 6 pin firewire
J
Start & stop on an end shot

4. What mic is used to get dialogue on movie sets?
It restores all windows to standard layout view.
Local
Shotgun
50mm

5. db stands for...
Its displayed width/it's displayed height
4 pin to 6 pin firewire
Decibells
Snapping

6. What does option are do?
It renders the footage.
Objective
Lavaliers
-6

7. mounted cam 'following' is...
When and where the movie is set.
4 pin to 6 pin firewire
Tracking pan
4 pin to 6 pin firewire

8. title safe and action safe were made by...
SMPTE
Animatics
Projectors
You right click above the patch panel.

9. how many times can you record on a tape before degration
9 times
ESC
When movies are shown full screen on a 4/3 tv
Apple l

10. Command and what key are the same?
Shotgun
90%
Mounted camera move
Command and apple are the same.

11. When the cam is further from the axis the viewer becomes more emotionally
Objective
Modifying text
Professionals
A cutaway

12. AIFF stands for...
Apple 8
Patch panel
Brings the speed changer up.
Audio Interchange File Format

13. when can you cross the axis
Brings the speed changer up.
A cutaway
When you show the footage of you crossing the axis
When movies are showed in widescreen on a 4/3 tv

14. HDTV standard ratio is...
Its displayed width/it's displayed height
Insert clip
16/9
When movies are shown full screen on a 4/3 tv

15. What do you press to play clip backwards?
16/9
Start & stop on an end shot
Command and apple are the same.
J

16. Headroom is a principle of...
It restores all windows to standard layout view.
Wide shot
Composition.
4 pin to 6 pin firewire

17. f9 is a shortcut for...
Removes in-point.
Passing over the imaginary axis
The arrangement of visual elements
Insert clip

18. Overscan is...

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19. What is the function of Control you
Cross dissolve
Wide shot
It restores all windows to standard layout view.
Humans - accessibility - power - sound

20. Pan and scan is...
50mm
Medium close up
When movies are shown full screen on a 4/3 tv
Humans - accessibility - power - sound

21. Shortcut to link is...
Local
Projectors
Apple l
Modifying text

22. What is the function of Control you
It restores all windows to standard layout view.
Lavaliers
Full screen
Local

23. A freeze frame without handles is how long?
10 sec.
Its displayed width/it's displayed height
NOW
P

24. Letterboxing is...
Passing over the imaginary axis
Shortcut for saving
Humans - accessibility - power - sound
When movies are showed in widescreen on a 4/3 tv

25. AIFF stands for...
Projectors
Locking mechanism
When and where the movie is set.
Audio Interchange File Format

26. What mics do newscasters typically use?
Snapping
Lavaliers
Modifying text
Cross dissolve

27. a location scout must be a...
Shotgun
Black
P
Local

28. Headroom is a principle of...
Composition.
Wide shot
Insert clip
Objective

29. Make sure of what before plugging in your fire wire
Removes in-point.
In the browser
That the cam is off
80%

30. What is Apple S?
Shortcut for saving
Black
Cross dissolve
Objective

31. What does the establishing shot tell you?
Tracking pan
When and where the movie is set.
Overwrite clip
16/9

32. usb transfers by
Group shot.
A cutaway
Packets
Mp3

33. Option i does what?
P
Removes in-point.
Mounted camera move
SMPTE

34. establishing shot is what kind of shot?
Shortcut for saving
Nope
Wide shot
P

35. What does option are do?
It renders the footage.
50mm
Cross dissolve
Patch panel

36. Crossing the line means...
Audio Interchange File Format
Nope
More informative - less artistic
Passing over the imaginary axis

37. Apple j does what?
No
Brings the speed changer up.
Animatics
Nope

38. the max volume you should start with on a project is...
-6
Apple 8
Lavaliers
Passing over the imaginary axis

39. What shot is used on newscasters?
Medium close up
50mm
Apple l
Long shot

40. n is a shortcut for...
Snapping
Medium close up
Overwrite clip
Command and apple are the same.

41. Do mics record sound in stereo?
16/9
When movies are shown full screen on a 4/3 tv
No
Humans - accessibility - power - sound

42. w is a shortcut for...
10 sec.
Mp3
Composition.
Turning on wireframe

43. Crossing the line means...
When movies are shown full screen on a 4/3 tv
The arrangement of visual elements
Passing over the imaginary axis
Audio Interchange File Format

44. When you film something other than the main characters - What is it?
Fcp
A cutaway
4 pin to 6 pin firewire
10 sec.

45. What program should you close before connecting cam with firewire?
Modifying text
Fcp
Mounted camera move
Passing over the imaginary axis

46. Default transition is...
90%
Insert clip
30 frames.
Cross dissolve

47. Make sure of what before plugging in your fire wire
Humans - accessibility - power - sound
That the cam is off
Decibells
Modifying text

48. Side glances give...
Patch panel
Professionals
Visual weight
Shortcut for saving

49. What is the aspect ratio of an image?

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50. Action safe percentage is...
90%
Packets
Mp3
Apple l