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Audio Video 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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1. when can you cross the axis
Mp3
Fcp
When movies are shown full screen on a 4/3 tv
When you show the footage of you crossing the axis

2. title safe and action safe were made by...
Cross dissolve
Lavaliers
When you show the footage of you crossing the axis
SMPTE

3. slug means ______ in fcp.
Full screen
Black
Locking mechanism
50mm

4. the max volume you should start with on a project is...
Insert clip
Local
-6
When and where the movie is set.

5. When you film something other than the main characters - What is it?
Group shot.
Visual weight
When movies are showed in widescreen on a 4/3 tv
A cutaway

6. What program should you close before connecting cam with firewire?
Group shot.
Professionals
Decibells
Fcp

7. Rule of pan...
Black
Projectors
Black
Start & stop on an end shot

8. tilt is a...
Lavaliers
Shortcut for saving
Mounted camera move
10 sec.

9. Crossing the line means...
Humans - accessibility - power - sound
Passing over the imaginary axis
Insert clip
All tracks forward

10. title safe and action safe were made by...
Insert clip
Its displayed width/it's displayed height
SMPTE
Overwrite clip

11. What is the aspect ratio of an image?

12. What is Apple S?
Lucinda Grande.
Objective
When you show the footage of you crossing the axis
Shortcut for saving

13. Make sure of what before plugging in your fire wire
Wide shot
That the cam is off
When movies are showed in widescreen on a 4/3 tv
When movies are shown full screen on a 4/3 tv

14. n is a shortcut for...
Insert clip
4 pin to 6 pin firewire
You right click above the patch panel.
Snapping

15. establishing shot is what kind of shot?
Passing over the imaginary axis
Wide shot
Black
Objective

16. What type of mics to reality shows use?
Lavaliers
That the cam is off
Cross dissolve
Its displayed width/it's displayed height

17. a shortcut for the pen tool is...
P
Lavaliers
90%
Audio Interchange File Format

18. What comes after 4-shot?
Part of the footage you can't see on screen.
Nope
It restores all windows to standard layout view.
Group shot.

19. shift z lets you...
Nope
Apple 8
View entire sequence
It restores all windows to standard layout view.

20. Letterboxing is...
When movies are showed in widescreen on a 4/3 tv
90%
Visual weight
Omni

21. When you film something other than the main characters - What is it?
Omni
Turning on wireframe
A cutaway
Start & stop on an end shot

22. Pan and scan is...
16/9
When movies are shown full screen on a 4/3 tv
Start & stop on an end shot
P

23. Overscan is...

24. What shot is used on newscasters?
That the cam is off
A cutaway
Decibells
Medium close up

25. What mic captures sounds all around it?
10 sec.
Patch panel
Omni
Composition.

26. where are master footage files located?
Start & stop on an end shot
Lavaliers
Lucinda Grande.
In the browser

27. When the cam is further from the axis the viewer becomes more emotionally
Long shot
9 times
Start & stop on an end shot
Objective

28. Shortcut to link is...
Full screen
Animatics
Apple l
More informative - less artistic

29. Apple j does what?
Animatics
Brings the speed changer up.
Cross dissolve
30 frames.

30. f9 is a shortcut for...
Insert clip
Modifying text
NOW
Objective

31. What mic is used to get dialogue on movie sets?
Omni
NOW
Shotgun
Brings the speed changer up.

32. w is a shortcut for...
P
Lavaliers
Turning on wireframe
-6

33. What does the establishing shot tell you?
Command and apple are the same.
When and where the movie is set.
80%
Nope

34. What does option are do?
When movies are shown full screen on a 4/3 tv
Locking mechanism
All tracks forward
It renders the footage.

35. Do mics record sound in stereo?
Nope
No
Apple 8
It renders the footage.

36. What does the establishing shot tell you?
Lavaliers
When and where the movie is set.
Command and apple are the same.
Shortcut for saving

37. What is Apple S?
Professionals
Decibells
SMPTE
Shortcut for saving

38. mounted cam 'following' is...
Animatics
Tracking pan
P
Medium close up

39. HAPS stands for...
50mm
That the cam is off
Humans - accessibility - power - sound
Patch panel

40. To start capturing footage you depress what button
NOW
View entire sequence
When movies are shown full screen on a 4/3 tv
Its displayed width/it's displayed height

41. AIFF stands for...
When movies are shown full screen on a 4/3 tv
30 frames.
80%
Audio Interchange File Format

42. XLR cables have a...
Locking mechanism
Shortcut for saving
Lavaliers
It renders the footage.

43. Overscan does not apply to...
80%
Projectors
When you show the footage of you crossing the axis
Overwrite clip

44. f10 is a shortcut for...
Shotgun
Modifying text
Medium close up
Overwrite clip

45. how many times can you record on a tape before degration
Mounted camera move
9 times
Overwrite clip
You right click above the patch panel.

46. Default transition is how many frames?
30 frames.
Lavaliers
Part of the footage you can't see on screen.
Patch panel

47. Where will you find source/ destination?
Patch panel
Shotgun
You right click above the patch panel.
Start & stop on an end shot

48. tilt is a...
90%
Passing over the imaginary axis
Mounted camera move
Humans - accessibility - power - sound

49. What is 'pan and scan' on a 4/3 ration tv?
Objective
Full screen
Tracking pan
Black

50. Composition is...
Shortcut for saving
The arrangement of visual elements
Snapping
Full screen