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Basic Video Production
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Subject
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engineeering
Instructions:
Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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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. Disrupt the arrangement of air molecules
Sound Waves
Overlapping Action
Balance
focal length of a wide angle lens
2. Higher pitch and frequency
Three point lighting
Smaller Wavelength =
Male end
Timbre
3. Decibels (dB)
Frequency Measurement
Aspect Ratio
Loudness measurement
Cutting-on-Action
4. Made up by the sound effects editor - Indicates a what point in the movie each effect should be placed
Spotting Sheet
Formula for figuring the f-stop
advantages of DSLR
Server
5. Disrupt the arrangement of air molecules
Omnidirectional Microphone
Timing Sheet
Classic Hollywood Editing
Sound Waves
6. Recorded in a similar way to ADR - Help explain complicated processes - indicate What a person is thinking - represent someone's conscience - or comment on What is occurring in the picture
Light is a form of...
Voice-Overs
Sound Waves
Female end
7. Pre-production
The cheapest part of movie making
B-Roll
Zoom Recorder
Amplitude
8. The more light reaches film
Room Tone
Sweetening
The greater the size of the aperture opening...
Track
9. The equivalent of quotes in a story - Person speaking on the screen
Pitch
Three-to-one Rule
How do you fix Room Tone?
Bites (Sound Bite)
10. Two basic systems of light metering used in cinematography
Performance Continuity
Ambient Sounds
incident and reflected
Aperture
11. tinted blue - 5500 degrees Kelvin - outside lighting
Close-up
DAT
Daylight
Bidirectional Microphone
12. Record all the music in a control room
focal length of a wide angle lens
Proximity Effect
Jump Cut
Score Mixers
13. Refers to making the audio sound better - You may fix sound of some dialogue by bringing in the sound from another shot that wasn't used in the film or replacing a word through ADR
Loudness measurement
Frequency Measurement
Room Tone
Sweetening
14. Uses a diaphragm - Robust - NO power required - Not so efficient
Dynamic Microphone
Focal length
Shorter focal length =
Focal length
15. Microphones and recorders that pick up all frequencies equally well
Spotting Sheet
Flat
DAT
Band Width
16. Automatic Gain Control - Prevents the signal from being recorded at too low or too high a level
How do you fix Room Tone?
AGC
Foley Setup Sheet
Turn-over Frequency
17. Higher pitch and frequency
focal length of a wide angle lens
CCD
Smaller Wavelength =
Foley Setup Sheet
18. Sound must appear to be coming from the picture
Timbre
Sound Presence
Voice-Overs
XLR Connector
19. Technique to make two shots flow together - Rather than letting an actor complete an action in one shot and cutting to the next - the action begins in the first shot and ends in the second
Cutting-on-Action
Formula for figuring the f-stop
Overlapping Action
Male end
20. An actors performance should be consistent from shot to shot
Performance Continuity
Condenser Microphone
How do you fix Room Tone?
Three-to-one Rule
21. Charged Coupled Device
Logical Continuity
Color Temperature of Daylight
CCD
Overlapping Action
22. Directional (Cardiod) - Omnidirectional - Bidirectional
Female end
3 Pickup Patterns
Frequency Response
Technical Pictorial Continuity
23. The opening in the lens that allows light to pass
Aperture
Match Cut
XLR Connector
Smaller Wavelength =
24. Sound will disappear or turn into pops. Can only be amplified in a specific range of softness and loudness - Digital equipment
Parallel Editing
Condenser Microphone
Clipping
Turn-over Frequency
25. 800 mph or 1000ft per second or 1 foot per millisecond
speed of sound in air
Performance Continuity
fresnel
Voice-Overs
26. Aids in the composition process - Gives Time Code numbers for places where music is to be heard - Tells the length of time the music is to run - Gives a description of What is happening in the scene
Bidirectional Microphone
Color temperature of Tungsten light
Timing Sheet
advantages of DSLR
27. Pre-production
Loudness measurement
AGC
The cheapest part of movie making
speed of sound in air
28. Middle point of the haystack
Temporal Continuity
Directional Microphone
Turn-over Frequency
MIDI
29. Has a diaphragm plus and electronic component called a capacitor - Delicate - Power supply needed - Efficient
Overlapping Action
Light is a form of...
Condenser Microphone
Pitch
30. Best known editing style - Involves narrative clarity and dramatic pacing - Attempts to make the cut from one shot to the net flow as smoothly as possible - The story unfolds scene by scene
F-stop
Classic Hollywood Editing
advantages of DSLR
Score Mixers
31. Lighting instrument that has a lens on the front
Sound Presence
Dynamic Microphone
fresnel
Sound Waves
32. Two basic systems of light metering used in cinematography
Timbre
Color Temperature of Daylight
incident and reflected
Condenser Microphone
33. Place were sounds are stored that allows them to be accessed and worked on from various places
Jump Cut
Non-linear Editing
Omnidirectional Microphone
Server
34. The re-recording process - AKA looping - Actors are brought back to a soundproof room - where they watch short segments of themselves on a screen and listen through earphones to the audio that needs to be replaced - Feed and deliver the lines that ne
How do you fix Room Tone?
Frequency
Light is a form of...
ADR (Automatic Dialogue Replacement)
35. Something that has already happened in one shot should not happen again in the next
Foley Setup Sheet
Sound Perspective
Activity Continuity
Physical Continuity
36. Random footage in the package
B-Roll
Color temperature of Tungsten light
Frequency Response
Timbre
37. 20 HZ to 20000 HZ
Medium Shot
Atmospheric Continuity
Sound Waves
Range of human hearing
38. An obvious jarring break in continuity from one shot to the next
Jump Cut
Room Tone
Atmospheric Continuity
DAT
39. A cut in which the character's movement and position are perfectly aligned in time and space from one shot to the next
Cutting-on-Action
focal length of a wide angle lens
incident and reflected
Match Cut
40. The height of the sound wave. As the this increases - the sound wave gets louder
Spatial Continuity
How do you fix Room Tone?
Frequency Response
Amplitude
41. Big image - short focal length
Logical Continuity
Cutting-on-Action
Dynamic Microphone
focal length of a wide angle lens
42. Ratio of the width of a frame to its height - HDTV = 16:9
focal length of a wide angle lens
Aspect Ratio
Balance
Spatial Continuity
43. Notes will become a muddy jumble and the frequencies will not come out of the equipment with the same clarity with which they went in - Analog equipment
Distortion
Timbre
Close-up
Logical Continuity
44. Has three prongs and an outer covering - Has a guide pin and lock so that it remains firmly in place - Profession standard
Master Scene Shooting Method
XLR Connector
Cutting-on-Action
Female end
45. The equivalent of quotes in a story - Person speaking on the screen
Bites (Sound Bite)
Atmospheric Continuity
Technical Pictorial Continuity
The cheapest part of movie making
46. Source microphones go into - Has up to 4 channels
Distortion
Zoom Recorder
Cutaway
a shot marked OS to Sally
47. The voice of a person in the distance should sound different from the voice of a person when shown in a close-up
Logical Continuity
Technical Pictorial Continuity
Sound Perspective
AGC
48. Middle point of the haystack
Turn-over Frequency
Loudness measurement
Band Width
slating an audition
49. Overlapping action - Match cut - Jump cut
Tungsten Light
Logical Continuity
Sweetening
Sound Waves
50. Manipulating frequencies. - Important to radio and musical recording - not film.
Proximity Effect
Tungsten Light
XLR Connector
Frequency Measurement