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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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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. A recording of the general ambience of the place where the dialogue is being recorded
Direct Sound
Room Tone
Color temperature of Tungsten light
Sound Waves
2. Place were sounds are stored that allows them to be accessed and worked on from various places
Audio Mixers
Tungsten Light
Server
Spotting Sheet
3. 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
Color Temperature of Daylight
Sweetening
advantages of DSLR
Track
4. An obvious jarring break in continuity from one shot to the next
Clipping
Turn-over Frequency
Jump Cut
Parallel Editing
5. Want boom coming down not out - Can add a track to cover it (Fill Grit - Glue Fill) - Can add other noises
Three-to-one Rule
Male end
Cutting-on-Action
How do you fix Room Tone?
6. Charged Coupled Device
Double system sound
Directional Microphone
incident and reflected
CCD
7. The editor can try an entire group of shots in one position - move it to another - and then return it to it's original position
Physical Continuity
Ambient Sounds
Non-linear Editing
Three-to-one Rule
8. Picking up from two sides
Stand-up
Timbre
Track
Bidirectional Microphone
9. Manipulating frequencies. - Important to radio and musical recording - not film.
Condenser Microphone
fresnel
Proximity Effect
Performance Continuity
10. Overlapping action - Match cut - Jump cut
Logical Continuity
Sound Perspective
Voice-Overs
AGC
11. Musical Instrument Digital Interface - A technical standard that allows electronic instruments to interact with each other
Pitch
f-stop vs. depth of field
MIDI
Close-up
12. Sound must appear to be coming from the picture
MIDI
Sound Perspective
Sound Presence
Frequency Measurement
13. Small image - long focal length
ADR (Automatic Dialogue Replacement)
Foley
The cheapest part of movie making
focal length of a close up lens
14. Shot before the long shot that establishes where the action is taking place
Spatial Continuity
Establishing Shot
Distortion
Ambient Sounds
15. A cut in which the character's movement and position are perfectly aligned in time and space from one shot to the next
Bites (Sound Bite)
Physical Continuity
Match Cut
Band Width
16. Automatic Gain Control - Prevents the signal from being recorded at too low or too high a level
AGC
Sound Presence
B-Roll
Timbre
17. Recording picture on one machine and sound on another
Formula for figuring the f-stop
Loudness measurement
incident and reflected
Double system sound
18. 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
Sweetening
wild sound
CCD
MIDI
19. An actors performance should be consistent from shot to shot
Color temperature of Tungsten light
Timbre
Performance Continuity
Cutting-on-Action
20. The picture should look the same from shot to shot if the assumption is that the shots are in the same time and space
Color Temperature of Daylight
Proximity Effect
advantages of DSLR
Technical Pictorial Continuity
21. Picking up mainly from one side in a heart shaped pattern
Turn-over Frequency
Range of human hearing
Directional Microphone
Frequency Measurement
22. The number of times per second that the wave travels from the beginning of one cycle to the beginning of the next
Spatial Continuity
f-stop vs. depth of field
Frequency
MIDI
23. When you hear a bounce off a very close wall - quicker response than an echo
Tungsten Light
Reverb
Frequency
Overlapping Action
24. 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
Sweetening
Spatial Continuity
Activity Continuity
Voice-Overs
25. The more light reaches film
Sound Perspective
Match Cut
The greater the size of the aperture opening...
Band Width
26. Distance from the center of a lens to the place where the parallel light will be focused
Female end
Focal length
Temporal Continuity
Depth of Field
27. 3200 degrees K
Sound Waves
Timing Sheet
Nats
Color temperature of Tungsten light
28. Big image - short focal length
focal length of a wide angle lens
Audio Mixers
Three point lighting
Close-up
29. Attaches to the microphone
Spotting Sheet
Female end
Cut-in
Timbre
30. Natural sound - Must be attached to all B-Roll
Aspect Ratio
Nats
Timbre
Score Mixers
31. Microphones and recorders that pick up all frequencies equally well
Tungsten Light
Flat
How do you fix Room Tone?
f-stop vs. depth of field
32. The range of frequencies that a microphone will pick up - 20 Hz - 20000 Hz
Frequency Response
Clipping
B-Roll
Three-to-one Rule
33. The degree to which the aperture opens
Nats
OMF - Open Medium Framework
F-stop
DAT
34. The width of the band of frequencies as specified by the frequencies at each end
Focal length
Band Width
Reverb
How do you fix Room Tone?
35. Picking up from all sides - Best for picking up a large number of people and are excellent for gathering background noise - Don't pick up distance sounds as well
Establishing Shot
Shorter focal length =
Omnidirectional Microphone
Spatial Continuity
36. Hertz (Hz)
Frequency Measurement
MIDI
focal length of a wide angle lens
Daylight
37. 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
Balance
Performance Continuity
Activity Continuity
Distortion
38. -273.15 degrees celcius 0 degrees Kelvin
B-Roll
Ambient Sounds
Daylight
Absolute Zero
39. If there is a background noise in one shot - there should be the same background noise in the next - if they are in the same time and place
Frequency
AGC
The cheapest part of movie making
Atmospheric Continuity
40. Actors should look the same from one shot to another
Physical Continuity
Three-to-one Rule
Daylight
OMF - Open Medium Framework
41. Has a diaphragm plus and electronic component called a capacitor - Delicate - Power supply needed - Efficient
Turn-over Frequency
Female end
Condenser Microphone
Daylight
42. You can control your depth of field
Shorter focal length =
Zoom Recorder
advantages of DSLR
Flat
43. Record all the music in a control room
Pitch
Timing Sheet
fresnel
Score Mixers
44. Want boom coming down not out - Can add a track to cover it (Fill Grit - Glue Fill) - Can add other noises
ADR (Automatic Dialogue Replacement)
Distortion
Focal length
How do you fix Room Tone?
45. 800 mph or 1000ft per second or 1 foot per millisecond
Female end
speed of sound in air
Jump Cut
How do you fix Room Tone?
46. Sound will disappear or turn into pops. Can only be amplified in a specific range of softness and loudness - Digital equipment
Balance
Establishing Shot
focal length of a close up lens
Clipping
47. AKA: Phone plug - Has a short prong and outer covering - Consumer standard
XLR Connector
Voice-Overs
Proximity Effect
RCA Connector
48. The most important part of the package - The voice of the reporter describing and telling the story - Recording of the reporter's voice
Atmospheric Continuity
Track
Frequency Measurement
Foley
49. F-stop selection effects depth of field
Tungsten Light
Technical Pictorial Continuity
Female end
f-stop vs. depth of field
50. The sound made by the differing frequencies
Pitch
Flat
Omnidirectional Microphone
Timbre