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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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1. AKA: Phone plug - Has a short prong and outer covering - Consumer standard
Classic Hollywood Editing
Spatial Continuity
The greater the size of the aperture opening...
RCA Connector
2. The degree to which the aperture opens
F-stop
Color Temperature of Daylight
Focal length
Voice-Overs
3. Another name for ambient sound
Track
Ambient Sounds
wild sound
Score Mixers
4. Director make sure that action in one shot is repeated in the shot that may follow it
Sound Presence
Overlapping Action
Physical Continuity
Medium Shot
5. Made up by the sound effects editor - Indicates a what point in the movie each effect should be placed
RCA Connector
XLR Connector
Spotting Sheet
Ambient Sounds
6. Middle point of the haystack
Cutting-on-Action
Bidirectional Microphone
Activity Continuity
Turn-over Frequency
7. Disrupt the arrangement of air molecules
Dynamic Microphone
Sound Waves
MIDI
Flat
8. Focal length divided by aperture
Formula for figuring the f-stop
Timing Sheet
Server
Sound Presence
9. Decibels (dB)
ADR (Automatic Dialogue Replacement)
Amplitude
Loudness measurement
Atmospheric Continuity
10. Manipulating frequencies. - Important to radio and musical recording - not film.
Atmospheric Continuity
Voice-Overs
Bites (Sound Bite)
Proximity Effect
11. Source microphones go into - Has up to 4 channels
Color temperature of Tungsten light
Score Mixers
Zoom Recorder
Nats
12. Low pressure areas against high pressure areas create the waves. - Waves are just pictures or graphs of the measures of air pressure
Sound Waves
Zoom Recorder
Reverb
Female end
13. Higher pitch and frequency
Smaller Wavelength =
Timbre
Three-to-one Rule
Timbre
14. Directional (Cardiod) - Omnidirectional - Bidirectional
Sweetening
3 Pickup Patterns
Dynamic Microphone
Foley Setup Sheet
15. There should be time for actions to take place - EX: burning candle
CCD
Voice-Overs
Temporal Continuity
CCD
16. -273.15 degrees celcius 0 degrees Kelvin
a shot marked OS to Sally
Match Cut
Absolute Zero
Reverb
17. The most important part of the package - The voice of the reporter describing and telling the story - Recording of the reporter's voice
Zoom Recorder
speed of sound in air
Track
The greater the size of the aperture opening...
18. The range of frequencies that a microphone will pick up - 20 Hz - 20000 Hz
Frequency Response
AGC
advantages of DSLR
incident and reflected
19. Directional (Cardiod) - Omnidirectional - Bidirectional
Server
Absolute Zero
speed of sound in air
3 Pickup Patterns
20. An 'over the shoulder' shot (of an actor) with the camera pointed at Sally
Foley
a shot marked OS to Sally
Female end
3 Pickup Patterns
21. The number of times per second that the wave travels from the beginning of one cycle to the beginning of the next
Frequency
Female end
Double system sound
Overlapping Action
22. Greater depth of field
Male end
Shorter focal length =
Aspect Ratio
Condenser Microphone
23. Big image - short focal length
Distortion
Medium Shot
Band Width
focal length of a wide angle lens
24. Pre-production
The cheapest part of movie making
Female end
Double system sound
Voice-Overs
25. F-stop selection effects depth of field
Reverb
f-stop vs. depth of field
Overlapping Action
Logical Continuity
26. A recording of the general ambience of the place where the dialogue is being recorded
Formula for figuring the f-stop
Room Tone
CCD
Timbre
27. The degree to which the aperture opens
Double system sound
Loudness measurement
Directional Microphone
F-stop
28. Microphones and recorders that pick up all frequencies equally well
Flat
Distortion
Smaller Wavelength =
Three point lighting
29. Higher pitch and frequency
Smaller Wavelength =
MIDI
Range of human hearing
Female end
30. Overlapping action - Match cut - Jump cut
Logical Continuity
Balance
Spatial Continuity
Sweetening
31. Place were sounds are stored that allows them to be accessed and worked on from various places
Server
Sweetening
Shorter focal length =
Double system sound
32. 800 mph or 1000ft per second or 1 foot per millisecond
Female end
Depth of Field
speed of sound in air
Reverb
33. Picking up mainly from one side in a heart shaped pattern
MIDI
Tungsten Light
Directional Microphone
focal length of a wide angle lens
34. The relative volume of sounds - Important sounds should be louder than unimportant sounds
incident and reflected
Parallel Editing
Balance
Omnidirectional Microphone
35. Make the volume of every scene - every person - and every sound effect more or less the same - One way to achieve balance
Reverb
Flat
Cutaway
Sound Presence
36. Shot before the long shot that establishes where the action is taking place
Spotting Sheet
fresnel
Foley Setup Sheet
Establishing Shot
37. Sound that doesn't bounce - Dead sound
Direct Sound
Sound Perspective
Sound Perspective
Timbre
38. Shoot a master shot of the whole scene and then break it up into little parts - such as close ups - reaction shots - cut ins - and cutaways - Classic Hollywood method
Master Scene Shooting Method
Bidirectional Microphone
focal length of a close up lens
XLR Connector
39. Ratio of the width of a frame to its height - HDTV = 16:9
Aspect Ratio
Room Tone
Server
Foley
40. Natural sound - Must be attached to all B-Roll
Frequency Measurement
Timing Sheet
Tungsten Light
Nats
41. Picking up from two sides
Dynamic Microphone
Server
XLR Connector
Bidirectional Microphone
42. 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
Zoom Recorder
Sound Perspective
Three-to-one Rule
43. You can control your depth of field
Frequency
Room Tone
Aperture
advantages of DSLR
44. 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
Timbre
Condenser Microphone
Distortion
Cutaway
45. Want boom coming down not out - Can add a track to cover it (Fill Grit - Glue Fill) - Can add other noises
How do you fix Room Tone?
B-Roll
Medium Shot
Direct Sound
46. Electro-magnetic radiation
Reverb
Room Tone
Zoom Recorder
Light is a form of...
47. Pre-production
Sound Perspective
Balance
The cheapest part of movie making
Distortion
48. Lighting instrument that has a lens on the front
Balance
wild sound
Ambient Sounds
fresnel
49. Sound will disappear or turn into pops. Can only be amplified in a specific range of softness and loudness - Digital equipment
Formula for figuring the f-stop
Timbre
Clipping
Classic Hollywood Editing
50. When sounds are mixed live - each mic feeds into a different input of one or more audio mixers
The greater the size of the aperture opening...
Smaller Wavelength =
Audio Mixers
Temporal Continuity