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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. 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
wild sound
Room Tone
Voice-Overs
Timing Sheet
2. Has a diaphragm plus and electronic component called a capacitor - Delicate - Power supply needed - Efficient
Color temperature of Tungsten light
The greater the size of the aperture opening...
Clipping
Condenser Microphone
3. An 'over the shoulder' shot (of an actor) with the camera pointed at Sally
a shot marked OS to Sally
Dynamic Range
Zoom Recorder
The cheapest part of movie making
4. Made up by the sound effects editor - Indicates a what point in the movie each effect should be placed
Pitch
Establishing Shot
Nats
Spotting Sheet
5. The more light reaches film
Depth of Field
a shot marked OS to Sally
Distortion
The greater the size of the aperture opening...
6. When sounds are mixed live - each mic feeds into a different input of one or more audio mixers
Frequency Measurement
Audio Mixers
Timing Sheet
wild sound
7. 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
Nats
Atmospheric Continuity
Aspect Ratio
Room Tone
8. Focuses on an element that appeared in the previous shot
focal length of a wide angle lens
Cut-in
Pitch
Male end
9. Automatic Gain Control - Prevents the signal from being recorded at too low or too high a level
Bidirectional Microphone
Pitch
AGC
Voice-Overs
10. Source microphones go into - Has up to 4 channels
Range of human hearing
Performance Continuity
Zoom Recorder
Overlapping Action
11. 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
Range of human hearing
Distortion
Depth of Field
Logical Continuity
12. Attaches to the microphone
RCA Connector
Female end
Medium Shot
fresnel
13. Made up by the sound effects editor - Indicates a what point in the movie each effect should be placed
Close-up
Non-linear Editing
Range of human hearing
Spotting Sheet
14. Overlapping action - Match cut - Jump cut
Logical Continuity
Clipping
Turn-over Frequency
DAT
15. The picture should look the same from shot to shot if the assumption is that the shots are in the same time and space
Clipping
Technical Pictorial Continuity
Flat
Bites (Sound Bite)
16. Ratio of the width of a frame to its height - HDTV = 16:9
Distortion
Classic Hollywood Editing
Aspect Ratio
Spatial Continuity
17. After the music is recorded its put onto this in the same way a picture is recorded on a DVD
Voice-Overs
Daylight
F-stop
DAT
18. Sound will disappear or turn into pops. Can only be amplified in a specific range of softness and loudness - Digital equipment
Dynamic Range
Clipping
Parallel Editing
Match Cut
19. 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
Sound Presence
Non-linear Editing
Bites (Sound Bite)
Smaller Wavelength =
20. Hertz (Hz)
Bites (Sound Bite)
Non-linear Editing
Frequency Measurement
Logical Continuity
21. Low pressure areas against high pressure areas create the waves. - Waves are just pictures or graphs of the measures of air pressure
Omnidirectional Microphone
Foley Setup Sheet
Cutting-on-Action
Sound Waves
22. Recording picture on one machine and sound on another
Double system sound
Cut-in
Activity Continuity
Direct Sound
23. Recording picture on one machine and sound on another
Double system sound
Focal length
Jump Cut
f-stop vs. depth of field
24. Uses a diaphragm - Robust - NO power required - Not so efficient
incident and reflected
Dynamic Microphone
Activity Continuity
Track
25. AKA Cross Cutting - Alternating shots from one line of action to another - Implies that the two actions are occurring at the same time
Reverb
Parallel Editing
incident and reflected
a shot marked OS to Sally
26. An obvious jarring break in continuity from one shot to the next
Match Cut
Reverb
Jump Cut
Smaller Wavelength =
27. Lists all the actions the Foley Walkers need to perform to give aural realism to the movie scenes
speed of sound in air
Foley Setup Sheet
Frequency Measurement
Omnidirectional Microphone
28. Musical Instrument Digital Interface - A technical standard that allows electronic instruments to interact with each other
Frequency
MIDI
Close-up
Frequency Measurement
29. Key - fill - back
Three point lighting
focal length of a close up lens
Light is a form of...
ADR (Automatic Dialogue Replacement)
30. Sound must appear to be coming from the picture
Daylight
f-stop vs. depth of field
fresnel
Sound Presence
31. Isolates a particular character or action
Timbre
Directional Microphone
Close-up
Shorter focal length =
32. The more light reaches film
focal length of a wide angle lens
The greater the size of the aperture opening...
Dynamic Microphone
Dynamic Range
33. 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
Atmospheric Continuity
Aperture
wild sound
Non-linear Editing
34. 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
Light is a form of...
The greater the size of the aperture opening...
Timing Sheet
35. Something that has already happened in one shot should not happen again in the next
Sound Presence
Activity Continuity
Direct Sound
Overlapping Action
36. Picking up from two sides
Distortion
Bidirectional Microphone
OMF - Open Medium Framework
Cutting-on-Action
37. The most important part of the package - The voice of the reporter describing and telling the story - Recording of the reporter's voice
Track
XLR Connector
Frequency
RCA Connector
38. Disrupt the arrangement of air molecules
Sound Waves
B-Roll
Proximity Effect
Ambient Sounds
39. It is what distinguishes a violin from a clarinet when both are playing the same pitch at the same loudness
F-stop
Timbre
Directional Microphone
XLR Connector
40. Name - agency - and role
CCD
slating an audition
Room Tone
The greater the size of the aperture opening...
41. Automatic Gain Control - Prevents the signal from being recorded at too low or too high a level
AGC
F-stop
Audio Mixers
Cut-in
42. There should be time for actions to take place - EX: burning candle
Server
Temporal Continuity
focal length of a close up lens
Color Temperature of Daylight
43. tinted blue - 5500 degrees Kelvin - outside lighting
Daylight
Frequency
The greater the size of the aperture opening...
Amplitude
44. -273.15 degrees celcius 0 degrees Kelvin
Tungsten Light
Activity Continuity
OMF - Open Medium Framework
Absolute Zero
45. 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
Foley Setup Sheet
Classic Hollywood Editing
Dynamic Range
Zoom Recorder
46. Pre-production
Voice-Overs
The cheapest part of movie making
F-stop
Focal length
47. -273.15 degrees celcius 0 degrees Kelvin
Loudness measurement
Amplitude
Nats
Absolute Zero
48. Decibels (dB)
incident and reflected
Formula for figuring the f-stop
Loudness measurement
Timbre
49. It is what distinguishes a violin from a clarinet when both are playing the same pitch at the same loudness
wild sound
Male end
Timbre
The greater the size of the aperture opening...
50. Natural sound - Must be attached to all B-Roll
Nats
incident and reflected
Sound Presence
fresnel