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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. 5 -500 degrees K
Daylight
Color Temperature of Daylight
Male end
Foley Setup Sheet
2. The equivalent of quotes in a story - Person speaking on the screen
Bites (Sound Bite)
Sweetening
Light is a form of...
Server
3. Tonal quality of a sound and is the thing that helps us distinguish between the sound of a martin guitar and bagpipes
Temporal Continuity
How do you fix Room Tone?
Cutaway
Timbre
4. The range of frequencies that a microphone will pick up - 20 Hz - 20000 Hz
Male end
Frequency Response
CCD
Timbre
5. Another name for ambient sound
wild sound
Distortion
Shorter focal length =
fresnel
6. Recording picture on one machine and sound on another
Double system sound
advantages of DSLR
Balance
Score Mixers
7. 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
Spatial Continuity
The greater the size of the aperture opening...
Sweetening
Sound Presence
8. tinted orange - 3200 degrees Kelvin - Studio lighting
Color Temperature of Daylight
Shorter focal length =
Nats
Tungsten Light
9. Two basic systems of light metering used in cinematography
incident and reflected
Band Width
Light is a form of...
speed of sound in air
10. Small image - long focal length
f-stop vs. depth of field
Directional Microphone
focal length of a close up lens
Sound Waves
11. Attaches to the recorder
Male end
Flat
Aspect Ratio
DAT
12. Musical Instrument Digital Interface - A technical standard that allows electronic instruments to interact with each other
MIDI
Cutaway
Daylight
Timbre
13. 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
RCA Connector
Close-up
Establishing Shot
14. 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
Establishing Shot
ADR (Automatic Dialogue Replacement)
Frequency Response
Directional Microphone
15. Recording picture on one machine and sound on another
speed of sound in air
Double system sound
Color Temperature of Daylight
Band Width
16. Background sounds such as footsteps - clothes rustling - and branches waving in the wind - Named after Jack Foley
Timbre
Foley
Female end
Male end
17. Manipulating frequencies. - Important to radio and musical recording - not film.
Proximity Effect
Flat
Foley Setup Sheet
Amplitude
18. Overlapping action - Match cut - Jump cut
Logical Continuity
Room Tone
Medium Shot
Formula for figuring the f-stop
19. Shot before the long shot that establishes where the action is taking place
Foley
Color temperature of Tungsten light
Track
Establishing Shot
20. Higher pitch and frequency
Color temperature of Tungsten light
Daylight
Sound Waves
Smaller Wavelength =
21. Natural sound - Must be attached to all B-Roll
Nats
Sound Waves
Audio Mixers
Cutaway
22. Sound will disappear or turn into pops. Can only be amplified in a specific range of softness and loudness - Digital equipment
ADR (Automatic Dialogue Replacement)
AGC
3 Pickup Patterns
Clipping
23. You can control your depth of field
advantages of DSLR
DAT
Pitch
B-Roll
24. The voice of a person in the distance should sound different from the voice of a person when shown in a close-up
Physical Continuity
Bidirectional Microphone
Establishing Shot
Sound Perspective
25. 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
Band Width
How do you fix Room Tone?
Shorter focal length =
26. 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
Male end
Ambient Sounds
AGC
27. A cut in which the character's movement and position are perfectly aligned in time and space from one shot to the next
Three point lighting
Match Cut
Zoom Recorder
Dynamic Microphone
28. Lighting instrument that has a lens on the front
ADR (Automatic Dialogue Replacement)
Ambient Sounds
Directional Microphone
fresnel
29. The height of the sound wave. As the this increases - the sound wave gets louder
Amplitude
Score Mixers
Non-linear Editing
slating an audition
30. After the music is recorded its put onto this in the same way a picture is recorded on a DVD
Band Width
a shot marked OS to Sally
DAT
Logical Continuity
31. The width of the band of frequencies as specified by the frequencies at each end
Band Width
Amplitude
Dynamic Microphone
Light is a form of...
32. 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
B-Roll
Timing Sheet
XLR Connector
Physical Continuity
33. Low pressure areas against high pressure areas create the waves. - Waves are just pictures or graphs of the measures of air pressure
Distortion
AGC
Sound Waves
Jump Cut
34. There should be time for actions to take place - EX: burning candle
Reverb
Clipping
Temporal Continuity
Omnidirectional Microphone
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
Omnidirectional Microphone
Foley
Frequency Measurement
Loudness measurement
36. 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
Classic Hollywood Editing
Dynamic Microphone
Aperture
ADR (Automatic Dialogue Replacement)
37. Microphones and recorders that pick up all frequencies equally well
Bites (Sound Bite)
Timing Sheet
Flat
AGC
38. The picture should look the same from shot to shot if the assumption is that the shots are in the same time and space
Amplitude
Female end
Technical Pictorial Continuity
Zoom Recorder
39. tinted blue - 5500 degrees Kelvin - outside lighting
Daylight
Non-linear Editing
wild sound
Pitch
40. Isolates a particular character or action
Proximity Effect
Reverb
Performance Continuity
Close-up
41. Focal length divided by aperture
Omnidirectional Microphone
Sound Presence
Formula for figuring the f-stop
Three-to-one Rule
42. Greater depth of field
Foley Setup Sheet
Shorter focal length =
Parallel Editing
Timing Sheet
43. 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
Parallel Editing
Temporal Continuity
Track
44. 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
Turn-over Frequency
Directional Microphone
Stand-up
Sweetening
45. 3200 degrees K
Frequency Measurement
Non-linear Editing
incident and reflected
Color temperature of Tungsten light
46. It is what distinguishes a violin from a clarinet when both are playing the same pitch at the same loudness
ADR (Automatic Dialogue Replacement)
Physical Continuity
Formula for figuring the f-stop
Timbre
47. Involves the main action
Bites (Sound Bite)
Establishing Shot
Medium Shot
Temporal Continuity
48. The number of times per second that the wave travels from the beginning of one cycle to the beginning of the next
Double system sound
Sound Waves
Frequency
Balance
49. Has three prongs and an outer covering - Has a guide pin and lock so that it remains firmly in place - Profession standard
Spotting Sheet
Zoom Recorder
Close-up
XLR Connector
50. Made up by the sound effects editor - Indicates a what point in the movie each effect should be placed
Spotting Sheet
wild sound
AGC
Absolute Zero