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Basic Video Production

Subject : engineeering
Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Natural sound - Must be attached to all B-Roll






2. The relative volume of sounds - Important sounds should be louder than unimportant sounds






3. An obvious jarring break in continuity from one shot to the next






4. Raw sound that was recorded on the day






5. Decibels (dB)






6. Made up by the sound effects editor - Indicates a what point in the movie each effect should be placed






7. Source microphones go into - Has up to 4 channels






8. Middle point of the haystack






9. Director make sure that action in one shot is repeated in the shot that may follow it






10. A recording of the general ambience of the place where the dialogue is being recorded






11. Name - agency - and role






12. 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






13. Something that has already happened in one shot should not happen again in the next






14. 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






15. Picking up mainly from one side in a heart shaped pattern






16. Big image - short focal length






17. -273.15 degrees celcius 0 degrees Kelvin






18. 3200 degrees K






19. Charged Coupled Device






20. 800 mph or 1000ft per second or 1 foot per millisecond






21. Two basic systems of light metering used in cinematography






22. 3200 degrees K






23. It is what distinguishes a violin from a clarinet when both are playing the same pitch at the same loudness






24. 5 -500 degrees K






25. The voice of a person in the distance should sound different from the voice of a person when shown in a close-up






26. Manipulating frequencies. - Important to radio and musical recording - not film.






27. The sound made by the differing frequencies






28. Hertz (Hz)






29. Record all the music in a control room






30. Low pressure areas against high pressure areas create the waves. - Waves are just pictures or graphs of the measures of air pressure






31. Distance from the center of a lens to the place where the parallel light will be focused






32. 5 -500 degrees K






33. When sounds are mixed live - each mic feeds into a different input of one or more audio mixers






34. 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






35. Decibels (dB)






36. Random footage in the package






37. Disrupt the arrangement of air molecules






38. Make the volume of every scene - every person - and every sound effect more or less the same - One way to achieve balance






39. An actors performance should be consistent from shot to shot






40. 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






41. The equivalent of quotes in a story - Person speaking on the screen






42. 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






43. 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






44. The reporter holding a microphone on the screen - Pre-recorded - essentially a sound bite






45. Musical Instrument Digital Interface - A technical standard that allows electronic instruments to interact with each other






46. Middle point of the haystack






47. F-stop selection effects depth of field






48. Overlapping action - Match cut - Jump cut






49. Name - agency - and role






50. Distance from the center of a lens to the place where the parallel light will be focused