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Intro To Film Production
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Study First
Subjects
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performing-arts
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film
Instructions:
Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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Match each statement with the correct term.
Don't refresh. All questions and answers are randomly picked and ordered every time you load a test.
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. This type of move breaks the promise of showing something else to the viewer
Unmotivated Move
Shot List
Coverage
Narrative Films
2. Shooting a scene from various angles
Shot List
Ambient Sound
Nondestructive Editing
Coverage
3. Shooting a scene from various angles
'In the Mud'
Rendering
Headroom
Coverage
4. Lens that has one fixed focal length for more precise manipulation of image quality
Rim Light
Prime Lens
Parallel Action
Pick-Ups
5. The strategy of using movie lights to duplicate where light would logically be emanating from
Director of Photography
Rule of Thirds
Storyboards
Motivated Lighting
6. List of all the shots that make up the film in the order in which they will be shot
Ambient Sound
Prime Lens
Shot List
Master Shot
7. Hands-on lighting person who implements the lighting designs of the Director of Photography. In charge of setup and proper functioning of the lights.
Author's Draft
Cross Cutting
Gaffer
Shot List
8. Light that separates the subject from the background by positioning a somewhat lower intensity light at a high angle and behind the subject. It traces the edges of the figure and creates depth.
Shooting (Lined) Script
Back Light
Low-Key Lighting
T-Stops
9. The range between -12dB and 0dB that gives a buffer for any unforeseen audio spikes
Cold Reading
Headroom
Shot List
Levels
10. Standard calling card. 8x10 photograph on one side and a resume on the other.
Cold Reading
T-Stops
Motivated Lighting
Headshot/Bio
11. Primary source of illumination in your scene. Usually it is a motivated light source.
Location Technical Survey
Shot List
Key Light
Storyboards
12. Sound bouncing off surfaces. Results in a booming or echo-y sound as the signal duplicates itself over and over again which is refereed to as 'acoustically live.'
Reverberation
Talent Release
Levels
Rendering
13. Drawings of each scene from a bird's eye perspective. They help figure out important details like the axis of action - camera placement - and blocking.
Overheads
Focus Puller
3/4 Back Light
3/4 Back Light
14. The range of apparent focus along the z-axis
Master Shot
Depth of Field
Setting Levels
Peak Meter
15. Separate comfortable waiting space to put the next-in line actor. A place where actors can relax - drink some water - and go over their lines.
1/3 - 2/3 Rule
Green Room
Nonlinear Editing System
Props
16. Removing extraneous time and territory
Rendering
Four Basic Properties of Sound
Audition
Elliptical Editing
17. Adjusting the optical center away from the focal plane and therefore increasing the magnification power of the lens (telephoto)
Cross Cutting
Peak Meter
Zooming In
T-Stops
18. Dramatic Structure Matches - Content and Activity Matches - Matched Action Cuts - Graphic Matches - and Sound Bridges
Coverage
Talent Release
Rim Light
Five Ways to Create a Parallel Action Sequence
19. Character - Goal - and Conflict or Obstacles
Three Essential Elements of Drama
Focus Puller
Shot List
Script Breakdown Sheet
20. Sets up cables - holds second boom when necessary - and wrangles the cables when the boom operator follows a moving shot
Cable Wrangler
Storyboards
Prime Lens
Shot List
21. Executing more than one move at a time
Combination Move
Fill Light
Art Direction
Reverse Shots
22. Responsible for the proper use and actual placement of the microphones for optimal quality
Depth of Field
Parallel Action
Boom Operator
Nondestructive Editing
23. Clearly shows both subjects in the scene and defines the spatial relationship of the two to each other and the space around them
Talent Release
Reverse Shots
Overheads
Master Shot
24. Soft light that fills in the shadows created by the Key Light
Circle of Confusion
Fine Cut
3/4 Back Light
Fill Light
25. Simple but comprehensive prose description of a film's plot
Fine Cut
Treatment
Fine Cut
Three Essential Elements of Drama
26. Removing extraneous time and territory
Elliptical Editing
Headroom
Three Pre-Visualization Tools
Setting Levels
27. Finessing all of the edits one-by-one
Call Sheets
Camera Setup
1/3 - 2/3 Rule
Fine Cut
28. Any cutting - arranging - trimming - corrections - or effects you might perform occur only virtually - in a preview mode. Original media files are not altered in any way. (Digital NLE is an example)
Cutaway Shot
Green Room
Nondestructive Editing
Nonlinear Editing System
29. Form used in film production to keep track of all the mise-en-sc
Script Breakdown Sheet
Four Basic Properties of Sound
Levels
Cross Cutting
30. Adjusting the optical center away from the focal plane and therefore increasing the magnification power of the lens (telephoto)
Green Room
Location Technical Survey
Zooming In
Master Shot
31. Shot - Shot Sequence - Scene - and Dramatic Sequence
Cross Cutting
Zooming Out
Four Basic Elements in the Visual Language of Cinema
Zooming In
32. Soft light that fills in the shadows created by the Key Light
Boom Operator
Cross Cutting
Treatment
Fill Light
33. The look of the environment in which your scenes take place - and the choice and design of the objects and costumes employed in the film have a profound impact on the tone - the characterizations - and the meaning of your movie.
Ambient Sound
'In the Mud'
Four Basic Properties of Sound
Art Direction
34. All camera moves need to be...
Circle of Confusion
Motivated Move
Reverse Shots
Prime Lens
35. Lens that offers a continuous range of focal lengths in one lens housing
T-Stops
Zoom Lens (Variable Focal Length Lens)
Location Technical Survey
Direct Address
36. Primary source of illumination in your scene. Usually it is a motivated light source.
Shot List
Key Light
Shot Size
Props
37. The measurement of acceptable diameter which creates the appearance of focus
Circle of Confusion
Script Breakdown Sheet
Headroom
Green Room
38. Works closely with the director on the visual interprataino of the script and the photographic look of the movie (cinematography). This involves lighting - film stocks - video format - expressive camera angles - compositions - exposures - and f
Levels
Location Technical Survey
Director of Photography
High-Key Lighting
39. Organized process by which you schedule and work with a number of potential performers to determine their suitability to your film
Audition
Shooting (Lined) Script
Storyboards
'In the Mud'
40. Executing more than one move at a time
Headroom
Combination Move
Motivated Lighting
Shot List
41. Changing the plane of critical focus during a take while the camera is running
Gaffer
Automatic Dialogue Replacement
Location Technical Survey
Pulling Focus
42. Process of combining the video and audio with the applied effect to create a new media file
Shot Size
Rendering
Coverage
Art Direction
43. A type of location sound that isn't recorded simultaneously with the picture. Two types are Ambient Sound and Location Sound.
Pulling Focus
Wild Sound (Non-Sync Sound)
Reverberation
T-Stops
44. The subject of the story - the central character whom the audience will follow as they attempt to achieve their goal
Circle of Confusion
Zooming Out
Protagonist
Ambient Sound
45. Adjusting the optical center back toward the focal plane causing the image to become more wide-angle
Back Light
Zooming In
Art Direction
Zooming Out
46. Adjusted to take into account the amount of light that is lost - dissipated - or absorbed by that particular lens
Protagonist
Ambient Sound
Cable Wrangler
T-Stops
47. Shots that don't require any actors to be present like landscapes - location-establishing shots - and shots of objects and cutaways
Sound Recordist
Zooming Out
Pick-Ups
Peak Meter
48. The person who pulls focus
Location Scouting
Rendering
Side Light
Focus Puller
49. Lens that has one fixed focal length for more precise manipulation of image quality
Nondestructive Editing
Nondestructive Editing
Shot Size
Prime Lens
50. Lighting unit that is position 90
Side Light
Automatic Dialogue Replacement
1/3 - 2/3 Rule
Pulling Focus