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Intro To Film Production
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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.
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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. Primary source of illumination in your scene. Usually it is a motivated light source.
Cable Wrangler
High-Key Lighting
Reverse Shots
Key Light
2. Finessing all of the edits one-by-one
Nonlinear Editing System
Circle of Confusion
Fine Cut
Levels
3. Dramatic Structure Matches - Content and Activity Matches - Matched Action Cuts - Graphic Matches - and Sound Bridges
Motivated Move
Automatic Dialogue Replacement
Headroom
Five Ways to Create a Parallel Action Sequence
4. Often used as a guide for framing human subjects and for composition in general. The frame is divided into thirds with imaginary lines along the horizontal and vertical axes and then place significant objects - focus points - and elements of intere
Rule of Thirds
Cold Reading
Low-Key Lighting
Wild Sound (Non-Sync Sound)
5. 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)
Levels
Pulling Focus
Rule of Thirds
Nondestructive Editing
6. A shot of a detail within your scene other than the characters' faces
Cutaway Shot
Direct Address
Focus Puller
Treatment
7. The person who pulls focus
Cold Reading
Rendering
Focus Puller
Headroom
8. The things that our characters actually handle in a scene
Script Breakdown Sheet
Props
Author's Draft
Art Direction
9. The recording of sync dialogue in a studio in cases where the production sound is not usable
Automatic Dialogue Replacement
Back Light
Zooming Out
Reverse Shots
10. Standard calling card. 8x10 photograph on one side and a resume on the other.
Unmotivated Move
Dramatization
Low-Key Lighting
Headshot/Bio
11. Lighting unit that is position 90
Spike
Side Light
Narrative Films
Motivated Move
12. Refers to the size of your subject in the frame
Cable Wrangler
Shot Size
Plot
Motivated Lighting
13. Adjusting the optical center away from the focal plane and therefore increasing the magnification power of the lens (telephoto)
Key Light
Protagonist
Zooming In
Media File Indicators
14. Often used as a guide for framing human subjects and for composition in general. The frame is divided into thirds with imaginary lines along the horizontal and vertical axes and then place significant objects - focus points - and elements of intere
Rule of Thirds
Low-Key Lighting
Peak Meter
Treatment
15. Shooting a scene from various angles
Coverage
Script Breakdown Sheet
Combination Move
Combination Move
16. Hands-on lighting person who implements the lighting designs of the Director of Photography. In charge of setup and proper functioning of the lights.
Talent Release
Coverage
Call Sheets
Gaffer
17. A shot in which the subject looks directly at the camera
Headshot/Bio
Elliptical Editing
Props
Direct Address
18. 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.
Three Essential Elements of Drama
3/4 Back Light
Boom Operator
Back Light
19. Character - Goal - and Conflict or Obstacles
Three Essential Elements of Drama
Storyboards
Cold Reading
3/4 Back Light
20. Soft light that fills in the shadows created by the Key Light
Rule of Thirds
Fill Light
Nonlinear Editing System
Zooming In
21. Form used in film production to keep track of all the mise-en-sc
Focus Puller
Storyboards
Script Breakdown Sheet
Pick-Ups
22. 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.'
Shooting (Lined) Script
Four Basic Elements in the Visual Language of Cinema
Automatic Dialogue Replacement
Reverberation
23. All camera moves need to be...
Motivated Move
'In the Mud'
Three Essential Elements of Drama
Spike
24. The range between -12dB and 0dB that gives a buffer for any unforeseen audio spikes
Pick-Ups
Cold Reading
Rim Light
Headroom
25. Recording is too low
26. Narrative technique that involves intercutting between two or more separate areas of action in such a way that the viewer assumes the scenes are occurring simulataneously
Coverage
Rule of Thirds
Call Sheets
Parallel Action
27. Lighting unit that is 45
Shot List
3/4 Back Light
Sound Recordist
Five Ways to Create a Parallel Action Sequence
28. Form used in film production to keep track of all the mise-en-sc
Plot
Cold Reading
Script Breakdown Sheet
Blocking
29. Sheets for each shooting day; they detail what portion of the script is being shot on a specific day - who needs to be on the set - when they need to be there - and how to get to the set.
Call Sheets
Elliptical Editing
Peak Meter
Assistant Camera
30. 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.
Four Basic Properties of Sound
Art Direction
Script Breakdown Sheet
Script Breakdown Sheet
31. Point to the original data without altering the media file
Elliptical Editing
Motivated Move
Media File Indicators
Narrative Films
32. To alternate between two or more scenes when editing a sequence
Camera Setup
Cold Reading
Setting Levels
Cross Cutting
33. Lens that has one fixed focal length for more precise manipulation of image quality
Zooming Out
Shot List
Ambient Sound
Prime Lens
34. Removing extraneous time and territory
Shot Size
Headshot/Bio
Elliptical Editing
Script Breakdown Sheet
35. To alternate between two or more scenes when editing a sequence
Storyboards
Rendering
Fill Light
Cross Cutting
36. The subject of the story - the central character whom the audience will follow as they attempt to achieve their goal
Master Shot
Protagonist
Nondestructive Editing
Reverberation
37. Shooting Script - Overheads - and Storyboards
Unmotivated Move
Three Pre-Visualization Tools
Protagonist
1/3 - 2/3 Rule
38. The person who pulls focus
Ambient Sound
Reverberation
1/3 - 2/3 Rule
Focus Puller
39. The measurement of acceptable diameter which creates the appearance of focus
Rendering
Peak Meter
Storyboards
Circle of Confusion
40. 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.
Master Shot
Unmotivated Move
Green Room
Master Shot
41. Drawings of shots - arranged on paper in the order they appear in a sequence
Author's Draft
Elliptical Editing
Storyboards
Protagonist
42. Expresses the director's visual strategy for every scene in the film. It shows you what shots are used to cover a scene and in how they connect together as an edited scene. Camera angles - shot sizes - camera moves - etc. are all marked.
Shot Size
Shooting (Lined) Script
Prime Lens
Side Light
43. Controlling the strength of the signal
Zoom Lens (Variable Focal Length Lens)
Rim Light
Setting Levels
Storyboards
44. Sound that includes both room acoustics and background noise
Circle of Confusion
Dramatization
Sound Recordist
Ambient Sound
45. List of all the shots that make up the film in the order in which they will be shot
Key Light
Shot List
Author's Draft
Four Basic Elements in the Visual Language of Cinema
46. Loud - sudden sound that exceeds 0dB
Automatic Dialogue Replacement
Spike
Audition
Author's Draft
47. Organized process by which you schedule and work with a number of potential performers to determine their suitability to your film
Audition
Overheads
Storyboards
Focus Puller
48. Yields very dark and prominent shadow areas. Occurs when the fill light is considerable lower than the key - allowing areas to be submerged in shadows.
Cross Cutting
Combination Move
Low-Key Lighting
Nondestructive Editing
49. Two-thirds of the depth range along the z-axis is behind the focus point and one-third is in front of the focus point
Four Basic Properties of Sound
Depth of Field
Fill Light
1/3 - 2/3 Rule
50. A shot in which the subject looks directly at the camera
Headshot/Bio
Low-Key Lighting
Cover-Set
Direct Address