SUBJECTS
|
BROWSE
|
CAREER CENTER
|
POPULAR
|
JOIN
|
LOGIN
Business Skills
|
Soft Skills
|
Basic Literacy
|
Certifications
About
|
Help
|
Privacy
|
Terms
|
Email
Search
Test your basic knowledge |
Intro To Film Production
Start Test
Study First
Subjects
:
performing-arts
,
film
Instructions:
Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
If you are not ready to take this test, you can
study here
.
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. 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
Automatic Dialogue Replacement
Pulling Focus
Cold Reading
Parallel Action
2. Lens that has one fixed focal length for more precise manipulation of image quality
Fine Cut
Call Sheets
Prime Lens
Rendering
3. Legal document - signed before cameras roll - simply stating that the performer gives you the right to use his image and voice in your film
Talent Release
Zoom Lens (Variable Focal Length Lens)
Shooting (Lined) Script
'In the Mud'
4. Organized process by which you schedule and work with a number of potential performers to determine their suitability to your film
Shot Size
Audition
Storyboards
Coverage
5. A type of location sound that isn't recorded simultaneously with the picture. Two types are Ambient Sound and Location Sound.
Gaffer
Five Ways to Create a Parallel Action Sequence
3/4 Back Light
Wild Sound (Non-Sync Sound)
6. The physical placement of the camera on the set necessary to get each shot in your shooting script
Unmotivated Move
Location Scouting
Peak Meter
Camera Setup
7. Dramatic Structure Matches - Content and Activity Matches - Matched Action Cuts - Graphic Matches - and Sound Bridges
Five Ways to Create a Parallel Action Sequence
Pulling Focus
Three Pre-Visualization Tools
Talent Release
8. Closely scrutinizing the location for its technical and aesthetic capabilities
Storyboards
Coverage
Location Technical Survey
Cable Wrangler
9. Responsible for the proper use and actual placement of the microphones for optimal quality
Combination Move
Script Breakdown Sheet
Boom Operator
Nondestructive Editing
10. Frequency - Amplitude - Timbre - and Velocity
Props
Four Basic Properties of Sound
Automatic Dialogue Replacement
Audition
11. 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
High-Key Lighting
1/3 - 2/3 Rule
Pulling Focus
Parallel Action
12. The order of events in your film
Fine Cut
Plot
Combination Move
Motivated Lighting
13. The range of apparent focus along the z-axis
Depth of Field
Plot
Cross Cutting
1/3 - 2/3 Rule
14. Reading from the script pages that actors are given minutes before the audition
Rule of Thirds
T-Stops
Cold Reading
Wild Sound (Non-Sync Sound)
15. The subject of the story - the central character whom the audience will follow as they attempt to achieve their goal
Assistant Camera
Master Shot
Levels
Protagonist
16. The order of events in your film
High-Key Lighting
Back Light
Master Shot
Plot
17. 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.
Low-Key Lighting
Dramatization
Art Direction
Nondestructive Editing
18. 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.
Motivated Lighting
Shooting (Lined) Script
Low-Key Lighting
Zooming Out
19. Shot - Shot Sequence - Scene - and Dramatic Sequence
Four Basic Elements in the Visual Language of Cinema
Narrative Films
Protagonist
Blocking
20. The strategy of using movie lights to duplicate where light would logically be emanating from
Low-Key Lighting
Motivated Lighting
Three Pre-Visualization Tools
Cutaway Shot
21. Organized process by which you schedule and work with a number of potential performers to determine their suitability to your film
Motivated Lighting
Five Ways to Create a Parallel Action Sequence
Setting Levels
Audition
22. The measurement of acceptable diameter which creates the appearance of focus
Green Room
Three Essential Elements of Drama
Circle of Confusion
Four Basic Elements in the Visual Language of Cinema
23. Character - Goal - and Conflict or Obstacles
Rendering
Director of Photography
Three Essential Elements of Drama
Back Light
24. Loud - sudden sound that exceeds 0dB
Overheads
Cover-Set
Spike
Green Room
25. A shot of a detail within your scene other than the characters' faces
Three Essential Elements of Drama
Parallel Action
Unmotivated Move
Cutaway Shot
26. Refers to the size of your subject in the frame
Green Room
Shot Size
Cross Cutting
Boom Operator
27. The movement of characters in the space
Parallel Action
Parallel Action
Blocking
Cold Reading
28. Simple but comprehensive prose description of a film's plot
Treatment
Sound Recordist
Art Direction
Rule of Thirds
29. Removing extraneous time and territory
Art Direction
T-Stops
Rule of Thirds
Elliptical Editing
30. Ensures visibility in all parts of your scene with overall bright and even illumination. Minimizes shadows - texture and dimensionality.
Green Room
High-Key Lighting
Rendering
Five Ways to Create a Parallel Action Sequence
31. Finessing all of the edits one-by-one
Elliptical Editing
Fine Cut
Pulling Focus
Spike
32. Not limited by the linear characteristics of video tape. We can move around in the footage in any direction - instantaneously. All film projects - whether shot on film of DV are edited on NLE. All visual and aural components must be turned into dig
Nonlinear Editing System
Reverberation
Nondestructive Editing
Overheads
33. 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.
Motivated Move
Motivated Move
High-Key Lighting
Overheads
34. Another name for backlight because of the effect it gives the actor
Motivated Move
Narrative Films
Cold Reading
Rim Light
35. 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
'In the Mud'
Headshot/Bio
1/3 - 2/3 Rule
Zoom Lens (Variable Focal Length Lens)
36. Controlling the strength of the signal
Gaffer
Storyboards
Setting Levels
Prime Lens
37. Process of combining the video and audio with the applied effect to create a new media file
Art Direction
Author's Draft
Rendering
Camera Setup
38. Refers to the loudness of a signal as it enters the audio recorder which determines the strength of the recorded audio signal
Rendering
Overheads
Levels
Rendering
39. Shot - Shot Sequence - Scene - and Dramatic Sequence
Parallel Action
Author's Draft
Four Basic Elements in the Visual Language of Cinema
Zooming In
40. Simple but comprehensive prose description of a film's plot
Shot List
Cover-Set
Treatment
Spike
41. A shot in which the subject looks directly at the camera
3/4 Back Light
Treatment
Shot List
Direct Address
42. Refers to the size of your subject in the frame
Shot Size
Narrative Films
Five Ways to Create a Parallel Action Sequence
Director of Photography
43. Lighting unit that is 45
Wild Sound (Non-Sync Sound)
3/4 Back Light
Rule of Thirds
Combination Move
44. 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)
Location Scouting
Parallel Action
Nondestructive Editing
Shooting (Lined) Script
45. Soft light that fills in the shadows created by the Key Light
Four Basic Elements in the Visual Language of Cinema
Direct Address
Fill Light
Cross Cutting
46. Lens that offers a continuous range of focal lengths in one lens housing
Plot
Lens Speed
Zoom Lens (Variable Focal Length Lens)
Headroom
47. Sets up cables - holds second boom when necessary - and wrangles the cables when the boom operator follows a moving shot
Author's Draft
Blocking
Shot List
Cable Wrangler
48. 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
Motivated Lighting
Rule of Thirds
'In the Mud'
Cross Cutting
49. The things that our characters actually handle in a scene
Zooming Out
Props
Circle of Confusion
Setting Levels
50. Measures the strength of the incoming signal.
Peak Meter
Audition
Talent Release
Fill Light