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Intro To Film Production
Start Test
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. Shooting Script - Overheads - and Storyboards
Three Pre-Visualization Tools
Cable Wrangler
Coverage
Parallel Action
2. Drawings of shots - arranged on paper in the order they appear in a sequence
Fine Cut
Storyboards
'In the Mud'
Boom Operator
3. 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.
Coverage
Peak Meter
Depth of Field
Green Room
4. Ensures visibility in all parts of your scene with overall bright and even illumination. Minimizes shadows - texture and dimensionality.
Setting Levels
High-Key Lighting
Shot List
Plot
5. A type of location sound that isn't recorded simultaneously with the picture. Two types are Ambient Sound and Location Sound.
Zoom Lens (Variable Focal Length Lens)
Wild Sound (Non-Sync Sound)
Sound Recordist
Location Scouting
6. The range between -12dB and 0dB that gives a buffer for any unforeseen audio spikes
Headroom
Location Scouting
Overheads
Green Room
7. To alternate between two or more scenes when editing a sequence
Four Basic Properties of Sound
Levels
Cross Cutting
Wild Sound (Non-Sync Sound)
8. The strategy of using movie lights to duplicate where light would logically be emanating from
Automatic Dialogue Replacement
Motivated Lighting
Peak Meter
Talent Release
9. 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.
Lens Speed
Four Basic Elements in the Visual Language of Cinema
Talent Release
Back Light
10. Sets up cables - holds second boom when necessary - and wrangles the cables when the boom operator follows a moving shot
Direct Address
Cable Wrangler
Author's Draft
Props
11. Drawings of shots - arranged on paper in the order they appear in a sequence
Combination Move
High-Key Lighting
Cable Wrangler
Storyboards
12. Closely scrutinizing the location for its technical and aesthetic capabilities
Location Technical Survey
Plot
Pulling Focus
Props
13. To alternate between two or more scenes when editing a sequence
Shooting (Lined) Script
Key Light
Cross Cutting
Motivated Lighting
14. Closer shots of the subjects in the scene from and angle that includes a portion of the other person's shoulder or head. This is also called and over-the-shoulder shot.
Shooting (Lined) Script
Side Light
Headshot/Bio
Reverse Shots
15. The recording of sync dialogue in a studio in cases where the production sound is not usable
Automatic Dialogue Replacement
Three Pre-Visualization Tools
Zooming In
Cable Wrangler
16. Shots that don't require any actors to be present like landscapes - location-establishing shots - and shots of objects and cutaways
Motivated Lighting
Pick-Ups
T-Stops
Zoom Lens (Variable Focal Length Lens)
17. Legal document - signed before cameras roll - simply stating that the performer gives you the right to use his image and voice in your film
Prime Lens
Cross Cutting
Storyboards
Talent Release
18. Lighting unit that is position 90
3/4 Back Light
Side Light
Combination Move
Prime Lens
19. Lens that offers a continuous range of focal lengths in one lens housing
Spike
Script Breakdown Sheet
Combination Move
Zoom Lens (Variable Focal Length Lens)
20. Primary source of illumination in your scene. Usually it is a motivated light source.
Low-Key Lighting
Spike
Unmotivated Move
Key Light
21. Ensures visibility in all parts of your scene with overall bright and even illumination. Minimizes shadows - texture and dimensionality.
Key Light
Direct Address
Zoom Lens (Variable Focal Length Lens)
High-Key Lighting
22. 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.
Three Pre-Visualization Tools
Wild Sound (Non-Sync Sound)
Shooting (Lined) Script
Side Light
23. The things that our characters actually handle in a scene
Side Light
Props
Pulling Focus
Ambient Sound
24. Transforming what is vague and internal into a series of viewable and audible actions and events
Key Light
Levels
Dramatization
Green Room
25. 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.
Rim Light
Headroom
Art Direction
Director of Photography
26. Frequency - Amplitude - Timbre - and Velocity
Three Pre-Visualization Tools
Four Basic Properties of Sound
Reverberation
Fill Light
27. 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
Parallel Action
Gaffer
Zooming In
Fill Light
28. Recording is too low
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29. 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.'
Talent Release
Five Ways to Create a Parallel Action Sequence
Headshot/Bio
Reverberation
30. 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
1/3 - 2/3 Rule
Combination Move
Dramatization
Nonlinear Editing System
31. Deciding where you want to shoot (the look - the access - the logistics - the sound - and securing it)
Assistant Camera
Location Scouting
Side Light
Treatment
32. Reading from the script pages that actors are given minutes before the audition
Cold Reading
Cross Cutting
Shooting (Lined) Script
Spike
33. First complete version of the narrative in proper screenplay format
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34. 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
Overheads
Lens Speed
Audition
35. 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.
Low-Key Lighting
Four Basic Properties of Sound
Cutaway Shot
Overheads
36. Soft light that fills in the shadows created by the Key Light
Fill Light
Peak Meter
Cold Reading
Nondestructive Editing
37. Finessing all of the edits one-by-one
Script Breakdown Sheet
Script Breakdown Sheet
Fine Cut
Boom Operator
38. Frequency - Amplitude - Timbre - and Velocity
Four Basic Properties of Sound
Spike
Circle of Confusion
Coverage
39. The recording of sync dialogue in a studio in cases where the production sound is not usable
Four Basic Properties of Sound
Automatic Dialogue Replacement
Four Basic Elements in the Visual Language of Cinema
Three Pre-Visualization Tools
40. Simple but comprehensive prose description of a film's plot
Treatment
Depth of Field
Audition
T-Stops
41. Character - Goal - and Conflict or Obstacles
Fine Cut
'In the Mud'
Automatic Dialogue Replacement
Three Essential Elements of Drama
42. 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.
Overheads
Sound Recordist
Nonlinear Editing System
Back Light
43. The range of apparent focus along the z-axis
Headshot/Bio
Depth of Field
Motivated Lighting
Shot List
44. Recording is too low
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45. 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.
3/4 Back Light
Overheads
Unmotivated Move
Cover-Set
46. Lens that has one fixed focal length for more precise manipulation of image quality
Author's Draft
Prime Lens
Three Pre-Visualization Tools
Low-Key Lighting
47. Adjusting the optical center back toward the focal plane causing the image to become more wide-angle
Four Basic Elements in the Visual Language of Cinema
Zooming Out
Green Room
Green Room
48. The order of events in your film
Plot
Coverage
Key Light
Zooming Out
49. Adjusting the optical center back toward the focal plane causing the image to become more wide-angle
Zooming Out
Art Direction
Treatment
Shot List
50. The order of events in your film
Plot
Boom Operator
Three Pre-Visualization Tools
Overheads