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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. 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.
Back Light
Cable Wrangler
Fine Cut
Shooting (Lined) Script
2. List of all the shots that make up the film in the order in which they will be shot
Gaffer
Shot List
Side Light
Narrative Films
3. Shooting a scene from various angles
Coverage
Treatment
Prime Lens
3/4 Back Light
4. Closely scrutinizing the location for its technical and aesthetic capabilities
Focus Puller
Shot Size
Talent Release
Location Technical Survey
5. Sound that includes both room acoustics and background noise
Boom Operator
Ambient Sound
Media File Indicators
Pick-Ups
6. 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.
Combination Move
Elliptical Editing
Green Room
Headshot/Bio
7. Drawings of shots - arranged on paper in the order they appear in a sequence
Overheads
Storyboards
T-Stops
Shooting (Lined) Script
8. Process of combining the video and audio with the applied effect to create a new media file
Motivated Move
Reverberation
Dramatization
Rendering
9. All camera moves need to be...
Motivated Move
Call Sheets
Nonlinear Editing System
Depth of Field
10. Standard calling card. 8x10 photograph on one side and a resume on the other.
Headshot/Bio
Motivated Lighting
Setting Levels
Cutaway Shot
11. Recording is too low
12. 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
Reverberation
Parallel Action
Art Direction
Rendering
13. Loud - sudden sound that exceeds 0dB
Pulling Focus
Reverse Shots
Spike
Nondestructive Editing
14. The range between -12dB and 0dB that gives a buffer for any unforeseen audio spikes
Five Ways to Create a Parallel Action Sequence
Gaffer
Headroom
Side Light
15. Recording is too low
16. Frequency - Amplitude - Timbre - and Velocity
Four Basic Properties of Sound
Location Technical Survey
Overheads
Reverse Shots
17. First complete version of the narrative in proper screenplay format
18. Sound that includes both room acoustics and background noise
Ambient Sound
Master Shot
Cover-Set
Headshot/Bio
19. 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
Headshot/Bio
Parallel Action
Assistant Camera
Director of Photography
20. Adjusting the optical center back toward the focal plane causing the image to become more wide-angle
Talent Release
Headshot/Bio
3/4 Back Light
Zooming Out
21. Drawings of shots - arranged on paper in the order they appear in a sequence
Shot List
Storyboards
Pulling Focus
Audition
22. The person who pulls focus
Focus Puller
Zooming In
Blocking
Motivated Move
23. Finessing all of the edits one-by-one
Direct Address
Side Light
Fine Cut
Location Technical Survey
24. Camera and lens expert. They are responsible for the proper functioning of the camera - which includes setting it up - cleaning the gate - checking and pulling focus - and selecting filters and lenses. They know precise details about what various
Zooming In
Depth of Field
Assistant Camera
Author's Draft
25. The order of events in your film
Boom Operator
Direct Address
Three Pre-Visualization Tools
Plot
26. Simple but comprehensive prose description of a film's plot
Assistant Camera
Zooming In
Treatment
Three Essential Elements of Drama
27. An interior scene that can be used in case your exterior shoot is cancelled because of bad weather
Art Direction
Ambient Sound
Cover-Set
Levels
28. Sets up cables - holds second boom when necessary - and wrangles the cables when the boom operator follows a moving shot
Cable Wrangler
Talent Release
Author's Draft
Audition
29. The things that our characters actually handle in a scene
Reverberation
Dramatization
Media File Indicators
Props
30. Executing more than one move at a time
Cutaway Shot
Props
Combination Move
Zooming In
31. Frequency - Amplitude - Timbre - and Velocity
Four Basic Properties of Sound
Spike
Circle of Confusion
Cutaway Shot
32. To alternate between two or more scenes when editing a sequence
Levels
Script Breakdown Sheet
Gaffer
Cross Cutting
33. Revolve around conflict - and express ideas and cocepts through stories in which a character who needs to accomplish something encounters obastacles and much struggle to get what they need
Parallel Action
Wild Sound (Non-Sync Sound)
Narrative Films
Zooming In
34. Point to the original data without altering the media file
Treatment
'In the Mud'
Nondestructive Editing
Media File Indicators
35. Hands-on lighting person who implements the lighting designs of the Director of Photography. In charge of setup and proper functioning of the lights.
Director of Photography
Gaffer
Shot Size
Headroom
36. Measures the strength of the incoming signal.
Focus Puller
Location Technical Survey
Combination Move
Peak Meter
37. 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
Spike
Prime Lens
Circle of Confusion
38. Adjusting the optical center away from the focal plane and therefore increasing the magnification power of the lens (telephoto)
Reverberation
Overheads
Elliptical Editing
Zooming In
39. Shots that don't require any actors to be present like landscapes - location-establishing shots - and shots of objects and cutaways
Cover-Set
Pick-Ups
Three Essential Elements of Drama
Four Basic Elements in the Visual Language of Cinema
40. Shot - Shot Sequence - Scene - and Dramatic Sequence
T-Stops
Author's Draft
Nonlinear Editing System
Four Basic Elements in the Visual Language of Cinema
41. The person who pulls focus
Prime Lens
Focus Puller
Dramatization
Call Sheets
42. 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)
Headshot/Bio
Pick-Ups
T-Stops
Nondestructive Editing
43. The movement of characters in the space
Nonlinear Editing System
Combination Move
Blocking
Author's Draft
44. Transforming what is vague and internal into a series of viewable and audible actions and events
Audition
Dramatization
Props
Master Shot
45. Shooting a scene from various angles
Lens Speed
Setting Levels
Prime Lens
Coverage
46. Finessing all of the edits one-by-one
Fine Cut
Green Room
Media File Indicators
Levels
47. 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.
Cable Wrangler
Low-Key Lighting
Shot List
Motivated Move
48. This type of move breaks the promise of showing something else to the viewer
Ambient Sound
Headroom
Plot
Unmotivated Move
49. Revolve around conflict - and express ideas and cocepts through stories in which a character who needs to accomplish something encounters obastacles and much struggle to get what they need
Narrative Films
Rule of Thirds
Automatic Dialogue Replacement
Cross Cutting
50. Changing the plane of critical focus during a take while the camera is running
Four Basic Properties of Sound
Green Room
Focus Puller
Pulling Focus