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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.
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1. A type of location sound that isn't recorded simultaneously with the picture. Two types are Ambient Sound and Location Sound.
Low-Key Lighting
Wild Sound (Non-Sync Sound)
Director of Photography
T-Stops
2. 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
Levels
Unmotivated Move
Cold Reading
3. 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
Three Pre-Visualization Tools
Parallel Action
Narrative Films
Gaffer
4. Transforming what is vague and internal into a series of viewable and audible actions and events
Shooting (Lined) Script
Dramatization
Ambient Sound
Plot
5. The strategy of using movie lights to duplicate where light would logically be emanating from
Author's Draft
Director of Photography
T-Stops
Motivated Lighting
6. Sound that includes both room acoustics and background noise
Rim Light
Parallel Action
Ambient Sound
Cold Reading
7. Deciding where you want to shoot (the look - the access - the logistics - the sound - and securing it)
Key Light
Cover-Set
Four Basic Elements in the Visual Language of Cinema
Location Scouting
8. Primary source of illumination in your scene. Usually it is a motivated light source.
Cable Wrangler
Low-Key Lighting
Key Light
Cold Reading
9. A shot of a detail within your scene other than the characters' faces
Cutaway Shot
Zoom Lens (Variable Focal Length Lens)
Boom Operator
Narrative Films
10. 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.
Audition
Location Scouting
Art Direction
Prime Lens
11. Lighting unit that is position 90
Motivated Move
Side Light
Art Direction
T-Stops
12. Lighting unit that is position 90
Reverse Shots
Side Light
Coverage
Ambient Sound
13. Transforming what is vague and internal into a series of viewable and audible actions and events
Script Breakdown Sheet
Combination Move
Dramatization
Three Pre-Visualization Tools
14. Drawings of shots - arranged on paper in the order they appear in a sequence
Storyboards
'In the Mud'
T-Stops
Plot
15. 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)
Protagonist
Four Basic Properties of Sound
Nondestructive Editing
Focus Puller
16. The recording of sync dialogue in a studio in cases where the production sound is not usable
Depth of Field
Assistant Camera
Automatic Dialogue Replacement
Direct Address
17. First complete version of the narrative in proper screenplay format
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18. Shooting a scene from various angles
Coverage
Art Direction
Gaffer
Nondestructive Editing
19. Refers to the size of your subject in the frame
Cross Cutting
Shot Size
Five Ways to Create a Parallel Action Sequence
Rendering
20. Simple but comprehensive prose description of a film's plot
Audition
Call Sheets
Zooming Out
Treatment
21. 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
Back Light
Fine Cut
Assistant Camera
Media File Indicators
22. Adjusted to take into account the amount of light that is lost - dissipated - or absorbed by that particular lens
Back Light
Shooting (Lined) Script
T-Stops
Director of Photography
23. 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
Director of Photography
Cutaway Shot
Cover-Set
24. 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
Three Essential Elements of Drama
Circle of Confusion
Setting Levels
Rule of Thirds
25. The order of events in your film
Rendering
Author's Draft
Plot
Protagonist
26. Executing more than one move at a time
Combination Move
Setting Levels
Ambient Sound
Elliptical Editing
27. A shot in which the subject looks directly at the camera
Pick-Ups
Lens Speed
Direct Address
Peak Meter
28. Deciding where you want to shoot (the look - the access - the logistics - the sound - and securing it)
3/4 Back Light
Audition
Call Sheets
Location Scouting
29. The things that our characters actually handle in a scene
Props
Five Ways to Create a Parallel Action Sequence
Headroom
Peak Meter
30. Sound that includes both room acoustics and background noise
Gaffer
Three Pre-Visualization Tools
Overheads
Ambient Sound
31. Lighting unit that is 45
Camera Setup
Fill Light
3/4 Back Light
Script Breakdown Sheet
32. 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
1/3 - 2/3 Rule
Motivated Move
Cross Cutting
Circle of Confusion
33. A type of location sound that isn't recorded simultaneously with the picture. Two types are Ambient Sound and Location Sound.
Props
Cover-Set
Elliptical Editing
Wild Sound (Non-Sync Sound)
34. List of all the shots that make up the film in the order in which they will be shot
Props
Shot List
Motivated Lighting
Green Room
35. 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.'
Ambient Sound
Director of Photography
Reverberation
Assistant Camera
36. First complete version of the narrative in proper screenplay format
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37. The range between -12dB and 0dB that gives a buffer for any unforeseen audio spikes
Overheads
Cutaway Shot
Headroom
Setting Levels
38. Primary source of illumination in your scene. Usually it is a motivated light source.
Direct Address
Ambient Sound
Narrative Films
Key Light
39. Soft light that fills in the shadows created by the Key Light
Blocking
Headroom
Fill Light
Nonlinear Editing System
40. Sets up cables - holds second boom when necessary - and wrangles the cables when the boom operator follows a moving shot
Levels
Narrative Films
Cable Wrangler
Ambient Sound
41. The range of apparent focus along the z-axis
Green Room
Master Shot
Depth of Field
Five Ways to Create a Parallel Action Sequence
42. To alternate between two or more scenes when editing a sequence
Pick-Ups
Boom Operator
Back Light
Cross Cutting
43. Standard calling card. 8x10 photograph on one side and a resume on the other.
Headshot/Bio
Shooting (Lined) Script
Location Technical Survey
Focus Puller
44. Adjusted to take into account the amount of light that is lost - dissipated - or absorbed by that particular lens
Four Basic Properties of Sound
1/3 - 2/3 Rule
T-Stops
Focus Puller
45. Frequency - Amplitude - Timbre - and Velocity
Four Basic Properties of Sound
Cover-Set
Nondestructive Editing
Location Technical Survey
46. Finessing all of the edits one-by-one
Setting Levels
Pick-Ups
Fine Cut
Fill Light
47. The person who pulls focus
Focus Puller
Treatment
Talent Release
Assistant Camera
48. Process of combining the video and audio with the applied effect to create a new media file
Assistant Camera
Sound Recordist
Rendering
Pick-Ups
49. Legal document - signed before cameras roll - simply stating that the performer gives you the right to use his image and voice in your film
Direct Address
Sound Recordist
Gaffer
Talent Release
50. 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.'
Sound Recordist
Cable Wrangler
Reverberation
Four Basic Elements in the Visual Language of Cinema