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Test your basic knowledge |
Production Assistant: PA Basics
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Subjects
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performing-arts
,
film
Instructions:
Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
If you are not ready to take this test, you can
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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. A person who moves the equipment - scenery - and props on a studio set
Content Specialist
Maintenance Engineer
Grip
Production values
2. The person responsible for the audio/sound quality on the production and related equipment
Production values
Floor Manager
Audio Engineer
Cue
3. Any activity on a program that occurs prior to the time that the cameras begin rolling. This includes production meetings - set construction - costume design - music composition - scriptwriting - and location surveys
Production switching
Pre-Production
Executive Producer (EP)
Production Team
4. Person who purchases materials and services in the creation of a finished program
Producer
Pre-Production
Production Manager
Production Team
5. The person who is in charge of the creative aspects of the program and interacts with the entire staff
CG operator
Production switching
Post-Production
Director
6. Production personnel that are normally not seen by the camera and generally includes equipment operators.
Pre-Production
CG operator
Production values
Crew
7. The portion of a program that you can hear
Audio Engineer
Production Manager
Production Team
Audio
8. involves placing items in the camera's frame by operating the camera and tripod
Makeup artist
Framing
Production
Graphic Artist
9. The person - or people - who provide/s the funding necessary to produce the program
Executive Producer (EP)
Video Engineer
Audio Engineer
Talent
10. The person who creates the titles for the program using a character generator
Frame
CG operator
Makeup artist
Audio
11. Process of cutting between cameras
Audio
Frame
Gaffer
Production switching
12. A person who moves the equipment - scenery - and props on a studio set
Frame
Audio
Grip
Editor
13. The portion of a program that you can hear
Gaffer
Audio
Editor
Crew
14. involves placing items in the camera's frame by operating the camera and tripod
Production Team
Framing
Maintenance Engineer
Audio Engineer
15. Anything placed on a set that stops the distant view of the camera. Outside the studio - scenery may be a building or the horizon.
Production switching
Graphic Artist
Director
Scenery
16. The person responsible for the audio/sound quality on the production and related equipment
Executive Producer (EP)
Audio Engineer
Video Engineer
Makeup artist
17. A signal that implies something specific is to happen
Cue
Director
Editor
Framing
18. Anything placed on a set that stops the distant view of the camera. Outside the studio - scenery may be a building or the horizon.
Director
Scenery
Camera Operator
Production assistant (PA)
19. The person who is the director's eyes and ears in the studio - the floor manager relays the director's commands to the studio personnel.
Cue
Cast
Floor Manager
Post-Production
20. The general aesthetics of the show
Production values
Production Manager
Cast
Director
21. The person who decides the placement of lighting instruments - the appropriate color of light to use - and which lamps should be used in the instruments
Scenery
Post-Production
Lighting Director
Post-Production
22. The portion of the program that you can see
Production Team
Camera Operator
Content Specialist
Video
23. Anything the audience sees in a video picture that did not really happen the way it appears on the screen
Special Effects
Post-Production
Graphic Artist
Cast
24. Anyone seen by the camera - whether or not they have a speaking or any other significant role in the program - as well as individuals who provide only their vocal skills to the production
Grip
Talent
Lighting Director
Camera Operator
25. The lighting director's assistant who often does the actual hauling of heavy instruments up and down ladders
Audio
Maintenance Engineer
Director
Gaffer
26. Process of cutting between cameras
Pre-Production
Frame
Production switching
Video
27. The actual edge of the video picture; the edge of the picture on all four sides
Grip
Frame
Content Specialist
Post-Production
28. A person who works with the scriptwriter and is considered to be an expert in the program's subject matter
Editor
Content Specialist
Cue
Makeup
29. Person who purchases materials and services in the creation of a finished program
Post-Production
Crew
Producer
Production Team
30. Production personnel that are normally not seen by the camera and generally includes equipment operators.
CG operator
Crew
Graphic Artist
Framing
31. The person who handles the business portion of the production by negotiating the fees for goods - services - and other contracts by determining the staffing requirements based on the needs of each production
Production
Production Manager
Production assistant (PA)
Grip
32. person who keeps all the production equipment functioning at its optimum performance level
Cast
Cue
Production switching
Maintenance Engineer
33. The person responsible for all the artwork required for the production. This includes computer graphics - traditional works of art - charts - and graphs
Gaffer
Production Team
Graphic Artist
Maintenance Engineer
34. The actual shooting of the program
Graphic Artist
Production switching
Special Effects
Production
35. person responsible for putting the various pieces of the entire program together - they remove all the mistakes and bad takes - leaving only the best version of each scene - and arranges the individual scenes into the proper order
Production assistant (PA)
Editor
Production Team
Floor Manager
36. The person responsible for placing the entire production on paper
Scriptwriter
VTR Operator
Production Team
Production assistant (PA)
37. The person - or people - who provide/s the funding necessary to produce the program
Lighting Director
VTR Operator
Executive Producer (EP)
Pre-Production
38. The person responsible for placing the entire production on paper
Production Manager
Scenery
Scriptwriter
Producer
39. The collective name given to all the talent participating in a production
Cue
Cast
Production values
Audio Engineer
40. Anyone seen by the camera - whether or not they have a speaking or any other significant role in the program - as well as individuals who provide only their vocal skills to the production
Talent
Maintenance Engineer
Gaffer
Production values
41. The person who creates the titles for the program using a character generator
Makeup
CG operator
Grip
Floor Manager
42. The person who runs the piece of equipment that captures the video images of the program
Staff
Production Team
Camera Operator
Framing
43. The person responsible for all the artwork required for the production. This includes computer graphics - traditional works of art - charts - and graphs
Executive Producer (EP)
Grip
Graphic Artist
Maintenance Engineer
44. The person who handles the business portion of the production by negotiating the fees for goods - services - and other contracts by determining the staffing requirements based on the needs of each production
Director
Production Manager
Video
VTR Operator
45. The person responsible for applying cosmetics to the talent's face and body - giving them the intended appearance in front of the camera
Production
Executive Producer (EP)
Makeup artist
Scenery
46. Any of the activities performed after a program has been shot. This includes music beds - editing - audio overdubs - titles - and duplication
Crew
Post-Production
Makeup artist
Video Engineer
47. The portion of the program that you can see
Makeup artist
Video
Floor Manager
Production Manager
48. A person who works with the scriptwriter and is considered to be an expert in the program's subject matter
Production
Makeup artist
Video
Content Specialist
49. Everyone involved in the production - both staff and talent
Production Team
Pre-Production
Production
Scenery
50. Production personnel that work behind the scenes and generally includes management and designers
Cue
Staff
Production Team
Content Specialist