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TV Production Basics
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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. Additional framing space in a camera picture on the side toward which a subject is looking or moving
Lead room
Master Control
Director
White Balance
2. The person who oversees the lighting of the set and makes lighting changes - if they are needed - during production.
Director
Lens
The Studio
Lighting Director
3. in control room
Engineer
Lead room
Master Control
ECU
4. The person who makes sure the script is appearing on the right part of the prompter screen so the talent can read it properly.
Stage Manager
dolly
Teleprompter Operartor
Studio Production
5. The person who assembles raw footage into a final program.
Pan
Executive Producer
Lead room
Editor
6. The area where all video signals are mixed. The director and technical director (and other crew members) control all program elements from this location.
Green Rooms
Studio Production
Control Room
Tripod
7. A method of representing video or audio signals using a 'wave' of continuously.
Tally light
HD
Editor
Analog
8. Extreme close up- A very close shot of a person or object - used to intensify drama or show close detail.
Art Director
HDTV
ECU
Camera Operators
9. The ratio of the height of a television screen to its width.
Aspect Ratios
Interruptible Feedback
ATSC
Long shot (head to toe)
10. Camcorder is essential because this is when you are filming outdoors or not in a studio. 'real world' shooting
Field Production
Tripod
Control Room
Engineer
11. A person who oversees several production.
Headroom
Pedestal mount
Executive Producer
Set Production Designer
12. A camera mount - usually used in studio productions - that facilitates smooth movement of the camera across the studio floor and limited range of camera height adjustment.
Remotes
Pedestal mount
long lens
Standard Definition
13. The part of a tape recorder or player that pulls the tape through the machine at the proper speed.
Servo
Associate Director
CU
Master Control
14. Planning the project
VTR
Lighting Director
Pre-production
Audio Operator (A1) (A2)
15. A camera shot that starts with one object in focus - then changes to focus on another object.
Tripod
Remotes
Rack focus
Firewire (IEE-1394)
16. Pointing the camera down or up
Angle of Elevation
CU
Associate Director
Executive Producer
17. A camera shot that starts with one object in focus - then changes to focus on another object.
Rack focus
Director
O/S
Production
18. A person who deals with the look of sets and other artistic aspects of a television program.
Editor
Art Director
Headroom
Lead room
19. 1) A large camera mount with an extended boom arm for a camera and a seat for a camera operator - all placed on a large four-wheeled base. 2) To move the boom arm of a crane up and down.
crane
dolly
Interruptible Feedback
Tripod
20. The part of a tape recorder or player that pulls the tape through the machine at the proper speed.
Servo
HD
Technical Director
Lens
21. To move the camera and its mount laterally to the right or left.
Field Production
Graphics Operator
trucking
Tilt
22. A television format with more lines of resolution and a wider aspect ratio than standard-definition NTSC television.
HD
Field Production
trucking
Rack focus
23. A device used to record video and audio information onto a magnetic tape. Stands for videotape recorder
Macro focus
VTR
Remotes
Servo
24. people who deliver lines
Talent
Angle of Elevation
Pedestal mount
Iris
25. punched switcher
HDTV
Iris
Technical Director
NTSC
26. The stage during which all the shooting for a program is undertaken.
Pre-production
Rack focus
Production
ECU
27. The person who oversees the lighting of the set and makes lighting changes - if they are needed - during production.
Lighting Director
Servo
Remotes
Production
28. A three legged camera mount - sometimes equipped with casters to facilitate camera movement.
Teleprompter Operartor
Tripod
Graphics Operator
Producer
29. A person who creates words - drawings and some visual effects that are incorporated with a production.
Graphics Operator
Master Control
Performer Tips
long lens
30. The person who makes sure the script is appearing on the right part of the prompter screen so the talent can read it properly.
Teleprompter Operartor
long lens
Green Rooms
Grunts
31. The space between the top of a subjects head and the upper edge of the camera frame.
Foreground
Field Production
Headroom
Remotes
32. A person who oversees several production.
Executive Producer
Talent
Coaxial Cable
Field Production
33. 1) To turn a camera horizontally by rotating the camera mounting head. 2) The shot produced by panning a camera. 3) A rectangular floodlight
ATSC
Pan
Interruptible Feedback
AGC
34. A method of representing video or audio signals that uses discrete 'on' and 'off' pulses. The value of a digital signal at any point can be either 'off'(0) or 'on'(1)
Digital
dolly
Headroom
Firewire (IEE-1394)
35. people who deliver lines
Talent
Performer Tips
Iris
ATSC
36. Automatic gain control. An internal control device - for either audio or video signals - that automatically increases or decreases the strength of the incoming sound of picture to maintain optimum strength.
VTR
Post-Production
Servo
AGC
37. 1) To turn a camera horizontally by rotating the camera mounting head. 2) The shot produced by panning a camera. 3) A rectangular floodlight
Pan
Macro focus
Rule of thirds
NTSC
38. The directors key assistant in charge of all production concerns on the floor. Example: communicate with talent
Green Rooms
Stage Manager
The Studio
Grunts
39. creates great depth and interest
Firewire (IEE-1394)
Tilt
Foreground
Camera Operators
40. Pointing the camera down or up
Pan
Angle of Elevation
ECU
Pedestal mount
41. Interns - Cable Pullers - 2nd Assistant Directors
Camera Operators
Pre-production
Grunts
Horizon Line
42. A series of digital television formats developed by the Advanced Television Systems Committee.
Tripod
Rule of thirds
ATSC
Engineer
43. 1) To pivot the camera vertically by pointing the camera mounting head up or down. 2) the shot produced by tilting a camera.
Stage Manager
HDTV
Interruptible Feedback
Tilt
44. The area where all video signals are mixed. The director and technical director (and other crew members) control all program elements from this location.
How to focus a camera like a pro
Headroom
Control Room
dolly
45. A view of the subject from a comfortable distance between a wide shot and close-up.
Medium Shot (head to toe)
Headroom
Master Control
Field Production
46. Planning the project
The Studio
Pan
Pre-production
Foreground
47. A feature found on some zoom lenses that allows the operator to focus on objects very close to the lens.
Macro focus
Coaxial Cable
Digital
Iris
48. A television format with more lines of resolution and a wider aspect ratio than standard-definition NTSC television.
Interruptible Feedback
Digital
HDTV
Lighting Director
49. An audio setup that allows the talent - wearing a small earpiece - to hear program audio or receive instruction from the director or someone.
Stage Manager
Interruptible Feedback
Pre-production
Long shot (head to toe)
50. The period of time - after individual program segments have been produced and recorded - when elements of a program are assembled.
The Studio
Post-Production
Master Control
Aspect Ratios