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TV Production Basics
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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Match each statement with the correct term.
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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 three legged camera mount - sometimes equipped with casters to facilitate camera movement.
Video Shader
Angle of Elevation
Tripod
Lead room
2. large room at least 20 feet by 30 feet without any posts obstructing its space. Best located on the ground floor. The space where all acting or performing takes place.
Firewire (IEE-1394)
Camera Operators
Audio Operator (A1) (A2)
The Studio
3. punched switcher
Technical Director
Video Shader
Pre-production
Tally light
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.
Audio Operator (A1) (A2)
Remotes
CU
Teleprompter Operartor
5. The person who frames the shots for a production. Must have knowledge of camera - lens - angles
Tripod
dolly
Lens
Camera Operators
6. A television format with more lines of resolution and a wider aspect ratio than standard-definition NTSC television.
HDTV
Angle of Elevation
Producer
HD
7. Additional framing space in a camera picture on the side toward which a subject is looking or moving
Coaxial Cable
Set Production Designer
Standard Definition
Lead room
8. With the advent of high- definition television - this term is used to refer to NTSC television and ATSC formats that have a 4:3 aspect ration.
crane
Audio Operator (A1) (A2)
Standard Definition
Tally light
9. The place in a studio complex where people who are about to appear on a TV show can wait.
How to focus a camera like a pro
Angle of Elevation
Green Rooms
Grunts
10. A person who deals with the look of sets and other artistic aspects of a television program.
Digital
Art Director
Technical Director
Pan
11. The period of time - after individual program segments have been produced and recorded - when elements of a program are assembled.
Post-Production
Rack focus
Production
Analog
12. small red indicators on a camera to let the talent and camera operator know that the camera is on the air or recording
Editor
Control Room
Long shot (head to toe)
Tally light
13. A feature found on some zoom lenses that allows the operator to focus on objects very close to the lens.
Grunts
Tilt
Lens
Macro focus
14. A person who oversees several production.
Rule of thirds
Executive Producer
Performer Tips
Standard Definition
15. in control room
Performer Tips
Rack focus
Engineer
The Studio
16. To move the camera and its mount laterally to the right or left.
Digital
Stage Manager
trucking
Green Rooms
17. The place in a studio complex where people who are about to appear on a TV show can wait.
Lighting Director
Control Room
Field Production
Green Rooms
18. A television format with more lines of resolution and a wider aspect ratio than standard-definition NTSC television.
Art Director
Post-Production
HD
Master Control
19. The person who determines the environment where the production takes place.
Set Production Designer
Remotes
Headroom
Firewire (IEE-1394)
20. 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.
Pedestal mount
O/S
Lens
Graphics Operator
21. combination of studio and field production. Sports - parades
Pre-production
Horizon Line
Remotes
long lens
22. A principle of composition that divides the TV screen into thirds - horizontally and vertically and places objects of interest at the points where the lines intersect.
CU
Iris
Rule of thirds
Coaxial Cable
23. A three legged camera mount - sometimes equipped with casters to facilitate camera movement.
Audio Operator (A1) (A2)
Servo
Tilt
Tripod
24. The ratio of the height of a television screen to its width.
Grunts
trucking
Analog
Aspect Ratios
25. An electronic adjustment of a camera to compensate for differences in color temperatures so that a pure white object will appear on-screen as pure white.
CU
Standard Definition
Rack focus
White Balance
26. creates great depth and interest
Pan
trucking
Video Shader
Foreground
27. Planning the project
Aspect Ratios
Angle of Elevation
Coaxial Cable
Pre-production
28. The area where all video signals are mixed. The director and technical director (and other crew members) control all program elements from this location.
Technical Director
dolly
Angle of Elevation
Control Room
29. A television format with more lines of resolution and a wider aspect ratio than standard-definition NTSC television.
ECU
Studio Production
Angle of Elevation
HDTV
30. 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
Analog
Standard Definition
Director
31. A series of digital television formats developed by the Advanced Television Systems Committee.
ATSC
Medium Shot (head to toe)
Camera Operators
Master Control
32. The part of the lens that allows light to pass through.
Iris
Analog
Rule of thirds
Tripod
33. A principle of composition that divides the TV screen into thirds - horizontally and vertically and places objects of interest at the points where the lines intersect.
Rule of thirds
NTSC
Tripod
White Balance
34. A person who oversees several production.
trucking
Horizon Line
Executive Producer
ATSC
35. Program creation that takes place in a controlled environment meant for it - as opposed to production that takes place in the field
CU
Studio Production
Master Control
Talent
36. A person who creates words - drawings and some visual effects that are incorporated with a production.
Graphics Operator
Long shot (head to toe)
Editor
The Studio
37. Makes sure camera match - lighting
Video Shader
NTSC
Aspect Ratios
Field Production
38. 1) To turn a camera horizontally by rotating the camera mounting head. 2) The shot produced by panning a camera. 3) A rectangular floodlight
Audio Operator (A1) (A2)
Long shot (head to toe)
Performer Tips
Pan
39. focual length determines how wide or narrow the viewing range (field of view) is. The longer the lens the more narrow the field of view - shorter lens gives wider shots
Lens
Foreground
Teleprompter Operartor
Firewire (IEE-1394)
40. A camera shot that starts with one object in focus - then changes to focus on another object.
Rack focus
Horizon Line
Coaxial Cable
Foreground
41. A feature found on some zoom lenses that allows the operator to focus on objects very close to the lens.
Macro focus
Lead room
Set Production Designer
Digital
42. A camera view of the subject from a relatively great distance usually showing the subject in its entirety.
Teleprompter Operartor
Headroom
long lens
VTR
43. The part of a tape recorder or player that pulls the tape through the machine at the proper speed.
Servo
Tilt
Medium Shot (head to toe)
Tally light
44. helps with routine stuff - anything the director needs - timing of production
Set Production Designer
VTR
Associate Director
NTSC
45. The primary engineering control center where all video and audio signals are ultimately channeled; program input - camera controls and transmitter distribution often are handled from this location.
Long shot (head to toe)
Master Control
Editor
Angle of Elevation
46. The space between the top of a subjects head and the upper edge of the camera frame.
Art Director
trucking
Headroom
Editor
47. A camera shot that starts with one object in focus - then changes to focus on another object.
Rack focus
Performer Tips
crane
Producer
48. 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)
Director
Iris
dolly
Digital
49. Extreme close up- A very close shot of a person or object - used to intensify drama or show close detail.
crane
ECU
Headroom
trucking
50. The primary engineering control center where all video and audio signals are ultimately channeled; program input - camera controls and transmitter distribution often are handled from this location.
Horizon Line
Master Control
Technical Director
Digital