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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.
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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 method of representing video or audio signals using a 'wave' of continuously.
Analog
Video Shader
Teleprompter Operartor
The Studio
2. Additional framing space in a camera picture on the side toward which a subject is looking or moving
Pedestal mount
Coaxial Cable
O/S
Lead room
3. Indicates that the camera is level
Horizon Line
HDTV
long lens
Interruptible Feedback
4. A person who oversees several production.
Executive Producer
Aspect Ratios
Set Production Designer
Studio Production
5. A person who creates words - drawings and some visual effects that are incorporated with a production.
Engineer
Graphics Operator
Firewire (IEE-1394)
Technical Director
6. 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
HD
Video Shader
Technical Director
Lens
7. Close up- A view of a subject from a relatively short distance. A close-up of a person - for instance - might include only the person's face.
Master Control
Tilt
Talent
CU
8. Camera and video cable with a central insulted conducting wire and a concentrically arranged outer wire.
Coaxial Cable
HD
Producer
Pre-production
9. The person who oversees the lighting of the set and makes lighting changes - if they are needed - during production.
Pre-production
Lighting Director
Lead room
Firewire (IEE-1394)
10. combination of studio and field production. Sports - parades
Remotes
crane
Lens
long lens
11. A television format with more lines of resolution and a wider aspect ratio than standard-definition NTSC television.
HD
Standard Definition
Long shot (head to toe)
Video Shader
12. To move the camera and its mount closer to or farther from the subject.
Servo
dolly
Tilt
The Studio
13. punched switcher
AGC
Set Production Designer
Talent
Technical Director
14. 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
Standard Definition
long lens
Servo
15. A person who sets mics in a studio or location setting and/ or operates the audio console.
Audio Operator (A1) (A2)
Pre-production
Headroom
Art Director
16. The person who frames the shots for a production. Must have knowledge of camera - lens - angles
Art Director
Long shot (head to toe)
HDTV
Camera Operators
17. Extreme close up- A very close shot of a person or object - used to intensify drama or show close detail.
Video Shader
Lighting Director
ECU
Headroom
18. 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.
Rule of thirds
AGC
Grunts
HDTV
19. Additional framing space in a camera picture on the side toward which a subject is looking or moving
Standard Definition
Lens
Lead room
O/S
20. 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
Analog
Lens
Tripod
Pedestal mount
21. The stage during which all the shooting for a program is undertaken.
The Studio
Coaxial Cable
Production
Associate Director
22. A device used to record video and audio information onto a magnetic tape. Stands for videotape recorder
VTR
Tally light
Technical Director
White Balance
23. 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)
Art Director
ECU
Graphics Operator
Digital
24. small red indicators on a camera to let the talent and camera operator know that the camera is on the air or recording
Control Room
Tally light
ATSC
Engineer
25. The directors key assistant in charge of all production concerns on the floor. Example: communicate with talent
Stage Manager
HDTV
White Balance
Tilt
26. A person who deals with the look of sets and other artistic aspects of a television program.
Lighting Director
Art Director
Tilt
Lens
27. A three legged camera mount - sometimes equipped with casters to facilitate camera movement.
Firewire (IEE-1394)
Standard Definition
Tripod
Director
28. Program creation that takes place in a controlled environment meant for it - as opposed to production that takes place in the field
NTSC
Teleprompter Operartor
Lens
Studio Production
29. A camera view of the subject from a relatively great distance usually showing the subject in its entirety.
long lens
Standard Definition
Stage Manager
Tilt
30. 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.
Talent
Camera Operators
Standard Definition
Interruptible Feedback
31. small red indicators on a camera to let the talent and camera operator know that the camera is on the air or recording
Tally light
CU
Pedestal mount
Director
32. To move the camera and its mount laterally to the right or left.
trucking
Tripod
long lens
HD
33. creates great depth and interest
Lead room
Foreground
Lens
Grunts
34. A view of the subject from a comfortable distance between a wide shot and close-up.
Graphics Operator
Rack focus
Editor
Medium Shot (head to toe)
35. A television format with more lines of resolution and a wider aspect ratio than standard-definition NTSC television.
HDTV
Art Director
Medium Shot (head to toe)
Rack focus
36. Pointing the camera down or up
Technical Director
Camera Operators
Angle of Elevation
Pre-production
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
Lens
White Balance
Pan
Remotes
38. Indicates that the camera is level
HDTV
Rule of thirds
Horizon Line
Control Room
39. The part of the lens that allows light to pass through.
Iris
Production
Remotes
Remotes
40. Camcorder is essential because this is when you are filming outdoors or not in a studio. 'real world' shooting
HDTV
Art Director
Field Production
Technical Director
41. Makes sure camera match - lighting
The Studio
trucking
crane
Video Shader
42. The area where all video signals are mixed. The director and technical director (and other crew members) control all program elements from this location.
Producer
Long shot (head to toe)
Control Room
Rule of thirds
43. 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.
Audio Operator (A1) (A2)
The Studio
long lens
Producer
44. people who deliver lines
White Balance
Talent
Lighting Director
Video Shader
45. The space between the top of a subjects head and the upper edge of the camera frame.
Lead room
Headroom
Pre-production
Coaxial Cable
46. combination of studio and field production. Sports - parades
Remotes
Foreground
White Balance
Foreground
47. punched switcher
Medium Shot (head to toe)
Technical Director
Lead room
Performer Tips
48. A person who sets mics in a studio or location setting and/ or operates the audio console.
Headroom
Audio Operator (A1) (A2)
Graphics Operator
Foreground
49. The period of time - after individual program segments have been produced and recorded - when elements of a program are assembled.
Technical Director
Standard Definition
Post-Production
Iris
50. 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
trucking
Analog
Executive Producer