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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. The person who determines the environment where the production takes place.
Interruptible Feedback
Control Room
Associate Director
Set Production Designer
2. Interns - Cable Pullers - 2nd Assistant Directors
Grunts
Graphics Operator
Studio Production
Pedestal mount
3. A three legged camera mount - sometimes equipped with casters to facilitate camera movement.
Green Rooms
Iris
Tripod
Audio Operator (A1) (A2)
4. Indicates that the camera is level
long lens
Horizon Line
Angle of Elevation
Stage Manager
5. A television format with more lines of resolution and a wider aspect ratio than standard-definition NTSC television.
Teleprompter Operartor
Horizon Line
dolly
HD
6. 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.
Studio Production
The Studio
Audio Operator (A1) (A2)
Video Shader
7. ...
How to focus a camera like a pro
Horizon Line
Horizon Line
Digital
8. A person who sets mics in a studio or location setting and/ or operates the audio console.
Pan
crane
Audio Operator (A1) (A2)
Production
9. ...
Green Rooms
HDTV
How to focus a camera like a pro
Medium Shot (head to toe)
10. 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.
Servo
Macro focus
crane
The Studio
11. Camcorder is essential because this is when you are filming outdoors or not in a studio. 'real world' shooting
Associate Director
Field Production
Interruptible Feedback
Grunts
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.
Video Shader
Firewire (IEE-1394)
trucking
Pedestal mount
13. small red indicators on a camera to let the talent and camera operator know that the camera is on the air or recording
HDTV
Tally light
HD
Executive Producer
14. 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
Grunts
AGC
Audio Operator (A1) (A2)
15. creates great depth and interest
Foreground
Headroom
Tripod
Remotes
16. 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.
Stage Manager
Teleprompter Operartor
Green Rooms
Rule of thirds
17. 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.
Pan
Post-Production
White Balance
Graphics Operator
18. The period of time - after individual program segments have been produced and recorded - when elements of a program are assembled.
Director
Macro focus
CU
Post-Production
19. The creator and originator of a television program - usually in charge of elements such as writing - music clearance - financial considerations - and hiring the director.
long lens
Pedestal mount
Producer
Set Production Designer
20. The ratio of the height of a television screen to its width.
Digital
ECU
Art Director
Aspect Ratios
21. 1) To pivot the camera vertically by pointing the camera mounting head up or down. 2) the shot produced by tilting a camera.
Tilt
Pre-production
crane
O/S
22. Planning the project
Tilt
Pre-production
Interruptible Feedback
Analog
23. in control room
Tally light
Studio Production
Engineer
Remotes
24. To move the camera and its mount closer to or farther from the subject.
Green Rooms
Macro focus
CU
dolly
25. The part of a tape recorder or player that pulls the tape through the machine at the proper speed.
Servo
Lens
crane
Pedestal mount
26. A person who creates words - drawings and some visual effects that are incorporated with a production.
Servo
Graphics Operator
HD
ECU
27. The person who assembles raw footage into a final program.
Editor
Aspect Ratios
VTR
HDTV
28. The place in a studio complex where people who are about to appear on a TV show can wait.
The Studio
Green Rooms
CU
Firewire (IEE-1394)
29. A person who oversees several production.
Executive Producer
Master Control
Grunts
Digital
30. 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
Servo
Master Control
Stage Manager
Lens
31. Camera and video cable with a central insulted conducting wire and a concentrically arranged outer wire.
Headroom
Executive Producer
Coaxial Cable
Engineer
32. A series of digital television formats developed by the Advanced Television Systems Committee.
Executive Producer
ATSC
HD
Long shot (head to toe)
33. A view of the subject from a comfortable distance between a wide shot and close-up.
Stage Manager
Grunts
Medium Shot (head to toe)
Horizon Line
34. A person who creates words - drawings and some visual effects that are incorporated with a production.
Executive Producer
Graphics Operator
Macro focus
Video Shader
35. helps with routine stuff - anything the director needs - timing of production
Associate Director
Teleprompter Operartor
dolly
Technical Director
36. The person in charge of the creative aspects of a production and all the procedures that occur in the studio or field.
Associate Director
Green Rooms
Engineer
Director
37. Program creation that takes place in a controlled environment meant for it - as opposed to production that takes place in the field
Headroom
Studio Production
The Studio
Long shot (head to toe)
38. The original television standard approved in the United States in the 1940s. The letter stand for National Television System Committee.
Lighting Director
trucking
NTSC
The Studio
39. 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.
long lens
Servo
Rule of thirds
Production
40. 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.
AGC
Remotes
Macro focus
Pan
41. The part of the lens that allows light to pass through.
The Studio
Iris
Tally light
Audio Operator (A1) (A2)
42. 1) To turn a camera horizontally by rotating the camera mounting head. 2) The shot produced by panning a camera. 3) A rectangular floodlight
Foreground
Pan
CU
Digital
43. To move the camera and its mount laterally to the right or left.
NTSC
Video Shader
Pan
trucking
44. The person who makes sure the script is appearing on the right part of the prompter screen so the talent can read it properly.
Executive Producer
Teleprompter Operartor
Aspect Ratios
Analog
45. 1) To pivot the camera vertically by pointing the camera mounting head up or down. 2) the shot produced by tilting a camera.
Servo
Production
Tilt
Art Director
46. A camera view of the subject from a relatively great distance - usually showing the subject in its entirety.
Engineer
Tilt
Editor
Long shot (head to toe)
47. A camera view of the subject from a relatively great distance usually showing the subject in its entirety.
Pre-production
long lens
Iris
Video Shader
48. Extreme close up- A very close shot of a person or object - used to intensify drama or show close detail.
Interruptible Feedback
Executive Producer
Headroom
ECU
49. punched switcher
Technical Director
Pan
Control Room
crane
50. Sincerity - Organize--don't memorize cue cards - On camera clothing - Make-up and hair
Performer Tips
Angle of Elevation
White Balance
Engineer