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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. Program creation that takes place in a controlled environment meant for it - as opposed to production that takes place in the field
Associate Director
Pre-production
Digital
Studio Production
2. The person who frames the shots for a production. Must have knowledge of camera - lens - angles
Grunts
Camera Operators
Stage Manager
Control Room
3. A person who oversees several production.
Servo
Graphics Operator
Stage Manager
Executive Producer
4. punched switcher
Graphics Operator
VTR
Technical Director
Art Director
5. The area where all video signals are mixed. The director and technical director (and other crew members) control all program elements from this location.
Performer Tips
Teleprompter Operartor
Control Room
Lighting Director
6. A television format with more lines of resolution and a wider aspect ratio than standard-definition NTSC television.
HD
O/S
Lens
Horizon Line
7. Planning the project
Performer Tips
Pre-production
Engineer
Associate Director
8. Interns - Cable Pullers - 2nd Assistant Directors
Production
Field Production
Grunts
ECU
9. To move the camera and its mount closer to or farther from the subject.
Stage Manager
Camera Operators
ATSC
dolly
10. A digital interface that allows the simultaneous transfer of audio and video information.
Green Rooms
Firewire (IEE-1394)
Long shot (head to toe)
Standard Definition
11. helps with routine stuff - anything the director needs - timing of production
Medium Shot (head to toe)
Associate Director
Talent
Lighting Director
12. 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.
Audio Operator (A1) (A2)
White Balance
HDTV
Producer
13. Sincerity - Organize--don't memorize cue cards - On camera clothing - Make-up and hair
Performer Tips
Stage Manager
Teleprompter Operartor
Camera Operators
14. 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.
Macro focus
Green Rooms
CU
Lead room
15. ...
Aspect Ratios
ECU
How to focus a camera like a pro
Green Rooms
16. The person who makes sure the script is appearing on the right part of the prompter screen so the talent can read it properly.
CU
HDTV
Rule of thirds
Teleprompter Operartor
17. The person in charge of the creative aspects of a production and all the procedures that occur in the studio or field.
Coaxial Cable
Executive Producer
Audio Operator (A1) (A2)
Director
18. An audio setup that allows the talent - wearing a small earpiece - to hear program audio or receive instruction from the director or someone.
Headroom
Aspect Ratios
Interruptible Feedback
Rack focus
19. Interns - Cable Pullers - 2nd Assistant Directors
Tilt
Set Production Designer
Grunts
O/S
20. 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
Field Production
Editor
ATSC
21. 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
Grunts
Green Rooms
The Studio
22. A television format with more lines of resolution and a wider aspect ratio than standard-definition NTSC television.
Servo
NTSC
Field Production
HD
23. A television format with more lines of resolution and a wider aspect ratio than standard-definition NTSC television.
VTR
trucking
long lens
HDTV
24. Makes sure camera match - lighting
Video Shader
dolly
Digital
Engineer
25. in control room
Engineer
Aspect Ratios
Associate Director
Foreground
26. To move the camera and its mount closer to or farther from the subject.
ATSC
Lead room
dolly
Green Rooms
27. A three legged camera mount - sometimes equipped with casters to facilitate camera movement.
Engineer
trucking
Digital
Tripod
28. Camcorder is essential because this is when you are filming outdoors or not in a studio. 'real world' shooting
Field Production
Control Room
Audio Operator (A1) (A2)
Medium Shot (head to toe)
29. Pointing the camera down or up
Long shot (head to toe)
Rule of thirds
The Studio
Angle of Elevation
30. 1) To turn a camera horizontally by rotating the camera mounting head. 2) The shot produced by panning a camera. 3) A rectangular floodlight
Rack focus
White Balance
Rule of thirds
Pan
31. The person who oversees the lighting of the set and makes lighting changes - if they are needed - during production.
Master Control
Lighting Director
Lens
Video Shader
32. A view of the subject from a comfortable distance between a wide shot and close-up.
Foreground
Firewire (IEE-1394)
Rule of thirds
Medium Shot (head to toe)
33. The original television standard approved in the United States in the 1940s. The letter stand for National Television System Committee.
NTSC
Art Director
Headroom
Tripod
34. A digital interface that allows the simultaneous transfer of audio and video information.
Iris
Firewire (IEE-1394)
Camera Operators
Remotes
35. A series of digital television formats developed by the Advanced Television Systems Committee.
Standard Definition
Analog
How to focus a camera like a pro
ATSC
36. Additional framing space in a camera picture on the side toward which a subject is looking or moving
Studio Production
Lead room
Firewire (IEE-1394)
Grunts
37. 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.
Associate Director
Master Control
dolly
Camera Operators
38. Pointing the camera down or up
Angle of Elevation
Horizon Line
HDTV
Iris
39. The part of the lens that allows light to pass through.
Iris
trucking
Performer Tips
HDTV
40. combination of studio and field production. Sports - parades
Remotes
Art Director
VTR
Editor
41. Program creation that takes place in a controlled environment meant for it - as opposed to production that takes place in the field
Angle of Elevation
CU
Studio Production
Iris
42. in control room
HDTV
Director
Art Director
Engineer
43. A feature found on some zoom lenses that allows the operator to focus on objects very close to the lens.
Macro focus
Lighting Director
Servo
Engineer
44. creates great depth and interest
Producer
White Balance
Foreground
dolly
45. A method of representing video or audio signals using a 'wave' of continuously.
Editor
Analog
ECU
HDTV
46. 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
Audio Operator (A1) (A2)
Lens
Pedestal mount
Studio Production
47. The area where all video signals are mixed. The director and technical director (and other crew members) control all program elements from this location.
Digital
ATSC
Graphics Operator
Control Room
48. A three legged camera mount - sometimes equipped with casters to facilitate camera movement.
Angle of Elevation
Tripod
Teleprompter Operartor
Analog
49. 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.
Master Control
Long shot (head to toe)
Remotes
Standard Definition
50. 1) To pivot the camera vertically by pointing the camera mounting head up or down. 2) the shot produced by tilting a camera.
Analog
Director
Tilt
Engineer