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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. An audio setup that allows the talent - wearing a small earpiece - to hear program audio or receive instruction from the director or someone.
Set Production Designer
Interruptible Feedback
Horizon Line
ECU
2. To move the camera and its mount closer to or farther from the subject.
Digital
AGC
The Studio
dolly
3. The part of a tape recorder or player that pulls the tape through the machine at the proper speed.
Servo
Lead room
CU
Pan
4. The part of a tape recorder or player that pulls the tape through the machine at the proper speed.
AGC
Lead room
Aspect Ratios
Servo
5. A camera shot that starts with one object in focus - then changes to focus on another object.
Studio Production
Performer Tips
Horizon Line
Rack focus
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.
ATSC
Lead room
Control Room
Editor
7. A device used to record video and audio information onto a magnetic tape. Stands for videotape recorder
Rule of thirds
Headroom
Associate Director
VTR
8. Pointing the camera down or up
Rack focus
The Studio
NTSC
Angle of Elevation
9. Pointing the camera down or up
Angle of Elevation
Servo
dolly
O/S
10. Interns - Cable Pullers - 2nd Assistant Directors
O/S
HDTV
Grunts
CU
11. The person who determines the environment where the production takes place.
Rack focus
Set Production Designer
Firewire (IEE-1394)
ATSC
12. The person who frames the shots for a production. Must have knowledge of camera - lens - angles
Camera Operators
Associate Director
Pan
Tilt
13. A television format with more lines of resolution and a wider aspect ratio than standard-definition NTSC television.
Tripod
Coaxial Cable
Field Production
HDTV
14. Camera and video cable with a central insulted conducting wire and a concentrically arranged outer wire.
Performer Tips
Headroom
Coaxial Cable
Video Shader
15. helps with routine stuff - anything the director needs - timing of production
Pan
Talent
Macro focus
Associate Director
16. Additional framing space in a camera picture on the side toward which a subject is looking or moving
dolly
Tripod
Lead room
Set Production Designer
17. A digital interface that allows the simultaneous transfer of audio and video information.
ECU
Firewire (IEE-1394)
Lighting Director
Coaxial Cable
18. To move the camera and its mount laterally to the right or left.
trucking
ATSC
Tripod
Grunts
19. The person in charge of the creative aspects of a production and all the procedures that occur in the studio or field.
Production
Director
Field Production
Angle of Elevation
20. 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.
Editor
Control Room
Analog
White Balance
21. The person who oversees the lighting of the set and makes lighting changes - if they are needed - during production.
Lighting Director
Stage Manager
Pre-production
ECU
22. Camcorder is essential because this is when you are filming outdoors or not in a studio. 'real world' shooting
trucking
Field Production
White Balance
Tally light
23. To move the camera and its mount closer to or farther from the subject.
Video Shader
Pre-production
dolly
Interruptible Feedback
24. The ratio of the height of a television screen to its width.
Art Director
Aspect Ratios
Analog
O/S
25. Extreme close up- A very close shot of a person or object - used to intensify drama or show close detail.
Director
ECU
Video Shader
How to focus a camera like a pro
26. A digital interface that allows the simultaneous transfer of audio and video information.
Technical Director
Executive Producer
Firewire (IEE-1394)
Standard Definition
27. Indicates that the camera is level
ATSC
Editor
dolly
Horizon Line
28. The period of time - after individual program segments have been produced and recorded - when elements of a program are assembled.
Director
Post-Production
Technical Director
Executive Producer
29. punched switcher
O/S
Remotes
Technical Director
Pre-production
30. The person who determines the environment where the production takes place.
Foreground
Set Production Designer
Horizon Line
AGC
31. The directors key assistant in charge of all production concerns on the floor. Example: communicate with talent
Standard Definition
Stage Manager
Producer
Production
32. punched switcher
crane
ATSC
Teleprompter Operartor
Technical Director
33. A feature found on some zoom lenses that allows the operator to focus on objects very close to the lens.
Horizon Line
Pre-production
Set Production Designer
Macro focus
34. A television format with more lines of resolution and a wider aspect ratio than standard-definition NTSC television.
HD
Headroom
Aspect Ratios
Grunts
35. 1) To turn a camera horizontally by rotating the camera mounting head. 2) The shot produced by panning a camera. 3) A rectangular floodlight
Set Production Designer
Tilt
Pre-production
Pan
36. 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
Producer
Lens
Standard Definition
Medium Shot (head to toe)
37. Extreme close up- A very close shot of a person or object - used to intensify drama or show close detail.
Editor
Audio Operator (A1) (A2)
VTR
ECU
38. 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
The Studio
Studio Production
Tripod
39. 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.
Director
Field Production
AGC
Aspect Ratios
40. The place in a studio complex where people who are about to appear on a TV show can wait.
Graphics Operator
HDTV
crane
Green Rooms
41. A person who creates words - drawings and some visual effects that are incorporated with a production.
Audio Operator (A1) (A2)
Long shot (head to toe)
HD
Graphics Operator
42. Planning the project
Teleprompter Operartor
Pre-production
long lens
White Balance
43. A three legged camera mount - sometimes equipped with casters to facilitate camera movement.
HDTV
Tripod
ATSC
ECU
44. A television format with more lines of resolution and a wider aspect ratio than standard-definition NTSC television.
Iris
HDTV
trucking
Tripod
45. A person who oversees several production.
Executive Producer
Engineer
Tripod
Production
46. A person who sets mics in a studio or location setting and/ or operates the audio console.
HDTV
Audio Operator (A1) (A2)
crane
Tilt
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.
CU
Control Room
Video Shader
ECU
48. 1) To turn a camera horizontally by rotating the camera mounting head. 2) The shot produced by panning a camera. 3) A rectangular floodlight
Talent
Pan
How to focus a camera like a pro
Servo
49. Over the shoulder
Performer Tips
ECU
dolly
O/S
50. people who deliver lines
Talent
Grunts
HD
trucking