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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. The person who makes sure the script is appearing on the right part of the prompter screen so the talent can read it properly.
Pre-production
Aspect Ratios
Horizon Line
Teleprompter Operartor
2. combination of studio and field production. Sports - parades
Interruptible Feedback
NTSC
Headroom
Remotes
3. Makes sure camera match - lighting
Director
Video Shader
Producer
Remotes
4. The part of a tape recorder or player that pulls the tape through the machine at the proper speed.
Medium Shot (head to toe)
Servo
Associate Director
Horizon Line
5. Over the shoulder
Director
Aspect Ratios
O/S
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
Studio Production
Lens
Video Shader
White Balance
7. A person who creates words - drawings and some visual effects that are incorporated with a production.
Art Director
Graphics Operator
Lead room
Medium Shot (head to toe)
8. The person who oversees the lighting of the set and makes lighting changes - if they are needed - during production.
Lighting Director
Pre-production
Production
HDTV
9. Planning the project
Pre-production
Master Control
Performer Tips
AGC
10. in control room
Aspect Ratios
Audio Operator (A1) (A2)
Engineer
crane
11. A television format with more lines of resolution and a wider aspect ratio than standard-definition NTSC television.
ATSC
White Balance
Remotes
HD
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.
Lens
White Balance
Digital
Talent
13. 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
Remotes
Teleprompter Operartor
How to focus a camera like a pro
14. 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
Long shot (head to toe)
dolly
15. A device used to record video and audio information onto a magnetic tape. Stands for videotape recorder
How to focus a camera like a pro
VTR
Pedestal mount
Coaxial Cable
16. A person who creates words - drawings and some visual effects that are incorporated with a production.
Editor
Graphics Operator
Engineer
HDTV
17. creates great depth and interest
Foreground
White Balance
Rack focus
Medium Shot (head to toe)
18. The person who frames the shots for a production. Must have knowledge of camera - lens - angles
Horizon Line
Lens
Engineer
Camera Operators
19. ...
ATSC
How to focus a camera like a pro
Performer Tips
Director
20. The part of the lens that allows light to pass through.
Remotes
crane
Teleprompter Operartor
Iris
21. The person who determines the environment where the production takes place.
Angle of Elevation
Editor
Set Production Designer
Studio Production
22. Sincerity - Organize--don't memorize cue cards - On camera clothing - Make-up and hair
Servo
Standard Definition
Long shot (head to toe)
Performer Tips
23. A camera view of the subject from a relatively great distance - usually showing the subject in its entirety.
Long shot (head to toe)
Remotes
Audio Operator (A1) (A2)
Director
24. The original television standard approved in the United States in the 1940s. The letter stand for National Television System Committee.
Tally light
NTSC
Graphics Operator
Green Rooms
25. Program creation that takes place in a controlled environment meant for it - as opposed to production that takes place in the field
Iris
Studio Production
ECU
Tripod
26. Sincerity - Organize--don't memorize cue cards - On camera clothing - Make-up and hair
long lens
VTR
Performer Tips
Pedestal mount
27. A feature found on some zoom lenses that allows the operator to focus on objects very close to the lens.
HDTV
Servo
Macro focus
Set Production Designer
28. Interns - Cable Pullers - 2nd Assistant Directors
dolly
Grunts
Lens
Tilt
29. 1) To pivot the camera vertically by pointing the camera mounting head up or down. 2) the shot produced by tilting a camera.
Standard Definition
Tilt
O/S
Teleprompter Operartor
30. To move the camera and its mount laterally to the right or left.
Lens
Production
trucking
Digital
31. The period of time - after individual program segments have been produced and recorded - when elements of a program are assembled.
Remotes
Technical Director
Post-Production
long lens
32. ...
How to focus a camera like a pro
O/S
Master Control
Rule of thirds
33. A person who deals with the look of sets and other artistic aspects of a television program.
Standard Definition
Field Production
Art Director
VTR
34. Pointing the camera down or up
Lead room
NTSC
Angle of Elevation
Macro focus
35. A feature found on some zoom lenses that allows the operator to focus on objects very close to the lens.
Pan
Pre-production
Director
Macro focus
36. A view of the subject from a comfortable distance between a wide shot and close-up.
Stage Manager
Talent
Talent
Medium Shot (head to toe)
37. 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.
Digital
Camera Operators
White Balance
The Studio
38. The person who oversees the lighting of the set and makes lighting changes - if they are needed - during production.
Art Director
Green Rooms
Lighting Director
The Studio
39. The directors key assistant in charge of all production concerns on the floor. Example: communicate with talent
Interruptible Feedback
crane
trucking
Stage Manager
40. A person who sets mics in a studio or location setting and/ or operates the audio console.
NTSC
Audio Operator (A1) (A2)
Lens
Angle of Elevation
41. 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.
Digital
Lighting Director
Technical Director
Standard Definition
42. Additional framing space in a camera picture on the side toward which a subject is looking or moving
Rule of thirds
Lead room
AGC
Grunts
43. creates great depth and interest
Foreground
ECU
Teleprompter Operartor
Remotes
44. The person in charge of the creative aspects of a production and all the procedures that occur in the studio or field.
Associate Director
NTSC
Control Room
Director
45. Interns - Cable Pullers - 2nd Assistant Directors
Horizon Line
Grunts
HDTV
Coaxial Cable
46. The part of a tape recorder or player that pulls the tape through the machine at the proper speed.
Firewire (IEE-1394)
Servo
Technical Director
Iris
47. A method of representing video or audio signals using a 'wave' of continuously.
Engineer
Analog
Stage Manager
Talent
48. The person who assembles raw footage into a final program.
Tilt
Editor
Talent
AGC
49. The area where all video signals are mixed. The director and technical director (and other crew members) control all program elements from this location.
Video Shader
Medium Shot (head to toe)
Control Room
HDTV
50. 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
Video Shader
trucking
dolly
Lens