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Video Production Vocab
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Subject
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performing-arts
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. Assists the director or producer with production needs
Videographer/Camera operator/photographer
Cameo
Production assistant
Set designer
2. Responsible for writing the script
Writer
XCU
Mode Box
Mode Box
3. The best instrument to use for a TV key light is a(n) _____ light.
-5db
30
Fresnel
Omni-directional condenser
4. The ratio of the width of the screen to it's height is called the _____ ratio.
Production crew
Assistant director
Aspect
Assistant director
5. The set unit commonly used to represent a wall is called a____.
Upper/lower
Flat
Aspect
Fresnel
6. All camera movements are designed by direction of movements of the ____.
Lens
-20
Layered
Program
7. The shot which includes a person from head to foot is abbreviated as ___
Live on tape
Writer
LS
LIVE
8. The most common type of lamp used in the TV studio lights is ____.
Quartz
Mode Box
Audio
Yoke
9. To insure safety - it is most important that the ____ bolt on the lighting instrument always be kept tight.
Program
Gray
Yoke
Live on tape
10. Selects - compiles - and cuts video and audio to produce programs
Editor
Video commands
Illusion of reality
Upper/lower
11. When inserting a picture - beforehand create or edit it to be ____pixels wide by ____ pixels high.
Set designer
720 -486
2/3
Next
12. The floor manager holds his/her arm in a T shape to indicate __ seconds remaining.
30
LIVE
Mode Box
Camera's role
13. We encode color infor in video by munipulating _____.
Camera assistant
Quartz
Time
-20
14. Responsible for conceiving - designing - and organizing the scenic treatment for a production
Assistant Director
Roll/crawl compose
Desktop
Set designer
15. The average color temperature of sunlight on a clear day is ____ ______ calvin.
5 -600 degrees
Desktop
No
Aspect
16. The axis extending straight out from the camera lens is called the _ axis
Graphic Design/operator
Z
Aspect
Production crew
17. Text and graphics are composed using a _____ system
Yoke
Layered
Live on tape
Time
18. We encode color infor in video by munipulating _____.
Assistant Director
Time
Scene
Depth of field
19. Text and graphics are composed using a _____ system
Bus
Component
Layered
Fresnel
20. Responsible for assisting the producer
Linear and non-linear service
Assistant producer
XCU
Properties
21. The message # displayed on the chyron CG screen is usually the number of the ____ page.
Production assistant
Fresnel
Director
Next
22. Shows the scene from various viewpoints and begin to feel a sense of space as we build up a mental image of a situation although the camera is only showing us a small section of the scene in each shot
Lens
Camera's role
Camera as an observer
Component
23. Generally sits next to the director in the control room and is responsible for operating the television production switcher.
Safe area
2/3
Technical director or vision mixer
Video commands
24. Each scene or act is shot - corrected - and polished one at a time
Scene
Director
Waveform monitor
Scene-by-scene
25. Responsible for assisting the director
Assistant Director
Red - blue - and green
Back
Live
26. Sound effects info should be placed on the _____ side of the shooting script.
Upper/lower
Depth of field
Moving the light
Audio
27. In most cases the studio technician takes his/her cues from the _____ ________.
Omni-directional condenser
Assistant Director
Video commands
Z
28. The instrument which provides an objective measure of the luminance in a TV picture is the_______.
SMPTE
Waveform monitor
Producer
Illusion of reality
29. When voice levels are peaked at 0db on an analog VU meter music should peak no higher than ____ when intended to be heard.
Bus
-5db
Videographer/Camera operator/photographer
Yoke
30. Generally sits next to the director in the control room and is responsible for operating the television production switcher.
Safe area
Producer
Depth of field
Technical director or vision mixer
31. The device ised to measute light intensity in the studio is the ______ light meter.
Mode Box
Incident
Properties
Waveform monitor
32. The area of the directors screen that can be counted on to be seen by the home viewer is called the_____.
Safe area
Writer
Roll/crawl compose
Bus
33. Director's primary representative and contact when the director isn't on the set or in the studio.
Safe area
Incident
Flickering
Floor manager
34. A related shot used to cover mismatched shots in a singe camera production is called a ______.
Waveform monitor
Camera's role
30
Cutaway
35. A series of shots that can stand alone is called a_____.
Scene
Time
Audio Mixer/sound mixer/sound supervisor
Gray
36. Responsible for setting up their cameras and then operating the cameras to capture the video images requested by the director
Component
Omni-directional condenser
Editor
Videographer/Camera operator/photographer
37. Responsible for setting up their cameras and then operating the cameras to capture the video images requested by the director
Cameo
LIVE
Production crew
Videographer/Camera operator/photographer
38. On the Grass Valley Kayak switcher the down stream keyer always keys over the _______ bus.
Program
7.5
LS
Aspect
39. In most cases the studio technician takes his/her cues from the _____ ________.
30
Assistant director
Video commands
Assistant Director
40. The area of the directors screen that can be counted on to be seen by the home viewer is called the_____.
Next
Safe area
Cut - dissolve - key - and fade
Assistant director
41. Responsible for assisting the director
Yoke
Single and Multi-Camera production
Assistant Director
Linear and non-linear service
42. Some directors imagine that they are using their cameras to show their audience 'things as they are'
Z
Assistant producer
Illusion of reality
Production assistant
43. Single- Camera production - in which one camera is used to shoot a segment or an entire show. Multi-Camera production a production switcher links two 3 or more cameras - and their outputs are selected or blended as required by the director
XCU
Single and Multi-Camera production
Desktop
Live on tape
44. Responsible for conceiving - designing - and organizing the scenic treatment for a production
Iris
Fade
7.5
Set designer
45. A related shot used to cover mismatched shots in a singe camera production is called a ______.
Moving the light
Cutaway
-20
Back
46. TV is linear service which is broadcasting of a program where the network or station decides when the program will show. Non-linear service is making programs available for on-demand service
Set designer
Fresnel
Linear and non-linear service
Properties
47. Video tape formats that record the luminance and chroma information at seperate locations are called ______ formats.
Graphic Design/operator
LS
Component
Camera as an observer
48. Each scene or act is shot - corrected - and polished one at a time
Upper/lower
Scene-by-scene
Lens
Servo
49. The member of the production team mainly responsible for aesthetic matters is the______.
Safe area
Director
SMPTE
Cutaway
50. The VCR operator should call out 'speed' when the ____ indicator light remains on.
Servo
Producer
No
Omni-directional condenser