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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. Generally sits next to the director in the control room and is responsible for operating the television production switcher.
Technical director or vision mixer
Incident
Quartz
Mode Box
2. Each scene or act is shot - corrected - and polished one at a time
Scene-by-scene
Yoke
Editor
Illusion of reality
3. In most cases the studio technician takes his/her cues from the _____ ________.
Production assistant
Waveform monitor
Next
Video commands
4. The device ised to measute light intensity in the studio is the ______ light meter.
Incident
Cut - dissolve - key - and fade
-20
Flat
5. 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
720 -486
Flickering
Camera assistant
Linear and non-linear service
6. The instrument which provides an objective measure of the luminance in a TV picture is the_______.
Waveform monitor
30
Lens
Production crew
7. A series of shots that can stand alone is called a_____.
Writer
Scene
Flickering
Assistant director
8. A related shot used to cover mismatched shots in a singe camera production is called a ______.
Gray
Aspect
Cutaway
Mode Box
9. The system of lighting the subject brightly & leaving the backround in the darkness is called_____ lighting.
5 -600 degrees
Gray
Illusion of reality
Cameo
10. Generally sits next to the director in the control room and is responsible for operating the television production switcher.
Flat
Technical director or vision mixer
Videographer/Camera operator/photographer
XCU
11. Responsible for assisting the director
XCU
Lens
Assistant Director
5 -600 degrees
12. Responsible for conceiving - designing - and organizing the scenic treatment for a production
Set designer
720 -486
Production assistant
Director
13. The message # displayed on the chyron CG screen is usually the number of the ____ page.
7.5
Properties
Back
Next
14. The agency which sets industry standards for broadcasting TV equipment in the U.S is the_______.
Cut - dissolve - key - and fade
Back
Mode Box
SMPTE
15. To insure safety - it is most important that the ____ bolt on the lighting instrument always be kept tight.
Red - blue - and green
Yoke
Waveform monitor
Moving the light
16. Dollying will decrease the _____ of ______.
Z
Lens
Depth of field
Floor manager
17. The axis extending straight out from the camera lens is called the _ axis
Top
Z
Flat
Assistant producer
18. Responsible for assisting the camera operator in setting up the camera.
Fresnel
Component
Desktop
Camera assistant
19. Responsible for writing the script
Scene-by-scene
7.5
Writer
Scene
20. Selects - compiles - and cuts video and audio to produce programs
2/3
Assistant Director
Fresnel
Editor
21. We encode color infor in video by munipulating _____.
Depth of field
Technical director or vision mixer
Fresnel
Time
22. Dollying will decrease the _____ of ______.
Back
Upper/lower
7.5
Depth of field
23. Black level is normally set at ____ IEEE units for analog video
720 -486
7.5
Iris
Program
24. Generally responsible for a specific production. Usually concerned with the business organization - budget - choice of staff and crew.
Audio
30
Next
Producer
25. Transmitted live to the viewing audience
SMPTE
Production crew
Cutaway
Live
26. Come in all sizes. Can consist of one person with a camera or network dramatic need a lot of people
Quartz
Waveform monitor
Production crew
Moving the light
27. Responsible for assisting the producer
Cameo
Assistant producer
LIVE
Scene-by-scene
28. The best instrument to use for a TV key light is a(n) _____ light.
Fade
Back
Depth of field
Fresnel
29. When one camera is used to cut a hole in another camera picture to insert lettering the process is called ____.
Audio
Bus
Keying
SMPTE
30. The VCR operator should call out 'speed' when the ____ indicator light remains on.
-5db
7.5
Servo
Roll/crawl compose
31. Responsible for designing and implementing the graphics for the production
Illusion of reality
Iris
Graphic Design/operator
Moving the light
32. 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
Flat
Writer
Desktop
Camera as an observer
33. The triggers for the Kayak Valley are ______ -_____ -_____ -and_____.
Cut - dissolve - key - and fade
Production assistant
Camera's role
Back
34. What kind of control panel is on the right side of the Chyron
Properties
Lens
Linear and non-linear service
Roll/crawl compose
35. The control usually used to adjust white levels is the____.
Iris
Mode Box
Scene
Cameo
36. Responsible for setting up their cameras and then operating the cameras to capture the video images requested by the director
Assistant Director
Videographer/Camera operator/photographer
Audio Mixer/sound mixer/sound supervisor
Scene
37. Of the depth of field approxiamately ___ behind the subject.
720 -486
Program
Cameo
2/3
38. The crew member most responsible for timing the shows is the _____.
Aspect
Assistant director
Writer
Floor manager
39. Responsible for the sound balance as well as the technical and artistic quality of the program sound
Assistant producer
Servo
Audio Mixer/sound mixer/sound supervisor
Linear and non-linear service
40. What kind of control panel is on the right side of the Chyron
Properties
Producer
Camera assistant
Linear and non-linear service
41. The instrument which provides an objective measure of the luminance in a TV picture is the_______.
Waveform monitor
LIVE
No
Safe area
42. 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
Illusion of reality
Camera's role
Single and Multi-Camera production
Upper/lower
43. A TV picture which is washed out with no distinct black result from the ______ being to high
Pedestal
Director
Videographer/Camera operator/photographer
Top
44. Of the depth of field approxiamately ___ behind the subject.
XCU
Flat
2/3
Lens
45. The shot which includes a person from head to foot is abbreviated as ___
LS
Roll/crawl compose
Program
Scene
46. When inserting a picture - beforehand create or edit it to be ____pixels wide by ____ pixels high.
Pedestal
Aspect
720 -486
Technical director or vision mixer
47. Some directors imagine that they are using their cameras to show their audience 'things as they are'
Live
Camera's role
Illusion of reality
2/3
48. All camera movements are designed by direction of movements of the ____.
Lens
Video commands
Gray
Live on tape
49. The ratio of the width of the screen to it's height is called the _____ ratio.
Roll/crawl compose
2/3
Live
Aspect
50. The purpose of interlaced scanning is to prevent_____.
Assistant Director
Flickering
Top
Bus