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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. The ratio of the width of the screen to it's height is called the _____ ratio.
Roll/crawl compose
Safe area
Aspect
Production crew
2. Responsible for assisting the director
Editor
Assistant Director
5 -600 degrees
Incident
3. On the Chyron CG screen a transparent backround is shown as____
Gray
Yoke
Assistant director
Next
4. The additive color mixing - the primary colors are ____ -____ - and _____.
Linear and non-linear service
-5db
Red - blue - and green
Upper/lower
5. The VCR operator should call out 'speed' when the ____ indicator light remains on.
Incident
Camera as an observer
Servo
Fresnel
6. Using the script format - dialog should always be ____/_____ case.
Upper/lower
Moving the light
Producer
Quartz
7. Video tape formats that record the luminance and chroma information at seperate locations are called ______ formats.
Flickering
Upper/lower
Component
Cut - dissolve - key - and fade
8. Responsible for conceiving - designing - and organizing the scenic treatment for a production
Set designer
Roll/crawl compose
Omni-directional condenser
Gray
9. The instrument which provides an objective measure of the luminance in a TV picture is the_______.
Waveform monitor
Cameo
Quartz
Z
10. Dollying will decrease the _____ of ______.
Fade
Scene-by-scene
Depth of field
Roll/crawl compose
11. In most cases the studio technician takes his/her cues from the _____ ________.
Gray
Moving the light
Cameo
Video commands
12. Text and graphics are composed using a _____ system
Videographer/Camera operator/photographer
Layered
Pedestal
Producer
13. When inserting a picture - beforehand create or edit it to be ____pixels wide by ____ pixels high.
Next
720 -486
Scene
Production crew
14. Sound effects info should be placed on the _____ side of the shooting script.
Audio
Flickering
Producer
Flat
15. The member of the production team mainly responsible for aesthetic matters is the______.
Director
Gray
Waveform monitor
Servo
16. The VCR operator should call out 'speed' when the ____ indicator light remains on.
Safe area
Servo
Moving the light
Fade
17. The crew member most responsible for timing the shows is the _____.
Live on tape
Assistant director
Production assistant
Cutaway
18. Transmitted live to the viewing audience
Cutaway
7.5
-5db
Live
19. Generally sits next to the director in the control room and is responsible for operating the television production switcher.
Scene-by-scene
Set designer
-20
Technical director or vision mixer
20. Director's primary representative and contact when the director isn't on the set or in the studio.
Mode Box
Floor manager
Camera's role
-20
21. There are appox. ___ frames of video per sec. analog NTSC TV.
Pedestal
Iris
30
Servo
22. Responsible for assisting the director
Assistant Director
XCU
Writer
-5db
23. The area of the directors screen that can be counted on to be seen by the home viewer is called the_____.
Safe area
Production assistant
Upper/lower
Assistant Director
24. When uploading a document for Win Que where should you put the file at?
Waveform monitor
Desktop
Z
Production crew
25. When we frame much tighter than head and shoulders this shot is an ____
Video commands
Desktop
Production assistant
XCU
26. The purpose of interlaced scanning is to prevent_____.
Flickering
Mode Box
30
720 -486
27. Responsible for writing the script
Depth of field
Program
Single and Multi-Camera production
Writer
28. The agency which sets industry standards for broadcasting TV equipment in the U.S is the_______.
Iris
LIVE
SMPTE
Desktop
29. Responsible for designing and implementing the graphics for the production
XCU
Graphic Design/operator
Scene-by-scene
30
30. Dollying will decrease the _____ of ______.
Set designer
Flat
Depth of field
720 -486
31. Director's primary representative and contact when the director isn't on the set or in the studio.
Floor manager
Gray
Time
Incident
32. Generally sits next to the director in the control room and is responsible for operating the television production switcher.
Moving the light
Mode Box
Technical director or vision mixer
Lens
33. Responsible for assisting the camera operator in setting up the camera.
Videographer/Camera operator/photographer
Keying
Camera assistant
Audio Mixer/sound mixer/sound supervisor
34. All camera movements are designed by direction of movements of the ____.
Properties
720 -486
Lens
Linear and non-linear service
35. In order to create text to be rolled or crawled - the ___________button must be clicked BEFORE the text is created.-
Roll/crawl compose
Keying
Flickering
Writer
36. The triggers for the Kayak Valley are ______ -_____ -_____ -and_____.
Cut - dissolve - key - and fade
5 -600 degrees
720 -486
Editor
37. The floor manager holds his/her arm in a T shape to indicate __ seconds remaining.
30
Fresnel
Audio
Mode Box
38. The system of lighting the subject brightly & leaving the backround in the darkness is called_____ lighting.
Back
Assistant director
Waveform monitor
Cameo
39. 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
Editor
Lens
Camera as an observer
720 -486
40. Each scene or act is shot - corrected - and polished one at a time
Set designer
30
Waveform monitor
Scene-by-scene
41. A horizontal row of buttons on a video switcher is called a ____.
XCU
Bus
30
Assistant director
42. What kind of control panel is on the right side of the Chyron
Graphic Design/operator
Mode Box
30
Properties
43. When voice levels are peaked at 0db on an analog VU meter music should peak no higher than ____ when intended to be heard.
Yoke
Layered
-5db
Floor manager
44. To send your message to the switcher - click on the_____ button at the top of the screen.
-5db
-20
LIVE
Z
45. Responsible for assisting the camera operator in setting up the camera.
Cameo
Video commands
Camera assistant
Cut - dissolve - key - and fade
46. Sound effects info should be placed on the _____ side of the shooting script.
Incident
Audio
Gray
Production crew
47. When inserting a picture - beforehand create or edit it to be ____pixels wide by ____ pixels high.
720 -486
Layered
Writer
Program
48. 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
Properties
Incident
Desktop
Single and Multi-Camera production
49. Text and graphics are composed using a _____ system
Safe area
Graphic Design/operator
Layered
Time
50. Of the depth of field approxiamately ___ behind the subject.
Cut - dissolve - key - and fade
Program
Quartz
2/3