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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. Responsible for designing and implementing the graphics for the production
Camera assistant
5 -600 degrees
Graphic Design/operator
SMPTE
2. The ratio of the width of the screen to it's height is called the _____ ratio.
Desktop
Aspect
Yoke
Cutaway
3. Responsible for setting up their cameras and then operating the cameras to capture the video images requested by the director
Videographer/Camera operator/photographer
Servo
Cutaway
XCU
4. The control usually used to adjust white levels is the____.
Desktop
Iris
Top
No
5. The axis extending straight out from the camera lens is called the _ axis
Component
Gray
Camera's role
Z
6. All camera movements are designed by direction of movements of the ____.
Production crew
Lens
Editor
Assistant producer
7. Generally responsible for a specific production. Usually concerned with the business organization - budget - choice of staff and crew.
Producer
Moving the light
Bus
Safe area
8. To send your message to the switcher - click on the_____ button at the top of the screen.
LIVE
Keying
30
7.5
9. Director's primary representative and contact when the director isn't on the set or in the studio.
720 -486
Time
Floor manager
Back
10. 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
Scene-by-scene
Single and Multi-Camera production
Back
Incident
11. Each scene or act is shot - corrected - and polished one at a time
Scene-by-scene
Assistant producer
Live on tape
Production crew
12. When inserting a picture - beforehand create or edit it to be ____pixels wide by ____ pixels high.
720 -486
Audio Mixer/sound mixer/sound supervisor
Videographer/Camera operator/photographer
7.5
13. All camera movements are designed by direction of movements of the ____.
Graphic Design/operator
30
Lens
5 -600 degrees
14. A related shot used to cover mismatched shots in a singe camera production is called a ______.
Assistant director
Cutaway
Director
Desktop
15. Assists the director or producer with production needs
Cameo
Production assistant
Moving the light
720 -486
16. The average color temperature of sunlight on a clear day is ____ ______ calvin.
Camera's role
SMPTE
5 -600 degrees
Producer
17. We encode color infor in video by munipulating _____.
Fresnel
Time
Back
Servo
18. Generally sits next to the director in the control room and is responsible for operating the television production switcher.
Technical director or vision mixer
-5db
Scene-by-scene
Bus
19. Responsible for conceiving - designing - and organizing the scenic treatment for a production
30
Safe area
Fade
Set designer
20. The message # displayed on the chyron CG screen is usually the number of the ____ page.
Next
Floor manager
LS
Videographer/Camera operator/photographer
21. The method of timing a script by giving time remaining is called ____ timing.
Producer
Gray
Back
Red - blue - and green
22. Responsible for assisting the producer
Floor manager
Omni-directional condenser
Assistant Director
Assistant producer
23. The set unit commonly used to represent a wall is called a____.
Flat
Layered
Component
Audio
24. The set unit commonly used to represent a wall is called a____.
Illusion of reality
Assistant director
Flat
Producer
25. When tone is set at 0VU on the master analog audio board - the audio record levels should be set at ______VU.
Director
-20
Cut - dissolve - key - and fade
Cut - dissolve - key - and fade
26. The member of the production team mainly responsible for aesthetic matters is the______.
Roll/crawl compose
Live on tape
Director
Audio
27. When tone is set at 0VU on the master analog audio board - the audio record levels should be set at ______VU.
Assistant producer
Omni-directional condenser
Program
-20
28. When inserting a picture - beforehand create or edit it to be ____pixels wide by ____ pixels high.
No
-5db
Technical director or vision mixer
720 -486
29. When we frame much tighter than head and shoulders this shot is an ____
SMPTE
Assistant Director
XCU
Z
30. A TV picture which is washed out with no distinct black result from the ______ being to high
Graphic Design/operator
Pedestal
30
Mode Box
31. Responsible for assisting the camera operator in setting up the camera.
Time
LS
Camera assistant
LIVE
32. When we frame much tighter than head and shoulders this shot is an ____
XCU
Scene-by-scene
Scene
Bus
33. When one camera is used to cut a hole in another camera picture to insert lettering the process is called ____.
Assistant Director
Audio
Safe area
Keying
34. The best instrument to use for a TV key light is a(n) _____ light.
Safe area
Flat
Illusion of reality
Fresnel
35. Camera is the 'eye' This is the objective role or the camera can be used in a subjective role. Camera represents the talent's point of view
36. A series of shots that can stand alone is called a_____.
Mode Box
Audio
XCU
Scene
37. Responsible for assisting the camera operator in setting up the camera.
Camera's role
Omni-directional condenser
Pedestal
Camera assistant
38. The VCR operator should call out 'speed' when the ____ indicator light remains on.
Aspect
Camera's role
Servo
Aspect
39. The system of lighting the subject brightly & leaving the backround in the darkness is called_____ lighting.
SMPTE
Fade
Time
Cameo
40. The crew member most responsible for timing the shows is the _____.
Incident
Assistant director
XCU
Moving the light
41. 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
Floor manager
Flickering
Single and Multi-Camera production
Writer
42. 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
Assistant director
Yoke
Camera as an observer
-5db
43. Set lights should always be hung with the lamp at the ___ of the instrument.
Camera as an observer
LS
Time
Top
44. To insure safety - it is most important that the ____ bolt on the lighting instrument always be kept tight.
720 -486
Yoke
Set designer
Single and Multi-Camera production
45. Responsible for the sound balance as well as the technical and artistic quality of the program sound
30
Camera's role
Illusion of reality
Audio Mixer/sound mixer/sound supervisor
46. Generally responsible for a specific production. Usually concerned with the business organization - budget - choice of staff and crew.
Pedestal
Producer
Keying
Camera as an observer
47. Responsible for setting up their cameras and then operating the cameras to capture the video images requested by the director
Videographer/Camera operator/photographer
Component
Audio
Director
48. Dollying will decrease the _____ of ______.
Depth of field
XCU
Flat
No
49. The best instrument to use for a TV key light is a(n) _____ light.
Iris
Fresnel
Audio Mixer/sound mixer/sound supervisor
2/3
50. In order to create text to be rolled or crawled - the ___________button must be clicked BEFORE the text is created.-
Time
Roll/crawl compose
Desktop
Gray