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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 triggers for the Kayak Valley are ______ -_____ -_____ -and_____.
-20
Time
Assistant Director
Cut - dissolve - key - and fade
2. A TV picture which is washed out with no distinct black result from the ______ being to high
Producer
Pedestal
Video commands
Program
3. The crew member most responsible for timing the shows is the _____.
No
Properties
Live on tape
Assistant director
4. Of the depth of field approxiamately ___ behind the subject.
Safe area
Lens
2/3
-5db
5. The best instrument to use for a TV key light is a(n) _____ light.
Depth of field
Fresnel
Quartz
Component
6. The device ised to measute light intensity in the studio is the ______ light meter.
Waveform monitor
Incident
Video commands
Servo
7. A TV picture which is washed out with no distinct black result from the ______ being to high
Desktop
Fade
Pedestal
Assistant producer
8. When we frame much tighter than head and shoulders this shot is an ____
XCU
Flickering
Writer
Safe area
9. The inverse square law would suggest that ______ the ____ is the most efficient method of making a mahor change in light intensity
Upper/lower
Moving the light
Editor
Director
10. In most cases the studio technician takes his/her cues from the _____ ________.
Gray
Red - blue - and green
Video commands
Floor manager
11. The most common type of microphone used as a professional lavalier is the________.
Component
Omni-directional condenser
Floor manager
Audio
12. To send your message to the switcher - click on the_____ button at the top of the screen.
Camera assistant
Gray
Director
LIVE
13. Responsible for writing the script
Top
Writer
Scene-by-scene
Camera assistant
14. On the Grass Valley Kayak switcher the down stream keyer always keys over the _______ bus.
Videographer/Camera operator/photographer
Assistant producer
LIVE
Program
15. When tone is set at 0VU on the master analog audio board - the audio record levels should be set at ______VU.
-20
Production assistant
Assistant director
Camera as an observer
16. Responsible for writing the script
Incident
Writer
Set designer
Aspect
17. There are appox. ___ frames of video per sec. analog NTSC TV.
Properties
Top
Incident
30
18. 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
Keying
720 -486
Top
Single and Multi-Camera production
19. When inserting a picture - beforehand create or edit it to be ____pixels wide by ____ pixels high.
Roll/crawl compose
720 -486
XCU
XCU
20. 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
Scene-by-scene
Floor manager
Camera as an observer
Top
21. The message # displayed on the chyron CG screen is usually the number of the ____ page.
Keying
Next
LIVE
Audio
22. A horizontal row of buttons on a video switcher is called a ____.
Incident
Quartz
Bus
Audio Mixer/sound mixer/sound supervisor
23. The purpose of interlaced scanning is to prevent_____.
Component
Desktop
Flickering
720 -486
24. Set lights should always be hung with the lamp at the ___ of the instrument.
Top
5 -600 degrees
Program
Z
25. The shot which includes a person from head to foot is abbreviated as ___
Live on tape
Keying
720 -486
LS
26. Some directors imagine that they are using their cameras to show their audience 'things as they are'
Fresnel
Quartz
Illusion of reality
Flickering
27. A series of shots that can stand alone is called a_____.
Scene
Videographer/Camera operator/photographer
Upper/lower
Assistant Director
28. Text and graphics are composed using a _____ system
30
Gray
Layered
Flickering
29. The method of timing a script by giving time remaining is called ____ timing.
Pedestal
Producer
Next
Back
30. Sound effects info should be placed on the _____ side of the shooting script.
Moving the light
Audio
Z
Time
31. A horizontal row of buttons on a video switcher is called a ____.
Assistant Director
Bus
SMPTE
2/3
32. The additive color mixing - the primary colors are ____ -____ - and _____.
30
Editor
Bus
Red - blue - and green
33. When we frame much tighter than head and shoulders this shot is an ____
Director
Editor
XCU
Desktop
34. The floor manager holds his/her arm in a T shape to indicate __ seconds remaining.
Moving the light
Camera assistant
Fade
30
35. Using the script format - dialog should always be ____/_____ case.
Upper/lower
Illusion of reality
Director
Program
36. We encode color infor in video by munipulating _____.
Flat
Director
Time
Omni-directional condenser
37. The most common type of lamp used in the TV studio lights is ____.
Safe area
Component
Audio
Quartz
38. The average color temperature of sunlight on a clear day is ____ ______ calvin.
Linear and non-linear service
No
5 -600 degrees
720 -486
39. On the Grass Valley Kayak switcher the down stream keyer always keys over the _______ bus.
Quartz
Program
XCU
Time
40. Responsible for conceiving - designing - and organizing the scenic treatment for a production
Technical director or vision mixer
Camera assistant
XCU
Set designer
41. The instrument which provides an objective measure of the luminance in a TV picture is the_______.
Waveform monitor
Audio
Layered
Writer
42. Shot from beginning to end and recorded
Live on tape
Upper/lower
Flat
Omni-directional condenser
43. In order to create text to be rolled or crawled - the ___________button must be clicked BEFORE the text is created.-
Production assistant
Roll/crawl compose
Camera assistant
Properties
44. In most cases the studio technician takes his/her cues from the _____ ________.
Single and Multi-Camera production
Video commands
Videographer/Camera operator/photographer
Z
45. The ratio of the width of the screen to it's height is called the _____ ratio.
Flat
Fresnel
Aspect
Flickering
46. Responsible for designing and implementing the graphics for the production
Mode Box
Quartz
Graphic Design/operator
Illusion of reality
47. The system of lighting the subject brightly & leaving the backround in the darkness is called_____ lighting.
Live on tape
Flat
Cameo
No
48. In order to create text to be rolled or crawled - the ___________button must be clicked BEFORE the text is created.-
Roll/crawl compose
Camera assistant
Component
Lens
49. The triggers for the Kayak Valley are ______ -_____ -_____ -and_____.
Properties
30
Audio Mixer/sound mixer/sound supervisor
Cut - dissolve - key - and fade
50. To seperate program information from station ID's and commercial we should prob use ____.
Live
Keying
Illusion of reality
Fade