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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. 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
2. Dollying will decrease the _____ of ______.
-5db
Director
Depth of field
Technical director or vision mixer
3. In most cases the studio technician takes his/her cues from the _____ ________.
Yoke
Top
Assistant director
Video commands
4. The inverse square law would suggest that ______ the ____ is the most efficient method of making a mahor change in light intensity
Flat
Audio Mixer/sound mixer/sound supervisor
Assistant producer
Moving the light
5. The message # displayed on the chyron CG screen is usually the number of the ____ page.
SMPTE
5 -600 degrees
Production assistant
Next
6. The member of the production team mainly responsible for aesthetic matters is the______.
Live on tape
Graphic Design/operator
Director
Program
7. When voice levels are peaked at 0db on an analog VU meter music should peak no higher than ____ when intended to be heard.
Servo
Scene
Audio Mixer/sound mixer/sound supervisor
-5db
8. Transmitted live to the viewing audience
-20
Live
720 -486
Iris
9. Come in all sizes. Can consist of one person with a camera or network dramatic need a lot of people
Waveform monitor
Production crew
Top
Iris
10. The inverse square law would suggest that ______ the ____ is the most efficient method of making a mahor change in light intensity
30
Roll/crawl compose
Audio
Moving the light
11. Sound effects info should be placed on the _____ side of the shooting script.
LS
Audio
Writer
Gray
12. When uploading your prompter file you will be prompted to save the file you deleted (the blank script). Do you click yes or no?
No
Floor manager
Assistant director
Safe area
13. Sound effects info should be placed on the _____ side of the shooting script.
Servo
Audio
Scene-by-scene
Component
14. Some directors imagine that they are using their cameras to show their audience 'things as they are'
Gray
LS
Illusion of reality
Yoke
15. What kind of control panel is on the right side of the Chyron
Bus
Graphic Design/operator
-5db
Properties
16. Responsible for designing and implementing the graphics for the production
Roll/crawl compose
Cut - dissolve - key - and fade
Servo
Graphic Design/operator
17. Responsible for conceiving - designing - and organizing the scenic treatment for a production
Scene
Producer
No
Set designer
18. There are appox. ___ frames of video per sec. analog NTSC TV.
Assistant Director
30
Servo
Desktop
19. The crew member most responsible for timing the shows is the _____.
Aspect
Illusion of reality
Assistant director
Production crew
20. The instrument which provides an objective measure of the luminance in a TV picture is the_______.
Waveform monitor
Red - blue - and green
Assistant director
30
21. Responsible for assisting the director
Producer
Assistant Director
Component
-20
22. When inserting a picture - beforehand create or edit it to be ____pixels wide by ____ pixels high.
Back
720 -486
Aspect
Next
23. The VCR operator should call out 'speed' when the ____ indicator light remains on.
Z
Servo
Iris
SMPTE
24. The area of the directors screen that can be counted on to be seen by the home viewer is called the_____.
Layered
Roll/crawl compose
Safe area
Set designer
25. Text and graphics are composed using a _____ system
Layered
Live on tape
Production crew
Video commands
26. The agency which sets industry standards for broadcasting TV equipment in the U.S is the_______.
Desktop
Production assistant
Cut - dissolve - key - and fade
SMPTE
27. When voice levels are peaked at 0db on an analog VU meter music should peak no higher than ____ when intended to be heard.
-5db
Production assistant
Assistant producer
30
28. The axis extending straight out from the camera lens is called the _ axis
Z
Production assistant
Live
Cut - dissolve - key - and fade
29. The most common type of microphone used as a professional lavalier is the________.
No
Z
Omni-directional condenser
Program
30. We encode color infor in video by munipulating _____.
XCU
Desktop
Time
SMPTE
31. Responsible for assisting the producer
Cutaway
Assistant producer
Camera's role
Videographer/Camera operator/photographer
32. When one camera is used to cut a hole in another camera picture to insert lettering the process is called ____.
Audio
Keying
Camera's role
Floor manager
33. Black level is normally set at ____ IEEE units for analog video
Audio
7.5
Technical director or vision mixer
Lens
34. The most common type of lamp used in the TV studio lights is ____.
Incident
Quartz
Audio
Omni-directional condenser
35. Generally sits next to the director in the control room and is responsible for operating the television production switcher.
Technical director or vision mixer
LIVE
Cut - dissolve - key - and fade
Flat
36. The shot which includes a person from head to foot is abbreviated as ___
LS
Scene
Editor
Lens
37. A horizontal row of buttons on a video switcher is called a ____.
Audio Mixer/sound mixer/sound supervisor
Incident
Bus
Camera as an observer
38. The shot which includes a person from head to foot is abbreviated as ___
Back
Time
Z
LS
39. When uploading a document for Win Que where should you put the file at?
Cutaway
Desktop
Fade
Linear and non-linear service
40. A related shot used to cover mismatched shots in a singe camera production is called a ______.
Production crew
Live
Servo
Cutaway
41. The floor manager holds his/her arm in a T shape to indicate __ seconds remaining.
Illusion of reality
30
Bus
Properties
42. The most common type of lamp used in the TV studio lights is ____.
Quartz
Audio
Cutaway
Aspect
43. Shot from beginning to end and recorded
Flat
LS
Live on tape
Flickering
44. When uploading a document for Win Que where should you put the file at?
Single and Multi-Camera production
Linear and non-linear service
-20
Desktop
45. A related shot used to cover mismatched shots in a singe camera production is called a ______.
Linear and non-linear service
Cutaway
Video commands
Audio
46. Using the script format - dialog should always be ____/_____ case.
Video commands
Upper/lower
Assistant Director
Safe area
47. Responsible for assisting the producer
Quartz
Assistant producer
Flat
Quartz
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
Single and Multi-Camera production
Camera assistant
Layered
Videographer/Camera operator/photographer
49. When uploading your prompter file you will be prompted to save the file you deleted (the blank script). Do you click yes or no?
Moving the light
No
Moving the light
Set designer
50. What kind of control panel is on the right side of the Chyron
Mode Box
Flickering
Properties
Editor