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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.
Don't refresh. All questions and answers are randomly picked and ordered every time you load a test.
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. Shot from beginning to end and recorded
Yoke
No
Fresnel
Live on tape
2. When uploading a document for Win Que where should you put the file at?
Quartz
Linear and non-linear service
Fade
Desktop
3. In most cases the studio technician takes his/her cues from the _____ ________.
Technical director or vision mixer
Upper/lower
Video commands
Graphic Design/operator
4. The best instrument to use for a TV key light is a(n) _____ light.
Live
Floor manager
Cameo
Fresnel
5. The agency which sets industry standards for broadcasting TV equipment in the U.S is the_______.
2/3
Videographer/Camera operator/photographer
SMPTE
Production assistant
6. To send your message to the switcher - click on the_____ button at the top of the screen.
LIVE
Bus
Top
Writer
7. When inserting a picture - beforehand create or edit it to be ____pixels wide by ____ pixels high.
720 -486
Time
Cameo
Live
8. Sound effects info should be placed on the _____ side of the shooting script.
Linear and non-linear service
Audio
Component
Fade
9. The system of lighting the subject brightly & leaving the backround in the darkness is called_____ lighting.
Incident
Component
Fade
Cameo
10. Responsible for assisting the producer
Pedestal
Assistant producer
Set designer
Z
11. A horizontal row of buttons on a video switcher is called a ____.
30
Aspect
Editor
Bus
12. Director's primary representative and contact when the director isn't on the set or in the studio.
Floor manager
Assistant director
No
Pedestal
13. Responsible for writing the script
Set designer
Single and Multi-Camera production
Writer
Production assistant
14. When uploading a document for Win Que where should you put the file at?
Z
Cutaway
Desktop
-5db
15. Of the depth of field approxiamately ___ behind the subject.
Camera as an observer
2/3
-5db
Upper/lower
16. The most common type of lamp used in the TV studio lights is ____.
XCU
Time
30
Quartz
17. Assists the director or producer with production needs
Program
Illusion of reality
Set designer
Production assistant
18. Some directors imagine that they are using their cameras to show their audience 'things as they are'
7.5
Illusion of reality
Live
Next
19. The best instrument to use for a TV key light is a(n) _____ light.
Layered
Fresnel
Gray
Assistant director
20. Video tape formats that record the luminance and chroma information at seperate locations are called ______ formats.
Incident
Properties
Component
Audio Mixer/sound mixer/sound supervisor
21. When voice levels are peaked at 0db on an analog VU meter music should peak no higher than ____ when intended to be heard.
Cameo
-5db
Waveform monitor
Fade
22. Dollying will decrease the _____ of ______.
Mode Box
Bus
Assistant director
Depth of field
23. To insure safety - it is most important that the ____ bolt on the lighting instrument always be kept tight.
Producer
7.5
Yoke
Director
24. Responsible for writing the script
No
Writer
Camera assistant
Iris
25. Black level is normally set at ____ IEEE units for analog video
Scene
Yoke
Graphic Design/operator
7.5
26. To insure safety - it is most important that the ____ bolt on the lighting instrument always be kept tight.
30
Yoke
Director
720 -486
27. The axis extending straight out from the camera lens is called the _ axis
Z
Technical director or vision mixer
Gray
Live
28. What kind of control panel is on the right side of the Chyron
Illusion of reality
Next
30
Properties
29. Responsible for designing and implementing the graphics for the production
Graphic Design/operator
Red - blue - and green
Live
Assistant producer
30. When inserting a picture - beforehand create or edit it to be ____pixels wide by ____ pixels high.
Roll/crawl compose
Aspect
Video commands
720 -486
31. The purpose of interlaced scanning is to prevent_____.
Safe area
Quartz
Flickering
Cutaway
32. The floor manager holds his/her arm in a T shape to indicate __ seconds remaining.
30
Single and Multi-Camera production
XCU
Production assistant
33. The purpose of interlaced scanning is to prevent_____.
Flickering
Waveform monitor
5 -600 degrees
Linear and non-linear service
34. The most common type of microphone used as a professional lavalier is the________.
5 -600 degrees
Upper/lower
Omni-directional condenser
Bus
35. Generally responsible for a specific production. Usually concerned with the business organization - budget - choice of staff and crew.
Producer
Flat
Illusion of reality
Mode Box
36. To send your message to the switcher - click on the_____ button at the top of the screen.
2/3
Set designer
LIVE
Editor
37. In most cases the studio technician takes his/her cues from the _____ ________.
Program
Video commands
Illusion of reality
Top
38. When one camera is used to cut a hole in another camera picture to insert lettering the process is called ____.
Keying
Upper/lower
Roll/crawl compose
Incident
39. When one camera is used to cut a hole in another camera picture to insert lettering the process is called ____.
Linear and non-linear service
Pedestal
Keying
30
40. The VCR operator should call out 'speed' when the ____ indicator light remains on.
Flickering
Safe area
Videographer/Camera operator/photographer
Servo
41. The system of lighting the subject brightly & leaving the backround in the darkness is called_____ lighting.
Cameo
Flat
Bus
Depth of field
42. The member of the production team mainly responsible for aesthetic matters is the______.
Director
Scene
Technical director or vision mixer
Flickering
43. Video tape formats that record the luminance and chroma information at seperate locations are called ______ formats.
Upper/lower
Illusion of reality
Component
Yoke
44. Each scene or act is shot - corrected - and polished one at a time
Production assistant
Red - blue - and green
Z
Scene-by-scene
45. Come in all sizes. Can consist of one person with a camera or network dramatic need a lot of people
2/3
Upper/lower
Production crew
Program
46. When saving a CG make sure that 2D is selected in the ____ _____ of the Properties window.
Director
Set designer
Aspect
Mode Box
47. Responsible for assisting the director
Assistant Director
Next
Component
Back
48. 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
Fade
Linear and non-linear service
Depth of field
No
49. Responsible for assisting the director
Yoke
2/3
Assistant Director
Quartz
50. Responsible for conceiving - designing - and organizing the scenic treatment for a production
Mode Box
Servo
Set designer
Program