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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 inverse square law would suggest that ______ the ____ is the most efficient method of making a mahor change in light intensity
Gray
Properties
Moving the light
LIVE
2. Using the script format - dialog should always be ____/_____ case.
Upper/lower
Top
Director
5 -600 degrees
3. Generally responsible for a specific production. Usually concerned with the business organization - budget - choice of staff and crew.
Producer
Moving the light
Videographer/Camera operator/photographer
Editor
4. The axis extending straight out from the camera lens is called the _ axis
Production crew
Iris
Z
Safe area
5. Responsible for setting up their cameras and then operating the cameras to capture the video images requested by the director
Next
Videographer/Camera operator/photographer
Video commands
-20
6. When voice levels are peaked at 0db on an analog VU meter music should peak no higher than ____ when intended to be heard.
Moving the light
Moving the light
Upper/lower
-5db
7. Text and graphics are composed using a _____ system
Layered
Linear and non-linear service
No
720 -486
8. On the Chyron CG screen a transparent backround is shown as____
Desktop
Audio
Assistant director
Gray
9. The shot which includes a person from head to foot is abbreviated as ___
Camera as an observer
SMPTE
Waveform monitor
LS
10. The control usually used to adjust white levels is the____.
Technical director or vision mixer
Flat
Safe area
Iris
11. To send your message to the switcher - click on the_____ button at the top of the screen.
Top
LIVE
Fresnel
Moving the light
12. Some directors imagine that they are using their cameras to show their audience 'things as they are'
Keying
Assistant Director
Illusion of reality
Yoke
13. A TV picture which is washed out with no distinct black result from the ______ being to high
Top
Cameo
Depth of field
Pedestal
14. Responsible for assisting the director
Keying
Assistant Director
Live on tape
Single and Multi-Camera production
15. Selects - compiles - and cuts video and audio to produce programs
Assistant producer
Servo
Assistant director
Editor
16. The device ised to measute light intensity in the studio is the ______ light meter.
Flat
Illusion of reality
Incident
Scene-by-scene
17. The purpose of interlaced scanning is to prevent_____.
Depth of field
Aspect
Camera's role
Flickering
18. The device ised to measute light intensity in the studio is the ______ light meter.
Red - blue - and green
Incident
5 -600 degrees
-5db
19. Responsible for designing and implementing the graphics for the production
Depth of field
Desktop
Desktop
Graphic Design/operator
20. Director's primary representative and contact when the director isn't on the set or in the studio.
Cut - dissolve - key - and fade
Floor manager
Single and Multi-Camera production
Audio
21. When uploading a document for Win Que where should you put the file at?
Desktop
Waveform monitor
Camera as an observer
No
22. Selects - compiles - and cuts video and audio to produce programs
Moving the light
Editor
30
Production assistant
23. The additive color mixing - the primary colors are ____ -____ - and _____.
Red - blue - and green
Mode Box
Aspect
-20
24. Responsible for the sound balance as well as the technical and artistic quality of the program sound
Lens
Audio Mixer/sound mixer/sound supervisor
Layered
Cut - dissolve - key - and fade
25. Responsible for conceiving - designing - and organizing the scenic treatment for a production
-20
Technical director or vision mixer
2/3
Set designer
26. The ratio of the width of the screen to it's height is called the _____ ratio.
Camera as an observer
Producer
Aspect
Bus
27. Responsible for conceiving - designing - and organizing the scenic treatment for a production
Time
Time
Aspect
Set designer
28. All camera movements are designed by direction of movements of the ____.
Lens
Production crew
Videographer/Camera operator/photographer
Omni-directional condenser
29. In most cases the studio technician takes his/her cues from the _____ ________.
Safe area
Roll/crawl compose
Servo
Video commands
30. Assists the director or producer with production needs
LS
Production crew
Production assistant
Assistant director
31. The set unit commonly used to represent a wall is called a____.
SMPTE
No
Flat
Audio Mixer/sound mixer/sound supervisor
32. Of the depth of field approxiamately ___ behind the subject.
5 -600 degrees
Mode Box
Editor
2/3
33. Video tape formats that record the luminance and chroma information at seperate locations are called ______ formats.
No
Keying
Depth of field
Component
34. When tone is set at 0VU on the master analog audio board - the audio record levels should be set at ______VU.
720 -486
Linear and non-linear service
-20
Iris
35. The most common type of lamp used in the TV studio lights is ____.
Camera's role
Quartz
Fade
7.5
36. The system of lighting the subject brightly & leaving the backround in the darkness is called_____ lighting.
Cameo
Illusion of reality
Time
LS
37. To insure safety - it is most important that the ____ bolt on the lighting instrument always be kept tight.
7.5
Yoke
Next
Assistant Director
38. The system of lighting the subject brightly & leaving the backround in the darkness is called_____ lighting.
Cameo
Depth of field
Videographer/Camera operator/photographer
Videographer/Camera operator/photographer
39. There are appox. ___ frames of video per sec. analog NTSC TV.
Live on tape
No
Next
30
40. The member of the production team mainly responsible for aesthetic matters is the______.
Depth of field
SMPTE
Audio
Director
41. The instrument which provides an objective measure of the luminance in a TV picture is the_______.
Flat
Waveform monitor
Technical director or vision mixer
Lens
42. Assists the director or producer with production needs
Production assistant
Videographer/Camera operator/photographer
Single and Multi-Camera production
Back
43. When saving a CG make sure that 2D is selected in the ____ _____ of the Properties window.
30
Mode Box
Flickering
Graphic Design/operator
44. A related shot used to cover mismatched shots in a singe camera production is called a ______.
Cutaway
Back
Production assistant
Floor manager
45. Each scene or act is shot - corrected - and polished one at a time
Omni-directional condenser
No
Bus
Scene-by-scene
46. Dollying will decrease the _____ of ______.
Producer
Depth of field
Fade
Incident
47. Responsible for assisting the camera operator in setting up the camera.
Camera assistant
Illusion of reality
Cut - dissolve - key - and fade
2/3
48. When one camera is used to cut a hole in another camera picture to insert lettering the process is called ____.
LIVE
Keying
Moving the light
720 -486
49. The method of timing a script by giving time remaining is called ____ timing.
Servo
Back
SMPTE
30
50. The instrument which provides an objective measure of the luminance in a TV picture is the_______.
Floor manager
Single and Multi-Camera production
Waveform monitor
Moving the light