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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. The floor manager holds his/her arm in a T shape to indicate __ seconds remaining.
30
Audio Mixer/sound mixer/sound supervisor
Mode Box
Aspect
2. Generally responsible for a specific production. Usually concerned with the business organization - budget - choice of staff and crew.
Scene-by-scene
5 -600 degrees
Producer
Aspect
3. The most common type of lamp used in the TV studio lights is ____.
No
Quartz
Pedestal
Moving the light
4. The inverse square law would suggest that ______ the ____ is the most efficient method of making a mahor change in light intensity
Moving the light
Editor
Aspect
Set designer
5. A horizontal row of buttons on a video switcher is called a ____.
Iris
SMPTE
Bus
Production crew
6. Each scene or act is shot - corrected - and polished one at a time
Incident
Scene-by-scene
Camera as an observer
Pedestal
7. The message # displayed on the chyron CG screen is usually the number of the ____ page.
LS
Pedestal
720 -486
Next
8. The most common type of microphone used as a professional lavalier is the________.
Floor manager
Top
Omni-directional condenser
Time
9. When uploading a document for Win Que where should you put the file at?
Cameo
Safe area
Desktop
2/3
10. Responsible for the sound balance as well as the technical and artistic quality of the program sound
Audio Mixer/sound mixer/sound supervisor
Program
Linear and non-linear service
XCU
11. Responsible for assisting the camera operator in setting up the camera.
Back
Depth of field
Camera assistant
Producer
12. Director's primary representative and contact when the director isn't on the set or in the studio.
Editor
LIVE
Single and Multi-Camera production
Floor manager
13. 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
Live on tape
Camera as an observer
Assistant Director
Keying
14. When uploading your prompter file you will be prompted to save the file you deleted (the blank script). Do you click yes or no?
7.5
No
LIVE
Mode Box
15. Responsible for setting up their cameras and then operating the cameras to capture the video images requested by the director
Director
Videographer/Camera operator/photographer
Pedestal
Fade
16. The device ised to measute light intensity in the studio is the ______ light meter.
Safe area
Incident
Mode Box
Z
17. Responsible for designing and implementing the graphics for the production
Assistant director
Graphic Design/operator
Single and Multi-Camera production
Waveform monitor
18. The additive color mixing - the primary colors are ____ -____ - and _____.
Red - blue - and green
Audio Mixer/sound mixer/sound supervisor
Fade
Time
19. Responsible for writing the script
Lens
Linear and non-linear service
Writer
2/3
20. Responsible for conceiving - designing - and organizing the scenic treatment for a production
Back
Gray
Set designer
Writer
21. When one camera is used to cut a hole in another camera picture to insert lettering the process is called ____.
Cameo
Fade
Servo
Keying
22. Text and graphics are composed using a _____ system
Layered
Camera's role
5 -600 degrees
-5db
23. When tone is set at 0VU on the master analog audio board - the audio record levels should be set at ______VU.
Keying
Yoke
-20
Audio
24. The agency which sets industry standards for broadcasting TV equipment in the U.S is the_______.
Next
Camera as an observer
LS
SMPTE
25. 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
Cut - dissolve - key - and fade
Scene
Linear and non-linear service
30
26. The average color temperature of sunlight on a clear day is ____ ______ calvin.
5 -600 degrees
Audio
Live
Moving the light
27. Video tape formats that record the luminance and chroma information at seperate locations are called ______ formats.
Technical director or vision mixer
Lens
Yoke
Component
28. The member of the production team mainly responsible for aesthetic matters is the______.
Director
Flat
Moving the light
Aspect
29. Come in all sizes. Can consist of one person with a camera or network dramatic need a lot of people
Safe area
Linear and non-linear service
Set designer
Production crew
30. The message # displayed on the chyron CG screen is usually the number of the ____ page.
Next
Back
Layered
Servo
31. On the Chyron CG screen a transparent backround is shown as____
Gray
Linear and non-linear service
Assistant producer
Live
32. Dollying will decrease the _____ of ______.
Depth of field
Floor manager
30
Director
33. The control usually used to adjust white levels is the____.
Iris
Graphic Design/operator
2/3
Component
34. In order to create text to be rolled or crawled - the ___________button must be clicked BEFORE the text is created.-
Roll/crawl compose
Flat
Top
-20
35. The VCR operator should call out 'speed' when the ____ indicator light remains on.
Servo
30
Lens
Live
36. Shot from beginning to end and recorded
Live on tape
-20
Component
Gray
37. Responsible for assisting the camera operator in setting up the camera.
Camera assistant
Keying
Flat
Camera as an observer
38. The best instrument to use for a TV key light is a(n) _____ light.
Lens
Z
Fresnel
Safe area
39. The crew member most responsible for timing the shows is the _____.
Roll/crawl compose
Linear and non-linear service
Safe area
Assistant director
40. On the Chyron CG screen a transparent backround is shown as____
Gray
30
Component
LS
41. To send your message to the switcher - click on the_____ button at the top of the screen.
Scene
LIVE
Back
Moving the light
42. What kind of control panel is on the right side of the Chyron
Properties
Linear and non-linear service
Audio Mixer/sound mixer/sound supervisor
-20
43. A TV picture which is washed out with no distinct black result from the ______ being to high
Pedestal
Incident
Desktop
Back
44. The instrument which provides an objective measure of the luminance in a TV picture is the_______.
Waveform monitor
Quartz
Assistant director
Production assistant
45. Director's primary representative and contact when the director isn't on the set or in the studio.
-20
Live on tape
Floor manager
Cutaway
46. Responsible for conceiving - designing - and organizing the scenic treatment for a production
No
Assistant Director
Set designer
Desktop
47. A horizontal row of buttons on a video switcher is called a ____.
Camera assistant
30
Producer
Bus
48. The area of the directors screen that can be counted on to be seen by the home viewer is called the_____.
Camera's role
Editor
Safe area
Camera assistant
49. Responsible for assisting the producer
Graphic Design/operator
Depth of field
Assistant producer
Writer
50. Assists the director or producer with production needs
Production assistant
Moving the light
Quartz
Set designer