The Production Process
This is the phase of production where scriptwriting, storyboarding, and budgeting take place.
What is Pre-Production?
The composition technique that involves dividing an image into thirds using two horizontal and two vertical lines.
What is the Rule of Thirds?
The unit used to measure the intensity or loudness of a sound.
What are Decibels?
This type of light produces strong and well-defined shadows and maximizes the appearance of textures.
What is Hard Light?
The art and technique of styling text to make it readable and appealing when displayed.
What is Typography?
This is considered the longest phase in production and includes editing, visual effects, and color grading.
What is Post-Production?
A shot at the head of a scene that clearly shows us the location of the action.
What is an Establishing Shot (EST)?
The background noise present at a given scene, such as traffic, rain, or crickets.
What is Ambient Sound?
The first step in preparing a camera for lighting conditions, which removes unrealistic color casts so that objects that should appear white are rendered white.
What is White Balance?
This font term refers to the space between adjacent lines of type.
What is Leading?
This key person controls a film's artistic and dramatic aspects, visualizes the screenplay, and has a key role in choosing the cast.
Who is the Director?
A camera angle looking up at a character, which is typically used to emphasize that character's power.
What is a Low Angle (LA) shot?
This type of directional microphone gets signals from all sides.
What is Omnidirectional?
A soft light that is scattered and has neither the intensity nor the glare of direct light.
What is Diffused Light?
A type of font distinguished by curved finishing strokes, or "feet," at the end of each straight line.
What is Serif?
The phase of production where the film is made, and everything that was planned for film is carried out.
What is Production (or Shooting/Filming)?
The concept of getting closer to the subject to eliminate negative space in your shot.
What is Fill the Frame?
This type of microphone is small, clips to the collar of a shirt, and is best for sit-down interviews.
What is a Lavalier (or Lav) microphone?
A lighting style that has an emphasis on shadows and is achieved by using hard source lighting; it is good for mystery or drama films.
What is Low Key Lighting?
A two-column script format best used for commercials or promotional videos, also known as an audio/visual (or AV) script.
What is a Two Column Script?
This production role involves organizing business, finance, and employment issues for the film or television project.
What is a Production Manager?
This is the distance between the closest and farthest objects in a photo that appears acceptably sharp.
What is Depth of Field?
This unidirectional microphone is placed on a boom stick and is typically used in situations where your subject is moving.
What is a Boom/Shotgun microphone?
This lighting technique is used for an interview and involves using two key lights to light two different subjects.
What is Cross Key Lighting?
A type of intellectual property that gives its owner the exclusive right to make copies of a creative work.
What is Copyright?