Audio Technology
Rhetoric/Field Knowledge
Camera Angles
Broadcasting
Camera Settings/Tech
100

What type of microphone is best used for podcasts, or voiceover work?

Condenser/Cardioid 

100

In the field, a 'dead-cat' refers to:

A wind screen that covers microphones for outside use

100

What type of shot is this?

Wide Shot

100

What is the job of the producer?

Operate the switcher, direct the show, communicate with the team

100

What is ISO?

Artificial Light

200

What is over-modulating audio, or peaking? How do you prevent it?


Audio levels that are too loud for microphones to divide the sound, and creates distortion. Prevention by adjusting gain or distance from microphone

200

What are the three artistic proofs and their meaning?

Ethos - Appeal to Ethics

Logos - Appeal to Logic

Pathos - Appeal to Emotion

200

What is an example of using headroom inproperly?

Giving too much headroom in order to establish anxiety or loneliness 

200

What does a PGM or Return Video button do?

Shows what is live from the producer's live feed on your camera

200

What is the Golden Rule of Aperature?

f2 = 2 things in focus

f22 = 22 things in focus

300

What is the difference between reverb and echo?

Reverb - Once

Echo - Multiple times

300

Your first pitch to a client is called what?

A treatment

300

What is depth?

Layers within an image

300

When broadcasting or producing a live show, the schedule you follow is called what?

Run-Down

300

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Ryan Osborne

400

What is the difference between a multi-track, and a waveform in Adobe Audition?

Multitrack = multiple layers of audio

Waveform = a mixed down version of that audio

400

Counter-signaling is a technique in advertising that..

The company selling a product insists on the product being less than great, or downplaying the product or service
400

What is depth of field?

Area of focus within an image

400

The screen a talent uses to read lines or a script is called:

A teleprompter

400

The type of camera we use often in class is called:

A Mirrorless (DSLR)

500

What is phase cancelling?

When two microphones are so close, they create drop-outs in audio

500

The Combination of New Media and Old Media (Social media to TV, etc) is called what?

Convergence

500

The 'golden spiral' is also called what, named after a famous mathematician 

The Fibonocci Sequence

500

During a broadcast, we lose a feed from camera 4 (One of the Blackmagic studio cameras). What would be the first thing you’d check?

Fiber Cable/SDI Connection

500

What is the type of sensor found in most cameras?

A CMOS sensor

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