Camera Basics
Increasing this number on the camera makes the image brighter but introduces grain.
What is ISO?
The primary light hitting a subject.
What is the key light?
This cable is used to connect the sound recorder to the microphone.
What is an XLR cable?
An editor's best friend, this Premiere Pro shortcut is mainly used whenever a mistake is made.
What is Control or Command Z?
This shot size, often used in the establishing shot, shows the whole or most of the area where the scene is taking place.
What is a wide shot or extreme wide shot?
Typically twice the frame rate in film.
What is shutter speed?
Placing a white sheet over the light affects this attribute of light.
What is diffusion?
This mic is small and is designed to be clipped onto a shirt.
What is a lav mic?
Called first on a slate, and is a combination of several shots.
What is a scene?
Otherwise known as UHD.
What is 3840 x 2160?
Lenses have these. Some are fixed, others are variable.
What is a focal length?
Increasing the angle of the light from 45 degrees to 90 degrees also increases this.
What is contrast?
Dialogue and music are two of the three elements of sound. The other amplifies what is seen on screen.
What are sound effects?
To get the correct image when the resolution of the video is higher then the sequence, the editor uses this window in Premiere Pro.
What is the Effects Control window?
What is a close-up?
All cameras have and use four basic things; a body, a lens, an SD Card, and this.
What is a battery?
Turning the light down or moving it away from the subject adjusts the same thing.
What is intensity?
This pickup pattern focuses pickup pattern mainly on the front and does not pick up much sound from either side or behind the mic.
What is unidirectional?
In order to sync audio and video manually, the editor first does this, using this Premiere Pro shortcut.
What is Mark using M?
This aspect ratio used for all televisions and laptops, is deemed standard across the film world.
What is 16:9?
The adjustment of this camera feature increases the depth of field of the image but at the expense of making it darker.
What is aperture?
Daylight, but in kelvin.
What is 5600?
"Peaking" while recording audio means the sound went too high, usually above this number.
What is negative six?
Often used to hide a cut, this editing technique works with dialogue and the image and can either be J or L.
What is dialogue overlap?
Most movies are filmed in this aspect ratio, traditionally called the cinematic widescreen.
What is 2.36 or 2.39?