Exposure
True of False: An ISO of 20,000 will likely give you a good exposure
What is false
Classic noir lighting makes use of strong _________ and ________ lights with a less dominant _______ light to exaggerate contrast and create that low key look.
What is key, back, and fill.
You want to shoot your actor using good composition, so draw them into the frame using the rule of thirds. Use a line to show head room, and an arrow to show look room.
(students submit drawing)
When recording audio on location, one must remember to do this for approximately 30 seconds to 1 minute to ensure that the audio editing process goes smoothly.
What is get room tone.
Name at least two ways to focus using the Canon C100.
What is... Zoom all the way in with the lens/ Focus Assist (AKA Magnification)/ Peaking
The two main color temperatures that serve as a reference point when determining WB in the camera. Please state their correct names and numeric values.
What is Tungsten (3200K) and Daylight (5600K).
Give a brief but widely accepted definition of depth of field.
What is the range of acceptable focus in an image.
This is a highly standardized system of editing, now virtually universal in commercial film and television but originally associated with Hollywood cinema, that matches spatial and temporal relations from shot to shot in order to maintain continuous and clear narrative action
The continuity system
The ideal shutter speed on the C100 when your frame rate is 24 FPS.
What is 48
The difference between hard and soft light. Name two ways that you would make hard light soft
What is
Hard lights have sharp edge shadows created by a single point source of light where light rays are more or less emanating from a single point in space. The sun on a clear day or a bare halogen bulb are examples.
Soft lights leave a fuzzy shadow and are created by a larger area of light, where light rays are scattered in different directions coming from many different points in space. We can achieve this with various types of diffusion, shooting through a window, shooting outside on a cloudy day
Types of diffusion:
Overhead
Silks
Bounce
Gels (opaque/ frosts)
Softbox
Shooting through a window
Shooting outside on a cloudy day (Clouds diffuse the sun)
True or false: Our eyes are drawn to the low contrast parts of an image
What is false
This mic is cardioid, somewhat directional and screen out some noise from the sides and back. They are standard mics for capturing on-location audio during production.
Shotgun Mic
The term for how bright or dark your image is.
What is exposure?
These are the three lights used in three point lighting, and this is what each light does.
What is...
Key Light: Main light used to illuminate the subject
Fill Light: Fills in the shadows that the key light creates on the subjects face
Back light: Used to separate the subject from the background (also gives more shape and depth)
Name and describe three types of camera movement.
Acceptable answers include: Pan, Tilt, Zoom, Pedestal, Dolly in, Dolly out, Truck Left, Truck Right, etc.
Rule which states that the camera must stay on only one side of the actions and objects in a scene.
What is the 180 degree rule
Opening this up will give you more light and a shallower depth of field.
What is aperture?
This device an be found in our flag kit. It is made of wood with cutouts for shaping shadows.
Cucoloris/ Cookie
T/F An establishing shot is usually an outside exterior or a wide shot of the entire scene that establishes the setting
True
The camera alternates between shots that show one person at a time
What is shot reverse shot