Cinematography Shot Compositions
A good shot type for showcasing location, change of time, or transition.
What is an establishing shot?
The name for the person who controls the lighting/electrical equipment on set.
What is a gaffer?
A microphone modifier that can mounted in front of a microphone to help remove hard "p's" and "t's".
What is a pop filter?
This audio effect can create space to create the sense the sound was captured in a different sized room.
What is reverb?
The standard frame rate for cinema productions.
What is 24 frames per second (FPS)?
A good shot type that would be effective to show a single character getting an idea or having a revelation of thought.
What is a close-up shot?
What an EasyRig backpack system does for filming.
What is supporting carrying the weight, but not stabilizing?
The name for long microphones that can capture directed sound and are often mounted on cameras.
What are shotgun microphones?
This audio effect can take out the "sss" and high syllables from the human voice to sound less harsh.
What is a de-esser?
The video file format that is best for sharing because it has compression for internet or device viewing.
DAILY DOUBLE: Identify the 2 names for this file/codec type.
What is an MP4 / H264?
A shot angle that might make your character look more powerful or superior?
What is a low angle shot?
The name for cinematography gear that can allow your shots to slide horizontally.
(there are two main options, please identify at least one)What are dollies or sliders?
What your hardware needs to do to pick up sound from a condenser mic?
What is phantom power (48V).
The "king" of all effects, this effect allows you to edit out specific or broad frequencies (high or low parts) from an audio recording.
DAILY DOUBLE: What is the specific type of this effect I have recommended we use within Premiere Pro?
What is EQUALIZATION?
Daily Double: What is the PARAMETRIC EQ?
The slowest shutter speed you could achieve with 60 FPS filming.
What is 1/60 second?
DAILY DOUBLE: What is the name for shots that are still?
Dynamic shots.
Daily Double: Static shots.
The primary technical difference between cinema and photography lenses related to aperture.
What is using T-Stop instead of F-Stop, which calculates the actual light volume within the lens?
Two types of audio inputs that cameras might have. (name at least two of the three primary "wire" names)
What is an XLR, 1/4" TRS, or headphone jack?
How a compressor works to clean up sound.
The shutter angle you would get if shooting 30fps at 1/60th second.
What is 180 degrees?
An extreme close up shot of a set detail (for example, the detail of a table edge or a water droplet in a fountain where the scene is taking place).
What is a macro shot?
“Cranes” that allow for camera movement in 3-axis in cinematography called.
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This audio file showcases this bad effect in audio.
What is clipping/overload distortion?
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The type of filter does that this EQ represents.
A high-pass filter.
The camera type that has one drawback-- when decreasing video resolution, the image gets cropped because the camera uses less of the actual sensor.
What are RED cameras?