Lighting Part A
Chapter 9
Lighting Part B
Chapter 9
Video Camera Operations
Chapter 4
Audio Basics
Chapter 6
OTHER
100
A soft light instrument that provides general lighting to a large area like a football field.
What is floodlight?
100
Fully moveable black metal flaps attached to the front of a lighting instrument, used to block or reshape the light.
What is a barndoor?
100
A shot that captures a subject from the top of the head to just below the shoulders. Also called a narrow angle shot.
What is a close-up?
100
A meter on either an audio or mic mixer that indicates signal strength.
What is a volume unit meter (VU meter)?
100
_____refers to the compiling of audio, video, transitions, special effects, etc… into a finished product.
What is post-production?
200
A ____ is a heat resistant, thick plastic sheet placed in front of a lighting instrument to turn the white light from a lamp into a colored light.
What is a gel?
200
The electrical cables and outlets that power the instruments on the grid are part of the _____.
What is a raceway?
200
The camera shot of an entire basketball team is a _____.
What is a group shot?
200
A piece of equipment that takes the sounds from a variety of sources, such as mics, a CD player, or tape player, and combines them into a single sound signal that is sent to the recorder.
What is an audio mixer?
200
Philo T. Farnsworth
Who invented television?
300
provides the primary source of light on a person
What is a key light?
300
A lighting instrument that is placed above and behind the talent or object in a shot, at the twelve o’clock position, to separate the talent or object from the background is a ____.
What is a backlight?
300
_____ is moving the camera, its tripod, and dolly to the left or right in a motion that is parallel to the set.
What is trucking?
300
A high pitched squeal that occurs when a microphone picks up the sound coming from a speaker that is carrying that microphone's signal.
What is feedback?
300
When Philo looked over the newly plowed field as he was finishing, he saw evenly parallel lines, row after row. It occurred to him that an image could be sliced into such rows, back and forth, and then each row transmitted in a continuous sequence. Thus the "____" image was born.
What is a raster?
400
The part of a lighting instrument that glows when electricity is supplied to it is called ____. (The professionals in the television and filming industry use this term).
What is a lamp?
400
A common type of flood light with a half-spheriod shape that produces a great deal of light is called ____.
What is a scoop?
400
_____ is a shot that captures one person’s face reacting to what another person is saying or doing.
What is a reaction shot?
400
A mic with a pick-up pattern that captures sound from nearly every direction equally well.
What is an omni-directional mic?
400
______ refers to the actual filming of the production.
What is production?
500
A ______ is a type of illumination used in the studio that creates sharp, distinct, and very dark shadows.
What is a hard light?
500
A hard light instrument that is lightweight and easily focused. A light which has a lens with raised circular ridges on its outer surface.
What is a Fresnel?
500
The ____ for television production divides the screen into thirds horizontally and vertically. Almost all of the important information included in every shot is located at one of the four intersections of the horizontal and vertical lines.
What is the rules of thirds?
500
A _____ is a type of mic that is costly, high-quality, and can tolerate long cable lengths.
What is low impedance (LoZ)?
500
_____ refers to the time spent planning the production by creating storyboards, scripts, call sheets, etc…
What is pre-production?
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