Camera Equipment Procedures
What is a tripod?
a three-legged stand for supporting a camera
What is production?
The actual shooting of the program
What is the rule of thirds?
A theory that splits the television screen into 9 separate squares.
What does the term A/V stand for?
Audio/Visual
What is B-roll?
The additional video and audio that you will use as filler.
What does SD card stand for?
secure digital
What is distribution?
The final phase of production. Distributing livestream link, video file, or access to program
Name at least 3 camera angles.
Closeup (CU), Extreme Closeup (ECU), Long Shot (Wide Shot), Extreme Long Shot, Medium/Mid Shot, Single/Solo Shot, Two Shot, Three Shot, Point Of View (POV), Eye Level, Low Angle, High Angle, Top Angle (Bird’s Eye View), Dutch Angle (Tilt), Over-The Shoulder (OTS)
What are NATs?
Sounds in the environment. Natural sounds.
What is room tone?
The sound of a completely silent room or location.
1. What resolution do we use?
2. What frame rate do we use?
1. 1920x1080 resolution
2. 30P frame rate
What is post-production
Any activities done after the program has been shot until the finished program is completed, including music beds, editing, audio overdubs, and titles
What is headroom?
The space from the top of a person’s head to the top of the screen.
How does music and sound effects change a scene?
Help set the mood and enhance the action of a program.
What are the three sound frequencies, and which one is the human speaking voice typically in?
Low-frequency, mid-frequency, and high-frequency. The human speaking voice is typically in mid-frequency.
What is pre-production?
Any activity on a program that occurs prior to the time that the cameras begin rolling. This includes meetings, set construction, costume design, music composition, scriptwriting, and location surveys.
What is noseroom/leadroom?
The space form the tip of a person’s nose to the side edge of the frame.
What is a voice track and what is its purpose?
The voice track is the sound created through dialogue or narration. Usually the primary means of getting a message to the viewer’s ears and maybe considered the most necessary audio of a program.
Name 4 things that typically have copyright.
Paintings, photographs, illustrations, musical compositions, sound recordings, computer programs, books, poems, blog posts, movies, architectural works, plays.
What is an establishing shot?
A wide or extreme wide shot (long shot) that establishes the context for a scene in a film or video by showing the setting and sometimes the time.