Studio
Camera
History
Vocabulary
Procedures
100
A machine designed to replicate a video switcher operated by the Technical Director.
What is the TriCaster?
100
This motion is lateral, and camera operators are often told to do it twice as slowly as they think they should...
What is a camera pan?
100
The first film we watched together in class was titled "In the Garden" and was a docudrama. What famous person was this film concerned with?
What is Alice Guy Blache
100
This refers to a style of editing we have talked about that is pieced together, or synthesized to make a meaning different from the shots seen by themselves?
What is montage editing?
100
Students are expected to come into the classroom and do what on Monday mornings?
What are searches and write-ups of current events.
200
Your microphone inputs on this machine allow you to manage the sound output for the video.
What is an audio mixer?
200
When the camera is set on "internal memory", it is an operation that means that it is recording on this kind of media:
What is the hard drive?
200
Recently we watched a film that contained scenes from a play written by Beat poets in the 1950's. The title of that film and the year it was produced was:
What is Pull My Daisy, 1959.
200
In the days before digital video was invented, videographers used analog video and linear editing, but before that filmmakers used what material to make images with?
What is celluloid film?
200
Sitting and spinning the microphone around like a yo-yo prompted Mrs. Fillmore to ask you to do this together:
What is creating classroom rules?
300
This person directs traffic in the studio and insures that the talent has the correct clues for "on" and "off" the airwaves.
What is a floor director?
300
A camera operator needs what three things to make an image?
What is the subject matter, light, and the camera to record the image.
300
One of the pioneers in television worked on his own show and we watched several episodes. He's been called a pioneer of television and a performance artist. What was the name of his show?
Who is Ernie Kovacs?
300
This shot is usually of the entire set, whether or not it is inside or out, and is used to give the viewer some idea of where action is taking place.
What is an establishing shot?
300
When we set up the studio and then mic our talent, what does the sound person do next?
What is ask for a mic check.
400
These people operate tripods and the instrument on top of the tripod that photographs the talent.
What is a camera operator?
400
This feature on the camera allows you to open what so that it will let more light into the lens?
What is the aperature setting?
400
in 1967 a now-famous pair of Cineme Verite camera operators made a documentary film that has remained relevant today; what are their names?
Who are Richard Leacock and D.A. Pennebaker?
400
These are associated with camera operation, and can be used differently to create different emotional vantage points on subject matter for videos. They may originate from very low under a subject, to very high above a subject and anywhere between.
What are camera angles?
400
The lavalier microphone is to be used for what kind of shooting, and when, in contrast, would you use the omnidirectional hand-held microphone?
What is a quiet studio conversation as opposed to an outdoor or more informal conversation held outside the studio?
500
This machine is very widely used by politicians, and we have one in our classroom. It is sometimes called a character generator.
What is a teleprompter?
500
A good camera operator is personable and yet professional when they are in public using equipment. This camera operator asks before recording the images of his/her subjects, and therefore obtains this before taping.
What is permission?
500
Alice Guy Blache was considered the first filmmaker ever to use this style of storytelling in her oeuvre:
What is narrative filmmaking?
500
When filmmakers are real storytellers, they often make these before beginning to hire actors or insure that they learn the lines of the script to visualize the sets, action, and camera work in their film.
What is a storyboard?
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