Props
Costumes
Sound
Lighting
Management
Video Pre-Production
Video Production
Wild Card
100
A larger, but movable, prop, such as furniture.
What is a set prop?
100
Where costumes are built.
What is a costume shop?
100
Vibrations that travel through the air and can be heard
What is sound?
100
A device used to vary the amount of power arriving at a lamp.
What is a dimmer?
100
This person runs the rehearsal room, calls all cues, handles backstage communications during shows, and generally manages the entire performance.
Who is the stage manager?
100
This document links the script to the audio, visual, and time elements of the video.
What is a script template?
100
This is the part of the film production timeline where a story is chosen funding is secured.
What is development?
100
Every system has these three components.
What are input, control/process, and output?
200
A smaller prop that gets handled by actors, such as a plate of food, or a book.
What is a hand prop?
200
This phrase describes a costume designer's thoughts on how a costume conveys information such as setting, class, and character mood.
What is creative considerations?
200
Something that converts one kind of energy into another.
What is a transducer?
200
A filter for changing the color of a light.
What is a gel?
200
This person handles the budgets and logistics for the show, and is particularly in charge of overseeing the technical components.
Who is the production manager?
200
A document that provides the overall summary of the video idea.
What is a treatment?
200
This object allows editors to line up the audio and visual components of the film. It also communicates which scene and take are currently being shot.
What is the slate?
200
An experience that surrounds the guest.
What is an immersive environment?
300
A prop that exists to enhance the set, but isn't specifically touched by actors, such as posters on a wall.
What is a decorative prop?
300
A costume change that must be done rapidly, typically in the wings between scenes.
What is a quick change?
300
A transducer that converts sound waves into electrical signals.
What is a microphone?
300
A device that attaches to a fresnel and allows for shaping of the beam.
What is a barn door?
300
The name of the email sent out by stage management letting the company know what occurred during rehearsal that day.
What is the rehearsal report?
300
This Document maps out specifically and in detail what will occur and what will be used in each scene of the video.
What is a shot list?
300
This word refers to the main period of shooting when the bulk of the project is filmed.
What is principal photography?
300
A drawing of a costume, prior to the build.
What is a rendering?
400
This word describes a prop that gets used up in every show or every take, such as lit matches or eaten food.
What is a consumable?
400
The person who keeps costumes clean and organized backstage.
What is a wardrobe supervisor?
400
A device that processes or controls audio signals.
What is a sound mixer or a console?
400
A communications protocol for sending lighting information.
What is DMX 512?
400
The name of the script that a stage manager has all cues and blocking written in.
What is the prompt book or calling script?
400
This document provides a sequence of visual slides that shows a rough image and description for each scene.
What is a storyboard?
400
This word refers to the long sheet of paper specifying in detail what is occurring when on the shoot day.
What is the call sheet?
400
This person makes sure that the theater is prepared for an audience every night before the show starts.
Who is the house manager?
500
A placeholder prop used during the production period of a show, used so actors can get practice prior to the real prop being acquired.
What is a rehearsal prop?
500
A hatmaker.
What is a milliner?
500
A device that powers speakers.
What is an amplifier?
500
This person is the lead lighting person on a film crew. They work closely with the director to ensure each shot is lit both practically and artistically.
Who is the director of photography?
500
This person oversees revenue, including generating money to fund the production, hiring an artistic team that they feel will best match the vision (and therefore maximize revenue), and creating marketing strategies.
Who is the producer?
500
This document is a one-page sheet detailing all of the elements that go into a single scene, including the cast, sets, props, etc.
What is a script breakdown?
500
These two phrases refer to how we categorize film workers in the production budget. These categories define workers based on whether or not they are involved in making the largest creative decisions.
What are above-the-line and below-the-line?
500
A system in which feedback from the output is 'fed back' into the system.
What is a closed loop?