Audio Recording
HINT: close, or far?
What is as close as possible?
The name given to the incident when a sound is recorded at too loud a volume, causing it to distort.
What is clipping?
This type of lighting is warm in color and measures low in Kelvin temp. It is used most household lighting. They tend to run quite hot in temperature but give realistic indoor lighting.
What is tungsten light?
A type of light modifier that softens light (note: does not necessarily make the light less bright, only spreads it out!)
What is a silk?
The type of lighting that is generally the most pleasing, forgiving, and pleasant for subjects.
HINT: It is one end of the spectrum depending on how you bounce, diffuse, or direct your light.
What is soft lighting?
A type of microphone that requires "phantom" power, usually making them more sensitive and better for studio work.
What is a condenser microphone?
An effect to create a natural sounding space in which the sound was recorded, such as emulating the sound of a large church or a large concert hall in the way sound carries.
What is reverb?
This popular type of lighting is bright, slightly colder in temperature than other lighting types, and is best used for re-creating sunlight or outdoor lighting.
What is an HMI light?
A type of lighting fixture that can be focused, or directed and intensified into one area within the light itself.
What is a Fresnel fixture?
An important rule that uses lighting to make our subject, or foreground, look more important than our background.
What is the rule stating "Foreground should be brighter than your background."
The name for the difference between the loudest and quietest parts of a song.
HINT: It's a term also used in photography!
What is dynamic range?
The effect that allows you to turn certain frequencies up and down in the full spectrum of a sound.
DAILY DOUBLE BONUS: What version of this effect specifically allows you to draw a graph to chart out your frequencies controlling?
What is EQ (equalization)?
DAILY DOUBLE = Parametric EQ
A very versatile but sometimes expensive type of lighting that is easy on power, doesn't get physically burning hot, and sometimes can have different lighting temperature measurements.
What is an LED light?
A solid black modifier that can block light and direct light in certain areas.
What is a flag?
The 3 parts of 3-part lighting. (name the lights and briefly describe the light setup!)
What is a key light (main light at 45 degrees), a fill light (a slightly less powerful light at the opposite 45 degrees to fill in shadows), and backlighting (light from behind to pull the subject out of the background).
An audio recording (often short and repeatable) used to simulate a sound we see on screen or simulate a recorded sound in music production.
What is a sample?
The effect that allows you to control the range between the louds and quiets in a recording that makes the loud parts quieter and the quieter parts louder to even out the sound?
What is compression?
A type of lighting that is often very cold in Kelvin temperature and uses tubes instead of bulbs to light interiors. These also tend to be very soft without needing too much diffusion.
What is a Flourescent light?
A modifier to filter out the temperature of a light and make it a certain temperature or color tint.
DAILY DOUBLE: What are these called when they have a BLUE hue?
What is a gel?
Daily Double: CTB Gel
The name for an individual "pitch" or vibration of sound. Each sound has a spectrum of many of these.
DAILY DOUBLE BONUS: The human ear usually stops hearing these at approximately how many HRZ in the low end?
What is a frequency?
DAILY DOUBLE: Around 20 hrz.
The 3 most important effects usually applied to recorded voices as we learned about in class.
NOTE: It's okay to name more than the 3 I've outlined, but you must name all 3 that are primary audio editing effects.
An important type of lighting that exists within the frame, such as a lamp or a flashlight.
What is a Practical light?
Filters that can lower the intensity of a light by a stop; can be stacked together to lessen the intensity/brightness of a light within the light.
What is a scrim?