Lighting
Head of the department that sets up all electrical components?
A) Best Boy Grip
B) Best Boy Electric
C) Key Grip
D) Gaffer
What is Gaffer?
1. What is the color temperature of a tungsten lamp?
A) 5600 K
B) 3200 K
C) 1600 K
D) None of the above
What is 3200?
How many 1000-Watt lights can be plugged into a standard 120-Volt, 15-Amp outlet? (Hint:
W/V=A)
A) 1
B) 2
C) 3
D) 4
What is 1?
Which of the following would a grip be responsible for?
A) Running electricity to the lighting instrument
B) Setting up the lighting instrument
C) Placing a modifier in front of the lighting instrument
D) None of the above
What is placing a modifier in front of the lighting instrument?
What weighs more: all the trains that pass through Grand Central Station in a day, or all the trees cut down in a year to print US currency?
They weigh the same - nothing. US currency is not printed on paper from trees, and trains go through Grand Central Terminal (not station).
Head of the department that sets up all non-electrical components?
A) Best Boy Grip
B) Best Boy Electric
C) Key Grip
D) Gaffer
What is Key Grip?
How would you describe the quality of a light that blends the edges of the shadows?
A) Bright
B) Dim
C) Hard
D) Soft
What is soft?
What kind of stand is a lighting instrument mounted on?
A) C-stand
B) Tripod
C) Baby stand
D) Kick stand
What is a baby stand?
What kind of stand is a flag, net or silk mounted on?
A) C-stand
B) Tripod
C) Baby stand
D) Kick stand
What is a c-stand?
Guess the movie from the description:
A girl
A heart
A rose
A bear
Beauty and the beast
If a shot is bright and evenly lit, what is its lighting style?
A) High-key
B) Low-key
C) Abstract
D) None of the above
What is High Key?
Which of the following items could we use to alter the quality of a light?
A) Silk modifier
B) Diffusion gel
C) All of the above
D) None of the above
What is All of the above?
What do we call the black flaps on the front of the lighting instrument, which are used for
controlling where the light falls?
A) Shutters
B) Barn doors
C) Matte box
D) Black box
What is Barn Doors
What type of lighting modifier has a red border?
A) Single net
B) Double net
C) Solid flag
D) Silk
What is a double net?
A chicken
A kid running
Dust
Chicken Run
Which light is the main light on a subject in a three-point lighting set up?
A) Back light
B) Fill light
C) Key light
D) None of the above
What is Key Light?
What would we use too change the intensity of a light by a full camera stop (about 60%)?
A) Silk modifier
B) Diffusion gel
C) Single net or scrim
D) Double net or scrim
What is double net or scrim?
What is a “stinger”?
A) A type of lighting instrument
B) The brace that holds the lighting instrument in place
C) A kind of stand for mounting a lighting instrument
D) A black extension cord used on film sets
What is a black extension cord used on film sets?
What department is in charge of setting up the dolly for camera movement?
A) Camera Department
B) Electricians
C) Grips
D) Assistant Directors
What is grips?
A crown
A ring
A man
Lord of the rings
What is the purpose of the back light in a three-point lighting set up?
A) To provide the primary illumination on the subject
B) To provide definition and separate the subject from the background
C) To provide the crew with enough light to do their work
D) To light the background of the shot
What is to provide definition and separate the subject from the background?
What do we use a light meter to determine?
A) The color temperature of the light
B) The quality of the light
C) The intensity of the light
D) The direction of the light
What is the intensity of light?
What do we call out for safety when we turn a lighting instrument on?
A) “Bright light!”
B) “Striking!”
C) “Watch out!”
D) Nothing
What is striking?
What materials are used to level the dolly track?
A) Apple boxes
B) Wedges
C) Cribbing
D) All of the above
What is all all of the above?
Determine the film based on the description:
A magnifying glass
A fish
Finding nemo