Video Process
Set & Ladder Safety
Pre-Production Basics
Legal & Releases
Planning & Logistics
100

This phase comes first in the video production process and includes storyboarding and scripting.

What is Pre-Production

100

To lift heavy equipment safely you should bend your knees and lift using these.

What are legs?

100

Identifying this helps craft the message tone, visual style, and content for a video.

What is the target audience?

100

To film on private property you should obtain this signed document from the owner.

What is a location release?

100

A production budget primarily allocates funds for personnel, equipment, locations, and this stage.

What is the Post-Production stage?

200

Studio productions differ from field productions because they occur in this type of environment.

What is a controlled environment?

200

When using a ladder, maintain this many points of contact for safety.

What is three points of contact?

200

Concept development typically begins with this creative planning step that produces a short written summary of the idea.

What is a treatment or concept statement?

200

Copyright protection in the U.S. generally lasts for the life of the creator plus this many years.

What is 70 years?

200

A shooting schedule should consider talent availability and this environmental factor that affects outdoor shoots.

What is Weather?

300

This crew role designs the visual composition of shots and often oversees camera and lighting choices.

Who is the Director of Photography (DP)?

300

This is a best practice for cable safety: tape cables down or use this type of tape.

What is Gaffer tape?

300

A screenplay includes these elements: character names, dialogue, scene headings, and this.

What are Action Lines?

300

This license is commonly required to synchronize music with visual media.

What is a Sync License?

300

A project risk assessment should include potential hazards, mitigation plans, and these important contacts.

What are Emergency Contacts?

400

This document outlines the order of shots to be filmed and their technical details.

What is a Shot List?

400

For electrical fires involving equipment you should use this class of fire extinguisher.

What is a Class C (or multi-class) fire extinguisher?

400

Visual planning for camera angles and composition is done on this drawn sequence of frames.

What is a Storyboard?

400

If you need permission to use another producer’s archival footage, you should obtain this or verify it’s in this status.

What is permission/licensing or public domain?

400

This document specifies technical requirements for delivery such as codec and resolution.

What is a (Technical) Spec Sheet?

500

This person secures funding, schedules, and manages the overall project.

Who is the Producer?

500

These two pieces of personal protective equipment are recommended when working with lighting equipment.

What are safety goggles and work gloves?

500

This type of release grants permission to use a person's likeness in a production.

What is a Talent or Model Release?

500

A written document that lists daily call times, locations, and important notes for cast and crew is called this.

What is a Call Sheet?

500

When scouting a location you should check power availability, ambient sound, permissions, and this type of constraints.

What are Logistical Constraints?