Equipment
What is a Slate?
A slate is the identifier placed in front of the camera at the beginning of a take.
What is a Lens?
A Lens is an essential for projecting an optical image of a scene onto the film or the front surface of the camera pickup device
What is a Mixer?
A Mixer is combining two or more sounds in specific proportions as determined by the show.
What is a Martini Shot?
A Marini Shot is the final shot of the day.
What is a Gaffer?
A Gaffer is the chief electrician in a production unit.
What is a Snake?
A snake is a thick audio cable that has multiple audio cables inside an outer jacket. This allows sound engineers to set up sound systems close to the set.
What is Focus?
Focus is when a picture is in focus when it appears sharp and clear on-screen.
What is a Switcher?
A Switcher is a panel with rows of buttons that allows the selection and assembly of various video sources through a variety of transition devices, and the creation of electronic special effects.
What is a Take?
A Take is a signal for a cut from one video source to another.
What is a Dimmer?
A Dimmer is a device that controls the intensity of light by throttling the electric current flowing to the lamp.
What is a Tripod?
A camera is a three legged camera mount that can be connected to a dolly.
What is Aperture?
Aperture is the iris opening on the lens, usually measured in f-stops.
What is a Bus?
A Bus is a row of buttons that correspond to video sources.
What is a Roll?
A Roll is graphics that move slowly up the screen.
What is Leko?
Leko is a ellipsoidal profile spot light that provides a fixed beam angle.
What is a Mic?
A Mic is an abbreviation for microphone.
What is F-Stop?
F-stop is the amount of light coming through the lens.
What is a Viewfinder?
A Viewfinder is a small television set that displays the picture as generated by the camera.
What is a Fade?
A Fade is the gradual appearance of a picture from black or its disappearance to black.
What is the Kelvin Scale?
The Kelvin Scale is Temperature Scale is the specific measure of color temperature.
What is a Monitor?
A Monitor is a speaker that carries the program sound independent of the line-out.
What is Depth of Field?
Depth of Field is the area in which all objects, located at different distances from the camera, appear in focus.
What is Zoom?
Zoom is when you change the lens gradually to a narrow-angle position or to a wide-angle position while the camera remains stationary.
What is Green Light?
Green Light is the go ahead to move a show out of development into production.
What is a Fresnel?
A Fresnel is a stepped convex, soft-edged spotlight lens. Lens is a series of stepped concentric circles on the front and pebbled on the back.