Show:
Studio Equipment
Lighting
Studio + Camera Operation
Copyright
Work Flow + Editing
100
The terms vision mixer and video mixer that describe both the equipment and the device operator are used outside the USA. In the United States, the equipment is called a ____________ and the device operator is known as a ____________ (TD) that is part of a television crew.
What is a video switcher run by a technical director?
100
Coherence (quality), color temperature, and intensity.
What are the three basics to understand before lighting a scene?
100
This is used to "key" a specific color and to use digital backgrounds for video productions, i.e. weather maps or virtual sets.
What is a chroma key?
100
1. Determine if permission is needed. 2. Identify the owner. 3. Identify the rights needed. 4. Contact the owner and negotiate whether payment is required. 5. Get your permission agreement in writing.
What are the five steps when working to acquire media for a production that may be copyrighted?
100
This acronym refers to the high-speed semiconductor used chiefly in image detection. It is a device for the movement of electrical charge, usually from within the device to an area where the charge can be manipulated, for example conversion into a digital value. This is achieved by "shifting" the signals between stages within the device one at a time.
What is a Charge-Coupled Device (CCD)?
200
This monitor is a special type of oscilloscope used in television production applications. It is typically used to measure and display the level, or voltage, of a video signal with respect to time.
What is a waveform monitor?
200
An umbrella and a softbox or a diffuser made of spun glass all create this kind of lighting.
What is soft lighting, also called flat lighting?
200
Creativity.
What does a copyright protect?
200
This is an analog editing term still employed today when a videotape editor is cutting between two different cameras.
What is A/B roll editing?
300
This machine is a display device that prompts the person speaking with an electronic visual text of a speech or script.
What is a teleprompter?
300
Light that is transmitted directly from a small point source results in relatively coherent (parallel) rays. This gives the light a hard, crisp, sharply defined appearance. The light from a clear, unfrosted light bulb, a focused spotlight, or the noonday sun in a clear sky, all represent this quality of light.
What is hard lighting?
300
The exposure triad is used to regulate these three components.
What is the exposure triad, including ISO, shutter speed, and aperture?
300
This is different from a copyright, and protects specific logos and branding.
What is a trademark?
300
This is a French word for "assembling" that is a technique in film editing in which a series of short shots are edited into a sequence to condense space, time, and information.
What is montage editing?
400
This engineer watches the levels recorded, mixes sounds from different microphones, cues music and helps talent put their mics on.
What is an audio engineer?
400
Although light can be any color between infrared and ultraviolet, there are two basic color standards.
What are 3,200K (Kelvin) for incandescent lamps used in studios and 5,500K for average daylight?
400
This is a specialized piece of filmmaking and television production equipment designed to create smooth camera movements (cinematic techniques). The camera is mounted to this equipment and the camera operator and focus puller or camera assistant usually ride on it to operate the camera. The _____ grip is the dedicated technician trained to operate it.
What is a dolly?
400
You may be disciplined or prosecuted when you don't say where you took something from, and you could also be taking it without permission, and you could be sued by the owner of a specific copyright.
What are plagiarism and infringement?
400
AVCHD (Advanced Video Coding High Definition), and MTS are related as the MTS file format supports 1080i (a high definition video format with 1080 horizontal scan lines, interlaced) and 720p (720 horizontal scan lines, progressive scan, rather than interlaced) in a relatively small file size.
What are the proprietary encoding processes that were launched by Sony Corporation and Panasonic Corporation in 2006?
500
This person is responsible for titling a live production.
What does a character generator operator, or a C.G. operator do?
500
The color of sunlight can vary greatly depending on the time of day, the amount of haze or smog in the air, and the geographic longitude and latitude of the area.
What is the most difficult light to control for consistency and continuity?
500
This refers to the way the director might stage a specific scene, and includes camera movements and the movements of talent on screen.
What is shot composition?
500
This doctrine was established in 1976 and includes the following litmus tests: 1. The purpose and character of one's use 2. The nature of the copyrighted work 3. What amount and proportion of the whole work was taken 4. The effect of the use upon the potential market for or value of the copyrighted work.
What is The Fair Use Doctrine?
500
MPEG. WMV, MOV, JPEG, AIFF, MP3
What are digital formats that a competent video editor needs to be able to recognize? Moving Picture Experts Group Windows Media Video Joint Photographic Experts Group Audio Interchange File Format MP3, is an audio coding format for digital audio which uses a form of lossy data compression