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Final Flashcards

1
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What is the formula for calculating how many amps of electricity are needed to power your lights?

A

Watts / Volts = Amps

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2
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What is the normal voltage range in the US?

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110-120

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3
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What are the usual amps for a circuit in the US?

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15-20

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4
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What are those wooden clips known as in the industry?

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C-47’s

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5
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How does the gauge number on the electrical cord correlate to how many amps it will handle?

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The lower the gauge number, the more amps it can handle

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6
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What do you use on the stand of a light to steady the light?

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Sandbag

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7
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What is the Key Light?

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The light that is used mainly on the subject’s face and upper body as is usually placed at a a 45 degree next to the camera on the same side that the interviewer will be sitting

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8
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What is the Hair Light?

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The type of light is placed above and just behind your subject on the opposite side of the camera from the subject’s face light

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9
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What is the Back Light

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The type of light is used with a cut out pattern to create texture on the wall behind the subject.

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10
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What is the Fill Light?

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The light that compensates for any harsh shadows on your subject’s face and brings out some of the details hidden in the shadows.

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11
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What is the term for when a light beam is at its most intense setting?

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Spotted

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12
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What are four ways to cut down on the intensity of the light emanating from a light fixture?

A

Use gels
Barn door
Use a dimmer
Use a scrim

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13
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What can you do with an ND gel to light a dark-skinned and a light-skinned person with the same lighting fixture?

A

Cover it half way

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14
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What is the term for a location light fixture that is seen on camera?

A

Practical Light

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15
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What is used to turn a hard light source into a soft light source?

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Diffusion material

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16
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What is the weird kinda covered light source called?

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Stop Box

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17
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What does YUV stand for?

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Y - Luminance
U - Blue
V - Red

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18
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What color system does the camera capture and humans view?

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RGB

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19
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What is the Dynamic Range for light?

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The total range from the darkest shadow to the brightest highlight

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20
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What is Latitude?

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The measure of how flexible you can be with your exposure without significantly compromising the finished product.

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21
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Numerically, what is the relationship between Dynamic Range and Latitude?

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The Latitude will always be less than the Dynamic Range

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22
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What is the term for the sensitivity value of film stock?

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ISO

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23
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What is the process of altering and enhancing the color?

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Color Grading

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24
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What is Debayering?

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The digital image process used to reconstruct a full color image from the incomplete color sample output from an image sensor overlaid with a color filter array

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25
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What is CFA?

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Color Filter Array

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26
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What is the name of the light we used with the little handle on the bottom?

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Omni light

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27
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What are the five steps to the Color Correction Process?

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1) Adjust the whites and blacks (highlights and shadows),
2) Remove existing Color Casts
3) Adjust Hue and Saturation Values
4) Adjusting midtone, shadows, and highlights
5) Add Vignetting

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28
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What effect allows you to control collar correction?

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Lumetri Presets (Scope and Color)

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29
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Where can you find Mask Tools?

A

Opacity

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30
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What feature built-in the camera prevents overexposure?

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ND Filter

31
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What function on the camera will indicate if the face is overexposed?

A

Zebra Stripes

32
Q

What are two ways you can change speed of clip?

A

1) Rate Stretch tool

2) Adjust by altering keyframes

33
Q

What number is Broadcast audio generally recorded at?

A

48k

34
Q

What are the four primary aspects of image control?

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1) Focus
2) Exposure
3) Shutter Speed
4) Color Temperature

35
Q

What is the term for adjusting the lens to higher f-stops?

A

Stopping down

36
Q

Which focal length will put the background in soft focus and make distant objects appear closer and more compressed?

A

Telephoto

37
Q

What kind of footage do you need to illustrate the story?

A

B-roll

38
Q

What is the best digital db level?

A

-18

39
Q

In what kind of shot does the camera scan up to down or vice versa?

A

Tilting

40
Q

How far away from the backdrop should you place your talent?

A

At least 5 feet

41
Q

When shooting, what should be recorded to ensure video footage colors will be accurate from one monitor to the next?

A

Color Bars

42
Q

What is the term for the recording of the sound of a location without dialogue?

A

Wild Track

43
Q

What are the four basic types of mics for documentary production?

A

Wireless
Handheld
Lavalier
Shotgun

44
Q

What style of filmmaking uses all the tools of the medium to create the imaginary world of the film and its characters?

A

formalism

45
Q

What does Formalism manipulate?

A

Aspects of reality

46
Q

What are the three steps to perform to get shallow depth of field?

A

1) Zoom in all the way
2) Widen aperture fully
3) Use ND filter

47
Q

What would the Pixel Aspect Ratio be if the aspect ratio is 4:3?

A

.9 : 1

48
Q

What tool gets rid of the gap between clips and pulls them together?

A

Ripple Delete

49
Q

What kind of moving shot covers the space and shows the character relative to their environment?

A

Wide Shot

50
Q

What does ADR stand for?

A

Automatic Dialogue Replacement

51
Q

What is the term for flattening the top of waveforms?

A

Clipping

52
Q

What tool is used to normalize all peaks across clips to a specific db?

A

Audio Gain

53
Q

Which filter includes the Compressor, Auto Gate, and Limiter?

A

Dynamic

54
Q

What does compressing the audio signal do?

A

Narrows the Dynamic Range

55
Q

What does Auto Gate do to signals below a specific db threshold?

A

Suppresses them

56
Q

What filter is used to isolate and remove or make adjustments to a specific frequency?

A

EQ Filter

57
Q

What is Luminance?

A

The brightest portion of the video signal

58
Q

What is Mise en scene?

A

Everything that appears in front of the camera

59
Q

What is the Gaffer?

A

The crew member that hangs lights and is part of the electrical department

60
Q

Who is the Grip?

A

The crew member that moves cameras and equipment

61
Q

What are the sheets to lessen the light called?

A

Diffusion Sheets

62
Q

What piece of the equipment allows the adjustment of the equipment height and length?

A

Knuckle Grip Head

63
Q

What is the light that comes on the pole?

A

Tota Light

64
Q

What’s the difference between the Jig and the Crane?

A

The crane has a seat, the jig does not

65
Q

What is a search down?

A

The shot when the camera checks something out

66
Q

What shot is front/back?

A

Dolly

67
Q

What shot is left/right?

A

Tracking

68
Q

In what Premiere window can you see the levels of all the audio layers and balance them?

A

Audio Track Mixer

69
Q

Which microphone has an omnidirectional pickup patter and is typically used to capture people sitting in a round-table meeting?

A

Lavalier

70
Q

What boosts lower db signals while keeping the higher db signals the same?

A

Multiband Compressor

71
Q

What are the four channels that make up a 32-bit image for video?

A

Cyan
Magenta
Yellow
Black

72
Q

What does ENG stand for?

A

Electronic News Gathering

73
Q

What is the term for an image that is show over three panels?

A

Triptych

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