Final Flashcards by Matthew Greenberg

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

Watts / Volts = Amps

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What is the normal voltage range in the US?

110-120

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

15-20

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What are those wooden clips known as in the industry?

C-47’s

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

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

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

Sandbag

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What is the Key Light?

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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What is the Hair Light?

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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What is the Back Light

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

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What is the Fill Light?

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

Spotted

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

Use gels
Barn door
Use a dimmer
Use a scrim

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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?

Cover it half way

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

Practical Light

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

Diffusion material

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What is the weird kinda covered light source called?

Stop Box

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What does YUV stand for?

Y - Luminance
U - Blue
V - Red

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What color system does the camera capture and humans view?

RGB

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What is the Dynamic Range for light?

The total range from the darkest shadow to the brightest highlight

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What is Latitude?

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

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

The Latitude will always be less than the Dynamic Range

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

ISO

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What is the process of altering and enhancing the color?

Color Grading

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What is Debayering?

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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What is CFA?

Color Filter Array

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

Omni light

What are the five steps to the Color Correction Process?

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

What effect allows you to control collar correction?

Lumetri Presets (Scope and Color)

Where can you find Mask Tools?

Opacity

What feature built-in the camera prevents overexposure?

ND Filter

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

Zebra Stripes

What are two ways you can change speed of clip?

1) Rate Stretch tool | 2) Adjust by altering keyframes

What number is Broadcast audio generally recorded at?

48k

What are the four primary aspects of image control?

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

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

Stopping down

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

Telephoto

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

B-roll

What is the best digital db level?

-18

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

Tilting

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

At least 5 feet

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

Color Bars

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

Wild Track

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

Wireless Handheld Lavalier Shotgun

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

formalism

What does Formalism manipulate?

Aspects of reality

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

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

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

.9 : 1

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

Ripple Delete

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

Wide Shot

What does ADR stand for?

Automatic Dialogue Replacement

What is the term for flattening the top of waveforms?

Clipping

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

Audio Gain

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

Dynamic

What does compressing the audio signal do?

Narrows the Dynamic Range

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

Suppresses them

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

EQ Filter

What is Luminance?

The brightest portion of the video signal

What is Mise en scene?

Everything that appears in front of the camera

What is the Gaffer?

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

Who is the Grip?

The crew member that moves cameras and equipment

What are the sheets to lessen the light called?

Diffusion Sheets

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

Knuckle Grip Head

What is the light that comes on the pole?

Tota Light

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

The crane has a seat, the jig does not

What is a search down?

The shot when the camera checks something out

What shot is front/back?

Dolly

What shot is left/right?

Tracking

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

Audio Track Mixer

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

Lavalier

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

Multiband Compressor

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

Cyan Magenta Yellow Black

What does ENG stand for?

Electronic News Gathering

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

Triptych