Television Production I – Year Review

Terms to know:

  1. Eye-Level Shot:
  2. High Angle Shot:
  3. Low Angle Shot:
  4. Headroom:
  5. Noseroom/Leadroom:
  6. Cut People Carefully:
  7. Show and Tell:
  8. Avoid Things Growing out of People:
  9. Center Unless Balanced by Something Else:
  10. B-Roll:
  11. Depth:
  12. 2-Shot:
  13. Over the Shoulder:
  14. Shot Sequencing:
  15. Extreme Close up:
  16. Close up:
  17. Medium Close up:
  18. Medium Shot:
  19. Medium Long Shot:
  20. Long Shot:
  21. Extreme Long Shot:
  22. Omni directional Microphone:
  23. Unidirectional Microphone:
  24. Lavaliere:
  25. Script:
  26. Successful Scriptwriting Tips (10):
  27. Storyboard:
  28. Electronic News Gathering (ENG):
  29. ENG reporter:
  30. Electronic Field Production (EFP):
  31. Anchor:
  32. Videographer:
  33. Camcorder:
  34. Viewfinder:
  35. Lens:
  36. Tripod:
  37. Dolly:
  38. Display:
  39. Pause/Still:
  40. Focus:
  41. Pan:
  42. Tilt:
  43. Postproduction:
  44. Audio Dub:
  45. Voiceovers:
  46. Correct Placement for a hand-held Microphone:

Using Premiere Pro:

  1. What are the sequential commands for importing a music file into the timeline?
  2. Which tool from the Palette box is used to move a SINGLE line of clips in the timeline?
  3. Which tool from the Palette box is used to move ALL clips (both audio and video) simultaneously in the timeline?
  4. How does a Transition work? What is its purpose?
  5. Describe how these transitions work:

Dissolve:

Wipe:

Fade:

  1. What is the name of the work area that stores all your video clips, music, and all other imported files before they are placed in the timeline?
  2. Which tool from the Palette box is used to cut portions of the clips?
  3. Which tool selects and highlights clips on the timeline?
  4. There are two ways to zoom in and zoom out, what are they?
  5. There are two ways to undo a command, what are they?
  6. What is the purpose of the Monitor box on the screen?
  7. What are the numbers for a blue screen background? Green screen background
  8. How do you change the color of the background of a title card?
  9. How do you make a title scroll? What tool is used and what options are selected?
  10. How do you mute Audio on the timeline?
  11. How do you lock a Video Track?
  12. What command on the keyboard is used to render your project?
  13. What command on the keyboard is used to play your video?

Know Photoshop:

  1. Layers
  2. Merging
  3. Transparency
  4. Hexadecimal Number
  5. Duplicating
  6. Flattening
  7. Know your File Extensions
  1. Where is our Network Folder located? List the commands to get there.
  2. Know your cables: XLR, RCA, USB, Fire wire
  3. Unit of measurements: terabyte, megabyte, gigabyte, kilobyte
  4. Know your shortcut keys: CTRL + S, V, C, Z, E, N and F5

All 12 Hand signals from the Web: