Shared Flashcard Set

Details

IMA Quiz 2
Saturday
84
Other
Undergraduate 1
01/15/2008

Additional Other Flashcards

 


 

Cards

Term
all_____have at least 3 particles.
Definition
atoms
Term
electrons have what kind of charge?
Definition
Negative
Term
Protons have what type of charge?
Definition
Positive
Term
Natural magnets are found in the earth abd are formally known as_____?
Definition
Loadstone
Term
Which particles reside in an atom's nucleus?
Definition
Neutron and protons
Term
A magnetic field will attract a particle of _______ charge.
Definition
opposite
Term
A magnetic field will repel a particle of______ charge.
Definition
like
Term
All magnetic fields have 2 poles---a north and a south
Definition
False
Term
A stream of moving electrons is referred to as a(n)_____.
Definition
electrical current
Term
What is the term for electrical current that flows in 2 directions?
Definition
AC
Term
What is the term for an electrical current that flows in only 1 distinct direction?
Definition
DC
Term
______current is easier to mass-produce.
Definition
AC
Term
Which attribute of electricity is measured in watts?
Definition
Power
Term
Which attribute of electricity is measured in amps?
Definition
Current
Term
Which attribute of electricity is measured in volts?
Definition
Electromotive force
Term
Which property of DC electricity is measured in ohms?
Definition
Resistance
Term
Which corresponding property of AC electricity is measured in ohms?
Definition
Impedance
Term
______are used to step AC voltage up or down.
Definition
Transformers
Term
______Can serve as amplifiers, detectors, or switches within a circuit.
Definition
Transistors
Term
______offer temporary storage for electricity in a circuit.
Definition
Capacitors
Term
The _______may be hired to create a film or may find the script itself and bring it to a production company for funding,
Definition
Producer
Term
The____takes the producer's vision of the script and translates that vision into the film through the actors and the sets.
Definition
Director
Term
The ______is hired to capture the actual images that the producer and director want for the finished film and is in charge of the film crew.
Definition
Director and Photography
Term
The _____is the head of the art department and is responsible for the visual appearance of the set os sets for the film.
Definition
Production Designer
Term
The _______supervises the actual construction of the set.
Definition
Art Director
Term
This person is the gaffers number-one assistant.
Definition
Best Boy Electric
Term
This person is the chief set electrician.
Definition
Gaffer
Term
This person is a general laborer on the set.
Definition
Grip
Term
This person is the head of the grip department.
Definition
Key Grip
Term
This person is the key grip's number-one assistant.
Definition
Best Boy Grip
Term
This person is an electrical laborer on the set.
Definition
Electric Utility
Term
This person records the dialogue and other sounds from the set for the film.
Definition
Production Sound Mixer
Term
The release of the first "talkie" saved what move studio from bankruptcy?
Definition
Warner Brothers
Term
The _____refers to the width of the film stock in use. Cameras are built to work with 1 format.
Definition
Film Format
Term
Film's top layer, which captures images, is called the______.
Definition
Emulsion
Term
________is a number that describes how sensitive the film stock is to light.
Definition
Film Speed
Term
_______invented Vitaphone technology for sound for film.
Definition
Bell LABS
Term
In 1927,________was the first "talkie".
Definition
the jazz singer
Term
When the audio is unusable it must be replaced, using a process called________.
Definition
ADR
Term
The process of recording______is referred to as "shooting" or "walking".
Definition
Foley
Term
When the sound of something doesn't exist in reality, the sound designer creates_______for these elements from the sounds he or she can record in real life.
Definition
Designed Sounds
Term
When the sound of an animal or other being in a film does not exist in reality, the sound designer must create_______.
Definition
Creative Sounds
Term
_______provide(s) the sound of a film's environment.
Definition
Ambiance/Backgrounds(BGs)
Term
________is the process of taking the assembled material from each of the sound elements and synching them to picture.
Definition
Sound Editing
Term
The purpose of ______is to make sure elements remain constant and consistent from shot to shot.
Definition
Continuity
Term
In 1826, Joseph Nicephore Niepce created the first photograph, which he called a______.
Definition
Heliograph
Term
In 1837, the _______was introduced to the public as improvement on Niepce's Photographic process.
Definition
Daguerrotype
Term
1-Eadweard Muybridge

2-George Eastman

3-Frederick Archer

4-William Talbot
Definition
1-"study of motion"

2-Box Camera

3-Collodion Wet Plate Process

4-Calotype
Term
Motion pictures are made possible by a phenomenon known as ______, which simply means that the eye retains an image of an object for a short time after the object is removed from view.
Definition
persistence of vision
Term
1-Thomas Edison

2-Lumiere brothers

3-Edwin S. Porter

4-Georges Melies
Definition
1-Kinetograph

2-Cinematograph

3-The Great Train Robbery

4-A Trip to the Moon
Term
The Little Tramp was a character played by_____, who is considered the most popular silent film actor.
Definition
Charlie Chaplin
Term
1-Orson Welles

2-Al Jolson

3-D.W. Griffith

4-Walt Disney
Definition
1-Citizen Kane

2-The Jazz Singer

3-The Birth of a Nation

4-Fantasia
Term
Commercially debuted in a 1932 Walt Disney animated film, Flowers and Trees, ______remained Hollywood's color system until the early 1950's.
Definition
Technicolor
Term
For the film________, Orson Welles received Academy Award nominations for Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actor, and Best Screenplay.
Definition
Citizen Kane
Term
A ______is a large vacuum tube that allows for the flow of electrons in a beam from one end to the other.
Definition
Cathode-ray tube
Term
The NTSC standard for creating a video image is a ________electrical current.
Definition
60 Hz
Term
A television Screen's image is scanned at a rate of _______ frames per second.
Definition
30
Term
The PAL standard for creating a video image is a _______ electrical current.
Definition
50 Hz
Term
A standard television signal consists of ______parts.
Definition
4
Term
________is the part of the television signal that deals with brightness.
Definition
Luminance
Term
_______is the part of the television signal that deals with color hue and saturation.
Definition
Chrominance
Term
_______cameras are for soundstage use in television.
Definition
Studio
Term
_______cameras have a separate camera and VTR.
Definition
EFP
Term
_______cameras have a camera and VTR in a single unit.
Definition
ENG
Term
A_______is the imaging device found in most modern video camera.
Definition
CCD
Term
The most common modern video camera imaging devices are comprised of_______layers, which capture an image and convert it into an electronic signal.
Definition
3
Term
Light entering the camera body is split into the three additive colors by one of how many methods?
Definition
3
Term
This color separation method yields the lowest quality, and is used more in consumer cameras featuring sole CCDs.
Definition
Striped filter
Term
There are overall________DTV formats.
Definition
18
Term
________fills in all of the lines of resolution one after another.
Definition
Progressive scanning
Term
_______fills in the lines of resolution in an odd-then-even pattern.
Definition
Interlaced scanning
Term
Film stock used for making features that has an aspect ratio to 1.85:1 is said to be ________.
Definition
Academy Standard
Term
Film stock used for making features that has an aspect of 2.35:1 is said to be_______.
Definition
American Widescreen
Term
In a(n)_______display, phosphors are triggered to glow via individual pixel wiring rather than activation by an electron beam.
Definition
Plasma
Term
_______operates not on the principle of creating light from individual, bulb-like phosphors but on controlling the light that travels the display.
Definition
LCD
Term
________connectors allow for the use of separate signals for component video.
Definition
RCA
Term
________connectors are mergers on component analog video and composite video approaches. They utilize only two wires: one for luminance and another for the composite chrominance signal.
Definition
S-Video
Term
This type of connector was named in honor of Paul Neill of Bell Labs and Amphenol engineer Carl Concelman.
Definition
BNC
Term
The______connector is used for wiring cable into homes.
Definition
F-Type
Term
In 1927,________succeeded to transmit the first electronic TV image.
Definition
Philo Farnsworth
Term
Introduced in 1904, the_________was a tube construction that amplified electrical signal.
Definition
Audion
Term
The___________is responsible for ensuring that the lighting on the actors and sets is correct.
Definition
Lighting Director
Term
Recorded film images are transferred to video by a process called_________.
Definition
Telecine
Term
_________is a digital audio signal that is designated a special track on videotape or audio tape. Its purpose is to notate each video frame's occurrence on a 24-hour clock reference period.
Definition
Time Code
Supporting users have an ad free experience!