NEW RTA

• In terms of planning and executing a media production, what pairs of terms is the most important?

  Live v non live
• What are the 3 members of the tv trinity?

  Engineering, operations, production
• What are the 3cs of media

  Content / context /container
• Thinking about the tv trinity and the relationship between those 3 groups of people and the 3cs of media- which group would be the most responsible for the container?

  Engineering
• In a live production, whos is the cre member most responsible for executing picture/video editorial?

  Technical Director
• In a live or live to tape production, what are most people in control room focused on?

  Whats next?
• Which of the three member groups of the media "trinity" is commonly also the cilent, or presumed by the crew to act as their proxy?

  Production
• Which crew position 'lives' at the centre of the venn diagram of Production, Operations, and Engineering?

  Technical director/Technical Producer
• Identify the most commonly used vernacular term for on-camera personnel:

  Talent
• In a conventional Live production environment, which crew position is the closest equivalent to the Post-Production role of "Colourist"?

  CCU Operator
• On a Production Switcher (Vision Mixer), stacked Mix & Effects busses (known variously asMEs or MLEs depending on manufacturer) are the closest equivalent to a compositing term we commonly find in software tools like Photoshop and After Effects. Identify the term.

  Layers
• On script-based productions, very few members of the crew need a copy in order to performtheir job functions. Which of the documents below is most commonly referred to / relied uponby crew members during Production:

  Rundown/line- up
• The CCU Operator (also: "Shader", "V1", etc) on a Live production is the nearest equivalence to which role in Post-produced production:

  Colourist
• When determining the number of crew positions required for a production, name various issues considered:

  Division of Labour/Scope of effort (how much needs to be done?)/Logistical or physical constraints/Budget resources
• Identify the document which is most commonly found only on serial or long-running programs (like a Newscast):

  Style guide
• At a high level, what are the 4 phases that media production can be described as having?

  Create/distribute/package/Assemble
• Be familiar with these mics

  Omni-Directional, Bi-Directional, Cardioid, Super-Cardioid, Hyper-Cardioid, Shotgun

  
• How would you know for sure by looking at them, that a camera operator is working on a traditional/conventional multi-cam shoot (and not a single cam production)?

  They have a headset on
• What are the two most common forms of image sensor found on digital cameras?

  CCD/CMOS
• Can you name at least 6 crew positions (jobs) commonly found in a traditional tv control room?

  SWITCHER, DIRECTOR, SCRIPT ASSISTANT, ASSISTANT DIRECTOR, GRAPHICS, AUDIO
• In a common digital camera, the principal component is either a CCD or CMOS, which are two types of what?

  Image Sensors
• Identify the 3 most important parameters which define a video format:

  Frame size, frame shape, scan type
• Which of the listed lenses would be used to make a Jib or Crane shot more dramatic, by emphasizing the depth and space of the shooting environment (Studio/Set/Location)?

  Wide angle lens
• What kind of camera lens contains a back-focus control?

  Zoom
• Working in a High Dynamic Range (HDR) format should mean a requirement to make fewer Iris/Aperture decisions in situation which feature high contrast (both very bright and very dark content in the same frame) subject matter?


  True
• What is/are examples of a common camera support system which requires 2-person crew?

  A jib/techno crane/dolly
• Which of the following actions will result in an Increase in Depth of Field:

  Higher F-Stop & Bigger Aperture
• Name the 3 major components of a produced soundtrack:

  dialogue/music/sound effects
• Stereo sound is always associated with a 2-channel audio signal.


  False
• Miniaturized lavaliere microphones and wireless (RF) Transmitters are significantly responsible for:


  Consumable budgets/complications due to dense urban environments/impacts the environment due to its batteries/gets rids of boom mics/captures the static
• A shotgun microphone can be described as having which polar pattern:

  Hyper-cardioid
• A Filter or EQ, in addition to directly effecting the spectral content of an audio signal, can also have a large effect on the overall Loudness of the signal.

  True
• Identify the 2 primary divisions of Sound Effects

  Narrative/contextual
• What is the Object equivalent to the Subjective experience of Loudness?

  Amplitude
• Some animals (lions) use sound in what frequency range to temporarily stun their prey?

  Infrasonic
• A reading of "0 dbVU" on a VU meter corresponds to what percentage of modulation?

  100%
• If a pixel is the basic building block of our Image, what is the equivalent for Sound?

  Sample
• Phon is a unit of measure for which subjective characteristic of Sound?

  Loudness
• In comparison to the sound of an on-camera automobile, the musical score for a scene would qualify as what kind of sound?

  Non-diegetic
• A Program variant which does not include graphics overlays/keys is typically known as a:

  Clean feed