Chapter 2 Vocabulary Review

Chapter 2 Review

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VOCABULARY AND HELPFUL HINTS

Production Assistant and Assistant Director

Remember “PA=AD” Production assistant (PA): Provides

general assistance around the studio or production facility. The PA is the sub when someone is out.

In many facilities, the production assistant position is identical with the assistant director (AD) position

Interrelationships

In order to do your job properly, you must know the jobs of others on your production staff.

This illustration depicts the spider web of interrelationships between jobs on the production staff.

The Production Team

Everyone involved in the production,

including the staff and talent

Pre-Production

Any activity on a program that occurs BEFORE cameras begin rolling.

This includes production meetings, set construction, costume design, music composition, scriptwriting, and location surveys.

Post-Production

Any of the activities performed after a program has been shot.

This includes music beds, editing, audio overdubs, titles, and duplication.

The Director

In charge of the creative aspects of the program and interacts with the entire staff.

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CG Operator

Character Generator Operator

Characters are the titles

Creates the titles for the program using a character generator.

Floor Manager

The director’s “eyes and ears” in the studio.

Usually wearing headphones.

They relay the director’s commands to the studio personnel.

Grip Moves the equipment,

scenery, and props on a studio set.

In the theater world, they are called a stagehand.

Probably because they have to have a good grip to have the job!

Special Effects

Anything the audience sees in a video picture that did not really happen in the way it appears on the screen.

Frame vs Framing

The actual edge of the video picture; the edge of the picture on all four sides.

The frame is something that you can see.

Involves placing items in the camera’s frame by operating the camera and tripod.

Framing is something you can do.

Production ValuesGeneral aesthetics of the show

Try to have high production values

Audio The portion of a

program that you can hear.

Includes narration, spoken lines of talent, sound effects, background music, and all other aspects of a program that are heard by the audience.

EditingPlacing the individual scenes in logical

order