EOPA Vocab Quiz Week 1

Describes the areas the video (or text) can be seen on a screen

• Aspect Ratio

• Frame

• Safe Area

• Progressive Scanning

If a digital television signal is interrupted, it will create a pixilated looking image on your screen

• Moier Effect

• Dimensional Merger

• Tonal Merger

• Digital Artifact

One of the 2 half frames in interlaced video

• Frame

• Field

• SSD

• Codec

the process of planning how to position actors and cameras in a scene.  Helps to arrange the elements of a scene in anticipation of editing

• Blocking

• EFP

• Safe Area

• Aspect Ratio

A tool to help shrink down the size of a video or audio file making it easier to save them. Example – MP3 is used to compress music files. H.264 is used to compress video file

• Firewire Cable

• Vector-scope

• SSD/HDD

• Codec

Filming a news package where the video crew and producers are in total control of the events happening in the story

• SSD

• EFP

• ENG

• HDD

an optical illusion that occurs during filming when two repetitive patterns are overlaid on top of each other but are not perfectly aligned. Like thin black and white stripes

• Interlaced Scanning

• Digital Artifact

• Tonal Merger

• Moire Effect

A tool used to help keep your video in focus. It helps the camera operator smoothly adjust the lens so the subject stays clear even when they are moving

• Steadicam

• Vector-Scope

• Follow focus

• Safe Area

he width and height of your video (shape of your video)

• Aspect Ratio

• Codec

• Rack Focus

• Safe Area

Causes important scene elements to run together and lose meaning. Based on the placement of the elements

• Moire Effect

• Tonal Merger

• Dimensional Merger

• Steadicam