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Anyone seen or heard (not including the audience) |
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List different people that could be talent. |
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What should the guest and host do ahead of time? (Don't say "Have Sex") |
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Talk about what they'll be talking about. |
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How many of the questions should be follow up? (It's a percentage) |
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What things should you not say on air?
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True or False
Questions should have more than one line answers. |
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What are all of the major control room positions?
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Switcher
Graphics
Audio
Director |
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What is another name for the switcher? |
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When is the latest graphics should be done? |
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What does audio do before the show starts? |
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Set up mics and perform audio checks. |
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What is the overall job of the director? |
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Decide on the way the show will work and how to execute it. |
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What are the two types of directing commands? |
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Ready commands
execute commands |
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What does the switcher do during the show? |
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Cut between shots when director says |
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What are the different types of transitions the switcher can use? |
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Fade
Dissolve
Wipe
Push
Split Screen
Super Imposure
Key |
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Slow transition into another picture |
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One picture wipes over another |
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One picture pushes another off the screen. |
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A wipe stopped in progress |
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What is a super imposure? |
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A dissolve stopped in progress |
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What are the different shots? |
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Close up
Long Shot
Medium Shot
Big Close up
Extreme Close Up
Medium Long
Extreme Long Shot
Wide Shot
2 Shot
3 Shot |
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What are the different camera angles? |
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Low
High
Canted
Normal
Dutch
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What are the different camera movements? |
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Tilt (Up & Down)
Pan (Left & Right)
Zoom (In & Out)
Dolly (Moving cam forward)
Truck (Moving cam Left & Right) |
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What did Vladimir Zworykin? |
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Worked with electronic scanning
Took work to David Sarnoff who agreed to fund his work in television. |
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Morman from Idaho who made plans to create television at the age of 16. |
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True or False
Farnsworth sold his work to RCA when they asked for it. |
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False
He didn't which angered Sarnoff who kept Farnsworth out of the history of television. |
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True or False
The FCC approved the first television RCA manufactored. |
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False
RCA didn't approve because they wanted a system that would be better than Europe's TV system. |
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How many scan lines did the FCC want the first television to have? |
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What year was the first television system finished? |
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What are the qualities of the NTSC TV system? |
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30 Frames per second
60 fields per second
Interlaced System |
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How does an interlaced system read images? |
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Scans all odd lines first followed by the even. Then puts the images together to create the TV picture. |
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What does the aspect ratio 4:3 mean? |
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Television image is 4 inches wide and 3 high |
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What is the aspect ratio for digital? |
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Was the NTSC system analog or digital? |
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Why was all television manufacturing haulted at the end of 1941? |
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How many original stations were still on the air by the end of WW2? |
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What year did the FCC place a hold on all their television station applications? |
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What percentage of americans had a television in 1948? |
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What percentage of americans had a television in 1960? |
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What percentage of americans had a television in 1970? |
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What was the first syndicated show? |
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What kind of cameras were used for taping I love lucy? |
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What does off-network mean? |
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The show was on the network |
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What does First run mean? |
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It is a live show or hasn't been syndicated yet. |
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What year did the FCC release the NBC/RCA color system? |
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When was the first color broadcast? |
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What percentage of the NBC lineup was in color? |
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What game show was in the middle of the game show scandals? |
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What were some of the ways that the game shows were fabricated? |
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Answer coaching and being told to miss certain questions even when they know the answers. |
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What was the first telecommunication satellite called and when was it launched |
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True or False
The telstar was a low orbiting satellite that hovered over the earth at 300 miles. |
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What is a Gyrosynchronous satellite? |
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What company created a TV station that only played movies? |
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What was the first station the played only movies called? |
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True or False
HBO was only broadcast in the city |
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False
The city didn't have cable. Only rural areas did. |
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What was a premium channel? |
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A channel you had to pay to receive |
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Who introduced the first video cassette and what was it called? |
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Movie companies decided to back VHS why? |
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It didn't have a licensing fee. |
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In 1982 who introduced the muse tv system? |
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What is going to happen to analog systems in 2009? |
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They are all going off air. |
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What are the four formats for TV today? |
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How many scan lines does digital have? |
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