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| A signal input from the musicians intrument that has no processor effects on it. Reverb heard is created by the room. |
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| What does a compressor do? |
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| Compressors alter the dynamics or difference between low and high volume within an audio signal. Takes out sharp pekas in order to maximize volume with out having distortion. |
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| What is an equilizer used for? |
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| Used to alter the levels of different frequencies in a sound. Allows, for example, and tamborine and a bass to be on the same track and controlled with out affecting the other. |
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| controls the amplitude of a signal with basically 2 states; open and closed. |
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| Dynamic processing consists of what 3 devices? |
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| Compressors, equilizers, and gates. |
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| a signal effected by an external processor. |
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| Reverb simulates different room sizes by imitating acoustic reflections. |
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| allows us to create distinct repetitions of sounds, essentially echoes. |
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| What sound does "flanging" create, and how? |
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| It creates a swishing or tunneling sound by playing 2 signals in phase and altering one of the signals speed. |
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| The phrase "Tell Granny Mom Knows about my ugly new piercing" helps us remember what. The metric conversion chart. |
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| TGMK-muNP Tera Giga Mega Kilo - milli micro nano pico |
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| Moving 1 space either direction on the conversion chart means move how many decimal places which direction? |
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| speed of wave(1130 ft/sec)/freq of wave in Hz |
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| Moving twice the distance from the sound source does what to the sound level? |
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| If I'm 30 feet away from a speaker and its at 90 db how far away do I have to move to be at 78 dB? |
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| 120 feet total, 90 feet further away |
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| How would you calculate the decibel change when you can't use exact doubles? |
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| use this formula 20log(DR/DM) DR = Reference Distnace DM = Measured Distance |
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| Ohm's Law states that if we have 2 of the following electrical properties we can calculate a third. What are the properties and the units they are measured in? |
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Power in Watts
I is current in Amps
Electromotive Force in Ohms
Resistance in Ohms
Z Impedence in Ohms
PIERZ WAVOO |
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| What are the three elements of a film soundtrack? |
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| Dialogue, Sound Effects, Music |
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| What 2 people capture the dialogue on set as it happens? |
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| The Boom operator, and the production audio mixers. |
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| What does ADR stand for and how does it work? |
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| Automated Dialogue Replacement, Talent comes into the studio and redoes lines in a controlled environment. |
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| What is room tone and why is it needed? |
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| A recording of the silence of a room, placed underneath the ADR vocal track to take us back to that same environment. |
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| What does a Foley artist do? |
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| Uses their immense amount of props to record new sounds for the movie. |
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| What are designed sounds? |
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| Invented sounds, taking normal sounds and layering them or adding effects to them to create a new sound. |
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| What are the 2 aspects of music for movies? |
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| Original Score, composed new music for film. Source music, pre-recorded music used in the film. |
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| What are pre-dubs/pre-mixes? |
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| The process of mixing all of the sound elements so that the final mix can be accomplished with less work. |
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| They are the final elements of a soundtrack that when combined make up the finished mix of the film. |
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| What is the difference between presentation boards and storyboards? |
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| Presentation boards only feature key elements of a project, used to present to a client. Storyboards are entire works laid out shot by shot. (Production Boards) |
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| If a camers TURNS left or right during a shot, what is that called? |
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| What is the motion we move the camera in to show tall objects or to follow a subject up or down? |
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| Moving inwards or away from an object is called... |
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| A shot that runs parallel to a scene generally mounted on rails, is called... |
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| A truck shot. or trucking |
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| What is the difference between a crane and a jib? |
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| A crane brings both people and camera off the ground. A jib arm can be controlled from the ground by the operator, had camera on opposite end. |
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| What is timecode and what is it's format? |
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Timecode is a frame specific address of a film, used mostly for editing.
hour:min:sec:frame |
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| What is the formula for finding area of a rectangle and what unit will the answer be? |
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| A=LW answer measured in units squared |
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| What formula would you use to calculate the surface are of a box? |
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| 2(lw + ld + wd) also measured in units squared bcause it deals with area. |
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| When calculating the volume of a cube, what is the formula you would use? |
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| V=LWD (length width depth) measured in units cubed. |
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| when talking about triangles, what is the total sum of all 3 angles ALWAYS? |
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| What is the formula used when trying to find the length of an unknown side of a triangle? |
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| What formula is used to find the area of a triangle and what is the answer measured in? |
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| A=1/2(LW) measured in units squared. |
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| What is th formula to find the circumference of a circle? |
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| Finding area of a circle requires what formula? |
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| what is an easy way to remember the formulas dealing with distnace velocity and time? |
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| DTV, Distance in the top of the pyramid, Distance and time in the bottom. |
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| What are the 3 formulas for finding distance, velocity, and time? |
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| When dealing with sound delay, how would you find out what the delay is? |
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| delay = distance/1130ftsec (speed of sound) |
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| What happens to dB level when we double the amount of speakers we are using? |
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| What are the 3 parts of an advertisement? |
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| The psychology of the color, the Layout, and the Copy. |
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| What do you have to think about when dealing with the psychology of color? |
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| The main color your ad represents (purple generally resembles money/royalty, red implies cheap, like fast food). Also you have to think about whether or not it's going to be an international ad and how colors are preceived elsewhere. |
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| What is the main purpose of the layout? |
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| guides your eye through the ad to the product. |
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| What, when dealing with ads, is the copy? |
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| What are the 5 main types of advertising? |
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| Persuasion, fears and problems, Fun and pleasure, Vanities and Egos, and Consensus. |
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| An ad using persuasion does what? |
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| Shows an authority figure, or someone (or an actor dressed as someone) who has knowledge of the product like a doctor. |
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| Show the viewer a problem and a slution, the solution being their product. They are effective and believable. |
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| The fun and pleasure ads usually show what? |
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| People with good attitudes being happy with the product. |
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| The vanitiy and ego ads generally play to who, and how? |
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| The play towards the more wealthy viewers by showing them high priced items and the illusion of that item boosting your image. Generally there is no good argument for that product other that that it is cool. |
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| Consensus ads are generally, but not limited to what? |
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| Celebrity endorsements. These ads show a group, or generally liked people, using the product. Implies the "Everyone else is doing it, so why shouldn't I?" statement. |
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