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3 Parts of an atom
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proton, neutron, and electron
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What is the transfer of electrons
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electricity
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This creates the flow of electricity, it has unequal position and negative particles.
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Static Electricity
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This is a steady stream of electrons from atom to atom.
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Current Electricity
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The 2 types of magnetism:
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Natural & Artificial
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Examples of natural magnetics are:
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Loadstone and/or magnetite
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What is a flux?
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This is a field around particles that cause attraction and repulsion.
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How many poles do magnets have?
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Sometimes they have 2, A North and a South
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What is an electronic circuit?
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An unbroken path current travels to produce the work.
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Direct Current
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Flows in 1 direction ex. battery
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Alternating Current
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Flows in 2 directions
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Who was Thomas Edison and what did he do?
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Supported the idea of Direct Current and electrocuted animals including an elephant.He has his goons break into Westinghouse.
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Who was Nikola Tesla:
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Supported Alternating Current and with westinghouse help laid the grid for electricity throughout the US. worked for Edison without pay. he died penniless and alone in the 1940s.
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What is simple electricity?
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2 types of electricity: single phase and 3 phase
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What is single phase electricty?
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This is used for residentia 120volts
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What is 3 phase electricity?
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Commercial use only, the voltage remains high at all times.
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What is power measured in?
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Watts
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What is current measured in?
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Amps ( the flow)
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What is electromotive force measured in ?
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Volts
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What is electromotive force also known as?
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Potential Energy
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What is Resistance?
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Ohms in DC
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What is Impedence?
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Ohms in AC
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The standard AC receptable consists of?
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Nuetral, Hot, and Ground
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What so resistors do?
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Add resistance and can be fixed or a variable
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An example of a fixed resistor is?
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Lightswitch
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An example of variable resistor?
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Faders for lights, and stereos etc.
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What so capacitors do?
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Stores electricity
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What do transformers do?
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Step AC voltage up or down, and convert AC to DC
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What can transistors be used for?
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Amplifiers, detectors or switches
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What is a LED
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Light Emitting Diode
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What is the Ground and what is it used for?
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Connects to the ground or a grounding rod to take the majority of the blast from a power strike.
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What are photons?
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They are the bi-product of atomic recepticles.
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Who was Olaf Romer?
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He was the first to study light in 1676.
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How fast does light travel?
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186,000 miles per second.
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Who is James Maxwell?
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He taught elctromagnetic theory in the late 1800's.
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What happened in 1895?
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Nikola tesla predicted wireless telephony and his prototype has lost in a fire.
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Who was Guglielmo Marconi?
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He patented the the wireless radio.
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What allowed for "Clean Amplication"?
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Vacuum Tubes
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What was the year of the 1st radio licensed in pittsburgh? KDKA
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1920
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How many radio stations were there by 1923?
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600
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What is the electromagnetic spectrum measured in?
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frequency
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What do radio waves do ?
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transmit music, data, and pictures
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AM stations are measured in?
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KHZ
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FM stations are measured in?
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Mhz
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Which frequency moves further? Low or High?
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Low frequency because it moves around.
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What does a high frequency do?
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Hits things and bounces off
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Name some uses for microwaves:
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cell phones, and microwave ovens.
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What does infra red do?
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Picks up heat, radar, and tv remnote controls
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All_____have at least three particles.
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Atoms
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Electrons have what type of charge?
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Negative
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Protons have what type of charge?
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Positive
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Natural magnets found in the earth are known as:
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Loadstone or Magnetite
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Which particles reside in a atoms nucleus
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Neutrons and Protons
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A magnetic field will attract a particle of what charge?
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Opposite
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A magnetic field will repel a particle of a what charge?
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Like Charge
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All magnetic fields have 2 poles?
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False
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What is the term for electronical current that flows in 2 ways?
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AC (Alternating Current)
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What does AC mean?
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Alternating Current
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What does DC mean?
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Direct Current
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What is the term for electronical current that flows in 1 direction?
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Direct Current
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What is measured in Watts?
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Power
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What is measured in amps?
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Current
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What is measured in Volts?
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Electromotive Force
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Which property of DC electricity is measured in Ohms?
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Resistance
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Which property of AC electricity is measured in Ohms?
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impedence
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What do Transformers do?
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Step AC Voltage up or down
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These can serve as amplifiers, or switches
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transistors
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What do Capacitors do?
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Offer temporary storage for electricirty in a circuit
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This is a blueprint representation of electricitys course through a plotted circuit.
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Schematic
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George Ohm of "Ohm's Law" found out this.
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The current flowing in a wire is directly proportionate to the amount of voltage
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These aid to transmit electricity.
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Conductors
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What does ADR stand for?
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Automated Dialogue Replacement
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What is ADR?
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The synching of audio to a picture and smoothing out the transitions.
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AMBIANCE/Backgrounds
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the sounds in the films enviroment
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What is the Aperture?
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The opening in the shutter that allows light to come in
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Art Director
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Supervises he construction of the sets
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What does the backlight also known as the "hairlight" do.
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Seperates the character from the background
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Best boy electric
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the assistant to the Gaffer
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Best boy grip
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The assistant to the Key grip
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What is/was the camera obscura?
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It was a dark room with a small whole to let in light that project an image of the outside world
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What was the cinematographer?
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Camera Projector built by the Luminere Bros
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What is Continuity in films?
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The continuation of images that a script supervisor is responsible for.
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What are Creature Sounds?
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The unreal sounds that a good library has of audio has to make up
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What was the Daguerreotype?
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The updated version of the Heliograph built by Daguerreo
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What are Designed Sounds?
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They are real sounds blended together to make never before heard sound effects
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What does the Director do?
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He assembles the film on the technical side
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What is the Director of Photography responsible for?
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The images
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Who are the Electric Utility?
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The electrical laborers
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What is Emulsion?
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layers of silver hollides that capture the images on film
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What are exhibition miniatures used for?
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They are used in the movies
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What does the fill light do?
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Gives desirable lighting ratio
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What is the film format?
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The width of the film stock used ex. 35mm 70mm
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What is the film gate?
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The focal point of hte motion pictures operator.
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What is film speed?
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How fast the film responds to the light.
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What is film stock? duh
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The type of film used
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What is the Focal length?
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Distance of the center of the lense to the film plate.
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What is a Foley?
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A added sound effect
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What is the F-Stop?
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The number measurement of light allowed through a lens
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Who is the gaffer?
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he is the Chief Electrician
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What are the grips?
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General Laborers.
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What is the Heliograph?
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the first picture that was made by Niepce
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Much like the human one, what does the iris on a camera lens do?
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Controlls the amount of light that gets in
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Who is the Key Grip?
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the head of hte grip dept.
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What is the Key Light?
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It is the main lighting
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What is the Kinetograph?
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it was used for the 1st public demonstration of a movie
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What did Louis Leprince make?
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the first motion picture camera
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What is a magazine?
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this holds the film before and after use
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Who is George Melies
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The father of Sci Fi
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What is music? related to movies?
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the emotional foundation for the film
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the first commercial cinema that opened up was the? (fav channeL)
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The Nickelodeon
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What is an Original Score?
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Music written just for a movie
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Persistence of vision? (the only one about our vision)
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Your retain an image after seeing it..
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who was Edwin Porter?
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shot the first film narrative
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What does a producer do?
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Finds the script, Funds the movie.
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Who is the Production Designer
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Head of art dept. in charge of sets
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What are Production miniatures?
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these are used to predetermine the set ideas
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What does the shutter do?
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Spins to allow light to expose the film
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How do you do sound editing?
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Syncing the sound with the movie
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what was the first true colors in film that was started in 1932? (3)
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technicolor
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what does three point lighting consist of?
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Key light, back light, and fill light,
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What was the projector system originally called the phantascope?
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vitascope
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Where could you watch the film on a kinetascope?
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On the top of the cabinet
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This person is hired to capture the actual imagesthat a producer and director want for the finfished film.
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Director of photography
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He is the head of the art dept. and is responsible for the visual appearence of the sets
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production Designer
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This person records the dialogue and other sounds from the set for the film.
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Production Sound Mixer
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Lighting can evoke emotion, tell time, and enhance the subject matter..true or false?
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true
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this light establishes the directionality and source motivation for the scene?
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Key Light
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the light needed for an actors face>
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Fill light
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the standard frame rate?
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24 frames per second
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This gathers the light and projects the images in front of the camera onto the film gate.
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Lens
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The measurement used of how much light is allowed through the lens?
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F-Stop
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The device that controls the amount of light allowed throught the lens?
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Iris
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A simply more precise F-stop measurement
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T-Stop
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The focal points of motion pictures camera
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Film gate
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the film format refers to the width of the film stock in use..true or false
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True
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The process of recording _____is referred as shooting or walking
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Foley
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What can act as a amplifier, switch, detector?
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transistor
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What is the measurement of ohms in a dc curcuit?
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resistance
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What is the measurement of ohms in a ac curcuit?
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ipedence
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What is the speed of light
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186,000 miles per second
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What is the unit of measurement of direct light?
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lumen
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Who patented the wireless radio in 1896
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Marconi
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Who is the head of the art dept.
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Production Designer
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