BHARATIYA VIDYA BHAVAN

(Dept. of Film, TV & Animation Studies)

EVALUATION TASK NO-7

Submitted To: Submitted By:

Mr. Ramesh Sahu Manu Kumar

Roll No – RTVJ-11
BHARATIYA VIDYA BHAVAN BVBFTS
DEPARTMENT OF FILM, TV & ANIMATION STUDIES
RTVJ
Monthly Test No. 7 (Evaluation Task) March 2020
PG Diploma in Radio & TV Journalism
Note: Answer any 50 questions in one or two lines.
All questions carry 2 marks each.
Answers typed in MS Word & send it at ramesh1.bvb@gmail.com
Submission Date is 8th April 2020
You can answer in English or in Hindi. Total: 100 Marks

Write brief description of following terms. Your answer should be similar to the
description given in the Book of Television Production.

1. Composition 31. Ad-lib

2. Nose Room 32. AV script
3. Rule of Thirds 33. Beat
4. 180 degree rule 34. Beat sheet
5. Angle of View 35. Exposition
6. Aspect ratio 36. Feature Format
7. CCD 37. Flashback
8. Depth Of Field 38. Genre
9. Digital Zoom 39. Production script
10. Focal Length 40. Spec Script
11. Image Distortion 41. Shooting script
12. White Balance 42. Color temperature
13. Mind map 43. Lighting ratio?
14. Actualities 44. Multiple Shadows
15. Back Announcement 45. Reflected Light
16. Backgrounder 46. Acoustic treatment
17. Dope sheet 47. Amplification
18. Kicker 48. CODEC
19. Noddies 49. Condenser
20. Read News 50. Equalizer
21. Run Down 51. Frequency
22. Shooting ratio 52. Impudence
23. Signature 53. Mono-aural
24. Sound bite 54. Noise
25. Spot news 55. Overlapping
26. Super 56. Phase cancellation
27. Teaser 57. Reverberation
28. Throw line
29. Teleprompter
30. Wild-track
 Answers
1. Rule of thirds – It
helps capture the
subject of a photo in a
way that’s pleasing to
look at it. It involves
breaking any image you
want to photograph into
thirds, horizontally or
vertically.
2. 180 Degree Rule – The
180 degree rule is a
filmmaking guideline for
spatial relations
between two characters
on screen. The 180 rule
sets an imaginary axis,
or eye line, between
two characters or
between a character
and an object.
3. Angle of view – It
mean that a lens can
take in everything –
from turning your head
90 degrees to the left to
90 degrees to the right
and everything in
between.
4. Aspect Ratio – Aspect
ratio is a number that
compasses how wide
your video is. It’s the
proportional relationship
between a video’s width
and height.
5. CCD – It stands for
‘Charged Coupled
Device’. CCDs are
sensors used in digital
cameras and video
cameras to record still
and moving images.
The CCD captures light
and converts it to digital
data that is recorded by
the camera.
6. Depth of field – Simply
refers to the area of the
scene which appears
well focused. It is the
product of three factors
– the lens aperture, the
focal length, and how
far away from the
camera the subject is
positioned.
7. Digital Zoom – Digital zoom I when a
camera recreate the effect of zooming in
with a en by capturing the image from an
increasingly smaller area of the camera’s
sensor, and then blowing up that image to
the regular size.
8. Focal length – Focal length is the distance
between the center of a convex lens or a
concave mirror and the focal point of the
lens or mirror the point where parallel ray of
light meet, or converge.
9. White Balance – White balance is how
warm or cool the overall colors in your
photograph look. Our camera is pretty good
at reproducing color because it has the
ability to analyse the scene and
compensate for overly warm or cool colors.
10. Composition – Composition is a way of
guiding the viewer’s eye towards the most
important elements of your work,
sometimes in a very specific order.
11. Mind Map – A graphical way to represent
ideas and concepts. Helps structure
information, analyse, comprehend and
generate fresh ideas.
12. Back Announcement – The phrase that
the newscaster uses Wider lenses that are
close to the objects cause after a story has
been played on air.
13. Backgrounder – A story concerning the
history (recent or distant past) of a person,
group, event.
14. Dope Sheet – A list of shots and their
durations on a sheet of paper, also known
as the Ingest copy.
15. Kicker – A light story which is normally
included at the end of a news bulletin.
Kickers should not be cruel to people,
animals, or religious institutions.
16. Noddies – Short shots of the interviewer’s
‘nods’ on tapes that can be used as
cutaways.
17. Read News – A news story that has no
visuals to go along with, normally read out
by the newscaster and are rare on TV.
18. Run Down – Generally, the list of stories to
be aired on any given day and the order in
which they are to be telecast.
19. Shooting Ratio – The shooting ratio is the
relationship between the amount of footage
recorded during production and the amount
of footage that makes it into the final edited
piece for viewing by an audience.
20. Sound bite – In the that lays out the lyrics, their durations, and
context of journalism, a the possible shots for the specified
sound bite is duration, helps in shot breakdown.
characterized by a short 29. Exposition – The initial portion in which
phrase or sentence that the world of the story, information, and
captures the essence of conflict between characters is revealed,
what the speaker was especially in Drama and documentaries.
trying to say, and is 30. Feature Format – Format used to write
used to summarize feature films, has scene headings,
information and entice characters, and dialogues written one after
the reader or viewer. the other.
21. Spot News – Spot 31. Flashback – A scene from the past that
news can also called interrupts the present action. Explain the
the latest news. When reason behind character’s present action.
any mistake happens in 32. Genre – The category a story or a script
a speech to any leader. falls into.
And it was spotted and 33. Production Script – A script that is ready
reported immediately. to be filmed.
22. Teaser – A teaser is a 34. Shooting Script – The final draft used on
short video segment set by the production people, the actors,
related to upcoming and the director to make the movie from
film, television the screenplay.
programme, video 35. Color Temperature – A term to explain
game that is usually whether white balance has been performed
released in advance to or not; usually measured in “Kelvin”.
understand about 36. Lighting Ratio – The key to fill light; for
upcoming segment. example, if the first is 100 fc and the
23. Throw line – A second 50 fc, the ratio is 2:1.
sentence in the news 37. Reflected Light – The light reflected from
story that leads on to a a surface, after losses due to absorption
sound bite. and scattering.
24. Teleprompter – A 38. Amplification – Modification of signal
device in front of the magnitude from lower to higher levels
studio camera lens that causing an increase to a higher magnitude.
allows anchors to read 39. CODEC – Abbreviated for Compression,
out news from a copy DECompression. A computer program that
directly to the audience. shrinks both large digital audio or video
25. Wild-Track – The files.
ambience sounds on 40. Condenser – An electrostatic mic that
tape, also called needs extra power to run it.
SOT(sound-on-tape). 41. Equalizer – A device on an audio mixer to
26. AV Script - A dual modify frequencies. The process of
column screenplay with modifying or sweetening the audio is called
video description on equalizing.
the left and audio and 42. Frequency – The number of vibrations in
dialogue on the right, units per second (measured in Hertz).
used in documentaries 43. Impudence - The resistance that the
and fiction genres. microphone cable offers to the flow of
27. Beat – Suggestion in a audio. High impudence mics can work only
script that the actor with short cables, while low impudence
should pause a mics can work with longer cables.
moment, in silence, 44. Noise – It is a unwanted sound judge to be
before continuing the unpleasant, loud or disruptive to hearing. It
scene. need medium to propagate. For example, it
28. Beat Sheet – A format need medium like air or water. It arises
used for music videos when brain used sound to receive.
45. Overlapping – It is a
period of time or an
area covered by
multiple people or
things, or a situation in
which multiple people
share responsibility or a
common interest.
46. Phase cancellation – It
is an acoustic
phenomenon in which
two or more out of
phase sound wave
result is weakened or
lost frequency. When
two identical frequency
are cycling 180 degrees
opposite to each other
called phase
cancellation.
47. Reverberation – It is
created, when a sound
or signal is reflected
causing numerous
reflections to build up
and decay the sound
absorbed by surface of
object in the space,
which includes furniture,
people and air.
48. Nose Room – In
Photography, nose
room is the space in
front in the direction of
moving or the stationary
object. It leaves space
in direction in moving
object like car.
49. Image distortion –
Distortion of the image
caused due to the
distance between the
lens and the object.
Wider lenses that are
close to the objects
cause distortions.
50. Mind Map –– A
graphical way to
represent ideas and
concepts. Helps
structure information,
analyse, comprehend
and generate fresh
ideas.