(p.1) Once you select a video effect, your computer will need to ________ (create the new video frames) the effect for your video.

(p.3) Every second of DV video footage requires ________ megabytes of disk space.

(p.3) [Separate your answers with spaces] The four most common kinds of audio content in a movie are: d______, m______, n______ s______, and s______ e______.

(p.3) The best bet is to keep special effects like silly ______ to a minimum.

(p.4) The most effective transition in moviemaking is the simple ______.

(p.4) Too many inappropriate __________ can look mushy and will put the audience to sleep.

(p.4) The first technique mentioned in the text to be introduced by the film The Great Train Robbery, which was considered at the time to be an astounding notion, is the __________.

(p.4) The second technique mentioned in the text to be introduced by the film The Great Train Robbery, which is one of the most important editing techniques of all time, is __________ between simultaneous action.

(p.4) As invented by the Soviet genius Eisenstein, ________ is the accumulated meaning of multiple images.

(p.6) To produce reasonable audio for your movies be sure to use a __________ for your talking head subjects instead of the camcorder's built-in microphone to minimize ambient noise.

(p.6) Most of the time, if the background of your subject is brighter than the subject itself, you should turn on your camera's __________ feature; however, you should take a test shot, because occasionally it will completely wash out a shot.

(p.6) For maximum audio clarity, check your ______ levels during setup.

(p.6) Rather than using the camcorder's LCD display in a sunny or bright environment, you'll get a more accurate idea of what a shot really looks like by previewing through the __________.

(p.6) [Separate your answers with a space] If you're going to use effects or transitions, for the most part you should stick to using f_______ and d________ for most transitions.

(p.8) If you plan to make movies, steady, smooth __________ delivers the best results.

(p.8) In addition to the image stabilization built in to most digital camcorders, a sturdy ________ helps minimize the camera operator's natural movement.

(p.8) Computer hard drives, refrigerators, car engines, and windy weather can create __________ noises that the human ear often ignores on the set but can be distinctly heard on DV tape.

(p.10) When watching a video on the web rather than in a movie theater, the width of the screen is not thirty feet but ________.

(p.10) To make your video appear at an improved rate, reduce the amount of fast and extended __________ in your movie.

(p.10) Lack of luminance plays an important role in web video, so you should avoid videotaping in ________ conditions.

(p.10) If a scene is lit well enough to look good on television, it will compress enough to display accurately over the web.

(p.10) On the web, ________ is more important than color.

(p.10) As a rule, you should keep details in the background to a minimum for web video.

(p.11) To draw the audience into the story, use ________ shots.

(p.11) For web video, you should always zoom in for close-up shots to create an interesting transition.

(p.11) When composing long shots for web video, it's important to __________ actions so they are clearly defined.

(p.12) When shooting video with an eye toward editing, you should record a minimum of ______ seconds worth of tape prior to the action.

(p.12) When shooting to edit, it's a good idea to shoot the same scene from different ________.

(p.12) The camcorder function that calibrates the camera's chrominance so it can accurately reproduce color is __________.

(p.12) To look like a pro, you should use as many special effects in your video editing as possible.

(p.14) You are on your way to being a good filmmaker if you can make your finished product feel like it's _________ in duration than it actually is.

(p.14) Good storytelling with the proper elements usually wins out over bad storytelling with special effects.

(p.15) The sound of the environment in which you are shooting is called ________ sound. Used wisely, it can help you set the stage and help tell your story, but you should eliminate it when it is distracting to the dialog.

(p.15) In your video storytelling, a technique to avoid is __________, where one character tells another what's going on, but the information is really for the audience, not the character. It's usually the sign of a bad film when the story is so weak that the characters have to spell out the plot.

(p.15) Too much dialog can really slow things down, so while your characters are talking, you can add a whole new layer of interest if you at least have them __________.

(p.17) Music is evocative, but if you use the wrong kind of music your video will have less impact, so always make the music match the ________ of the video.

(p.17) Keep music audible enough that it conveys the mood, but quiet enough that it doesn't drown out the ________.

(p.17) To make a more professional-sounding video, slightly increase the volume of the music during scenes with no dialog and "________" the music back down when the dialog begins.

(p.17) [Separate your answers with a space] Rank the following in the correct order of loudest to softest: (1) sound effects/natural sound, (2) dialog, (3) music

(p.17 [Separate your answers with a space] Just as you should avoid excessive video effects unless they add something to the mood, you should similarly try to avoid excessive audio effects such as r________, d________, and extreme e________.

(p.17) If your video begins by fading up from black or ends by fading out to black, feel free to fade your __________ as well.

(p.18) If your sound level is too low to begin with, boosting it in an audio-editing application may introduce ________.

(p.18) The __________ effect, which increases the overall volume of your soundtrack to a point just below distortion, can make the overall level of your video's sound more consistent.

(p.21) To digitize media files, you play back the audio or video recording on the ________ recording device while recording the playback digitally on your computer.

(p.22) The key to creating quality streaming audio is to make the signal as strong as possible without creating ________.

(p.22) To properly equalize streaming audio during editing, you should boost the ________ frequencies to offest the bass effect that will be caused later during encoding.

(p.23) The compression of normal sound or video files in a specific streaming format is called ________.

(p.23) A specific algorithm used for compression and decompression of digital media is called a ________.

(p.23) Digital media files must be encoded by a codec to be streamed.

(p.23) Encoding digital media files is simple because it is automated and very fast.

Give the entire format name and separate your answers with a space: The three leading streaming media formats are R__________, Q__________, and W__________.