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Microsoft-1985
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7th
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Apple Macintosh-1984
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6th
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Logarithim
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Base number
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DC use
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Batteries
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Mixing
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Blending the sounds
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Pyrotechnician
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LICENSED "pyro" engineer
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Subtractive Color Theory
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Cyan,Magenta,Yellow
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Tracking
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Recording the core elements
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Central Hearing Loss
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Brain illness
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Tech Checks
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Line checks/sound checks
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Magnetic Fields
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one flow only
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current distributed along residential commercial networks
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AC
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Medium
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Material though which sound travel
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Monitor engineer
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Mixes for the performers
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API
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Application Programming Interface - Library code instructions that convert generic messages into hardware specific messages (i.e. DirectX, openGL, Java)
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AM
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Thousands of cycles580kHz = 580,000
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Guglieo Macroni
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patented wireless in 1896
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Mastering
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Preparing mix masters for various formats
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Does the electric voltage differ between residential and industry?
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Yes
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Presbycusis
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Gradually manifesting as the declining ability to hear high frequency sounds with age
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Artist Rider
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Contract containing needs and requirements of the artist/band
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Steward
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In charge of local union workers
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1st game to use laserdisc
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Dragons Lair
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Is color a property of light?
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yes
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AC cycle
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cycles 60Hz, easy to transform
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A&R
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Artist and Repertoire - Locates and develops artists
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current electricity
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charged particles departin from one atom for another. an electrical circuit is a secure path that the current can flow.
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What are loadstone and magnetite?
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Types of magnets
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Rarefraction
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Area of lower than normal air pressure
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Cancellation
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Two identical waves both 180 degrees out of phase
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Temporary threshold shift - TTS
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temporary ringing effect
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NURBS
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"Splined based" curved lines plotted in 3D
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1st 3d models were displayed using what?
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SIGGRAPH
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In pre-production, who contacts the booking agents to schedule shows?
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Artist Management
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Splitter
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Creates two copies of original signal (one for performer, one for audience)
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Lighting director
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in charge of lighting for show
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Game engine
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Software that adjusts animation based on player input
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what form does an electromagnetic field travel in?
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a wave
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The general labor underneath the gaffer and best buy electric ar know as what?
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Electric Utility.
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3 levels of dynamic range?
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Max level(Headroom between)Nominal level(signal to noise ratio between) noise floor
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The 2 basic varieties of electricity
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static and current
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Interference
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Two or more waves occupying the same space and time
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Eustachian Tube
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Passage way of connecting throat and sinuses with the inner ear
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Rotoscope
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To trace over live action footage for the purpose of animation
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Cobranet and Ethersound
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Digital technology for digital audio channels
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Who built the first public address system in 1916?
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Western Electric
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The producer
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company that makes one game and assigns platforms
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First PROGRAMMED game
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"Noughts and crosses" by A.S. Douglason EDSAC (NOT VIDEO GAME)
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How fast do electromagnetic waves travel?
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Speed of sound
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What part of the camera employs refraction to capture the images?
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The Lens
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What format does Apple use for their streaming Video? It can also be used on Window as long as the player is installed.
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Quicktime.
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Any good project starts with a good _____.
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Idea
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How many phase power is the industrial standard?
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3 phase
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Effects
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Points in a 3D space that are animated based on physics
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This was the year of the great video game crash
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1983
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The Developer
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*Graphics - 2D Art & Animation, 3D modeling & animation*Sound*Programming (Done on PC)*SDK (Software Development Kit) - tools for game creators
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1st game to to use 3D polygons
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I,Robot by Atari
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The Design Document (2 basic sections)
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Internal document - programmingExternal document - business and marketing
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What is the electromagnetic theory?
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the relationship between electricity and magnetism
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What does an amplifier do?
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It boosts the level signal.
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What is a console?
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used to prepare and manipulate during and after recording
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The bottom round hole in the outlet is for what?
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The ground
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What are the four phases of production?
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1) Load in2)Technical Checks3)Performance4)Load out
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What is an input list?
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documentation of all microphones and connections to the console.. Types of mic, what they are used to mic, and which channel they are to be connected to.
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What is a WAN?
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Wide Area Network-Spread over a large geographical area allowing communication between networks (public or private)
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What is an EPS file?
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Encapsulated Post Script. Used for printing purposes. Object oriented file.
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The assistant to the Gaffer is known as...
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Best Buy Electric
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What did Emile Berliner invent?
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78 RPM Flat Disc (also started EMI/Victor)
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How many Hertz in the US is AC powered at?
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60 Hertz
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examples of EM radiation
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visible light in a home, radio waves from a radio station, microwaves, xrays, UV light, gamma-rays
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What is cel rotoscoping?
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Tracing film of live actors onto paper to be animated later. Ex: The A Ha video Take on me
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When talking about computer animation, what is computer rotoscoping?
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Layering seperate rendered images or CG with live action.
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What is STAR topology?
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All devices are connected by a central HUB which controls data traffic. This is the most common topology, no one of the pcs is affected by the others.
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What does a splitter do?
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Creates two copies of an original augio signal.
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Cameras have adjustable shutters, why?
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To change the quality of the picture.
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What are the 2 different types of grphics?
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Bitmapped and Object oriented.
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How much money did Golden Tee bring in in 2003?
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400 million dollars
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The system engineers do what?
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They design and implement the audio systems. Meaning that they decide whish speakers and how many of them. alsoHe decides the best placement for them.
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What do instrument/back-line techs do?
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They prep the instruments for the performers.
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what invention did RCA fail with in 1931 and Columbia succeed with in 1948?
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The 33 & 1/2 LP
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Two companies involved in creation of game
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Publisher & Developer (game design team can be under either)
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What are the 3 steps of designing a multimedia project?
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-Defining the project
-Flowcharting and storyboarding
-Creating the user interface
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What is teh stage managers responsibilities?
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He is basically a supervisor for everything about the stage. He checks everything to make sure its all set up properly and in good time.
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Name the 2 types of moving lights and how each works?
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Yoke/Head style-entire lamp rotates
Mirror lights-mirror moves on a fixed fixture and reflects light other directions. Not as much motion as yoke/head style.
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What is a snake cable?
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A series of cable (mostly XLR) that are bundled together to reduce wire tangles and stuff.
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What is a fill light?
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A light used to create a desirable ratio of light and dark on a subject (IE contrast). Also may need multiple, but beware of multiple shadows.
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What must you add to a model to give it depth?
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Shading and lighting
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What are the 3 elements of the 3 head system?
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Sync, Repro, and Erase
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How many parts is the electromagnetic spectrum composed of?
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7 parts, light is one of them
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When talking about scene building in computer animation, what is composition?
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The placement of objects in a scene
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CD-Enhanced do what and are what color book?
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Enhanced Cds contain bonus features acquired after putting your disc into a computer. Blue Book
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Who created Gertie the Dinosaur, in what year, and why was Gertie important to the animation world?
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Windsor McKay created Gertie in 1914. She was important because she was the first animated character with a personality.
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What does authoring software such as Director MX and FlashMX allow you to do?
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Allows for syncing elements of a multimedia project without knowing code.
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On the staging crew, what are sightlines and why are they important?
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Sightlines are the views from the crowd, they are important because it makes us take into consideration the view of the crowd. So that amps and large speakers aren't put in people's ways.
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What made film noir different from traditional film?
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It used shadows instead of lit subjects to tell stories.
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What is an acoustic analysis engineer?
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He maximizes the sound based on room characteristics. Generally found only on more luxurious tours as they are pretty expensive to hire?
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How did Tesla and Westinghouse show off AC power?
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By building a power station at Niagra Falls and in 1896 powered all of Buffalo, NY
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What are the 2 types of monitor cabinets and where are each placed?
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Side fills and monitor wedges. Fills placed at the sides of the stage facing artists, wedges placed on the ground at the front of the stage facing the artists.
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What is an image maps purpose?
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2D, adds color and the "look" of the object.
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What is a bitmapped graphic and what are the file types associated with it?
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A graphic fixed at a particular resolution, meaning that the size can't be changed with out seeing effects. KNown also as Raster graphics. BMP, GIF, PNG, TIFF, and JPEG.
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How much information can a cd hold?
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Started at 650Mb now it can hold upwards of 700Mb.
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The pyrotechnician is there to do what?
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set-up any pyro work that is to be done and make sure it is set up properly. Is a licensed pyro engineer.
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When the sudio crew is checking for intelligability, what are the checking for?
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Whether or not the artist can be clearly understood through the microphone.
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What are the four phases of show production and what does each consist of?
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Load in-set up stage and get all the technical (lights and such) stuff set up.
Tech checks-connection checks, and sound checks.
Performance-obviously this is the show
Load out-unhook everything, pack the trucks and move to the next venue.
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How many parts do the front of house speakers have, and what are they?
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3 parts. High Freq driver, Mid Freq driver, and subwoofer.
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What is RING topology and why is it worse that BUS?
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Computers are set up in a circle, each is connected to 2 computers. Worse than BUS because if one goes down ALL of them go down.
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Propagate
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Move
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Apple I-1976
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2nd
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Pitch
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Frequency changes
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Reflected Light
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Footcandles
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Metering
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0db=.775volts of energy
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DC flow
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one direction
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residential use
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single phase
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Engineer
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Responsible for technical aspects
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Conductive Hearing
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A disease,infection,physical ailment
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Gels
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Medium to produce color
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FM
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millions of cycles95MHz 95,000,000
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Signal
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Variation in air pressure(electrical term)
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Reverbation
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Multiple reflections from interactions with multiple boundaries
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Stage Manager
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Oversees entire performance area
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ESRB
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Entertainment Software Rating Board (1993)
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AC flow
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flows in two direction
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What format is Scarlet book?
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SACD
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Whats the abbreviated symbol for Current?
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A
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Is Impedance for AC or DC?
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AC
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Whats the abbreviated symbol for Impedance?
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Z
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Resonance
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Wavelength reinforced by its own reflection
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Compositing
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Layering seperate rendered images or CGI with live graphics
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Production Manager
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Supervises crew, scheduling, and equipment on daily basis
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Lighting plot
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guide for crew to follow
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Tester
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Tests games to work out bugs
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MIT student Steve Russell programmed what game in 1962?
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"Spacewar!"
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What was the first radio network?
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NBC
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What is the gaffer?
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The chief electrician.
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Pre-Production
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Most critical part of a project (Planning)
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electromagnets
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wires coiled around nails increase teh power of the magnetic fields
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Real-time analyzers
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Devices that can recognize frequencies of high and low end sound.
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Live Room
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A room with great sound reflectivity
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Rendering
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Converting 3D into 2D (MOST TIME CONSUMING)
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Material Maps
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Reflective properties (the tin pan, not the sponge)
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Technical Rider
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Contract containing the needs and requirements of the crew
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Lighting system tech
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assembles trusses, mounts lights, etc
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1st first-person shooter game
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Wolfenstein 3D on PC
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Are all electromagnetic waves the same size?
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no
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What game did Nolan Bushnell create that changed gaming history?
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Pong
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Who brought the magnetophone to the USA?
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Jack Mullin
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direct current (DC) can move in how many directions?
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1
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Nikola Tesla
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Immigrated from Serbia and was hired to work directly under Thomas Edison.
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Reflection
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Bouncing of waves that result off the surface of boundaries
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Polygon
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Flat, closed surface w/ 3 or more sides
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PAR
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Basic light (coffee can with light in it, heats up quick)
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Gobos
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Used to create shapes or laser like looks
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The executive publisher
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branch of company (i.e. EA Games)
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16 bit systems
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NEC TurboGrafx, Sega Genesis, Super NES
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what is the unit name when measuring lighting?
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Candela
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How many different books are there of DVD formats?
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6
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Define Multimedia?
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A combonation of text, sound, and graphics on one medium.
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What is modeling in computer animation?
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creating 3D objects
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Permanent threshold shift-PTS
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reduces the range of frequencies the ear is equipped to recieve
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1st CGI short film to win academy award
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Tin Toy
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What was the first game censored due to violence?
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Death Race
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The Treatment
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explains game in writing (used to help sell game idea) contains: style, gameplay, plot, character, setting, technology, storyboard and artwork
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what was the first wireless radio used for due to lack of amplification technology?
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Morse code
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In 2003, the video game industry pulled in how much in revenue in the US and Worldwide and what is it expected to reach worldwide in 2008?
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US-10 billion
WorldWide-25 billion
2008-35 billion
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What is Ethernet?
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The foundation for most LANS. Cable used to connect modems to hubs and PCs
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Who released the first compact disc?
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SONY & Philips in 1982
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Decibel(dB)dBV(ratio of voltage levels)dBSPl(ratio to sound pressure level)
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universal unit of amplitude on a logarithmic scale.
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Who was the first to measure the speed of light?
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Olaf Romer
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These people buy props for the set that make it more believable (IE posters for a kids room etc.)
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The set dressers
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What are som examples of support services?
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wardrobe, make-up, catering, transportation etc.
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What is rendering?
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The process of converting a 3D object oriented image to 2D.
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What is a GIF file?
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Stands for Graphic Interchange Format. Only uses 256 colors, allowed for compression into smaller files. Animated GIFs are also possible.
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What are the advantages and disadvantages of shooting on a soundstage?
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Advantages: controlled environment (no weather to deal with), it's power ready, and they provide their own security.
Disadvantages: Lack of realism, costly rent and set contruction.
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What is coaxial cable?
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A connection used for internet and also television. Fastest it can go is 10 mbps.
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What does the producer do?
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He is responsible for the creative process
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what are electromagnets capable of picking up?
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things from material items to recording of audio and video on magnetic tape
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How much output from a lightbulb is light? how much is heat?
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5% light, 95% heat
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What is a line medium?
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A physical pipeline that data travels on.
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What are the three basica nimation mediums?
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Stop motion, Calymation, Cel animation
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2 straight wires next to each other both transmitting a flow of electrons in the same direction end up...
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completing each other's magnetic fields
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What are the 3 types of ethernet cable and what is common right now?
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10 Base-T-10Mbps throughput
100 Base-T-100Mbps throughput (most common right now)
Gigabit Ethernet-1Gbps throughput.
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What is a One-Off?
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A test copy of the project, given to someone in order to obtain objective feedback.
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There are 3 main techs involved with thte lighting crew, what are their titles?
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Lighting designer, lighting director, and Lighting system tech.
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What is the first step in set design?
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Scale drawings showing elevation. needs front view (what camera will see), side view (shows wall supports), and rear view (shows the back of the set wall)
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What does SIGGRAPH stand for and when was the first one held? Also, what was first displayed at this convention?
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1973-SIGGRAPH stands for Special Interest Group on computer GRAPHics. The first 3D models were displayed here.
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What are the standard lights most used on tour?
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PAR (Parabolic Aluminized Reflector) lights. They use gels to change the color.
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Textures do what to a model?
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When placed on them, they add realism.
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The right slit in an outlet is called what?
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Hot (where the electricity is)
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Cosmic rays are of such high energy, that it takes what to stop them?
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a few miles of solid rock
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What does MPEG stand for and what does it do?
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Moving Pictures Experts Group. Compresses images and sound to smaller files.
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What was the first CG film to win an award and in what year?
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Tin Toy in 1988
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What is the production designer respnsible for?
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Drawing concept art for the sets, and creating the look of the universe. he is also headof the art department.
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Larger residental outlets are used for what?
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Washer and dryer, etc. using 240V with 2 hot connections (3 wire single phase)
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In TREE topology, if one hub goes down, how come the others do not?
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Because HUBs have a "through" which even if the hub is off it allows data to flow though to other hubs.
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What does the grip department take care of?
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Figuring out how to get the camera where the director wants. Like attaching it to a car or something. General laborers.
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What does a person in charge of characterization do?
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Designing a set around the characters. Making the set look like that perosn actually lives there.
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What is motion capture and what are the three different types of motion capture?
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Recording a performer while he is wearing a sweet motion cature suit, which is one of three things.
1. Optical-the suit has refelctors on it and the camera sees the changes in light of the reflectors.
2. Magnetic-it senses change in a magnetic field.
3. Electromechanical-outfit reads the change in motion and transmits the information to a computer.
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What are halides and what is their purpose?
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Halides are tiny crystals in the emulsion the part of the camera that captures the image.
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What are 3 more types of lighting that aren't as prevelant in film?
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Open face-basically a big flashlight, bulb in front of a reflector.
Molette-bulb on a stand, no shade, just light for everywhere.
Dedo-samll round circle of light.
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What are the 2 steps taken in computer animation preproduction?
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Hand drawing charater models, then building maquettes, which are detailed sculptures?
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What is the name of the cables used to connect speaker cabinets to amplifiers and why are the better than the older speaker wires?
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Speak-on cables are superior because they are a balanced wiring set up, and they lock into the connection.
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What is an AVI and what must you have installed to view them?
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Audio Video Interleave. Used commonly in Windows in regards to video files. Must have proper codec installed in order to view them.
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What is a fluorescent light source in film?
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It's a direct soft source, no mirrors. Pretty difficult to control.
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Name the 3 types of line mediums for the internet?
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Twisted pair, Coaxial cable, and Fiber Optics.
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There are 4 formats of MPEG, what are they and what does each do?
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MPEG 1-used for audio and video files
MPEG1 Layer 3-"MP3" sound only, is a compressed wav file.
MPEG2-Used for high quality digital videos (DVD's)
MPEG4-used for interactive multimedia
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The left slit in an outlet is called what?
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Neutral, which is an open pass linking to the ground in order to complete the circuit
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To animate is to bring to life, so what is animation?
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Creates the illusion of motion, but is just a series of pictures.
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What are the 3 type of lighting in the 3 point lighting set-up?
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Key lights, Back lights, and fill lights.
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Altair 8800-1975
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1st
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Apple II-1977
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3rd
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Primitives
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Basic shapes
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Direct Light
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Lumes
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Tinnitus
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Life time ringing!!!!!!!!!!
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magnitism
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permanent artificial, electromagnetism
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coiling wire
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two poles
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rectifier
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converts AC to DC
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SPL(Sound Pressure Level)
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recognized decibels(dB)
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System Engineer
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Design audio systems
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wins in plant opening
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AC
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Cochlea
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fluid-filled, snail shapped organ, prepares vibration for the brain
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Hertz(Hz)
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Universal Standard unit frequency measurement
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House Engineer
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Mixes for the audience
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The publisher
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game company (i.e. EA)
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Additive Color Theory
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Red Green Blue
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Patchbay
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Nerve system, where all wires connect
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Whats the abbreviated symbol for Voltage?
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E
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Overtoness
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Variant mixtures of many related frequencies that are created simutaneously with a base tone
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Cel Animation
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Animation drawn on transparent sheetsof celluloid, then layered over background
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Promoter
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Owns or obtains venue, advertises performance, etc.
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What drove the speaker development?
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Sound films
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1st holographic game
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Time Traveler by Sega
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Master Section
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Global controls over I/O's :Speaker select, Talkback, Master Fader, Control room volume
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Who released the first multitrack recorded on a home disc system?
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Les Paul
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alternating current (AC) can move in how many directions?
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2
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Node
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Two waves out of phase 180 degrees(cancelled)
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Compression
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Area of higher than normal air pressure
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Motion Capture
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Recording a human performance (3 types, Optical, Magnetic, and Electro Mechanical)
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1st animated character with personality
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GERTIE the dinosaur
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Tour Manager
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Handles the non-technical logistics of the show (i.e. hiring staff)
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DMX (not the rapper)
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programming standard for lighting
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1st programmable home system
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The Channel F VES
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Most successful game in history that started a merchandizing frenzy with its 1980 release
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PAC-MAN
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Ralph Baer released what gaming console for Magnavox in 1972?
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The Odyssey
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Who patented the first wireless radio?
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Guglielmo Marconi
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How many different color books are there when referring to CD media?
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seven
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Bell Labs Microphone Patents
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Condenser - 1920Dynamic - 1930
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static electricity
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is present when an imbalance of positive and negative particles exist between 2 forms of matter.
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Waveform
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describes the actual shape of the wave when its represented graphically in 2-D
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1st computer animated full length feature?
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Toy Story (1995)
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Acoustic analysis engineer
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Maximizes sound based on room characteristics
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32 bit/64 bit systems
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Sony Playstation, Sega Saturn (disc)Nintendo 64 (cartridge)
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Art for gamers
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2D animation "sprites"3D modeling - Polygon based, PPS=Polygons per secondLOD=Level of detail models
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This man made is responsible for starting ATARI and creating "PONG"
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Nolan Bushnell
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Olaf Romer
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came extremity close to what scientist decided in 1980
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One of these is our friend, multiple of them are not?
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shadows
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Define Truss.
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An aluminum rafter(s) that is "flown" above the stage.
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What became the recording standard in the 1970's?
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Analog 24 Track
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What was the first film with CGI environment with actors?
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Tron (1982)
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How many data channes does DMX allow?
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512 data channels
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Fill Rate
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Number of pixels that can be rendered per second
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Internal design document
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Game mechanics (what player can do) Artifical intelligence (How virtual world responds) Game elements (characters, items, etc) Game progression (levels)System menus (options)
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8 bit systems
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Atari VCS (2600), Magnavox Odyssey 2, Mattell Intellivision, Coleco Vision
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Speed of Light
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is 186,000 sec6 Trillion miles per year
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Why was ARPANET created?
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As an experiment ti maintain communication after a nuclear attack.
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What is SMPTE?
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The Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers. Created timecode.
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What are object oriented images?
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Images created using mathematical formulas, very common in computer illustration. Vector Graphics. Allows for enlarging of image with out losing resolution.
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What does an executive producer do?
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Handles business arrangements for artist and producer
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1st animated film
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The Humorous Phases of Funny Faces (J. Stuart Blackton)
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What's the highest and lowest frequency colors?
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red - lowestviolet - highest
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What is cobra-net?
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A pice of digital equipment used to network multiple digital audio channels.
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What 2 departments are responsible for the lighting?
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Grips and electrical department.
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What is a PNG file?
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Portable Network Graphic. Allowed for an improved version of the GIF. Allows for lossless compression with 16 million colors.
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What is the most widely traded file on ARPANET for a few years?
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Space War.
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How many frames per second is a movie filmed at?
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24 fps
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What is a BMP?
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A windows bitmap file. Don't utilize compression making them generally large in size.
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What part of staging enhances the mood of the show?
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Lighting and effects.
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Who was the 1st artist to use tape for production?
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Bing Crosby
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How is AC electricity created?
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generators or dynamos that have huge rotating copper wire coils housed with giant magnets, Hydroelectro plants (dams) or windmills.
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What shows us where we are going to place lights on a set?
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A Lighting Plot.
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How does cel animation work?
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Having a camera that sees multiple layers (IE the background and the characters) and reads them seperately so that you don't have to keep re-drawing the stuff that doesn't change frame to frame.
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What was the first film to have a 3D image in it?
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Star Wars! (1977)
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What does topology means?
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Topology is the term used for how the computers are connected to each other.
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What is CD-DA and what color is its book?
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CD-Digital Audio, Red Book
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What is the telecine process?
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The process of taking the 24fps film and converting it to 30fps ntsc standard. Copies one filed every other frame to prolong the shot.
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What are the two methods used to animate when talking about computer animation?
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Key framing and motion capture.
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What is compositing when thinking about computer animation?
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The process of layering together the seperately rendered characters, objects, shadows,and highlights in computer animation.
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In computer animation, there are default models that help start a project, what are they called?
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Primitives, they are basic shapes like a cube or cylinder that we can manipulate as we see fit instead of starting from scratch.
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What did Edison claim about DC power?
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That it was safer than AC power
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What is the first "video" game, who produced it and when was it created?
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William Higinbotham created Tennis for Two in 1958.
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What are the four places where we see animation (as told to us in clas)?
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Movies, Advertising, Video games, Research and development
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What color book are CD-R and RW?
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Orange. CD-R's are WORM (Write Once Read Many) discs. RW's allows for erasure and reburning of information.
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What is the material maps purpose?
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To show the reflective properties of a 3D object.
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What year was Stemboat Willie released and what did it have that no other animated film had?
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Steamboat Willie was released in 1928 by Disney. It was the first animated film to have syncronized sound.
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What does a production manager do?
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Supervises the crew and equipment on a daily basis.
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Why is 3 phase needed for industrial powering
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In order to eliminate the drop affect
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What two companies concurrently discovered the cone loudspeaker principle?
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GE & Bell Labs (Bell Labs got the patent for it)
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What is the maximum that JPEG can reduce an image size to?
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1/100th actual size, but this causes anomalies in the image. Usually only reduced to 1/20th.
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Define bandwidth and what is the easy way to to think about bandwidth and throughput (according to the teacher)?
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Bandwidth is The frequency range from highest to lowest that can pass through a circuit. Easy way to remember is to think of a sewer pipe as band width and sewage as throughput, the bigger the pipe, the more sewage gets through. so the more bandwidth, the faster the connection.
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What was the first film to use CGI in the environment with actors and what year was it released?
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Tron in 1982, from Disney
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What is a good example of a simulation interactivity?
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Video games. Simulation is high-user interaction, user controls pretty much everything.
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Can a 3-phase accomodate a single phase?
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yes, it will only use one of the phases instead of all 3
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What is interactivity and name the three types of interactivity?
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The ability of the user to control the outcome and tempo of a multi-media experience.
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What is the standard stock size for film and what else does it contain other than the picture?
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35mm. It also holds info for all the different audio formats.
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What is BUS topology and why is it a bad idea?
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Computers are wired together in a string. Problem is if one computer in the string goes down, the rest of them after it go down also.
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What are particle effects and what are they used for?
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They are points in a 3D space that are animates based on physics. Snow for example.
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How many frames are in one minute of FILM footage? In VIDEO?
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24 * 60 = 1,440
30 * 60 = 1,800
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