Specific Competencies and Skills Tested in this Assessment:
Safety
- Demonstrate understanding of fire safety
- Demonstrate understanding of personal safety
- Demonstrate knowledge of equipment safety
Pre-Production
- Define target audience, including demographics and ratings
- Create or prepare production schedule/timeline
- Identify various budget/financial issues
- Demonstrate knowledge of concept development
- Demonstrate knowledge of various script formats, including storyboarding
- Determine technical requirements and site survey/location scout
- Identify and describe various communication distribution methods
- Select crew and cast talent for appropriate production requirements
- Design and construct sets and lighting
Production
- Prepare graphics appropriate to production
- Execute various lighting designs
- Direct and produce a studio production
- Direct and produce a field production
- Produce or select appropriate music for production
- Perform on-camera production skills
- Identify parts of cameras, accessories, and camera support systems
- Perform camera movements (e.g., tilt, pan, truck, dolly)
- Properly adjust cameras (e.g., exposure, white balance)
- Demonstrate appropriate lens operation and framing
- Identify various live distribution methods
- Identify and maintain various recording and file management systems
- Determine microphone selection and application
- Identify and operate various audio devices in a recording environment
Specific Competencies and Skills continued:
Post-Production
- Identify and describe proper editing techniques
- Demonstrate editing aesthetics
- Identify and manage various file formats
- Import, capture, and export media appropriately
- Describe and apply motion graphics and video compositing
- Evaluate the finished product with the client/audience
- Identify and describe essential computer hardware for editing
Ethics, Communications, and General Field Knowledge
- Identify and define various career paths in the video production/broadcasting field
- Exhibit knowledge of copyrights, contracts, ethics, images, talent, and industry legalities
- Demonstrate knowledge of the business aspects of the video/broadcasting field professional behavior with clients, coworkers, and supervisors
Written Assessment:
Administration Time: 3 hours
Number of Questions: 174
Areas Covered:
Safety 7%
Pre-Production 20%
Production 49%
Post-Production 16%
Ethics, Communications, and General Field Knowledge 8%
Sample Questions:
If a light catches on fire, the first step is to
- spray the fire with water
- get out of the building
- call the supervisor
- shut off the power
In the traditional two-column script format, what information is placed in the left column?
- thumbnails
- sound and visual effects
- video and camera cues
- actor’s dialog
Stationary items on a set such as pictures, lamps, and plants are called
- platform pieces
- props
- background pieces
- set dressings
In digital media, sound and light are translated into
- binary code
- time code
- vector
- codec
Studio set removal is referred to as
- storing
- blocking
- striking
- packing
Performance Assessment:
Administration Time: 3 hours
Number of Jobs: 3
Areas Covered:
27% Create and Script Video
Participant will create a script for a 30- to 60-second Public Service Announcement (PSA), using the two-column format. Describe the video, audio, and graphic. Save and print the script.
35% Production
Participant will use the script created in Job 1 to create a video, making sure all shots are properly exposed, white balanced, and in focus.
38% Post-Production
Participant will edit the video from Job 2 following all instructions and export final product to desktop.
Sample Job:
Create and Script Video
Maximum Time: 45 minutes
Participant Activity: The test participant will create a script for a 30- to 60-second Public Service Announcement (PSA), put their name on the script, save the script, and print two copies of the script.