History and Technology of Film and Television, Quizzes of Communication

Download History and Technology of Film and Television and more Quizzes Communication in PDF only on Docsity! TERM 1 Muybridge vs. Stanford DEFINITION 1 Muybridge took advantage of what's known as persistence of vision. Running horse bet(1878). - 1/30th of a second - subway advertising TERM 2 Lumiere Brothers DEFINITION 2 Came up with the iea of projecting movies on a screen so that all of people can see. TERM 3 Thomas Edison DEFINITION 3 Kinetograph - camera (1888) Kinetoscope - Player ( 1892) Vitascope - projection (1896) Rise of the Nickelodeon TERM 4 Edwin S. Porter DEFINITION 4 The Great Train Robbery (1903) - Multi-angle shots - first story film or movie TERM 5 D.W. Griffith DEFINITION 5 a film director of "Birth of Nation" Birth of Nation was the first feature film silent film KKK portrated as heros ( racism) Southern hardship TERM 6 Feature Film DEFINITION 6 longer story films, usually over 1 1/2 hours TERM 7 Jazz Singer DEFINITION 7 First "Talkies" film 91927) TERM 8 MPPC DEFINITION 8 Motion Picture Patents Company - Established patent pool on technology TERM 9 Three reasons of directors moved to Hollywood DEFINITION 9 1. Avoid MPPC fee 2. Distance that can get away from MPPC, New York, D.C. 3. Sunny Day TERM 10 Studio System DEFINITION 10 Film production, distribution, and exhibition. genres developedand industry divided TERM 21 Film Distribution DEFINITION 21 Windowing TERM 22 Windowing DEFINITION 22 seperate film release times for different channels or media TERM 23 syndication DEFINITION 23 distribute/ licence movies on affiliated television networks TERM 24 Film Technology DEFINITION 24 sound-digital theater Display- wide screen and colour(1922) film speed - 18 frames/second - 24 frames/ second for second creating and edition computer driven camera SFX nonlinear edition desktop publishig TERM 25 Non linear editing DEFINITION 25 uses digital equipment to re-arrange scenes to make the master copy TERM 26 rear- projection DEFINITION 26 effects have images projected behind performers who are in the foreground TERM 27 front projection DEFINITION 27 lets actors be photographed in front of an image so that they appears as part of it -king kong was the first film use this technique TERM 28 postproduction DEFINITION 28 includes editing, sound effects, and visual effects that are added after shooting the orginal footage TERM 29 Digital Video DEFINITION 29 recorded, edited and foten transmitted in digital form as used by computers TERM 30 DLPs DEFINITION 30 Digital light projectors - microchips with millions of tiny mirros on their surfaces TERM 31 conglomerateds DEFINITION 31 corporation involved in multiple areas of business activity TERM 32 windows DEFINITION 32 are spearte film release times for different channels or media TERM 33 Film Distribution Windows order DEFINITION 33 1. Domestic Theaters - 2. Foreign theaters -3. pay-per view and video on demand - 4. DVD/videocassette rentals and sales - 5. iTunes - 6. Pay TV - 7. Foreign TV - 8. U.S network TV - 9. syndication TERM 34 MPAA DEFINITION 34 Motion Picture Association of America After closed MPPDA ( which also known as Hays office). MPAA is a trade organization that represents the major film studio TERM 35 MPAA rating DEFINITION 35 movie rating system instituted in 1968 for example) PG13 is parents strongly cautioned to give guidance to children under 13; some material may be inappropriate for young children TERM 46 microwave DEFINITION 46 transmits information between relay towers on beam of high frequency radio waves.c TERM 47 distant signals DEFINITION 47 cable channels imported from major television market TERM 48 must carry DEFINITION 48 the policy that requires cable companies to carry local broadcast signals TERM 49 pay TV DEFINITION 49 charges cable customers an extra monthly fee to receive a specific channel TERM 50 superstation DEFINITION 50 a distant signal that is distributed nationally via satellite TERM 51 narrowcasting DEFINITION 51 targets media to specific segments of the audience TERM 52 multiple system operators(MSOs) DEFINITION 52 cable companies that operate system in two or more communities contented for cable franchise right in the top 100 cities TERM 53 Direct Broadcast Satellites(DBS) DEFINITION 53 transmit progrms via satellite directly to home antennas TERM 54 O&O DEFINITION 54 a TV station that is owned and operated by a television netwwork TERM 55 High Definition television (HDTV) DEFINITION 55 digital television that provides a wider and clearer picture TERM 56 scanning DEFINITION 56 making TV pictures out of a series of seperate pciture lines TERM 57 LCD DEFINITION 57 Liquid Crystal Display this screens have three tiny, lightweight solid state devices at each pixel that control the flow of light through miniature red green and blut filters TERM 58 Cathode Ray Tube (CRT) DEFINITION 58 electron beam focused with magnet Red, Blue, and Green TERM 59 Interlaced and Progressive DEFINITION 59 Interlaced: 1 field/100second 2 field. 1 fram/ 3th second Progressive: 1 frames/ 3th second TERM 60 DLP( Digital Light projectors) DEFINITION 60 Light projected lighting system onto servies TERM 71 The big five media conglomerates DEFINITION 71 Time Warner, Viacom/ CBS Disney, ABC NBC Universal and Fox TERM 72 Modems DEFINITION 72 modulator and demodulator convert digital data to analog signals and vice versa TERM 73 WANs and LANs DEFINITION 73 WANs- Wide area networks -> connect computer that are miles apart LANs- Local area newtworks -> link computers within a department, building or campus TERM 74 Charle Baggage DEFINITION 74 Difference engine TERM 75 Alan Touring DEFINITION 75 Father of modern computing touring test TERM 76 ENIAC DEFINITION 76 U.S army/s electronic numerical integrator and calculator TERM 77 SABRE DEFINITION 77 Americal Airlines network and is known to Web users today as Travelocity.com TERM 78 Personal Computer DEFINITION 78 general purpose computer , size, capability first one was Alto computer- mouse and ethernet $32000 AppleII Steve Jobs TERM 79 ARPANET DEFINITION 79 Advanced Research Projects Agency Network - distributed system with stand attack TERM 80 Centralized, Decentralized and Distributed DEFINITION 80 Centralized- easty to connect but easy to turn down. Decentralized- only two ways Distributed: ARPANET - began as way to transfer files e-mail was "Killer App" ( See the picture references.) TERM 81 TCP/IP DEFINITION 81 TCP: transmission control protocol - how information is sent over the internet IP: internet protocol - how files are transfered over intenert TERM 82 World Wide Web DEFINITION 82 WWW commonly known as the Web TERM 83 Web DEFINITION 83 application of the internet TERM 84 Internet DEFINITION 84 Service of Tubec TERM 85 Berners Lee DEFINITION 85 Invented HTML : Hypertext Marker Language TERM 96 encryption DEFINITION 96 writing a message in a secret code TERM 97 ISPs DEFINITION 97 Internet service probiders connect useers to the internet and provide e-mail account TERM 98 URLs DEFINITION 98 Uniform resource locators- addresses of web pages TERM 99 Podcasts DEFINITION 99 recorded messages distributed through iPod or other portable digital music players TERM 100 Portals DEFINITION 100 web pages that users launch when they first log into the web TERM 101 patent DEFINITION 101 gives an inventor the exclusive right to make use, or sell an invention for 20 yeras TERM 102 Net neutrality DEFINITION 102 users are not discriminated against based on the amount or nature of the data they transfer on the internet TERM 103 filtering DEFINITION 103 software automatically blocks access to websites contaning offensive material TERM 104 spamming DEFINITION 104 unsolicited commercial e-mailing TERM 105 Infrastructure DEFINITION 105 underlying physical structure of communication networks TERM 106 Top level domain names DEFINITION 106 .com .gov .org the last part of the domanin names TERM 107 DNS DEFINITION 107 domain name system address we use ( msu.edu) into address internet use (28.77.188.66) translate the adressc TERM 108 Cable DEFINITION 108 Depends on how many people are sharing the bandwith TERM 109 bandwidth DEFINITION 109 mearuse of available or consumed data communication sesourse expressed TERM 110 FCC DEFINITION 110 Federal Communication Commission- regulates communication in the United States TERM 121 Communication Spectrum DEFINITION 121 Includes the range of electromagnetic radiation frequencies that are used in wireless communication systems TERM 122 Thrid Generation 3G DEFINITION 122 cell phones have high speed data transmission capacity for video and internet TERM 123 WiFi DEFINITION 123 short for wireless fidelity TERM 124 POTs DEFINITION 124 plain old telephone service 1.dial tone 2. transmission 3. switching TERM 125 IRCs DEFINITION 125 International record carries- handel long distance calls between countries TERM 126 LECs DEFINITION 126 Local exchange carriers TERM 127 CLECs DEFINITION 127 competitive local exchange carriers- compete with the incumbent local exchange carriersc TERM 128 DBSs DEFINITION 128 Direct broadcast satellites- transmit television signals from satellites to compact home receivers Direct TV, Dish Network TERM 129 Moore's Law DEFINITION 129 processing capacity in computer chips will double about every 18 months I have 100 right now and after 3 years later I have 400. TERM 130 Digital Divide DEFINITION 130 access/literate to computers/ internet factors splits income, genders, national development TERM 131 user generated examples of new media DEFINITION 131 youtube, facebook, wiki TERM 132 distributed network DEFINITION 132 peer to peer everyone can also download each other. TERM 133 HDTV and NTSC DEFINITION 133 types of display TERM 134 DTV DEFINITION 134 type of transmission