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Who was responsible for the color purple, fresh prince of bel-air and vibe
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Quincy Jones (producer/Musician)
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Who is responsible for all the recordings of the beatles albums
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George Martin
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who started memmphis recording studios and is responsible for elvis's first average
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Sam Phillips
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Who is bruce swedien
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Producer/Engineer worked with quincy jones and is responsible for thriller album also worked in victor studio;s recording orchestral
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Who started recording jazz at 19 in his home and worked at olympic studdios and recorded Jim Hendrix
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Eddie Kramer
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Who founded Def Jam
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Russel Simmons and Rick Rubin
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What are some accomplishments of Nile Rodgers
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Started the band Chic , Produced albums for Diana Ross and Sister Sledge,Produced David Bowie's best selling album "lets dance"
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Who founded atlantic Records
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Ahmet Brtegun
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Who is responsible for recording all of atlantic records music
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Tom Dow
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What is the metric conversions chart
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Tera,Giga,Mega,Kilo,none,Mili,micro,nano,pico
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How do we convert using the metric conversion chart
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move the decimal point 3 spaces, if you move to the right on the chart the decimal moves right (Vice Versa)
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What is the wavelength formula
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Wavelength = speed of wave/Frequency
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What is the inverse square law
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Evertime we doubble the distance from a sound source , th amplitude drops by 6db
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What is dialogue
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The most important element. It must be clear and legible because it tells the story.this must tie the plot and the narrative side of the story togeather
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Who is the boom operator
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The microphone person who captures audio on a set
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what does adr stand for
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Automated dialogue replacement
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What is foley
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Foley is the effects that are added in realtime to the picture either recorded on a foley stage or in a foley pit
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What is ambience or backrounds
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Backrounds
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WhaT ARE THE TWO MAIN ASPECTS OF MUSIC FOR MOVIES
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ORIGINAL SOURCE- ORGINAL MUSIC FOR A PARTICULAR PICTURE, SOURCE MUSIC- PRE EXISTING MUSIC USED FOR THAT PICTURE
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What are pre-dubs/pre0mixes
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The process of mixing all of the sound elements so that the final mix can be accomplished with less work
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What is the final mix
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Mixing sound for a film into stems which will be combined to represent the finsihed soundtrack
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What is Stems
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The final elements of a soundtrack (usually dialog, music, and effects) that when combined make up the finished mix of a film
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What does LTRT stand for
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Left track Right Track
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What are 3 parts of an ad
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Color, Layout, Copy
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What does the layout in an ad show
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how it flows, and if there is a clear path for your eye to follow
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What are the different types of advertisements
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Persuation based on authority, Fu and pleasure,vanities and egos, and consenus
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What is consensus
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It imply's corectness, such as celeberty endorsements. We agree with people we like , everyone is doing it why shouldnt I
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What is varities and Ego;s
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High priced items which sell an image.
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How do you find the time code offsets
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Subtracton
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What is the area of a rectngle
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length times width
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what is volume measured in
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Cubic Feet
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What is the radius
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Half the Diameter
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how many dB's doubble powe
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Every 3 dB increase
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Who made the first public address system?
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Western Electric
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What is the ability to fill a venue with sound
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Coverage
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What is the ability to amplify the sound to fill a venue without distortion or feedback.
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Gain
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The runner is in charge of distributing power throught the venue is that true or false
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False
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who is the person responsable for mixing the sound that the audience hears, working from a console centered in the middle of the audience
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House Engineer
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Who is the person responsible for mixing the sound that the talent will hear on stage
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Monitor Engineer
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who is The person responsible for the entire movemnent of equiptment and crew in regards to the performance are
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Stage manager
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Which person assists the system engineer and also aids in equiptment repair
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System Technician
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Who is the person that safely assembles points from which equiptment will be strung
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Rigger
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Who is the person that positions instruments on stage as well as teams and primes them for use
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Back-Line Technician
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Which person is most responsible for the look achieved by the lighting on a concert tour
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Lighting Designer
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The person operates the lights during a show
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Lighting Director
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Which person operates special effects that require flame,fireworks,ect
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Pyrotechincian
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Who is manages the local union crew
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Steward
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Which person supervises the crew and equiptment during setup and tear-down
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Production Manager
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Which person is responsible for booking venues and adertising the upcomng show-dates
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Promoter
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Why are there two FOH-system engineers for the headlining artist
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One is an employee of the sound company
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Acoustical measurement is applied in touring situations to
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Optimize the lisening enviorment
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DMX 512 is used to control what
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Both dimmers and moving light function
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CobraNet is a system utalized to what
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Distribute digital audio
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Which mixer is used for sound heard by the audience
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Front of House Console
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What mixer is used for sound heard bhy the artists onstage
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Monitor console
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The projection of video and images onto a screen at an event is often called whaT
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I-MAG
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Who oversees the entire staff for a given tour and arranges artist accomodations and travel
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Tour Manager
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What is the initial documentation used used to sell the idea behind the game called the______
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Treatment
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the interactivity of the game is called the
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Game Play
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What is the back story and introduction to the settings for the game
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Plot
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what is the enviorment that the player is in called
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Setting
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When a game is approved for production, a _____ is generated to plan out the technical and administrative spects of the game's creation
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Design Document
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What describes what the player is allowed to do and how the game is played
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Game mechanics
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What describes how the virtual world will respond to the player
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AI(artificial intelligence)
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What are the tools the player can pick up and use in the game
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Items
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What are the objects in the enviorment that can't be carried but can be operated in some manner
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Mechanisms
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What section should describe the options that the player has outside tof gameplay
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System Menus
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what company funds money for the projectand is responsible for the manufacturing, advertisng, and wholesale distribution of the game
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Publisher
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Who oversees an entire product line of games.
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Exucitive Producer
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Who is responsible for one game in a product line
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Producer
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______ may be assigned to each platform for which a game is being released- one for windows, one for apple, one for sony playstation, ect.
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Associate Producers
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Who will conduct research for the game, perform software backups, and coordinate any shipping needs during game creation.
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Assistant Producer
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Who will run the game and report bugs to programmers during the creation leg.
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Testers
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What will perform the final check on the game before sanctioning it for manufacturing release.
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Quality Assurance
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What will offer techincal support for customers who have purchased the software
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Customer Service
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Who supervises and manages the programing crew
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Lead Programmer
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In the physcs of a game, this is the change in velocity objects may experience.
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Acceleration
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In the physics of a game, this is acceleration downward for realism.
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Gravity
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In the physics of a game what is the effect on motion after contact with a surface
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Friction
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What is the creation of flat, 2D images that will be used in the game for backrounds, the user interface that the player will see on0screen to monitor their surroundings, character helth panels, ect
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Pixel Painting
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What involves the creation of 2D images that will move on-screen
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2D animation
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What entails sculpting the shape of the objects for the game
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3D modeling
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what means giving the 3D figures the ability to move
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3D animation
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What part of video game sound drives the emotional element of the game
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Music
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What part of video game sound establishes the enviorment the player navigates.
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Ambience
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What part of the video game sound establishes the enviorment the player navigates
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Ambience
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What part of the video game sound is typically event0based, triggered by player decisions
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Sound Effects
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What part of video game sound is typically event-based, triggered by player decisions
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Sound Effects
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What part of video game sound conveys information to the player and helps augment the storyline.
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Dialogue
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Who is in charge of determing how many points are gained of lost for game events and makes sure the game is fair
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Game Designer
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Who is in charge of creating the missions or levels that the player will ascend during the course of game play
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Level Designer
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What part of the game loop is the contact between the game and the operating system on the computer. Without this communication, the program will crash
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HandleWindowsMessages
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What part of the game loop looks at all the inputs (joystick, keyboard, mouse, ect.) compatible with the game. Any action or request from the player is picked up in this stage
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Get Input
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What part of the game loop takes the information supplied and updates object positining respective to player action
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Process Data
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What part of the game loop draws the adapted image onto the computer screen
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Render
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what tool is a combination of technologies designed to allow the software developers to focus on the creation of a program witout having to hand-taylor hardware-specific code
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API
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What is a set of libraries that convert generic hardware instructions into phrases understood by the pieces of hardware specified that use the windows OS
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DirectX
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What is a software interface for graphics hardware that is supported acress operating systems and platforms. It can be used for real-time 3D application like video games and virtual-reality games and for animation software
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OpenGL
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What are the four steps of the game loop?
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Handle windows messages, get input, process data, render
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Speed of light
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186,000 miles per second
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Direct x has 5 parts. What are they?
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direct graphics, direct draw, direct sound, direct play, direct input
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Four elements of video game sound
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Music, ambience, sound effects, dialogue
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What are the two types of video games?
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goal-oriented game-score and goals, software toy-sims
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what system sold every other system 10 to 1
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nintendo
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what do we call the method when computer records specifis moment in time and iterpolates from that scene to the next
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Key Framing
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who captures the images on a film
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cinematographer
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what did nepiece invent
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Heliograph/first photograph
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number of pixels that can be rendered per second is known as
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Fill Gate
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what controls mother board functions
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chipset
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allows a computer to represent numbers as letters
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ASCII
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commonly used compresion for still images
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JPEG
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speed of sound
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1,130 feet per second
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number of measurement of how much light is allowed through a lense
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F-stop
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Manges the crew and equipment for a set up and tear down of a concert
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Production manager
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An electron has what type of charge
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Negative
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cyan + yellow
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Green
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what light separets the subject from a blackground
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back light
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Images can be resized without distortion
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object oriented
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how many sides at least a polygon has
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3
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Who invented the flat disk format
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Eneil Bernier
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two companies involved in making video games
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Developer and publisher
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First film to incorporate CGI into the environment with the actors
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Tron (1982)
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Four basic parts of a game-loop in order
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- HandlesWindowsMessages
- GetInput
- Process Data
- Render
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What did RCA introduced in 1931
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33 1/3 RPM Flat Disks
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Stuart Blackton Created...
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"Humrous phases of funny faces"
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Mixer in the stage
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Monitor Engineer
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Controls voltage being sent to lights at a concert
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Dimmer
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First video game to use 3D Polygon Models
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I-robot, atary 1983
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what method of animation allows to record an actors performance
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Motion Capture
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First to have computer generated images
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WestWorld 1973
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What is the computers toolbox
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Operating System
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When was the Video Game Crash
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1983
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Numbers that discribe width of image comparded to the hieght is knoewn as what
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Aspect Ratio
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On the recording console what is used for the musicians headphones
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Cue System
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Differences in frequency of sound are heard by the ear indefferent
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Pitch
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What are the three elements of scene building
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Composition, Camra set up, Lighting
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Backbone of computarized editing allows frame accurate editing
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Time Code/ SMPT
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Who Runs the light at a concert
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Lighting director
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Natura bending of light through different mediums are called what
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Refracting
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What is the frequency range for human hearing
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20hz -20,000hz
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what is a moving storyboard
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Animatic
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The digital audio standard cd is what color
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RED
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Recording core elements of music is known as what
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Tracking
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Light that gives us desirable lighting ratio.contrast on a subject
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Fill Light
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What is the color for CD-ROM
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Yellow
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a microphone that does not require phantom power
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Dynamic
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Who is the cheif electrician in a set
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Gaffer
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Electromotive force is mesured in what units
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Volts
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First video game what created by who
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William Higgin Botham
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What category of audio wiring uses 3 conductors and is used professionally
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Blenced cables
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Range of frequences that pass through a circuit
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Bandwidth
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Ram stands for what
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Random access Memory
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What is the ideal recording level
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Nominal Level
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What is the device that converts one form of eergy to another
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transducer
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Most important job of any project is what
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Preproduction
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what is the logarithm of 100 quadrillian
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17
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what type of map gives the illusion of texture
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Bump Map
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What takes a larger form of energy to a smaller form of energy
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Resistor
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What company invented the condensor microphone and stereo
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Bell Labs
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What language is used to control lights at a concert
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DMX
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What is the motivating source of lighting
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Key Light
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What are the main images of a film in a book
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Storyboard
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Two parts of a design document is what
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Internal and external designed documents
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What was the first talkie
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jazz singer 1927
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What are two types of moving light
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yoke and Mirror
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How many visible lights of resolution in ntsc video
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480
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use of curb lines
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nurbs
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what is used to sell a video gme idea
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treatment
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what describes how the game respond to the player
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artificial Intelligence
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who oversees an entire product line of games
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executive Producer
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what sounds are event-based
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sound effect
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what converts generic hardware instructions into hardware specific phrases
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API
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what part of the game loop draws images on a screen
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Render
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the number of pixels rendered per second
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fill rate
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what are the two companies involved in a game
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developer and publisher
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what is the most sucessful arcade game of all time
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Pac Man
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Who invented the first home console? What was it called?
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Magnavox Oddessy....Ralph Baer
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all electromagnetic energy travels how fast
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186,000 mi per sec
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what type of miniature is used in the actual film
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exihibition
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the cheif set electriian on a film is known as
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Gaffer
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who createdd the very first video game
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William Higgenbotham
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what are two types of moving lights
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yoke and mirrors
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