Film Workshop Test

J.R. Hudson

J.R. Hudson

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Found this courtesy of one of our members (X CHECK).

The Workshops Film Skill-level test.

That was a tough test! And a year ago I would have gotten one right proablly. :lipsrseal

I took it and scored:

Your Score is 44 out of 73. Film Workshops Skill-Level Three. Damn, 1 Point away from Level Four. :cheesy:

Thank you DVXUSER (And Barry Green)

The ones I missed are:

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3, 8, 17, 26, 27, 30, 32, 34, 35, 36, 40, 41, 44, 45, 47, 48, 49, 51, 54, 58, 59, 63, 64, 65,
68, 69, 71, 73.
 
(I posted my score over in the film discussion thread but here it is again)



Based on…

- DVXUser.com and the many, many knowledgeable people here.

- Links posted to other resources from DVXUser.com

- And of course, Barry Green…



I got 41 of 73. At first I was bummed and then I was like some of this stuff is pretty obscure for someone who never set foot in a film class, and then a lot of “how the hell did I know that?”



Thanks to everyone here! :thumbsup:
 
well, i certainly could ace a photoshop test dammit! this one however, smoked me.

guess i'm not technically saavy. i blew most of the old skool film questions. never worked with film other than my super8 stop motion with legos with my brother.

but i hope i still qualify as an artist.
 
dang service unavailable, I really wanted to impress the chicks with my techy filmic knowledge (two years of college) and far too many hours on set!
 
67, glad I got out while I did. There are a few sneaky questions, and some that did not have a correct answer'#11 technically frame rate will effect DOP because it directly effects aperture. So if they want to get snarky, so can I.
That and I did not want to get beat by the mighty Pookie. But who really can topple that.
 
Too true Nullphonic. I was like "1 Point away from Level 4, huh?" Cool!

And it was X CHECK who submitted this link!
 
Well I put a lot of "don't know"s out there and only got 43. But I think I'll quibble about;
"38. Light falls off by:
a. Light coming out of a lamp is reduced by half each time the distance from the lamp is doubled."
I am quite certain that the intensity of light at, say, 8ft from a light is 1/4 as much as it is at 4ft, not 1/2, as stated.
The inverse square law is in effect on this one.
http://www.ndt-ed.org/EducationResources/CommunityCollege/Radiography/Physics/inversesquare.htm

I'm gonna give myself a 44 :beer:
 
Some of the workshops there are great. I took a feature film lighting workshop there with a friend because we got a greatly reduced rate. I had a blast and learned a little bit along the way.

There were a number of questions on the test that I thought were tricky, and I never liked ambiguous questions on any test, as they don't always allow for firm decisions.

I didn't like the super 16mm question. Technically, super 16mm uses the area on the film reserved for sound AND perfs...as it takes up the right side perfs. Obviously there are standard 16mm film cameras that will shoot single-perf film, but the advent of single perf came largely from extending the gate area to create super 16mm. (at least that was my understanding)

Q. 21: Technically there were both two-strip and three-strip technicolor processes. I'm not sure if both are able to be scored as correct on this test.

Q 43: Indeed a waveform monitor will display the measurement of light a camera sees...but this is assuming one single use for a waveform monitor, where most of the time a waveform monitor is used in post. Adjustments in the TBC will display on a waveform monitor. Nitpicky, but true.

Q 59: Obviously this question is completely bogus. 5274 (Kodak Vision 200T 35mm) and 7274 (Kodak Vision 250T 16mm) are the same emulsion, manufactured to different sizes.

Identical films have exactly the same latitude regardless of physical dimention. If you want to dissect the differences in the projected result of two different frame sizes, then you should gear the question towards that end, but the actual film has the same latitude.

finally Q. 8: Now this is really nit picking, but faster films don't really have more grain, they have LARGER grain. In practice, the actual particulate matter on a slower film will outnumber the particulate matter on a faster film...it's just that the resulting grains on a faster film are LARGER...not more. Obviously, this is nitpicking...but it caused me to think about the question longer then I normally would have.
 
My score was 40 out of 73

I consider that pretty good, since I didn't start learning about film until 2 years ago when I turned 30. I guess you can teach an old dog new tricks :)
 
As I said in the original post that made John H. follow the link and make history happen (gee, I feel like that old drunk taking Number One for a warp ride in 'First Contact' :grin: ) - I owe a great deal to DVXUser.com to answer some of the questions correctly.

It also helped that I had a chance to PA and 3rd AC on a couple of productions during the last year - there is stuff there that if you haven't actually done it, you'd have to be an absolute geek to understand what they are talking about.

Most importantly, it tells me what areas to focus on next - so I think it's the right kind of test: it gives you a feedback, and it is quite comprehensive (as in - covering different areas).

The 'make history happen' part is in the flood of DVXUsers bringing the service down :grin:

Oh - I got 59. Not bad for a damn foreigner, huh?
 
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