Photography, Film and Digital Art

1. Which of these are stages in creating a 3D computer artwork? Pick all that apply.

• Modelling a meshcorrect
• Texturing the surfacecorrect
• Rendering the scenecorrect
• Kerning the letters

Building the mesh, texturing its surface, and rendering the final image are all core 3D steps; kerning belongs to typography.

2. Enlarging a small raster photo too far makes it look blocky or pixelated.

Answer: True

Raster images have a fixed number of pixels, so stretching them too much makes those squares visible.

3. In 3D modelling, a surface is built from many small flat faces called ____.

• polygonscorrect
• pixels
• layers
• filters

Polygons, usually triangles or quads, join edge to edge to form the mesh that makes up a 3D model.

4. A standard RGB colour on a screen is built by combining how many colour channels?

Answer: 3 channels

Screens mix three channels of light, red, green and blue, to make every colour.

5. Match each software to the kind of digital art it is best known for.

Answer: Adobe Photoshop = Raster image editing; Adobe Illustrator = Vector graphics; Blender = 3D modelling and animation; ZBrush = Digital sculpting

Different programs specialise in raster editing, vector art, 3D, or digital sculpting.

6. What is the main advantage of vector graphics over raster (bitmap) images?

• They scale to any size without losing qualitycorrect
• They always contain more colours
• They can only be black and white
• They never need any software to open

Because vectors are drawn from math, they can scale to any size without becoming blurry or blocky.

7. A storyboard is a sequence of drawings that plans the shots of a film before it is made.

Answer: True

Storyboards map out each shot as a rough drawing so the team can plan camera angles and action ahead of filming.

8. Animation works because the eye blends a fast series of still ____ into continuous motion.

• framescorrect
• sounds
• colours
• pixels

Showing many slightly different still frames in quick succession creates the illusion of smooth movement.

9. How many frames per second is the traditional standard frame rate for cinema film?

Answer: 24 fps

Cinema has long been projected at 24 frames per second, fast enough to read as smooth continuous motion.

10. Match each film pioneer to their claim to fame.

Answer: Lumiere brothers = First public film screening; Eadweard Muybridge = Early motion-sequence photographs; Walt Disney = First full-length cel-animated feature; Georges Melies = Pioneer of film special effects

These figures each pushed early cinema forward in different ways, from the first screenings to special effects.

11. In traditional hand-drawn animation, characters were painted on clear plastic sheets called what?

• Celscorrect
• Storyboards
• Filmstrips
• Stencils

Cels are transparent sheets that let animators paint moving characters over a single painted background, saving huge amounts of work.

12. Which of these are among Disney's 12 principles of animation? Pick all that apply.

• Timingcorrect
• Stagingcorrect
• Exaggerationcorrect
• Kerning

Timing, staging, and exaggeration are animation principles; kerning is a typography term.

13. Build a sentence about a key design principle.

Answer: Contrast makes important text stand out

Contrast, such as big versus small or dark versus light, draws the eye to the most important element.

14. Which of these are qualities of a strong logo? Pick all that apply.

• Simple and memorablecorrect
• Still works in one colourcorrect
• Scales to any sizecorrect
• Packed with tiny details

Good logos are simple, memorable, work in a single colour, and stay clear at any size; fussy detail hurts them.

15. For artwork that will be printed, colours are usually set up in CMYK rather than RGB.

Answer: True

Printing mixes cyan, magenta, yellow, and black inks (CMYK), while screens glow in red, green, and blue light (RGB).

16. In typography, the vertical spacing between lines of text is called ____.

• leadingcorrect
• kerning
• weight
• contrast

Leading, named after the strips of lead once used in printing, controls how far apart lines of text sit.

17. Match each graphic-design term to its meaning.

Answer: Wordmark = Logo made of styled text; Grid = Framework for aligning a layout; Hierarchy = Ordering elements by importance; Alignment = Lining up the edges of elements

Designers use these ideas to organise pages, brands, and information clearly.

18. In typography, what does 'kerning' adjust?

• The space between individual letterscorrect
• The space between lines of text
• The thickness of a letter's strokes
• The slant of italic text

Kerning is the fine adjustment of space between two individual letters so a word looks evenly spaced.

19. Build a sentence about interactive new media art.

Answer: Interactive art changes as the viewer moves

Interactive artworks change based on what the viewer does, making the audience part of the piece.

20. Which of these are forms of new media or digital art? Pick all that apply.

• Video artcorrect
• Virtual reality (VR) artcorrect
• AI-generated imagescorrect
• Fresco painting

Video art, virtual-reality art, and AI-generated images are new media forms; fresco is a traditional wall-painting technique.

21. AI image generators such as DALL-E create pictures from written text descriptions.

Answer: True

Text-to-image tools like DALL-E turn a written prompt into an original image using machine learning.

22. Art created by an autonomous system that follows an algorithm or set of rules is called ____ art.

• generativecorrect
• realist
• ancient
• still

Generative art is produced by a process, such as code or an algorithm, that the artist sets in motion.

23. In which year did the AI-generated portrait 'Edmond de Belamy' famously sell at a Christie's auction?

Answer: 2018 year

The GAN-made portrait 'Edmond de Belamy' sold at Christie's in 2018 for over 400,000 dollars, a milestone for AI art.

24. What is the text a user types to describe the picture they want an AI image generator to create?

• A promptcorrect
• A pixel
• A filter
• A codec

A prompt is the written description that tells a text-to-image AI what to make.

25. A telephoto lens has a long focal length and magnifies distant subjects.

Answer: True

Long focal-length telephoto lenses bring faraway subjects closer, which is why they are used for wildlife and sports photography.

26. A fast ____ speed freezes motion, while a slow one lets moving subjects blur.

• shuttercorrect
• aperture
• focus
• zoom

Shutter speed sets how long the sensor is exposed to light, so a fast shutter freezes action and a slow one records motion blur.

27. How many settings make up a photographer's 'exposure triangle'?

Answer: 3 settings

The exposure triangle is the three settings that together control brightness: aperture, shutter speed, and ISO.

28. In a camera, what does the lens aperture mainly control?

• The amount of light entering and the depth of fieldcorrect
• How long the sensor is exposed to light
• The colour temperature of the image
• The number of pixels captured

The aperture is an adjustable opening that sets how much light reaches the sensor and how much of the scene is in sharp focus (depth of field).

29. Which camera changes will let MORE light reach the sensor? Pick all that apply.

• Using a wider aperturecorrect
• Using a slower shutter speedcorrect
• Raising the ISOcorrect
• Using a faster shutter speed

A wider aperture, a slower shutter, and a higher ISO each increase brightness; only a faster shutter reduces light.

30. Match each photographer to what they are best known for.

Answer: Ansel Adams = Black-and-white landscapes; Henri Cartier-Bresson = Candid street photography; Dorothea Lange = Migrant Mother; Louis Daguerre = The daguerreotype

Each of these figures shaped a different era or genre of photography.