Deck 9: Making Animated Movies With Alice

Question 1

Animated moviemaking is both processor and memory intensive.

Answer 1

True

Question 2

The frame rate for films in a movie theatre is 42 fps.

Answer 2

False

Question 3

The frame rate for broadcast television is roughly 60 fps.

Answer 3

False

Question 4

The first part of preproduction is designing your movie.

Question 5

A screenplay unfolds over a series of scenes, and the plot determines the structure of the story.

Question 6

The most common arrangement for a screenplay is a five-act structure.

Question 7

A movie is a sequence of scenes, and the scene outline for a movie should describe the location, characters, and action for each scene.

Question 8

A long shot is a shot that shows a broad view of a scene from a distance.

Question 9

A high-angle is a tightly framed shot showing the details of a subject, such as an image of a person's face.

Question 10

An extreme close-up is a close-up shot that shows a very close or intimate view of a subject, which can sometimes be uncomfortable; it is often used for emotional impact.

Question 11

A close-up is a shot that shows two people together, usually talking or interacting with one another.

Question 12

Aerial shots and very high-angle shots are sometimes called bird's-eye view shots.

Question 13

An aerial shot is a shot that shows a subject from an angle rather than straight on.

Question 14

An point-of-view shot is a shot taken from behind the head and shoulders of a person, showing that person's head and shoulders in part of the frame and the subject the person is looking at in the rest of the frame.

Question 15

A high-angle shot is a shot showing the subject directly from the side.

Question 16

A following shot is a shot taken by a camera that is following a moving subject.

Question 17

A video fade occurs when a still image or another shot moves to cover the current shot like a curtain coming down.

Question 18

Wipes can occur from any direction.

Question 19

Each Alice object has a point of view - a property marking the object's location and orientation.

Question 20

Setting a camera's point of view to that of another object will move and reorient the camera.

Question 21

The aspect ratio is the ratio of an image's width to its height.

Question 22

Alice movie files can be imported into most common video-editing software, such as Adobe Premiere, Windows Live Movie Maker, or Apple's iMovie, for postproduction work.

Question 23

The movie files that Alice outputs are QuickTime movie files.

Question 24

The file size for an Alice movie depends on the length of the movie and the size of the World window when the movie is recorded as video.

Question 25

Uploading your movie files to social networking and media sharing sites, such as YouTube, might be easier if you first convert them to Adobe's Flash movie format (.flv ).

Question 26

A ____ is a flat two-dimensional picture that moves.

A) movie
B) frame
C) storyboard
D) dummy object

Question 27

Each still image in a movie is called a ____.

A) jump cut
B) frame
C) vignette
D) object

Question 28

The number of frames per second (fps) in a movie is called the ____.

A) frame rate
B) frame speed
C) point of view
D) aspect ratio

Question 29

In traditional filmmaking, ____ occurs when the cameras are rolling and action is captured on film.

A) sound editing
B) postproduction
C) production
D) preproduction

Question 30

The term ____ refers to the planning and preparation required before production can begin.

A) jump cut
B) fade
C) postproduction
D) preproduction

Question 31

____ involves developing ideas for the movie, writing the script, casting, scheduling production, and gathering all of the resources for production - including people, equipment, and facilities.

A) Production
B) Sound editing
C) Postproduction
D) Preproduction

Question 32

____ includes all of the tasks that take place after a movie is recorded, such as editing, adding titles, and packaging the final product.

A) Production
B) Sound editing
C) Postproduction
D) Preproduction

Question 33

The primary design document for a movie is the ____.

A) script
B) computer generated imagery
C) storyboard
D) frame

Question 34

A ____ is a scene-by-scene description of a movie, with dialog and descriptions of the critical action.

A) comedy sketch
B) script
C) storyboard
D) jump cut

Question 35

A ____ is the video equivalent of a play in a theatre.

A) commercial advertisement
B) slice-of-life vignette
C) screenplay
D) comedy sketch

Question 36

A(n) ____ is a dramatic component of a story.

A) act
B) jump cut
C) scene
D) fade

Question 37

A ____ is an expository movie that either teaches a lesson or presents someone's opinion on an issue.

A) slice-of-life vignette
B) commercial advertisement
C) comedy sketch
D) documentary

Question 38

A ____ shows an everyday event, such as a boy riding by on a bicycle, or a flock of geese flying overhead.

A) documentary
B) slice-of-life vignette
C) commercial advertisement
D) comedy sketch

Question 39

A ____ is the visual equivalent of telling a joke.

A) slice-of-life vignette
B) documentary
C) comedy sketch
D) commercial advertisement

Question 40

A ____ is an attempt to convince someone about the merits of a particular product or service, or to expose them to something in a positive way that they will remember.

A) commercial advertisement
B) documentary
C) slice-of-life vignette
D) comedy sketch

Question 41

The ____ of a movie is the storyline or plan for the dramatic flow of the movie.

A) plot
B) shot list
C) frame
D) point of view

Question 42

The term ____ is used to describe a part of a movie that takes place in a single location at a particular time.

A) plot
B) scene
C) slice-of-life vignette
D) jump cut

Question 43

A ____ is a particular view of the action from a specific camera, set up in a specific way.

A) scene
B) point of view
C) shot
D) slice-of-life vignette

Question 44

A(n) ____ is a shot looking up at a subject from a position below most people's normal line of sight; it can make the subject seem more powerful or threatening.

A) aerial shot
B) high-angle shot
C) close-up
D) low-angle shot

Question 45

A(n) ____ a long shot of a subject seen from well above the subject, often from directly above the subject.

A) high-angle shot
B) low-angle shot
C) aerial shot
D) medium shot

Question 46

A(n) ____ is a collection of rough sketches of particular shots showing both the visual flow of the movie from scene to scene and the progression of the movie's plot.

A) act
B) storyboard
C) scene
D) documentary

Question 47

A ____ is an invisible object that occupies a single point in an Alice world.

A) dummy object
B) fade
C) point of view property
D) wipe

Question 48

A ____ is a sudden transition from one shot to another.

A) slice-of-life vignette
B) wipe
C) jump cut
D) fade

Question 49

A video ____ occurs when the viewer's image lightens or darkens to or from a solid color.

A) fade
B) wipe
C) jump cut
D) close-up

Question 50

The ____ process includes editing recorded scenes to form a complete movie, adding titles to the movie, refining the movie's soundtrack, making a master copy of the movie, and preparing it for distribution.

A) postproduction
B) preproduction
C) recording
D) sound production