Quiz 8: Visual Communication, Film/Video, and Digital Art

Movies were being shown all over Europe and the United States as early as ________.

1896

The ________ was a German school of art and design that operated in the early twentieth century. The students at the school were immersed in the idea that "form follows function."

Bauhaus

D. W. Griffith's film Birth of a Nation employed innovative techniques and was used as a propaganda tool by ________.

KKK

How are the locations in The Wizard of Oz distinguished?

Kansas is shown in black and white and the Land of Oz is in color

If you were to design a party invitation, you might put important information, such as the date, time, and place in ________.

a larger font, bold type, a different font, a different color

White space is always a bad thing in layout design.

false

These handwritten, illustrated books were created during the Middle Ages.

illuminated manuscripts

This is the art of organizing type, logos, and illustrations in traditional print media:

layout design

The art of typography came into existence with the introduction of this invention.

movable type

The theory that describes the way separate images viewed at regular intervals create the appearance of continuous motion is called ________.

persistence of vision

The marks that are added to a letterform that were derived from the chisel marks created for words incised on Roman buildings are called ________.

serifs

Using puppets, dolls, or models to create scenes in a movie is called ________.

stop-motion

The most recent development in film/video art is interactive designs that allow viewers to engage with the development of the artwork in the moment.

true

In full gallop, a horse's legs are ________ when all of them are off the ground.

underneath its body

In order for moving images to be invented, motion first had to be frozen in still photographic images.

true

The difference between film and video is:

the way that the images are recorded