Digital Design - S2 UN1

Human ears are sensitive to vibrations between?

20 to 20,000 Hz

What are the guidelines for music/lyrics copyrights?

20% use allowed of music or lyrics

At least how many people are needed when recording sound during principal photography?

3

Images created for print, for example in a magazine, should normally be which resolution?

30 DPI

Where an image is only to be used on a web page, what resolution would be most suitable?

72 DPI

What is Adobe PhotoShop?

A graphics editing tool

Analog Recording

A recording of the continuous changes of an audio waveform. The most common example of analog recording in a recording studio is recording on reel-to-reel magnetic tape

Stereo

A recording or reproduction of at least two channels where positioning of instrument sounds left to right can be perceived.

Effects of music: A) Fills in the awkward gaps while watching a film B) Leads us emotionally to feel good, sad, angry, etc. C) Serves as a passive soundscape for listening

A, B and C

Uncompressed audio formats are: A) lossless B) .WAV file types C) in need of unlimited storage space

A, B and C

amplifier

An electronic device for increasing the amplitude of electrical signals

Equalizer

An electronic device that acts as active filters used to boost or attenuate certain frequencies

Sound Card

An expansion component used in computers to receive and send audio

Boom Pole

An extendible stick with a microphone attached to it

Using a tape for recording, is what type of recording?

Analog

ADC stands for? (in Audio)

Analog to Digital Converter

These images are made up of thousands of tiny squares called pixels

Bitmap images

What is it called when companies are using music to target their products to specific customers' ages?

Brand Marketing

Common file types include .ai, .pdf and .eps

Common file types include .ai, .pdf and .eps

Pre-Production

Conceptualizing an idea and the writing of a script

What does CMYK stand for?

Cyan, Magenta, Yellow, Black

The unit used to measure the intensity of a sound. Degree of loudness

Decibel

What can PhotoShop be used for?

Designing graphics Editing photographs Creating bitmap images

Audacity and Adobe Audition software deal with ____________ sound.

Digital

The process of converting audio signals into numbers that represent the waveform

Digital recording

Any undesirable change or error in the reproduction of sound that alters the original signal

Distortion

An electronic device that acts as active filters used to boost or attenuate certain frequencies, is called...

Equalizer

A gradual reduction of the level of the audio signal

Fade

Noise is a desirable background sound in our recordings.

False

The less bits in a sample size, the more information provided.

False

When vibrations are fast, we hear a low note.

False we hear a HIGH note

The number of waves (or cycles) arriving at or passing a point in one second, expressed in hertz

Frequency

All of these file types are sound files, except for?

GIF

Which of these is an advantage of GIF graphics over JPEG graphics?

GIFs can have more colours

What are "bitmap" graphics?

Graphics made up of a set number of pixels

What are "vector" graphics?

Graphics made using mathematical expressions

The unit of measure for sample rate

Hertz (Hz)

Using a GIF for a button on a website allows which of the following?

It allows you to see the button

Which of the following file types would be suitable for Web images?

JPEG

Examples of sound files:

MP3 FLAC WAV OGG

Microphone

Microphone

In audio, channels determine if sounds are recorded as _________ or _________

Mono, Stereo

A range of tones where the highest tone occurs at twice the frequency of the lowest tone, is called...

Octave

a range of tones where the highest tone occurs at twice the frequency of the lowest tone.

Octave

consistent and continuous speed

Pace

The perception of frequency by the ear.

Pitch

3 basic subcategories of video production

Pre-production - Script Production - Filming Post-production - Editing.

Computer screens normally use colors represented by which acronym?

RGB

Images to be printed on a color printer are best created in which color mode?

RGB

Match the term with its characteristics.

Raster files: Software has to render each pixel (slow performance) Software has to render each pixel (slow performance) Can't be scaled (enlarge) Vector Files: Scalable to any size, big or small Created through a sequence of mathematical statements

Common file types include .jpg, .bmp and .tif

Raster images

Which PhotoShop tool can you use to draw a solid square with rounded edges?

Rounded Rectangle Tool

How fast a digital recorder or player samples a signal

Sample Rate

How fast a digital recorder or player samples a signal, is called...

Sample Rate

What are the two factors that determine the quality of a digital recording?

Sample Size Sample Rate

how fast a digital recorder or player samples a signal.

Sample rate

How can you change a layer so that you can see the the layer(s) below it?

Select the layer and change the opacity setting

In PhotoShop, the eyedropper does what?

Selects the color at a given point

Mono (Monaural)

Shortened from Monophonic and meaning that there is only one sound source or the signal was derived from one sound source. 1) More formal term for Mono and meaning that there is only one sound source or the signal was derived from one sound source.2) In synthesizers, a term meaning that only one pitch may be sounded at a time.

Which of these is NOT part of the sound hardware needed for your computer?

Sound editor

The rate at which the music moves measured in beats per minute

Tempo

The rate at which the music moves measured in beats per minute, is called...

Tempo

Production

The actual shooting or recording

In Adobe Illustrator, which of the following can be controlled for an object?

The size, shape and position

Which of the following is a characteristic of vector graphics?

They are based on mathematical/geometric expressions

What does a microphone do?

Translates acoustical waves into electrical waves

Layering makes audio more interesting, by communicating different kinds of information at the same time.

True

The higher the sample rate, the better the quality and the bigger the file size.

True

When creating an MP3 version of an audio CD, it requires the permission of the copyright owner

True

Windows Media Audio

WMA

The length of a sound wave in air

Wave Length

An electronic device for increasing the amplitude of electrical signals, is called...

amplifier

Ambient sounds are...

background noises that create a sense of place

Select all the options that are true for Codec

compressor/decompressor an algorithm (math formula) use for reducing size in a sound/video file. code/decode

Select ALL the responsibilities of a sound editor:

create ambiance tracks cut layers of special effects cleans up dialogue tracks

Any undesirable change or error in the reproduction of sound that alters the original signal, is called...

distortion

A gradual reduction of the level of the audio signal, is called...

fade

Lossy formats are...

files with audio information reduced/compressed good to distribute over the internet .OGG file types

The number of waves (or cycles) arriving at or passing a point in one second, expressed in hertz, is called...

frequency

the number of waves (or cycles) arriving at or passing a point in one second,expressed in hertz

frequency

Digital Recording

music recorded and played back by laser beam rather than by needle or magnetic tape

The perception of frequency by the ear, is called...

pitch

Which of these answers is NOT a definition of sound?

pressure waves of space

A program that allows you to upload your sound file and save it to a different format is called...

sound converter

What is the Foley Artist?

sound effect technique for creating live effects for movies sound effect technique for creating live effects for movies named after Jack Foley, a sound editor for Universal Studios matches live sound effects with the action of movies sound effects that are laid manually and not cut in with the movie

File Extensions

the endings of file names that indicate to the computer the format for how the underlying bits are organized. or filename suffix is usually three, four or more characters at the end of computer file names divided by a dot.File extensions are useful to computer programs and operating systems like Windows or macOS (OS X), and basically telling them, what kind of data and file type they are working with and what associated program opens the file.

Post-production

the video editing, sound editing and effects Review the following videos as an introduction to video production

The length of a sound wave in air, is called...

wave length