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