Camera Basics
This object is used in testing as the midpoint of all luminance values
What is the gray card?
A pan is classified as this kind of camera movement.
What is a simple move?
This shape has the highest visual intensity
What is a triangle?
This color mixing is with light, with Red Green and Blue as the primaries.
What is additive color?
This item serves as a reference for testing as a midpoint of exposure and equal parts R/G/B color in the frame.
What is the gray card?
This is the distance at which a lens is in focus from half of the distance to infinity.
What is hyperfocal distance?
A dolly push in or pull out moves along this axis of movement.
What is the z axis?
Ideas in this category are shape change, perspective, size difference, tonal and color separation and camera movement.
What are depth cues?
These three components are the main axies of the Munsell color system.
What are hue, value and saturation?
This is the amount of light reflected on a 1 ft x 1 ft square from 1 foot away from one candle.
What is a foot candle?
These out of focus elements (often small points of light) sometimes stretch and swirl, other times they are circles or triangles.
What is bokeh?
This is when the camera pushes in on a dolly while simultaneously pulling out on the zoom.
What is a zolly or dolly zoom?
When you control your design choices so that some are very different and others are very similar, you are applying this visual design principle.
What is contrast and affinity?
Some examples of this relationship are red and cyan, green and magenta, and blue and yellow.
What are complementary colors?
This system is a way to quantify different levels of exposure in an image, to ensure that there is variation of tone in your image making.
What is the zone system?
This optical illusion like effect happens when a repeated pattern (often in fabric) has a higher resolution than the camera's sensor.
What is moiré?
This kind of movement is when the camera moves independently of the movement of the actors.
What is unmotivated camera movement?
This is when an image has one or more linear elements that cross the entire frame, breaking it into distinct spaces.
What are surface divisions?
When you mix a color of paint with it's complementary color it does this.
What is desaturates it?
This device measures the amount of light falling on it and can calculate an average shooting aperature.
What is an incident light meter?
This shadowy effect happens when the image circle of a lens doesn't cover the size of a larger sensor.
What is vignetting?
A crane shot is an example of this.
What is a complex camera move?
When you vary and evolve contrast and affinity of several elements throughout your project in order to advance the story this is what you are building.
What is a visual progression?
A warm and cool color scheme is an example of what design principle in action?
What is contrast of color?
This graph/monitor shows a readout of the exposure values from on the y axis with the x axis representing the image from left to right.
What is a waveform monitor?