Graphic Design
This is the smallest unit of a digital image, appearing as a tiny square of colour.
What is a pixel?
This camera angle is taken from above the subject, looking downward.
What is a bird's-eye view?
This refers to the number of individual images shown each second in video, with 24 being the standard for film.
What are frames per second (fps)?
This simple animation technique creates movement by flipping a sequence of drawings on pages.
What is a flip book?
This is a professional who captures images of subjects and events in areas such as sports, architecture, and portraits.
What is a photographer?
This image file type is limited to 256 colours and is commonly used for simple animations.
What is a GIF?
This camera angle is taken from below the subject, looking upward.
What is a worm's-eye view?
This refers to how characters and objects are positioned in relation to the camera and to each other within a shot.
What is framing?
This is the process of planning animation through rough drawings that map out key actions and timing.
What is storyboarding?
This job focuses on designing visuals for websites, ads, posters, and digital media.
What is a graphic designer?
This colour system is used by printers to create full-colour images using cyan, magenta, yellow, and black inks.
What is CMYK?
This photography composition technique uses a 3 × 3 grid to help place subjects in visually appealing positions.
What is the Rule of Thirds?
This is the physical material used in early motion picture recording, on which moving images were captured.
What is film?
This animation technique creates motion by photographing objects one frame at a time and playing the images in sequence.
What is stop motion?
This person directs actors and oversees the creative vision of a film or video production.
What is a film director?
This type of image uses mathematical paths instead of pixels, allowing it to be resized without losing quality.
What is a vector image?
This camera setting controls how long the camera's shutter stays open, affecting the amount of light captured and motion blur.
What is shutter speed?
This term in editing comes from physically cutting and splicing film strips together to join one scene to the next.
What is a cut?
This is one of Disney’s 12 principles of animation that makes movements and expressions more dramatic or heightened than reality.
What is exaggeration?
This role involves creating moving images using 2D or 3D software.
What is an animator?
This typography term refers to the space between individual letters in a word.
What is kerning?
This photography term describes how much of an image appears in focus and is affected by the f-stop, distance to the subject, and focal length.
What is depth of field?
This editing technique is a transition that abruptly cuts between two shots of the same subject, often creating a jarring or fast-paced effect.
What is a jump cut?
This is the process of automatically generating frames between key poses.
What is tweening?
This person works with sound effects, dialogue, and music to create the final audio mix in media.
What is a sound designer?