Filmmaking
The combination of all camera shots captured in order to piece together a film scene.
What is coverage?
The height of an electromagnetic wave, which also determines the volume of the sound.
What is amplitude?
The standard frame rate of cinema.
What is 24 frames per second?
The initial test of a game, usually only shared internally with designers and programmers.
What is a prototype?
A pixel is made of these three different colors of subpixels.
What is red, green, and blue.
The final stage of film development, in which the film is released for public consumption.
What is exhibition?
An alphabet in which letters and numbers are represented by dots and dashes.
What is morse code?
Caused by the brain retaining an image a fraction of a second later than the eye observes it.
What is persistence of vision?
Also known as a GDD, this is a working pre-production document.
What is a Game Design Document?
The range of shades a camera can capture between pure white and pure black.
What is dynamic range?
Combining two or more images into a single frame.
What is compositing?
A unit of frequency, equal to one cycle per second.
What is Hertz (Hz)
These brothers are credited with the earliest known footage captured on a motion picture camera, a train arriving at a station in Paris.
Who are the Lumiere Bros?
The final, working version of a game that gets released to the public.
What is a Gold Master?
While these two high quality display resolutions have the same height, they have a different aspect ratio.
What is 4K and UHD?
Real-world special effects, filmed on-set during production.
What are practical effects?
At this decibel threshold, sound may become damaging to human ears.
What is 70db?
Utilizing magic lanterns, these horror shows combined spooky glass slides, sound effects, and smoke to entertain audiences.
What are Phantasmagorias?
The designer of classic Nintendo characters including Kong, Mario, and Zelda.
Who is Shigeru Myamoto?
Commonly referred to as Full HD, this display resolution became the standard for televisions in the late 2000s.
What is 1920 x 1080?
In composition, this is the space in front of a moving or stationary subject.
What is lead room?
This short-hand for digital modulation refers to the process of encodes binary information onto an analog wave.
What is shift-keying?
This motion picture camera feature prevents motion blur by covering the film stock whenever it is being moved.
What is a shutter?
The process of converting a 3D model into a 2D image displayed on a screen.
What is rendering?
Unlike Liquid Crystal Displays, which utilizes a backlight, DLP projects instead create pixels through turning thousands of these objects.
What are mirrors?