ACRONYMS
The acronym Mbps
What is Megabits Per Second
This is the adjustable opening in a camera lens that controls the amount of light reaching the sensor.
What is the aperture
This software is considered the industry standard for photo editing and manipulation.
What is Adobe Photoshop
This technique involves moving the camera horizontally from a fixed position.
What is Panning
Most common used uncompressed audio format used in audio recording
What is WAV file format
This 2023 sequel brought together the multiverse once again, featuring Miles Morales.
What is Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse
This tool is commonly used to select and move objects or layers within your project
What is the Move Tool
The acronym DSLR
What is Digital Single Lens Reflex
This camera setting determines how sensitive the camera sensor is to light.
What is ISO
This type of portrait focuses on close-up shots of a subject’s face, emphasising features and emotions.
What is a headshot
This shot is generally used at the beginning of a film as apposed to the end of a film
What is an Establishing Shot
This term refers to sound that originates from a source visible on-screen.
What is Diegetic sound
This 2022 DC film introduced audiences to Dwayne Johnson's antihero, a figure who claimed to change the hierarchy of power.
What is Black Adam
This versatile tool can clone parts of an image by sampling one area and painting over another.
What is the Clone Stamp Tool
The acronym SD
What is Secure Digital
A fast one of these lets you freeze motion, while a slow one can capture light trails.
What is Shutter Speed
This photography type focuses on close-ups of small animals, insects, or plants in their natural habitat.
What is Macro Photography
This type of cut places two visually similar shots back-to-back for an artistic effect.
What is a Match Cut
This sound effect, created in post-production, replicates everyday noises like footsteps or doors creaking.
What is Foley sound?
This 2023 historical drama starring Cillian Murphy explored the life and moral struggles of the father of the atomic bomb.
What is Oppenheimer
This Photoshop setting allows you to change how a layer interacts with layers beneath it, such as Multiply or Overlay.
What is Blend Mode
The acronym VPN
What is Virtual Private Network
This company, founded by George Eastman in 1888, made photography accessible to the masses.
What is Kodak
Wildlife photographers often use this type of lens to capture distant subjects without disturbing them.
What is a Telephoto Lens
This type of lighting comes from behind the subject, creating a silhouette.
What is Back Lighting
Used to record sound underwater
What is a Hyrdaphone
James Cameron revisited Pandora with this 2022 sequel, exploring the underwater tribes of the Na’vi.
What is Avatar: The Way of Water
This kind of layer can be added to apply non-destructive edits, such as adjusting brightness, contrast, or colour.
What is an Adjustment Layer
The acronym USB
What is Universal Serial Bus
This mode lets you control your depth of field by either opening or closing your aperture.
What is AV [Aperture Value] Mode
This composition technique divides the frame into nine equal parts to guide focal points.
What is the Rule of Thirds?
This editing technique compresses time by showing a series of related shots in rapid succession.
What is a Montage
This effect adds a sense of space to a recording, simulating an acoustic environment.
What is Reverb
This action star reprised his role as the heroric archeologist in the 2023 film The Dial of Destiny.
Who is Harrison Ford
This selection tool creates a border by clicking points to form straight-edged shapes around an area.
What is the Polygonal Lasso Tool
This video compression format is commonly used for high-quality streaming and has versions like H.264 and H.265.
What is MPEG
This type of camera lens has a fixed focal length and is prized for its sharpness and simplicity.
What is a Prime Lens
The setting that controls the amount of light hitting the camera sensor and is represented as a fraction or whole number, such as 1/500 or 1/60.
What is Shutter Speed
An abrupt cut between scenes that lacks logical continuity is called this.
What is a Jump Cut
Commonly used audio compression format used for easier file transfer and play back online
What is MP3
In 2023, Illumination Studios brought this beloved Nintendo game to the big screen.
What is Super Mario Bros. Movie
This adjustment feature allows you to increase or decrease the intensity of all colours in an image.
What is Saturation
This acronym describes a lossless image format that supports transparency and is widely used on the web.
What is PNG
This handheld shooting technique relies on gyroscopic stabilization to achieve smooth motion.
What is a Gimbal
This style of photography uses soft lighting, muted colors, and minimal contrast to create an atmospheric effect.
What is Low-Key Photography
This lighting technique, often used in film noir, uses high contrast and deep shadows for dramatic effect.
What is chiaroscuro lighting
This format, delivers object-based surround sound with height channels for immersive experiences most commonly used in movie theatres.
What is Dolby Atmos
The name of the actor who plays the role of Star-Lord in the highly anticipated conclusion to James Gunn's Marvel trilogy Guardians of the Galaxy.Vol 3
Chris Pratt
This adjustment allows you to fine-tune the brightness and darkness of specific tonal ranges in an image.
What is Levels or Curves
A setting that uses the camera's hardware and firmware to estimate the colour temperature of the scene
What is AWB [Auto White Balance]
The name given to the bracket on the top of the camera that connects the flash to your camera.
What is a Hot Shoe
The width to the height of both your camera sensor and image
What is Aspect Ratio
This type of shot uses a shallow depth of field to keep only one subject in focus while blurring the background and foreground.
What is Selective Focus
The measurement of sound
What are Decibels [DB]
The 2008 Marvel movie that kickstarted the Marvel Cinematic Universe
What is Iron Man
This tool removes small imperfections, such as blemishes or dust, by blending surrounding pixels.
What is Spot Healing Brush Tool
The acronym WIFI
What is Wireless Fidelity
This lens type, (typically less than 35mm), allows for a broader field of view and is commonly used for landscape and architectural photography.
What is Wide Angle Lens
The abbreviation CMYK refers to the four ink plates used in the subtractive printing model
What is Cyan, Magenta, Yellow, Key [black]
The scene represents everything that sets the mood of the shot.
What is Mise-En-Scene
Described as the number of audio waves that pass a point in one second.
What is frequency
Released in 1994, this Disney animated film drawing inspiration from Shakespeare’s "Hamlet." The main protagonist is forced to leave the family after his father is murdered. Years later, he returns to reclaim the throne.
What is the Lion King
The unit of measurement given to the size of a digital image
What is PPI [Pixels Per Inch]
The acronym PDF
What is Portable Document Format
The number indicating the amount of light entering from the lens
What is F-Stop
This digital photography technique captures a series of images at varying exposures to create a composite with a wider range.
What is HDR (High Dynamic Range) photography
What are the 5 C's in cinematography
Camera Angles, Continuity, Cutting, Close-ups, Composition
This term refers to the time it takes for a sound wave to travel from the source to the listener and is typically measured in milliseconds in audio processing.
What is Latency
Harry, Hermione, and Ron are played by which actors in all of the Harry Potter movies
Who is Daniel Radcliffe, Emma Watson, and Rupert Grint
Adobe Photoshop has had many updates and iterations since its first release in which year
What is 1990