Animation and Video Worksheet: Final Test
Creator's tip (Find the topic, use the idea): Find the topic: animation, design or video. Use that lesson’s rule — frames = seconds × fps; pixels = width × height; clips add up. For choices, ask what the job needs: the place, the feeling, the file, the reader or your privacy.
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- 1.🟦 Which aspect ratio best fits an upright phone screen? (a) 9:16 (b) 1:1 (c) 4:3 (d) 16:9
- 2.True or false: a spinning zoetrope shows moving pictures. (a) False (b) True
- 3.🔑 What is usually drawn first? (a) the end credits (b) the in-betweens (c) the music (d) the keyframes
- 4.©️ OK or not OK: to copy a logo for a shop? (a) not OK (b) OK
- 5.Which of these best fits 16:9? (a) a square post (b) a laptop film screen (c) an old-style monitor (d) a tall phone video
- 6.🌀 A zoetrope with 16 pictures round its drum shows 32 pictures each second. How many times a second does it spin?
- 7.🎨 Which element of design is this: “letter size and style”? (a) colour (b) shape (c) line (d) typography
- 8.🎥 Which camera angle would you use to make a hero look tall? (a) eye level (b) a high angle (c) a bird’s-eye view (d) a low angle
- 9.🎨 Circles, squares and triangles are … (a) organic shapes (b) geometric shapes (c) fonts (d) colours
- 10.🔑 A ball moves from 0 cm to 56 cm in 7 equal steps. How far from the start is it after step 1 (in cm)?
- 11.True or false: “a centred, even layout” shows balance. (a) False (b) True
- 12.True or false: “a timed panel slideshow” is part of the storyboard. (a) False (b) True
- 13.🎬 A small move the opposite way before the main action is … (a) anticipation (b) follow-through (c) timing (d) arcs
- 14.🔒 Safe to share or keep private: a poster you designed? (a) keep private (b) safe to share
- 15.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) ears flop after landing (b) hair swings after a stop (c) fast move, fewer frames (d) cape keeps moving on
- 16.🧸 A stop-motion film plays at 10 photos per second. How many photos do you need for 3 seconds?
- 17.🔤 Serif or sans-serif: “easy to read on screens”? (a) sans-serif (b) serif
- 18.🌈 Which colour scheme is “pale to deep red”? (a) complementary (b) monochrome (c) analogous (d) triadic
- 19.⏱️ A video has three clips of 54, 15 and 12 seconds. How long is the video (in seconds)?
- 20.🟦 A 16:9 video frame is 180 pixels tall. How many pixels wide is it?
- 21.📒 A flipbook needs 43 pages. You have drawn 3. How many pages are still to draw?
- 22.📐 Which principle makes the most important thing the biggest? (a) proximity (b) alignment (c) repetition (d) hierarchy
- 23.🎨 In paint, mixing yellow and red makes which colour? (a) green (b) brown (c) purple (d) orange
- 24.📐 Which design principle is this: “a mirror-image layout”? (a) alignment (b) hierarchy (c) repetition (d) balance
- 25.🎵 When someone talks over music, the music should be … (a) quieter than the voice (b) at full volume (c) switched on and off (d) louder than the voice
- 26.📸 A video frame is 1140 pixels wide. You split it into thirds with two vertical lines. How many pixels from the left edge is the first line?
- 27.🔤 Writing a whole paragraph in CAPITALS makes it … (a) harder to read (b) quieter (c) easier to read (d) shorter
- 28.Which of these is used in stop-motion? (a) a hand-drawn cartoon (b) a computer-built model (c) a rigged digital model (d) a clay model moved a bit
- 29.🎬 Which principle makes a bouncing ball look soft and bendy? (a) anticipation (b) arcs (c) squash and stretch (d) timing
- 30.🎵 A music loop is 39 seconds long. How many times must it play to fill a 156-second video?
- 31.Which of these is best saved as JPG? (a) a phone camera snapshot (b) a see-through logo (c) a poster to print (d) a transparent icon
- 32.🔑 A ball moves from 0 cm to 64 cm in 8 equal steps. How far from the start is it after step 2 (in cm)?
- 33.🎬 Which frame rate has long been used for cinema films? (a) 5 fps (b) 1 fps (c) 24 fps (d) 2 fps
- 34.🎬 An animation at 12 fps is drawn “on twos” (each drawing is shown for 2 frames). How many drawings are needed for 10 seconds?
- 35.🔢 To tell a story in a video, which comes first: “wrap up the story” or “hook the viewer”? (a) wrap up the story (b) hook the viewer
- 36.Which of these best fits 9:16? (a) a landscape video (b) a square sticker (c) an upright phone screen (d) a widescreen slide
- 37.🎨 Why leave space around a title? (a) to print faster (b) to hide it (c) to waste paper (d) so it stands out
- 38.🎬 A clip has 60 frames and plays at 30 fps. How many seconds long is it? =
- 39.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a hook in 5 seconds (b) a second try fails (c) tension builds up (d) the problem gets worse
- 40.🎥 Which camera angle would you use to show a table from above? (a) a low angle (b) eye level (c) a high angle (d) a bird’s-eye view
Answer key
- 9:16
- True
- the keyframes
- not OK
- a laptop film screen
- 2
- typography
- a low angle
- geometric shapes
- 8
- True
- False
- anticipation
- safe to share
- fast move, fewer frames
- 30
- sans-serif
- monochrome
- 81
- 320
- 40
- hierarchy
- orange
- balance
- quieter than the voice
- 380
- harder to read
- a clay model moved a bit
- squash and stretch
- 4
- a phone camera snapshot
- 16
- 24 fps
- 60
- hook the viewer
- an upright phone screen
- so it stands out
- 2
- a hook in 5 seconds
- a bird’s-eye view
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