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 light in three-point lighting: “the main, bright light”? (a) fill light (b) key light (c) back light
- 2.🎥 Which camera angle would you use to make a giant look huge? (a) eye level (b) a high angle (c) a low angle (d) a bird’s-eye view
- 3.True or false: to ask before using a photo is not OK. (a) True (b) False
- 4.🔑 An animator draws keyframes on frame 2 and frame 12. How many in-between frames are there between them?
- 5.🎥 Which shot best shows how a person feels? (a) a wide shot (b) a close-up (c) a blank screen (d) a bird’s-eye view
- 6.Which of these is best saved as JPG? (a) a short looping cartoon (b) a phone camera snapshot (c) a see-through logo (d) a sharp screenshot
- 7.🔤 Fonts with small feet (strokes) on the letter ends are … (a) sans-serif fonts (b) serif fonts (c) pixels (d) emoji
- 8.True or false: big enough letters is easy to read. (a) False (b) True
- 9.Which of these is used in 3D computer animation? (a) a hand-drawn cartoon (b) frames drawn on a tablet (c) flipbook pages (d) a computer-built model
- 10.📒 A flipbook needs 42 pages. You have drawn 20. How many pages are still to draw?
- 11.🌀 A zoetrope has 13 pictures round its drum and spins 3 times a second. How many pictures do you see in 4 seconds?
- 12.🔑 What is usually drawn first? (a) the keyframes (b) the music (c) the in-betweens (d) the end credits
- 13.🌈 Warm or cool: blue-green? (a) warm colour (b) cool colour
- 14.🎵 A song is 54 seconds long but your video is 36 seconds long. How many seconds of the song must be trimmed off?
- 15.🔤 Easy or hard to read: yellow words on white? (a) hard to read (b) easy to read
- 16.🎥 Which shot best shows a face showing feelings? (a) a close-up (b) a detail shot (c) a wide shot (d) a medium shot
- 17.🔢 To make a video project, which comes first: “film the shots” or “storyboard your shots”? (a) film the shots (b) storyboard your shots
- 18.🎬 A higher frame rate makes motion look … (a) louder (b) smoother (c) jumpier (d) darker
- 19.Which of these is safe to share? (a) your live location (b) a poster you designed (c) your phone number (d) your home address
- 20.🔤 Font size is measured in … (a) litres (b) kilograms (c) degrees (d) points (pt)
- 21.📒 Good or poor flipbook tip: “draw near the free edge”? (a) good tip (b) poor tip
- 22.🔤 Body text is 12 pt. The heading should be 3 times as big. What size is the heading (in pt)?
- 23.🔢 To make a flipbook, what comes right after “draw the first page”? (a) trace and change a bit (b) pick a simple idea (c) flip with your thumb (d) repeat to the last page
- 24.🎥 Which camera angle would you use to show a table from above? (a) a bird’s-eye view (b) eye level (c) a high angle (d) a low angle
- 25.📒 Good or poor flipbook tip: “trace the page before”? (a) good tip (b) poor tip
- 26.📋 A storyboard has 20 panels and each panel stands for 3 seconds of film. How long is the film (in seconds)?
- 27.📽️ Extra shots of details that you cut to, like hands or a clock, are called … (a) titles (b) keyframes (c) cutaways (d) credits
- 28.True or false: steps numbered 1, 2, 3 makes a less clear layout. (a) False (b) True
- 29.🎨 On a six-colour wheel (red, orange, yellow, green, blue, purple), which colour is opposite yellow? (a) green (b) blue (c) purple (d) red
- 30.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a flipbook (b) a framed painting (c) a comic book page (d) a poster on a wall
- 31.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) cheeks squash in a grin (b) ball squashes on landing (c) a lift starts gently (d) cat stretches mid-leap
- 32.🖼️ Clearer or less clear poster: facts scattered anywhere? (a) clearer layout (b) less clear layout
- 33.🎬 A clip has 30 frames and plays at 12 fps. How many seconds long is it? =
- 34.🎵 A song is 77 seconds long but your video is 45 seconds long. How many seconds of the song must be trimmed off?
- 35.🎬 Starting and ending a move gently, with more frames near the stops, is … (a) arcs (b) squash and stretch (c) slow in and slow out (d) anticipation
- 36.✂️ On the timeline, clip A (8 seconds) starts at 0 and clip B (21 seconds) follows straight after. At which second does clip C start, right after B?
- 37.🔑 A scene has 4 keyframes in a row, with 4 in-betweens between each pair of neighbouring keyframes. How many drawings is that in all?
- 38.True or false: five headlines all big makes a clearer layout. (a) True (b) False
- 39.🔢 To edit a video, which is the LAST step? (a) export the video (b) collect your clips (c) place clips in order (d) watch it and fix it
- 40.🎞️ A card has a bird on one side and a cage on the other. It is spun very fast. What do you see? (a) an empty cage (b) the bird in the cage (c) two birds (d) nothing at all
Answer key
- key light
- a low angle
- False
- 9
- a close-up
- a phone camera snapshot
- serif fonts
- True
- a computer-built model
- 22
- 156
- the keyframes
- cool colour
- 18
- hard to read
- a close-up
- storyboard your shots
- smoother
- a poster you designed
- points (pt)
- good tip
- 36
- trace and change a bit
- a bird’s-eye view
- good tip
- 60
- cutaways
- False
- purple
- a flipbook
- a lift starts gently
- less clear layout
- 2.5
- 32
- slow in and slow out
- 29
- 16
- False
- export the video
- the bird in the cage
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