1/2 Exam

Question 1

What is Media?

Answer 1

The digital and non-digital applications used to make visual communications.

Question 2

What is Materials?

Answer 2

The surfaces or substrates that visual communications are applied to or constructed from.

Question 3

What is Methods?

Answer 3

The procedures to make visual communications.

Question 4

What is X-height?

Answer 4

The height of the text (from the baseline to the cap-line).

Question 5

What is a baseline?

Answer 5

The line that the characters sit on.

Question 6

What is a cap-line?

Answer 6

The line that sits on top of the text; below the ascender line.

Question 7

Identify and explain the types of counters?

Answer 7

There are two types: the open counter and closed counter. An open counter can be identified when a character has an open space (eg. u, c). A closed counter can be identified when a character has a closed space (eg. o, q, p, b, d, etc.)

Question 8

What is stem?

Answer 8

The vertical stroke in a letter (eg. B, E).

Question 9

What are ascenders?

Answer 9

Parts of a character that passes the ascender line (b, d, h)

Question 10

What are descenders?

Answer 10

Parts of a character that passes the descender line (p, q, y)

Question 11

What are serifs?

Answer 11

Little strokes at the end of characters.

Question 12

What is the difference between serif fonts and sans serif fonts?

Answer 12

Serif fonts have serifs. Sans serif fonts don’t have serifs.

Question 13

What is tracking?

Answer 13

The overall spacing between characters in a word.

Question 14

What is kerning?

Answer 14

The spacing between specific characters.

Question 15

What is leading?

Answer 15

The spacing between the lining of the text and the text itself.

Question 16

What does it mean by hierarchy?

Answer 16

The use of different combinations of fonts to create a sense of hierarchy and importance in a text.

Question 17

how to tame a horse in Minecraft

Answer 17

Find a Horse.

Tame the Horse.

Question 18

What is colour for?

Answer 18

Colours is used to influence the client’s emotions and moods.

Question 19

what is a form?

Answer 19

It’s a shape that can be edited by tone, texture or colour to give the illusion of 3D.

Question 20

what is shape?

Answer 20

It’s a 2D and created by a closed outline. The shape can be organic or geometric, symmetrical or asymmetrical.

Question 21

What are the three primary colours?

Answer 21

REd, bLUe, and GREIIN

Question 22

What is tone?

Answer 22

Are shadow and highlights found in drawing and photography. It creating the illusion of depth.

Question 23

What is texture?

Answer 23

It is the surface quality of an object.

Question 24

What is line?

Answer 24

It’s a continuous mark made on the surface.

Question 25

What can point use for?

Answer 25

can be used to create patterns or images, it could also be used to create tone .

Question 26

What does 'Figure' stands for, in figure ground?

Answer 26

The figure can be called the positive space or can be referred to the images that are dominant in the design.

Question 27

What does the 'ground' stands for, in figure ground?

Answer 27

The ground can be the negative space or the background, that's surrounding the figure.

Question 28

What are the three type of balance?

Answer 28

Symmetrical balance, Asymmetrical balance, and Radial balance.

Question 29

What can cropping do?

Answer 29

Crop one part of the image allows in creating a more clear information. It can change the focus, remove unnecessary info, balance the composition.

Question 30

What is hierarchy?

Answer 30

Hierarchy is the elements in a composition that's order according to the importance in the work.

Question 31

What is scale?

Answer 31

Scale is the size of an object in relation to the ground it is placed in.

Question 32

What is proportion?

Answer 32

It's the comparative relationship between components within a visual communication.

Question 33

What is pattern?

Answer 33

It is the repetition of an element like point, line or shape.

Question 34

What is the environmental design:

Answer 34

it is architectural drawings, that follows strict guidelines for the way designer layout their plan and elevations.

Question 35

What are the different ways of hatching?

Answer 35

- cross-hatching - contour hatching - scrumbling

Question 36

What different shadows do you need to add when rendering?

Answer 36

- mid-tone - darkest - cast shadow

Question 37

What does rendering do?

Answer 37

Shows the form and texture of an object in the best way possible

Question 38

What are visualisation drawings used for?

Answer 38

Drawings used to show our thinking and ideas

Question 39

What does SCAMPER stand for?

Answer 39

substitute, combine, adapt, minimise/maximise, put to another use, erase, rearrange

Question 40

How do you give a two-point perspective a more dramatic look?

Answer 40

Put the vanishing points closer together

Question 41

What does a two-point perspective look like?

Answer 41

The corner faces the viewer and the two sides recede back towards vanishing points

Question 42

What is the straight line connecting the two vanishing points called?

Answer 42

The horizon line