| Post Name | Production Assistant - Kerala State Film Development Coporation Limited |
|---|---|
| Question Paper Code | 127/2024/OL |
| Category Code | 277/2023 |
| Date of Test | 3 December 2024 |
| Exam Type | Online Examination |
| Total Questions | 100 |
1
A photograph of a cloudy sky was taken with a camera ļ¬lter to get more details in the highlight areas. Which phenomenon of light is the ļ¬lter designed upon?
Answer
D. Polarization
2
A digital data is stored in terms of pixels. Each pixel is represented by a unique arrangement of 0s and 1s placed inside a group of memory boxes. One memory box can store only one digit, 0 or 1. Higher the number of memory boxes, higher the number of arrangements and higher the number of unique values of data. Consider one such arrangement given below: 0110101010 How many unique values of data can be created from this memory box system including the one given above?
Answer
A. 1024
3
Select the correct group of pairs that matches the name of the artist with his corresponding style of art: Artist Style of Art A. Rembrandt 1. Use of single source of light B. Seurat 2. Use of discrete dots of color C. Vermeer 3. Use of window as a source of light D. Picasso 4. Use of solid geometry
Answer
D. A - 1, B - 2, C - 3, D - 4
4
Which of the following objects will always reļ¬ect an image with barrel distortion?
Answer
A. A steel ball
5
A picture on a computer has its waveform representation displayed on the screen next to it. Which of the following editing operations on the picture will NOT alter the waveform representation of the picture?
Answer
C. Squeezing/stretching the picture vertically
6
The paragraph given below describes a scene with four blank spaces. Choose the appropriate option which will correctly place the words in the blank spaces. The words are placed in the order in which the blank spaces appear while reading the paragraph. 'He wakes up 15 min. before sunrise in his room. The table next to him has a ļ¬ower vase and a lamp which gives a warm glow. The yellow lamp light falls upon the blue ļ¬owers and makes them appear _________. Both the windows have white translucent curtains which are closed. The soft blue skylight is unable to _________ through the curtains. The contrast inside the room is ________ and the shadows appear dark. He gets up and opens the curtains. The blue western sky light enters the room. The light gets ________ from the white walls and spreads all over the room.
Answer
D. White, diļ¬use, high, reļ¬ected
7
Which of the following situations has a possibility of clicking a photograph with a 'silhouette' eļ¬ect?
Answer
D. A dog walking in a narrow alley connecting a road with an open ļ¬eld on a sunny winter morning
8
A photographer goes to the mountains and shoots a valley with bluish grey clouds with a 16 mm lens. He clicks three photographs from same angle and same camera settings; ļ¬rst without any camera ļ¬lter and then with RED and GREEN ļ¬lters. Which photograph will be most underexposed?
Answer
B. The photograph with RED ļ¬lter
9
Which of the following compositional tool is used to create an impression of third dimension in a photograph?
Answer
B. Frame within frame
10
Which property of human vision is used by software engineers to store the brightness values in a compressed digital ļ¬le?
Answer
C. Response to brightness in steps of geometric progression
11
A miniature model of a car (15 cm Ć 4 cm Ć 2.5 cm) is made for a TV commercial shoot in a studio. The car is in front of a 2D background showing an image of a road in one point perspective. The lighting is done to create the mood of a sunny morning day. A camera with a 50 mm lens is placed at the minimum focus distance from the car in such a way that the centres of the camera, the car and the road are along a straight line. Which of the following parameters is most likely to make the photograph look unrealistic?
Answer
B. The use of 50 mm lens
12
An anamorphic lens is used on a camera with a sensor having an aspect ratio 4:3. The captured image is squeezed horizontally. When the image is projected on the screen it is de-squeezed to 2.4:1 aspect ratio. When the same anamorphic lens is used on a 16:9 sensor, the projected image on the screen will have an aspect ratio of
Answer
D. 3.2:1
13
What standard is followed for post-production of ļ¬lms to be released in cinema halls/theaters?
Answer
C. DCI
14
A cube is placed between a single source of light throwing parallel light rays and a wall at 90 degrees to the light rays. The cube can rotate freely in all directions. Which 2D shapes can be created from the shadows of the cube falling on the wall?
Answer
D. A square, a rectangle and a hexagon
15
Which Indian Cinematographer developed 'bounce lighting' technique to create naturalistic lighting eļ¬ect?
Answer
D. Subrata Mitra
16
What is the characteristic of low key lighting style?
Answer
C. High lighting contrast, mostly under exposed zones with few highlight areas
17
What are the characteristics of Indian miniature paintings?
Answer
A. No clear use of perspective lines to create depth, minute detailing of forms and shapes, use of primary colours
18
A photograph is taken with the following camera settings : ISO 200, f4, 1/500 sec. Which of the following settings will give the same exposure as the given setting without adding noise to the image?
Answer
C. ISO 100, f2.8, 1/250 sec with ND 0.3 ļ¬lter
19
During a shoot, the shot of an actor is taken in the following way: The actor is standing in the middle of a long narrow alley with buildings on both sides in the background. The camera is placed in the centre of the alley on a track. The Character is focussed and composed in a mid-close up with a zoom lens. The camera starts rolling. The camera is tracked out from the character and the image is zoomed in by shifting the focal length from 16 mm to 100 mm such that the character is always composed in mid-close up. What will the viewer experience while viewing this shot?
Answer
D. All of the above
20
Which of the following statement/s is/are true about sunlight?
Answer
D. All of the above
21
Who is considered the 'father' of Documentary?
Answer
B. Robert J Flaherty
22
Apart from the 180 degree rule, which of the following is another rule for maintaining continuity?
Answer
A. The 30 degree rule
23
Vsevolod Pudovkin identiļ¬ed 5 techniques of Montage. Contrast, Parallelism, Symbolism, Leit Motif and _________?
Answer
C. Simultaneity
24
The full name for MXF ļ¬les used in video productions is
Answer
A. Material Exchange Format
25
A series of shots taken in a particular location and time, forming a unit in a ļ¬lm is usually called a ________.
Answer
D. scene
26
The technique of making a sound track of a scene continue in to the next scene is called a _________.
Answer
C. L Cut
27
The unique 'pillow shot' cutaways were used by legendary ļ¬lm maker
Answer
A. Yasujiro Ozu
28
An image resolution of 4096 Ć 2160 is a standard for
Answer
C. 4k DCI
29
An XML is used for
Answer
D. taking a timeline from an oļ¬ine editing system to an online system
30
A sound designer expects an editor to give him/her the following ļ¬les for sound post production work
Answer
A. AAF/OMF ļ¬les
31
The 2022 National Award for Best Editing in the Feature ļ¬lm category was won by the ļ¬lm ________.
Answer
B. Aattam
32
Video ļ¬les of the same name and TC which are smaller in size and lower in resolution, primarily made for editing are called
Answer
D. Proxy ļ¬les
33
The time code that can be read by the VTR even when it is in the pause mode is called
Answer
A. VITC
34
Jump cuts as a style of ļ¬lm making was ļ¬rst seen in ļ¬lms made during the ļ¬lm movement called
Answer
C. French New Wave
35
The autosync features in Editing software uses the _______ to sync video and audio.
Answer
A. Waveform and/or TC
36
Which of these directors are more famous for their documentary ļ¬lms?
Answer
D. Anand Patwardhan
37
Before Color Correction starts, one has to rebuild the edit on the CC timeline which should resemble the editor's ļ¬nal cut. Who does this job?
Answer
A. Conformist
38
The process of digitising the motion picture and manipulating color and other image characteristics is called
Answer
D. Digital Intermediate
39
The main document for an editor for referring to all shooting details is called a/an
Answer
A. Continuity Sheet
40
An image will have 256 variations in color per pixel if the image has a bit depth of
Answer
B. 8
41
One of the following parameters are a part of the Sound recording studio
Answer
B. Voice Room and Control Room and Machine/Server Room
42
The velocity of a sound wave is correct as on the following:
Answer
A. 1130 feet per second (ft/sec) or 344 meters per second (m/sec)
43
The term Frequency in audio is measured by one of the following:
Answer
D. Hertz(Hz)
44
How many types of microphones are there by its transducer principle, choose the right answer below:
Answer
C. Three
45
Which are the following frequency spectrum is correct for the Bottom depth and slap attack of a Kick drum?
Answer
A. Bottom depth at 60ā80 Hz, slap attack at 2.5 kHz
46
The physical length of a wave can be calculated by using one of the following formula,
Answer
A. Ī» = Vf
47
The Equal-loudness contour curves discovered by one of the following:
Answer
D. Harvey Fletcher and Wilden A. Munson
48
The envelope of an acoustic or electronically generated Audio signal is composed of four sections, choose the right answer below:
Answer
A. ADSR
49
Which is the following term you choose to deļ¬ne a microphone?
Answer
B. Microphone is a Device/Transducer that changes one form of energy (sound waves) into another corresponding form of energy (electrical signals)
50
The Dynamic moving coil microphone operates by using one of the following theory/law/principle :
Answer
D. Electromagnetic principle
51
The Omni Directional microphone diaphragm capable of pick up the sound sources from one of the following:
Answer
A. From all the 0 to 360 degree
52
How many heads are there in N A G R A 4.2 Portable analog Audio tape recorder? Choose the right option below :
Answer
A. Four Heads (Erase head, Recording head, Pilot head, Playback head)
53
In a Sync sound ļ¬lm, what are the microphones are used to record preliminarily dialogues, choose the right option below:
Answer
A. Boom and Wireless Microphones (Lavalier)
54
What is the extension of ADR? Choose the right option below:
Answer
A. Automatic Dialogue Replacement
55
The 44.1 K Audio sampling rate is adapted for one of the following:
Answer
B. CD-audio production standard
56
How many types of Professional speaker enclosures designs are available?
Answer
D. Two
57
The production sound mixed involves in one of the following production stages, choose the right option:
Answer
D. Pre Production/Production/Post Production
58
Choose the correct option of a microphone polar pattern below for recording an interview session
Answer
C. Bi-Directional
59
One of the following parameters used to represent and analyse sound, choose the right one:
Answer
A. Amplitude/Frequency/Time
60
Which are the professional and dedicated music composing software, choose the right answer below:
Answer
A. Logic Pro
61
The Parallel Action technique through crosscutting/intercutting was ļ¬rst successfully applied towards developing the concept of 'continuity editing' in cinema, by
Answer
C. Edwin Porter
62
"The plots of the four stories are interwoven like symphonies unti they converge in a crescendo in the ļ¬lm's climax", the narrative structure was ļ¬rst experimented by D.W. Griļ¬th in his ļ¬lm
Answer
B. Intolerance
63
To break the already established 180Ā° axis (Imaginary line) betwen two characters and still be able to maintain the principle of continuity, this can be done by
Answer
A. Introducing a third character on the other side of the axis
64
The smallest unit of the ļ¬lm language unbroken by an edit, is
Answer
B. Shot
65
Placing two or more shots next to each other so that you highlight a link or contrast between the content in each shot, is called
Answer
D. Juxtaposition
66
A scene is a speciļ¬c segment of dramatic action with a purpose, such as (i) Revealing character (ii) Unlike a story it should have beginning and middle, not the end (iii) Not to disclose information about the plot
Answer
C. Only (i) is correct
67
Three important individual aspects which inļ¬uence the development of a good character
Answer
D. Dramatic need, attitude and weakness
68
Documentary ļ¬lm The Day After Trinity : J. Robert Oppenheimer and the Atomic Bomb (1981), directed by Jon Else can be classiļ¬ed under the genre
Answer
A. Expository documentary
69
In the medium of moving images the term mise-en-scene is used to
Answer
B. signify the director's control over what appears in the frame
70
There are several exclusive terms have been evolved in ļ¬lmmaking, one of them is On-Camera Talent, used for
Answer
D. An actor
71
The Aspect Ratio of a frame is used to describe
Answer
C. The relationship betwen the width and height of the frame
72
Following the rule of screen direction in Spatial Continuity while shooting and editing a ļ¬lm, a character in a shot
Answer
A. Exits the right-frame should enter the left-frame in the next shot
73
The sequence of events that is the spine of a story and moves forward by protagonist's desires and actions, is
Answer
D. Plot
74
Actors are 'Indispensable' in any dramatically structured classical narratie ļ¬lm, because
Answer
B. They bring the Director's vision portrayed by the characters on screen
75
In the making of narrative ļ¬ction ļ¬lms Production Design chieļ¬y involves
Answer
A. An art director
76
In pre-production of a ļ¬ction ļ¬lm the ļ¬rst step of preparing the production logistics is known as
Answer
C. Script breakdown
77
'Tech Recce', is the familiar term for a ļ¬lm crew, it stands for
Answer
C. Location technical survey
78
A Call Sheet is a form that is importantly used for each shooting day and describes the detail about
Answer
B. Who among the crew and cast need to be there on the shooting spot and at what time
79
From a distance when you're trying to go close to an object either by moving the camera forward or by zooming in the lens, the main diļ¬erence you'll notice
Answer
D. Perspective changes while the camera moves
80
'Diegetic Sound' is an aural element in cinema which emanates from
Answer
A. Both on and oļ¬ screen sources
81
The camera must be fast enough (in frames per second) to create an illusion of motion consistent with the phenomenon of _________. (i) image capture (ii) persistence of vision (iii) image projection
Answer
A. Only (ii)
82
Cinemascope is (i) a mid-20th century ļ¬lm format (ii) technical innovation that helped to meet the television challenge (iii) capable of producing a 2.66:1 image
Answer
C. All the above
83
Realism in Film means that : (i) ļ¬lm focuses on portraying life authentically, using naturalistic techniques and narrative styles. (ii) it captures the real world. (iii) it incorporates contemporary issues and struggles.
Answer
D. Only (i) and (iii)
84
AR and VR technologies imply _________. (i) 3D motion graphic tools (ii) creation of a blended reality (iii) enhancement of storytelling
Answer
C. All the above
85
MPEG-2 is (i) a standard for compressing and transmitting audio and video (ii) a sound system (iii) editing software
Answer
A. Only (i)
86
Previsualization's advantage is that it (i) allows a director to experiment with diļ¬erent staging and art direction options. (ii) allows a cinematographer to experiment with lighting, camera placement and movement. (iii) allows a production supervisor to perform stage direction and editing.
Answer
C. All the above
87
Diļ¬erent types of previsualization in ļ¬lm include (i) Storytelling, shortlists, animatics, photographs (ii) Storyboards, shots, animatics, photographs (iii) Storyboards, shortlists, animatics, photographs (iv) Storyboards, shortlists, animatics, cinematography
Answer
C. Only (iii)
88
Films were ļ¬rst projected on large-screen in (i) December 28, 1895 (ii) March 8, 1895 (iii) November 18, 1895 (iv) February 27, 1896
Answer
B. Only (i)
89
The silent era is associated with ________. (i) Lumiere brothers (ii) Charlie Chaplin (iii) 1895-1930
Answer
B. Only (i) and (ii)
90
Georges Melies is considered _________. (i) the ļ¬rst ļ¬lm-maker of early cinema (ii) the ļ¬rst auteur of cinema (iii) a magician and ļ¬lm director
Answer
A. Only (ii) and (iii)
91
The scholar who opined that "Film is already a universe of signs" (i) Umberto Eco (ii) Pier Paolo Pasolini (iii) Christian Metz
Answer
B. Only (i)
92
Rules that describe how the human eye perceives visual elements are known as (i) Semiotics (ii) Gestalt principles (iii) Cognitive psychology
Answer
A. Only (ii)
93
The Three act Framework is (i) classic narrative structure of ļ¬lm (ii) storytelling method (iii) the exposition, complication and resolution structure
Answer
C. All the above
94
Objective narrative is (i) personal feelings and emotions into the story. (ii) written in ļ¬rst person or written from the third person limited perspective. (iii) the creator has interjected his/her own personal opinions and viewpoints on the topic of the story into the narrative.
Answer
C. None of the above
95
Balu Mahendra was (i) an Indian ļ¬lm maker, cinematographer and screen writer (ii) a cinematography graduate and gold medalist from FTII (iii) winner of 5 National Film Awards
Answer
C. All the above
96
Raja Harishchandra was (i) the ļ¬rst silent ļ¬lm directed by Dadasahib Phalke in the year 1913 (ii) the ļ¬rst to receive an Academy Award nomination for foreign language ļ¬lm (iii) a remake of the ļ¬lm Aurat
Answer
D. Only (i)
97
"Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema" is (i) brought the term "male gaze" into ļ¬lm criticism and eventually into common parlance (ii) an essay by Christian Metz written in 1973 and published in 1975 in the inļ¬uential British ļ¬lm theory journal Screen (iii) an essay that revealed the ļ¬gure of the woman on screen as the object of desire and male gaze in the era of classical Hollywood cinema
Answer
D. Only (i) and (iii)
98
Mise en scene refers to (i) Setting including props and decor (ii) Lighting, costume, makeup (iii) Staging-movements and performance
Answer
C. All the above
99
Cinematic universe means (i) A universe of themes, characters and stories having presence in both ļ¬lms and television (ii) A shared universe concept in ļ¬lm making where multiple ļ¬lms are interconnected through common characters and story lines (iii) A collection of movie franchises that share a similar narrative
Answer
C. All the above
100
Which of the following is more acceptable? (i) Film has three types of sound : dialogue, music and sound eļ¬ects. (ii) Sound eļ¬ects can be used to create a sense of realism and immersion. (iii) Sound is used in ļ¬lms to avoid silence in theatre.
Answer
B. Only (i) and (ii)
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