EMS 202 LATEST 2026 EOC EXAMINATION TEST
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS RATED A+
✔✔underlighting - ✔✔used to illuminate the subject from below
✔✔top lighting - ✔✔lighting coming from above a person or an object, usually in order
to outline the upper areas of the figure or to separate it more clearly from the
background
✔✔hard lighting - ✔✔illumination that creates sharp-edged shadows
✔✔soft lighting - ✔✔diffused, low-contrast lighting that reduces or eliminates hard
edges and shadows and can be more flattering when filming people
✔✔chiaroscuro lighting - ✔✔high-contrast lighting that emphasizes shadows and the
contrast between light and dark. This pictorial arrangement of light and dark creates
depth and contrast.
✔✔actor - ✔✔a person who performs in plays, movies, or television shows
✔✔Performance - ✔✔An actor's use of language, physical expression, and gesture to
bring a character to life and to communicate important dimensions of that character to
the audience.
✔✔Leading actors - ✔✔The two or three actors, often stars, who represent the central
characters in a narrative.
✔✔Character actors - ✔✔Recognizable actors associated with particular character
types, often humorous or sinister, and often cast in minor parts.
✔✔supporting actors - ✔✔Actors who play secondary characters in a film, serving as
foils or companions to the central characters.
✔✔extras - ✔✔Those who do not have any speaking parts or significant roles,
background crowd scenes
✔✔Character Types - ✔✔conventional characters typically portrayed by actors cast
because of their physical features, their acting style, or the history of other roles they
have played
✔✔Blocking - ✔✔the arrangement and movement of actors in relation to each other
within the mise-en-scene
, ✔✔cinematography - ✔✔the art or technique of motion-picture photography (movement
writing)
✔✔apparent motion - ✔✔the psychological process that explains our perception of
movement when watching films, in which the brain is actively responding to the visual
stimuli of a rapid sequence of still images exactly as it would in actual motion perception
✔✔Magic Lantern - ✔✔a device developed in the 17th century using a lens and a light
source to project an image from a painted glass slide
✔✔Chronophotography - ✔✔series of still images that recorded incremental movement
and formed the basis of cinematography
✔✔film stock - ✔✔a length of unexposed film consisting of a flexible backing or base
such as celluloid and a light-sensitive emulsion
✔✔film gauge - ✔✔The width of the film stock--e.g., 8mm, 16mm, 35mm, and 70mm.
✔✔nitrate - ✔✔highly flammable chemical base of 35 mm film stock used until 1951
✔✔safety film - ✔✔acetate-based film stock that replaced the highly flammable nitrate
film base in 1952
✔✔panchromatic - ✔✔stock, which responded to a full spectrum of colors by rendering
them as shades of gray
✔✔Technicolor - ✔✔a process of color cinematography using synchronized
monochrome films, each of a different color, to produce a movie in color.
✔✔camera lenses - ✔✔a piece of curved glass that focuses light rays in order to form
an image on film
✔✔focal lengths - ✔✔the distance from the center of the lens to the point where light
rays meet in sharp focus
✔✔telephoto lens - ✔✔A lens with a focal length of at least 75mm, capable of
magnifying and flattening distant objects
✔✔zoom lens - ✔✔a lens with variable focal length
✔✔depth of field - ✔✔the range of distance before and behind main focus of a shot
within which objects remain relatively sharp and clear
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS RATED A+
✔✔underlighting - ✔✔used to illuminate the subject from below
✔✔top lighting - ✔✔lighting coming from above a person or an object, usually in order
to outline the upper areas of the figure or to separate it more clearly from the
background
✔✔hard lighting - ✔✔illumination that creates sharp-edged shadows
✔✔soft lighting - ✔✔diffused, low-contrast lighting that reduces or eliminates hard
edges and shadows and can be more flattering when filming people
✔✔chiaroscuro lighting - ✔✔high-contrast lighting that emphasizes shadows and the
contrast between light and dark. This pictorial arrangement of light and dark creates
depth and contrast.
✔✔actor - ✔✔a person who performs in plays, movies, or television shows
✔✔Performance - ✔✔An actor's use of language, physical expression, and gesture to
bring a character to life and to communicate important dimensions of that character to
the audience.
✔✔Leading actors - ✔✔The two or three actors, often stars, who represent the central
characters in a narrative.
✔✔Character actors - ✔✔Recognizable actors associated with particular character
types, often humorous or sinister, and often cast in minor parts.
✔✔supporting actors - ✔✔Actors who play secondary characters in a film, serving as
foils or companions to the central characters.
✔✔extras - ✔✔Those who do not have any speaking parts or significant roles,
background crowd scenes
✔✔Character Types - ✔✔conventional characters typically portrayed by actors cast
because of their physical features, their acting style, or the history of other roles they
have played
✔✔Blocking - ✔✔the arrangement and movement of actors in relation to each other
within the mise-en-scene
, ✔✔cinematography - ✔✔the art or technique of motion-picture photography (movement
writing)
✔✔apparent motion - ✔✔the psychological process that explains our perception of
movement when watching films, in which the brain is actively responding to the visual
stimuli of a rapid sequence of still images exactly as it would in actual motion perception
✔✔Magic Lantern - ✔✔a device developed in the 17th century using a lens and a light
source to project an image from a painted glass slide
✔✔Chronophotography - ✔✔series of still images that recorded incremental movement
and formed the basis of cinematography
✔✔film stock - ✔✔a length of unexposed film consisting of a flexible backing or base
such as celluloid and a light-sensitive emulsion
✔✔film gauge - ✔✔The width of the film stock--e.g., 8mm, 16mm, 35mm, and 70mm.
✔✔nitrate - ✔✔highly flammable chemical base of 35 mm film stock used until 1951
✔✔safety film - ✔✔acetate-based film stock that replaced the highly flammable nitrate
film base in 1952
✔✔panchromatic - ✔✔stock, which responded to a full spectrum of colors by rendering
them as shades of gray
✔✔Technicolor - ✔✔a process of color cinematography using synchronized
monochrome films, each of a different color, to produce a movie in color.
✔✔camera lenses - ✔✔a piece of curved glass that focuses light rays in order to form
an image on film
✔✔focal lengths - ✔✔the distance from the center of the lens to the point where light
rays meet in sharp focus
✔✔telephoto lens - ✔✔A lens with a focal length of at least 75mm, capable of
magnifying and flattening distant objects
✔✔zoom lens - ✔✔a lens with variable focal length
✔✔depth of field - ✔✔the range of distance before and behind main focus of a shot
within which objects remain relatively sharp and clear
