SSM Exam 2 2025 Questions and
Answers
What is SD and what is HD? - ANSWER✔✔-SD-720
HD-1920
"Things that are shot in Full HD cannot be 4K Ultra HD but they can be AI manipulated
to look better" - ANSWER✔✔-True
What is a wide screen aspect ratio? - ANSWER✔✔-16x9
What is a really widescreen aspect ratio? Panavision - ANSWER✔✔-2.35:1
What is a short screen aspect ratio? - ANSWER✔✔-4:3 ( 1.33:1)
What do different aspect ratios do? - ANSWER✔✔-convey messages about visual
language( changing the black bars)
Benefits for short aspect ratio 4:3 ? - ANSWER✔✔-it is presented as equal to the
audience
Benefits/ Negatives for a widescreen aspect ratio 16:9 - ANSWER✔✔-can capture more
than 4:3 and convey more meanings
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, cannot frame things that are very tall
Letterboxing - ANSWER✔✔-Bars on top/bottom of the screen
pillar boxing - ANSWER✔✔-bars on the sides of the screen(Fitting a full-sized 4x3
image in the middle of a 16x 9 screen)
Secondary Frames, Artificial Masking: - ANSWER✔✔-By blacking out both sides of the
screen creates
a secondary frame and changed the fundamentally horizontal aspect ratio to a
vertical one (concentration on a certain area on screen)
Size - ANSWER✔✔-Your personal experience permits permits a sense of size to what
you see on screen/ illusions ( lord of the rings ring example)
Scale - ANSWER✔✔-we make continual judgments about object size by
seeing the object on-screen in relation to other ( Rae from Star Wars zooming past the
crash)
Screen Size - ANSWER✔✔-there are tangible differences between watching things on
your phone versus in a movie theater " where do movies get seen?"
- directors of arrested development the Facebook messenger sound effect because they
knew people watched on lap tops
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Answers
What is SD and what is HD? - ANSWER✔✔-SD-720
HD-1920
"Things that are shot in Full HD cannot be 4K Ultra HD but they can be AI manipulated
to look better" - ANSWER✔✔-True
What is a wide screen aspect ratio? - ANSWER✔✔-16x9
What is a really widescreen aspect ratio? Panavision - ANSWER✔✔-2.35:1
What is a short screen aspect ratio? - ANSWER✔✔-4:3 ( 1.33:1)
What do different aspect ratios do? - ANSWER✔✔-convey messages about visual
language( changing the black bars)
Benefits for short aspect ratio 4:3 ? - ANSWER✔✔-it is presented as equal to the
audience
Benefits/ Negatives for a widescreen aspect ratio 16:9 - ANSWER✔✔-can capture more
than 4:3 and convey more meanings
COPYRIGHT © 2025 ALL RIGHTS RESERVED
, cannot frame things that are very tall
Letterboxing - ANSWER✔✔-Bars on top/bottom of the screen
pillar boxing - ANSWER✔✔-bars on the sides of the screen(Fitting a full-sized 4x3
image in the middle of a 16x 9 screen)
Secondary Frames, Artificial Masking: - ANSWER✔✔-By blacking out both sides of the
screen creates
a secondary frame and changed the fundamentally horizontal aspect ratio to a
vertical one (concentration on a certain area on screen)
Size - ANSWER✔✔-Your personal experience permits permits a sense of size to what
you see on screen/ illusions ( lord of the rings ring example)
Scale - ANSWER✔✔-we make continual judgments about object size by
seeing the object on-screen in relation to other ( Rae from Star Wars zooming past the
crash)
Screen Size - ANSWER✔✔-there are tangible differences between watching things on
your phone versus in a movie theater " where do movies get seen?"
- directors of arrested development the Facebook messenger sound effect because they
knew people watched on lap tops
COPYRIGHT © 2025 ALL RIGHTS RESERVED
