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Crime Scene Photography Chapter 6 &
Art 1301 Chapter 9- 11 Exam
Combination.
- What are the four key elements of crime scene documentation? - Correct Ans: ✅ 1- Notes 2- Photographs/video 3- Sketches 4- Reports
- Describe how a photograph might create an identification problem. - Correct Ans: ✅An identification problem occurs when the viewer cannot tell what the item is or why the photo was taken. If there are no supporting photographs to help the viewer see the evidence better, then the photo is out of context and has limited usefulness.
- Road mapping - Correct Ans: ✅Capturing all pertinent aspects of bloodstain crime scene
- What is the purpose of crime scene photographs? - Correct Ans: ✅The purpose of crime scene photography is to accurately depict the scene without introducing distortion or visual bias.
- Describe how a photograph might create a confusion problem.
- Correct Ans: ✅Multiple photographs of the same area
showing the scene in altered conditions can create confusion or become a distraction at trial. For example: if you take one photo that includes a coffee cup and another that does not, which photo is correct? Was the coffee cup part of the scene? Using a photo log can help eliminate some of these issues up.
- What are the three basic photographs associated with crime
scene photography? - Correct Ans: ✅
Overall photographs Evidence-establishing photographs (mid-range) Evidence quality photographs (close-up)
- What is the purpose of an overall photograph? - Correct Ans:
✅The purpose of overall photographs is to depict the general condition and layout of the scene. The technician seeks to capture how the scene is oriented, where major visible landmarks are, and the condition of the scene prior to significant alteration. One round of overall photos is usually taken, then a second round depicting number placards. This allows the proof that nothing is hidden under the placards, but then helps the viewer see the significant points more clearly.
- What is the purpose of an evidence-establishing (also known as
mid-range) photograph? - Correct Ans: ✅The purpose of the evidence-establishing photograph is to frame the item in conjunction with some obvious landmark evident in the overall photographs. Oftentimes the evidence in the scene consists of small items or artifacts, many of which will not even appear as
- How can a crime scene technician prevent overexposure or bleaching out of close-up photographs when using fill-flash techniques? - Correct Ans: ✅If the camera is too near the subject, the flash may bleach out the view. By using fill-flash (lighting the area with a flashlight rather than the flash) one can avoid overexposure.
- Fill-flash - Correct Ans: ✅If it is too dark, a digital camera may have troubles focusing. Another technician may shine a light on the subject and this helps the camera to focus. The light should remain still until the photograph has been captured.
- Describe at least three critical mistakes that occur when
using video cameras in the crime scene? - Correct Ans: ✅
1- Camera does not see or focus as well as the human eye. A video camera operator must take video deliberately, making efforts to move smoothly and if an item of interest comes into view the video should remain on the item for at least 10 seconds. 2- Lighting can be a problem so the video operator may ned to employ fill lighting. Flashlights are not sufficient to illuminate the scenery. 3- Audio should be turned off to avoid background noise and/or unprofessional commentary. If audio is necessary, the video operator should plan ahead in order to speak deliberately rather than off the cuff and non-essential personnel should be removed from the scene.
- What was one reason that Ansel Adams photographed
Yosemite? - Correct Ans: ✅To raise environmental awareness
- What does adjusting the focal length accomplish? -
Correct Ans: ✅It determines a wide view or a narrow view.
- What was one reason professional photographers
disdained color photography for so long? - Correct Ans: ✅Color photography was associated with family snapshots.
- How did Louis-Jacques-Mandé Daguerre's process differ
from that of the early camera obscura? - Correct Ans: ✅It was made using a metal plate on which the image was fixed.
- What distinguishes digital photography from traditional
photography? - Correct Ans: ✅It does not use film.
- Why has photography been useful in influencing social
change? - Correct Ans: ✅It suggests a living witness to social injustice or concerns.
- What common practice does the contemporary photographer Chris Steele-Perkins share with Margaret Bourke- White? - Correct Ans: ✅documentary photo essays
- What do these two contemporary photographs have in
common? - Correct Ans: ✅experimentation with photographic processes
- What was the social impact of Jacob Riis's book How the
Other Half Lives? - Correct Ans: ✅Laws were passed to improve conditions for the poor.
- Which Renaissance artist described the uses of the
camera obscura? - Correct Ans: ✅Leonardo da Vinci
- What provided the artistic model for photographic
portraits? - Correct Ans: ✅established traditions in painting
- What was the significance of Eastman Kodak's 1937
invention of Kodachrome film? - Correct Ans: ✅It improved the accuracy of color photography.
- What distinguishes Jeff Wall's Boy Falls from Tree as an
example of photography used as an art form? - Correct Ans: ✅the large format
- How does James Welling increase viewer knowledge
about his works like 9812 when they are exhibited? - Correct Ans: ✅He makes booklets available so they can understand the process.
- What was the drawback to the camera obscura? - Correct
Ans: ✅It could not preserve or copy an image.
- Jeff Wall describes himself as a "near-documentary"
photographer because - Correct Ans: ✅his realistic images are staged.
- One of the first great portrait photographers was -
Correct Ans: ✅Julia Margaret Cameron.
- Which contemporary photographer's work comes closest
to the function of documentary photography? - Correct Ans: ✅Trevor Paglen
- How do contemporary photographers manipulate digital
images? - Correct Ans: ✅by using photo-editing programs
- What element of Margaret Bourke-White's Louisville Flood Victims might fit Henri Cartier-Bresson's notion of the decisive moment? - Correct Ans: ✅the figures waiting in front of the billboard
- What strategy helped Alfred Stieglitz promote photography as a legitimate art form in the early twentieth century? - Correct Ans: ✅He included essays on modern art in Camera Work.
- What process is necessary to create a unified progression
of a movie? - Correct Ans: ✅film editing
- What distinguishes digital artwork such as Lynn Hershman
Leeson's DiNA from traditional film and video? - Correct Ans: ✅their interaction with the viewer
- Who invented the zöopraxiscope, which projected still
photographs in rapid succession? - Correct Ans: ✅Eadweard Muybridge
- ______________ is the art of camerawork and
photography in making movies. - Correct Ans: ✅Cinematography
- What was one of George Lucas's major achievements? -
Correct Ans: ✅special effects that merge animation with computer technology
- Why did Oskar Fischinger create Circles as an
advertisement for a public relations firm? - Correct Ans: ✅to circumvent Nazi censorship of abstract art
- What optical effect is essential to the visual experience of
motion pictures? - Correct Ans: ✅the persistence of vision
- ______________ is the brief retention of an image on the
retina of our eyes after a stimulus is removed. - Correct Ans: ✅Persistence of Vision
- What is one factor that facilitates worldwide uniform
distribution of movies today? - Correct Ans: ✅digital projection
- What was the goal of the Motion Picture Production
Code? - Correct Ans: ✅to regulate the moral content of movies
- Imagine that you are a filmmaker making a movie about zombies from outer space. What technique would allow you to present their dramatic voyage to Earth in the shortest amount of time? - Correct Ans: ✅montage
- What was Eadweard Muybridge's main contribution to
early cinema? - Correct Ans: ✅rapid projection of still photographs
- __________ is the production of movies as an art or
industry - Correct Ans: ✅Cinema
- The Kuleshov effect refers to what film editing technique?
- Correct Ans: ✅using one film shot to influence the audience about the next
- Many European-style typefaces are based on - Correct
Ans: ✅capital letters carved in stone by ancient Romans.
- What is another term for typefaces? - Correct Ans:
✅fonts
- QR codes are sometimes used in - Correct Ans:
✅interactive design.
- What visual image links the motion graphics to the story
content in Karin Fong's title sequence for Rubicon? - Correct Ans: ✅a yellow line
- What artform do we encounter most in daily life? -
Correct Ans: ✅graphic design
- Which best describes the goal of interactive design? -
Correct Ans: ✅to visually organize interactive media
- What was the goal of Michael Bierut's design in the Saks
Fifth Avenue logo? - Correct Ans: ✅to give a familiar logo a fresh appearance
- What caused rapid developments in the field of motion
graphics in the 1990s? - Correct Ans: ✅advancements in digital editing
- What change did Donald Meeker and his associates implement to the design of Interstate freeway signs to make them easier to read? - Correct Ans: ✅They altered the existing font.
- What is a title sequence? - Correct Ans: ✅the roll of credits at the beginning of a movie
- What is the best description of what a designer does? -
Correct Ans: ✅solves problems for a client
- What makes American Alphabet ironic? - Correct Ans:
✅All the letters come from initials of corporate logos.
- What type of graphic design relies on a single symbol to
communicate a message or identity into a symbol? - Correct Ans: ✅a logo
- Which contemporary design discipline is characterized by
the integration of animation, live action, and type? - Correct Ans: ✅motion graphics
- What design innovation does the smartphone have in
common with the transistor radio? - Correct Ans: ✅They are both handheld devices.
