AI in Film and Visual Effects Quiz

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1. What VFX task does AI rotoscoping automate?
   • Cutting actors or objects out from their backgrounds for compositing
   • Writing the film's screenplay
   • Selling movie tickets
   • Composing the musical score
2. Which technology underpins most modern text-to-video generation tools?
   • Simple if-then rules
   • Diffusion models trained on video-caption data
   • Barcode scanners
   • Spreadsheet formulas
3. Why was AI a major issue in the 2023 Hollywood strikes?
   • Actors wanted faster internet on set
   • Studios wanted to ban all cameras
   • Concerns over digital likeness rights, consent, and creative jobs
   • Theaters were closing permanently
4. What do NeRF and Gaussian splatting accomplish in film production?
   • They print movie posters
   • They schedule actor call times
   • They translate subtitles
   • They reconstruct 3D scenes from multiple 2D photographs
5. How does AI dubbing improve film localization beyond traditional dubbing?
   • It can translate dialogue and match the actor's lip movements
   • It removes all sound from the film
   • It deletes foreign-language tracks
   • It only changes the subtitles' font
6. What is a likely near-term direction for generative video in filmmaking?
   • Eliminating all human directors
   • Longer, controllable shots with consistent characters
   • Banning color in movies
   • Replacing screens with radio
7. What is the purpose of provenance standards like C2PA for AI-generated footage?
   • To make videos load faster
   • To increase ticket prices
   • To label and track whether content is synthetic or edited
   • To compress files only
8. What scene representation does the original 3D Gaussian Splatting method optimize?
   • A transcript of the scene dialogue
   • A list of camera actors and call times
   • A single 2D pixel mask with no view information
   • A set of 3D Gaussians with parameters such as position, shape, and appearance