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RTV 322 Camera use: Shooting to Edit

Cell phones off and put away

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Getting startedCel phones off and put away.

-100 points each time used during class.

Training and certification—Find sign on PAC 117 door—Must Sign up this week

See syllabus and outline directions

A few tech points…

Camera / lens / mount Lighting Production Design Sound Design FX Producer / Director etc.

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Film vs. Video

Film a thin flexible strip of plastic or

other material coated with light-sensitive emulsion for exposure in a camera, used to produce photographs or motion pictures

Video magnetic tape for recording and

reproducing visual images and sound.

Film vs. Video

We’re not ‘filming’ anything Film stock chemicals react to light

to encode an image into the film stock

Video recording uses magnetic storage of data

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Film vs.Video

Film stock is the imaging device for motion picture film

CCD or CMOS is the imaging device for video

Future for film?

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Film

8 mm, 16mm, 35mm, 70mm Super 16 and 35 mm Film stock--costs and processing

Film stock types: b/w or color, negative or reversal, fast or slow, tungsten or daylight

1.33:1 aspect ratio / TV / 2.35:1 24 fps Sprocket holes, audio recording

Later-- sound and film

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Magnetic Videotape

Analog vs. Digital Interlaced or Progressive Standard or High Def 4:3 (1.33:1) or 16:9 Digital Compression Codecs Not ‘filming’ Chemical vs. electromagnetic

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New storage and distribution options HDD DVD / Blu Ray / Optical discs Flash memory (built in vs.

removable, like SD card) Cloud Storage

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Digital Video

Pixels: 480 vs. 720 vs. 1080 Contrast ratio Megapixels I vs. P Lossy or Lossless codecs Color sampling: relationship of

chroma to luminance / luma Bit depth: the number of individual 0s

and 1s sampled

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Illusion of Movement

Persistence of vision 24 vs. 30 fps (transfers) Shoot only in 30 fps ‘shutter speed’

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Time Code

Vital to videotape Important for timing / syncing SMPTE VITC vs. longitudinal ‘striping’ Time code vs. control track

Our cameras Canon XH A1 (mini DV)

Manual mode ‘point and shoot’

JVC HM 150 (SDXC card) Class 6 or above Brand matters Georgia tutorial Our settings: SD(DV), QuickTime, 16:9

(GL1)

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Lenses

Camera body vs. lens Zoom or fixed (prime) -- critical focus Optical vs. Digital zoom Diaphragm / aperture -- f-stops / t-stops /

number means what? Manual vs. autofocus

Sharp focus, Selective focus, follow focus, rack focus, soft focus, swimming focus

Depth of field is affected by focal length, aperture, and the distance of objects from the camera.

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Video Shooting Tips

http://multimedia.journalism.berkeley.edu/tutorials/shooting_tips/

More tech later…

Now, the script…Chapter 1

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The script

Everything we produce, we write first

News is shot with a planned structure in mind

Commercials—good idea, put on paper, shoot & edit

Training video, sports event, talk show, newscast, movie… PRE-PRODUCTION / Script

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Blueprint

Good director ‘sees’ the movie before he/she shoots it

When directors, actors, etc. read a script, they ‘see’ the movie

Every good movie is produced around a well-written script

Not only is the script the most important aspect of making a movie, it is also the cheapest

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How does it start?

Chapter One gives tips about being a writer.

If you want to make a great movie do you write it?

Hollywood Formula: AIS Formula

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Getting a script Writing what you know Determine a genre (action, comedy) Determine a format (animation,

documentary) Plot Type (the way the story is told) Understand what makes a great

story (more about writing the story next week – conflict, exposition, rising action, conflict, turning point,etc. )

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Steps to a script

Concept Treatment Outline Pitch Greenlighting Development Rewriting Production

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So, Read Chapter 1

Use course outline to look for specific terms and content

Make notes of terms as you read Watch for practice quizzes on the

course outline And…

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This week

All RTV majors and minors in a Practicum and started Cannot pass 322 without it

Must sign up for your Project Shift See posted sheets on PAC 117

Must have and bring your book to class – print or electronic

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