Digital Imaging and Video Module By Damien Markey

Digital Video This section of the module covers the process of creating decent (technical) quality DV (Digital Video) –Preparation –Production –Post production –Delivery

Digital Video with Adobe Premiere

Preparation PlanningScripting/storyboardingStagingLighting

Production AnimationShooting Making the video Special effects –chroma keying –Motion capture

Post Production Digital/Analogue video capture –Quality issues –Bandwidth issues –Storage issues Pure DV uses 1GB for approx. 4 minutes –Transfer issues Firewire/USB2/S-Video History of Editing

Editing Non linear editing, –Re-sequencing –Post production effects –Pixel adjustment, –Transitions, –Filters, –Layers

Delivery of DV Content Distribution Mechanisms –CD –DVD –Streaming –Broadcast Matching mechanism to audience Optimisation of media for platforms/audience

Delivery Mechanisms Characteristics and file formats for digital video including –Windows Media –QuickTime –Realmedia –MPEG 2 and 4 –DVD/DV tape/MPEG Stream

Content coming up in the next couple of weeks

Different types of shooting Documentary –Fly on wall News gathering –Granada tonight Presentation/seminarFiction –Movies, TV, etc Event –Sports, outside broadcast

Different requirements for each type Fiction requires more control of event as it is “staged” Where as documentary is not staged and may need to be more ad hoc –Locations may change Usually non studio location so less control –Lighting may change E.g. News report

The module is not here to turn you into a camera operator, sound person or director although you will take on these roles during the module

Preparation The most important thing is the idea –Then there is the preparation for shooting ScriptingStoryboarding

Scripting Outline Starts with an outline of overall scenes to show structure of the full video Broken down into scenes or logical chunks e.g. –By location e.g. Same place for an event –By dialogue People talking over the phone

What a script does Describes three basic components –What the scene is External shot, Medieval tower, early morning, c1600 –What the scene means “Dave and Sheila walk out onto the pitch, terrified and excited at the huge crowd cheering for them” –What the scene does for the story This is the flashback of the couple’s first meeting highlighting their best moment which they try and recapture in the final act

Look at a scene from “Citizen Kane” and compare to script pdf pdf

Look at a scene from Terminator Movie

Group practicals – Groups of three/four Based around creation of a set of videos for use in a promotional video for BIHE A brief will be provided and you will provide –Shooting scripts –Unedited footage shot –Final edited video content

This week’s practical You are not shooting a video! You will be scripting the shooting of a “Vox pops” shoot with your fellow team mates As part of the practical you will be asking opinions of BIHE and the CET department

You will be set the tasks of: Creating a set of questions for the interview, Scouting potential locations to be used and Working out the running order of interviewer and interviewee