9/17/20151 RTV 322 Camera use: Shooting to Edit Cell phones off and put away

9/17/20152 Getting started Cel phones off and put away 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. 9/17/20153

4 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 9/17/20155

6 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?

9/17/20157 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

9/17/20158 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

9/17/20159 New storage and distribution options HDD DVD / Blu Ray / Optical discs Flash memory (built in vs. removable, like SD card) Cloud Storage

9/17/ Digital Video Pixels: 480 vs. 720 vs 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

9/17/ Illusion of Movement Persistence of vision 24 vs. 30 fps (transfers) Shoot only in 30 fps ‘shutter speed’

9/17/ 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 Manual mode  ‘point and shoot’ JVC HM 150 (SDXC card)  Class 6 or above  Brand matters  Georgia tutorial Georgia tutorial  Our settings:  SD(DV), QuickTime, 16:9 (GL1) 9/17/201513

9/17/ 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.

9/17/ Video Shooting Tips /tutorials/shooting_tips/

More tech later… Now, the script…Chapter 1 9/17/201516

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 9/17/201517

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 9/17/201518

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 9/17/201519

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. ) 9/17/201520

Steps to a script Concept Treatment Outline Pitch Greenlighting Development Rewriting Production 9/17/201521

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… 9/17/201522

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 ### 9/17/201523