 Rule of thirds  Headroom  Left to right  Fill the frame  Don’t crop on a joint  Use a tripod

 Tell camera what’s white  Is usually automatic (Phones) OR  Maybe presets for cloudy, incandescent, sunny etc.  Hold up phone camera app  Point at your PC computer (Will look for what’s white)  Quickly point at window…watch white balance change

 S ociety of M otion P icture and T elevision E ngineers.  Used to specify a specific point in the video.  Format: HH:MM:SS:FF  Interpret as Hour, Minute, Second, Frame  Example: 01:10:10:24  So, the above means: One hour, 10 minutes, 10 seconds, 24 th frame

 First standards Established by the NTSC ( N ational T elevision S tandards C ommittee…,there are other standards (for digital TV, for example, but for this class: NTSC)

 Video: 30 fps  Film: 24 fps  6 duplicate frames  Persistence of vision  Image stays on the retina for brief period of time

TV Frame sizePixels/LineLines (rows) Standard Definition HD Full HD Ultra HD …aka 4K

 Interlaced  Progressive  Interlaced: Every other row is “scanned” even lines first, then gun goes back and scans odd rows  1080 I, 720 I  Progressive: All rows are scanned  1080p, 720 p

 Nonlinear Editing