Adobe Pro Video

Link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-HRd9OcGmIo

Camera Notes

Notetaking on Camera Techniques

INTERVIEWING:
• What seven items should you bring with you when you are shooting an interview?
(Clocks Tick Tock Making Heads Pound Loudly)
Camera
Tape
Tripod/Techniques
Microphone
Headphones
Power source
Light sources

• Shooting into a light source = silhouette
Button to adjust = backlight button, flash,


• Where do you want your light source?
always behind the camera

• On what object should you focus the camera?
the face


• No tripod=bad


• Date and Time=NEVER!!!!!!
no date and time stamps
permanently recorded on tape

• What's the difference between SP/EP?
SP=Standard Play on tape
EP=Extended Play on tape

• Camera always shoots in sp.

• Pre-Roll-
2-3 seconds before you start your interview



• Post-Roll-
2-3 seconds after you record interview

CAMERA SHOTS:

***BACKGROUND:
DYNAMIC=has some depth, not plain
Interviewee is at least 6-8 feet from the wall
Interviewee is the shot, not a poster

• 1 Shot=middle of the chest to above the head

• 1 Shot with graphic=1 shot panned a bit to the side so there's room for graphic (over the shoulder)

• 2 Shot=two people, chest up, (sometimes hands)
only used with anchors

• CU-close up

• MS-medium shot
showing half of a person

• LS-long shot
a persons entire body/entire scene

• ECU-extreme close up

*Put an "E" in front of something means "extreme"

• Rule of thirds-
Keep eye on the rule of thirds

CAMERA MOVEMENTS:
• Tilt-moving the camera lens higher or lower


• Pan-moving the camera lens left or right


• Zoom-changing the focal length of your camera; moving in father or closer to your subject matter


• Dolly-physically moving the camera (wheels,cable)

LIGHTS
• Key-brightest light that shines on the subject

• Fill-fills in the shadows

• Back-separates the subject matter from the background


MICROPHONES:
• Unidirectional-the microphone goes in one direction, gets audio from the one direction
• Omnidirectional-the microphone picks up sound from all directions (most camera microphones are omnidirectional)
• Cardiod-heart shaped microphone, loops back and goes in one direction (unidirectional)most of the studio microphones are cardiod
• Lav/Lapel Microphone-clip on microphone
• Boom Microphone-on a pole (unidirectional)