Class Notes from May 25, 2005
05/25/05 09:30 PM Filed in: Notes
Class notes from May 25 2005
Videography:
- Reference: The "Grammar" of Television and Film by David Chandler
- Talent - the people in the shot
- Distance and Angle:
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- Most news reporters shot in Medium Close-Up
- Actors may be portrayed in Big Close-Up
- Different shots have different purposes
- The viewer gets a lot from the camera angle
- Panning - moving on a horizontal plane (from side to side)
- Tilting - moving on a vertical plane (from top to bottom or bottom to top)
- Don't follow things around like you think you want to, don't follow your instinct
- Try to avoid handheld when you are shooting an interview
- Visual noise - things that are "noisy" or distracting to the main things (the talent) in the shot
- Try to avoid straight down lighting
- Store projects in Movies folder
- Click "Import" to download video to hard drive, click "Import" again to stop downloading video
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- Clips will appear in the Clip pane
- Drag clips from Clip pane to the Filmstrip
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- If you want to edit one certain clip (i.e. cropping), drag that clip into the Filmstrip and edit it as you want
- "Split Video at Playhead" will split one clip up into two separate clips
- "Crop" cuts the parts of the clip that you don't want on that clip (the yellow is what will be retained)
- Find the point in the clip where you want the camera to cut to the other shot
- Copy the other clip that you want to put in with the audio
- "Paste Over at Playhead" will extract audio and video and place it at the exact point your playhead is currently placed