For the last six weeks in video technology we have been planning, shooting and editing a thriller short film/opening. Our brief was to plan shoot and edit a 3 minute sequence that went by the normal thriller conventions
The software we used was final cut pro and soundtrack pro. We used final cut pro to do the editing of the project, we edited both the audio and visual of the project. We used soundtrack pro to apply sound effects to the project to add emphasis to the scene. While we were editing we had a lesson on how to de-interlace and export our projects.
I think that the editing went really well because we used lots of techniques and used continuity very well. I feel that we communicated emotion very well through editing. I don’t think that the filming went very well because the park scene had a lot of background noise that distracted from the main focus of the scene. Also I think that we could of improved the script in a few ways because I think that it did not convey the ideas that we wanted it to.
My role in filming was controlling the sound in the shot by using the boom mic. I found this quite hard because the boom mic is heavy and holding it for a while is quite tiring but it worked really well and I got all of the sound necessary for the scene. In editing my role was to edit the audio, video and do the sound levels. We alternated between doing the audio and video editing but I did the sound levels for the whole sequence.
I think that we used the technology we had available to its full potential because we used the sony full high definition camera in as many shots as we could with the tripod and handheld shots. I also used the boom mic to get really close to the focus point e.g. the lighter lighting the candles, I put the boom mic very close to it as to get the full diegetic sound out of the scene as we possibly could.
I would have liked to have some extra lighting as in some places we had quite deep shadows and I would have liked to be able to use a fill light to give some more light in to focus points in the shot. I would have also liked to use a dolly in the park scene to give a good camera movement into showing the killer walking to talk to the second character.
If we had the opportunity to do the project again I would have filmed the park scene in a different location which was quieter and had less background attention. I would also have used a bit more light in the indoor scenes to give more detail in the shot but not lose the dramatic lighting we had in the first place. I also think that we could have done the edit between scenes a bit smoother than it is now.
I think that the music works very well. I think that it adds suspense to the scene and conveys the drama surrounded by the main character. I also think that it builds drama as the scene goes on.
I think that the project works very well as a thriller, it goes by all of the main thriller conventions and keeps good continuity. I think that it is a conventional thriller because it goes by most of the norms and conventions of a normal thriller. It does include some suspense and enigmas the suspense is built using the music and adds drama to the scene. If given the chance I would improve some of the editing and sound and a few camera shots but overall I think it was a good project. We received feedback for this project. We had quite a lot of confusion about exactly what happened but we thought that they were not supposed to fully understand what happened. We were also told that the camera shot we used were very good and that we used a lot of different camera shots
Sunday, 12 December 2010
Tuesday, 7 December 2010
Exporting from Final Cut Pro
we learnt to how to export our projectsfrom final cut pro. first you have to mark the in and out points of your finished project to make sure that there is nothing left at the end of the sequence. you then have to apply the de-interlace filter over the entire project to make sure that it outputs in progressive and not interaced. you also have to make sure that there are no audio peaks throughout the sesquence. the you can either compress it as a quicktime movie or compress it into a self contained movie which you can the put into compressor which is an application that comes in the final cut studio package. putting your project into compressor means that you can convert the file into any other video format.
Tuesday, 9 November 2010
Tuesday, 5 October 2010
The Blue Banana Company: Equipment list
• Post 16 SONY camera (& 2 batteries + TAPE). (Mark)
• TRIPOD. (Mark)
• BOOM mic. (Mark)
• 2 Lamps. (Mikey)
• Candles x8. (Jude)
• Suits x2. (Sam & Josh)
• Assorted gardening tools. (Mikey)
• Girls clothes x4. (Jude)
• Police tape. (Mikey)
• Fake blood x1. (Charlie)
• Assorted food products. (all)
• TRIPOD. (Mark)
• BOOM mic. (Mark)
• 2 Lamps. (Mikey)
• Candles x8. (Jude)
• Suits x2. (Sam & Josh)
• Assorted gardening tools. (Mikey)
• Girls clothes x4. (Jude)
• Police tape. (Mikey)
• Fake blood x1. (Charlie)
• Assorted food products. (all)
thriller conventions
Thriller conventions
• Normally white writing on black background
• Simple music normally played
• Not much talking
• Low different camera angles
• Low key lighting
• Normally white writing on black background
• Simple music normally played
• Not much talking
• Low different camera angles
• Low key lighting
digital technology
Digital technology has allowed us to drastically change what we can do in media. Now that we can compress digital signals we can have a lot more channels with much better quality. As well as being broadcast files can now be compressed to be put on portable devices such as memory sticks and ipods. This is a lot more practical because it takes up a lot less space. Being a lot smaller in size allows us to show films and shows everywhere and over the internet for example youtube. Digital technology has also greatly improved editing because now it has moved on from tape to digital you can now edit instantly. You can now also easily add effects on to the footage.
Tuesday, 21 September 2010
camera test
1) Gain on a camera is used to increase the exposure into the camera but makes the picture grainy
2) 50fps
3) If you are going to slow down in post production but it causes less light to come in
4) To make sure the colours are set right for the scene
5) Makes the volume louder but distorts it
6) White balance, shutter speed, exposure, focus
Zoom on hair and then zoom back out
7) If there is too much light and it is over exposed
8) F1
2) 50fps
3) If you are going to slow down in post production but it causes less light to come in
4) To make sure the colours are set right for the scene
5) Makes the volume louder but distorts it
6) White balance, shutter speed, exposure, focus
Zoom on hair and then zoom back out
7) If there is too much light and it is over exposed
8) F1
UK Broadcast Systems
UK Broadcast Systems
TV is broadcast in the UK by a number of different systems.
Terrestrial Broadcasting
Television in the UK is broadcast on an analogue signal at the moment. There are two main public broadcasters, BBC and Channel 4, and two commercial broadcasters, ITV and Five. Together they broadcast five analogue channels BBC One, BBC Two, ITV, Channel 4 and Five.
The BBC is funded by a television license fee paid by UK households with a TV. This fee is compulsory. It is currently £145.50 for this license. Channel 4 has to provide programs for minority groups and cater for specialist interests, however it gets its revenue from advertisements. ITV and Five also get their income from advertisements.
Analogue TV is broadcast by many antennas across the country. An example is Crystal Palace, which broadcasts TV to most of London. It started with VHF frequencies for the 405 line system and then switched to UHF frequencies for 625 line system. This used bands IV and V of the available radio signal bandwidths.
Analogue terrestrial television is the way many people in the UK still watch television. Analogue terrestrial television is currently being phased out and will be replaced by digital terrestrial television across the whole country by 2012. Some areas have been changed over already. The first ITV area was Border in the north of England. People will need a digibox to receive the new digital TV, called Freeview. Many other channels are also available on Freeview beside the five main analogue ones.
Satellite Broadcasting
Freesat is a free to air digital satellite television service. It is owned by the BBC and ITV. The service was started in May 2008 and is a satellite alternative to Freeview. It broadcasts a number of channels and anybody in the UK can receive them without a subscription. They just need a dish and a freesat receiver. Freesat broadcasts over 140 digital TV and radio channels including the five main channels plus BBC Three, BBC Four, ITV2, ITV3, More 4 and Film Four. The service also has high-definition programs from BBC 1 and ITV 1.
Sky TV was formed when Sky Television and British Satellite Broadcasting merged in 1990. At the start, Sky leased four transponders on the Astra 1A satellite. With the launch of more Astra satellites from 1991 onward, Sky expanded its services. The launch of the Astra 2A satellite in 1998 meant that Sky could start a new digital service, Sky Digital, which could carry hundreds of television and radio channels. Sky sells its channels in the form of multichannel packages. These are combinations of movies, sport, children, documentaries and general entertainment. People can buy any combination of these services. Sky also has an HD service, but this needs an HD box and is more expensive than the standard service.
Cable television
With cable TV the signal is transmitted via coax or fibre optic cables in the ground. The broadcaster creates a digital transmission signal and this is then digitally compressed and transmitted along the cable. Because it has been digitally compressed, digital cable can carry a large amount of information and transmit many interactive channels. The signal is then decoded in the viewer's home by their digital set top decoding box. There are a number of cable digital TV providers in the UK. The market leader at the moment is Virgin Media with over 4 million customers already. Customers can receive approximately 200 channels, all with digital picture and sound quality.
The main benefit of digital cable TV is its reliability. Analogue and satellite digital TV can be affected by the weather and by trees and buildings blocking the signal. Another advantage of cable TV is the cable itself. It can carry other media signals as well as TV. Bundling services is rapidly increasing and people with fibre optic cable can add other services (i.e. phone and broadband) that can be provided through the same cable. The main drawback of cable is the potential for damage of the cable in the ground and the higher cost of cable compared to satellite TV packages.
Digital Broadcasting
Digital TV transmits the pictures and sound which make up a TV programme, together with other services like text and interactive services. It gives many advantages over the analogue television transmission system that we have been using for nearly seventy years. In 2005 the government decided that Britain should switch to digital television. This was because the government felt that it was future technology and made a lot more services available to the population. Between 2008- 2012, television in the UK will go completely digital, TV region by TV region. The old analogue television signal will be switched off and people will need to upgrade their TVs to receive digital signals. All TVs now sold in the UK can receive digital TV.
Digital TV is better because the information that makes up the TV programme is coded into a digital stream of on-off pulses. So the technical quality is much better and more consistent. The digital stream takes up much less capacity in the airwaves. This means that the space needed in the past for just one analogue channel can now carry five, six or seven different programmes. This is called a multiplex. This means a bigger choice of services to watch for digital viewers.
High Definition Television is a new technology that gives sharper, higher resolution pictures with up to five times more detail than traditional television systems. HDTV programmes have brighter colours and clearer surround sound. A new high capacity delivery standard DVB-T2 has been introduced to deliver the Freeview HD service. DVB-T2 is an extension of the existing standard DVB-T that is used to transmit current Freeview broadcasts.
Internet TV
Internet television is a television service distributed via the Internet. Across the world, there are many internet TV services available e.g. Hulu and Revision3 in the USA and ABC iView and Australia Live TV in Australia. In the UK BBC some examples are iPlayer, 4oD, ITV Player and Demand Five. The two forms of viewing internet television are streaming the content directly to a media player or downloading the program to the user's computer. Most broadcasters now use streaming using peer to peer distribution. This is good for the broadcaster as the old central server system had high distribution costs and the servers couldn't handle the large amount of downloading and data transfer.
Internet television allows people to choose the program or the TV show they want to watch from an archive of programs. Watching internet television is simple. Using an Internet Service Provider, people can type in the website address or just type in the name of a chosen television program into a search engine. The downside is that the user may have to wait a few seconds to allow their program to stream. Buffering allows the program to run smoothly rather than stopping and starting. Internet streamed TV uses advanced compression techniques to keep the file sizes as small as possible but good enough quality to allow quick download times and good picture quality.
TV is broadcast in the UK by a number of different systems.
Terrestrial Broadcasting
Television in the UK is broadcast on an analogue signal at the moment. There are two main public broadcasters, BBC and Channel 4, and two commercial broadcasters, ITV and Five. Together they broadcast five analogue channels BBC One, BBC Two, ITV, Channel 4 and Five.
The BBC is funded by a television license fee paid by UK households with a TV. This fee is compulsory. It is currently £145.50 for this license. Channel 4 has to provide programs for minority groups and cater for specialist interests, however it gets its revenue from advertisements. ITV and Five also get their income from advertisements.
Analogue TV is broadcast by many antennas across the country. An example is Crystal Palace, which broadcasts TV to most of London. It started with VHF frequencies for the 405 line system and then switched to UHF frequencies for 625 line system. This used bands IV and V of the available radio signal bandwidths.
Analogue terrestrial television is the way many people in the UK still watch television. Analogue terrestrial television is currently being phased out and will be replaced by digital terrestrial television across the whole country by 2012. Some areas have been changed over already. The first ITV area was Border in the north of England. People will need a digibox to receive the new digital TV, called Freeview. Many other channels are also available on Freeview beside the five main analogue ones.
Satellite Broadcasting
Freesat is a free to air digital satellite television service. It is owned by the BBC and ITV. The service was started in May 2008 and is a satellite alternative to Freeview. It broadcasts a number of channels and anybody in the UK can receive them without a subscription. They just need a dish and a freesat receiver. Freesat broadcasts over 140 digital TV and radio channels including the five main channels plus BBC Three, BBC Four, ITV2, ITV3, More 4 and Film Four. The service also has high-definition programs from BBC 1 and ITV 1.
Sky TV was formed when Sky Television and British Satellite Broadcasting merged in 1990. At the start, Sky leased four transponders on the Astra 1A satellite. With the launch of more Astra satellites from 1991 onward, Sky expanded its services. The launch of the Astra 2A satellite in 1998 meant that Sky could start a new digital service, Sky Digital, which could carry hundreds of television and radio channels. Sky sells its channels in the form of multichannel packages. These are combinations of movies, sport, children, documentaries and general entertainment. People can buy any combination of these services. Sky also has an HD service, but this needs an HD box and is more expensive than the standard service.
Cable television
With cable TV the signal is transmitted via coax or fibre optic cables in the ground. The broadcaster creates a digital transmission signal and this is then digitally compressed and transmitted along the cable. Because it has been digitally compressed, digital cable can carry a large amount of information and transmit many interactive channels. The signal is then decoded in the viewer's home by their digital set top decoding box. There are a number of cable digital TV providers in the UK. The market leader at the moment is Virgin Media with over 4 million customers already. Customers can receive approximately 200 channels, all with digital picture and sound quality.
The main benefit of digital cable TV is its reliability. Analogue and satellite digital TV can be affected by the weather and by trees and buildings blocking the signal. Another advantage of cable TV is the cable itself. It can carry other media signals as well as TV. Bundling services is rapidly increasing and people with fibre optic cable can add other services (i.e. phone and broadband) that can be provided through the same cable. The main drawback of cable is the potential for damage of the cable in the ground and the higher cost of cable compared to satellite TV packages.
Digital Broadcasting
Digital TV transmits the pictures and sound which make up a TV programme, together with other services like text and interactive services. It gives many advantages over the analogue television transmission system that we have been using for nearly seventy years. In 2005 the government decided that Britain should switch to digital television. This was because the government felt that it was future technology and made a lot more services available to the population. Between 2008- 2012, television in the UK will go completely digital, TV region by TV region. The old analogue television signal will be switched off and people will need to upgrade their TVs to receive digital signals. All TVs now sold in the UK can receive digital TV.
Digital TV is better because the information that makes up the TV programme is coded into a digital stream of on-off pulses. So the technical quality is much better and more consistent. The digital stream takes up much less capacity in the airwaves. This means that the space needed in the past for just one analogue channel can now carry five, six or seven different programmes. This is called a multiplex. This means a bigger choice of services to watch for digital viewers.
High Definition Television is a new technology that gives sharper, higher resolution pictures with up to five times more detail than traditional television systems. HDTV programmes have brighter colours and clearer surround sound. A new high capacity delivery standard DVB-T2 has been introduced to deliver the Freeview HD service. DVB-T2 is an extension of the existing standard DVB-T that is used to transmit current Freeview broadcasts.
Internet TV
Internet television is a television service distributed via the Internet. Across the world, there are many internet TV services available e.g. Hulu and Revision3 in the USA and ABC iView and Australia Live TV in Australia. In the UK BBC some examples are iPlayer, 4oD, ITV Player and Demand Five. The two forms of viewing internet television are streaming the content directly to a media player or downloading the program to the user's computer. Most broadcasters now use streaming using peer to peer distribution. This is good for the broadcaster as the old central server system had high distribution costs and the servers couldn't handle the large amount of downloading and data transfer.
Internet television allows people to choose the program or the TV show they want to watch from an archive of programs. Watching internet television is simple. Using an Internet Service Provider, people can type in the website address or just type in the name of a chosen television program into a search engine. The downside is that the user may have to wait a few seconds to allow their program to stream. Buffering allows the program to run smoothly rather than stopping and starting. Internet streamed TV uses advanced compression techniques to keep the file sizes as small as possible but good enough quality to allow quick download times and good picture quality.
Tuesday, 14 September 2010
Aspect Ratio
Unit 21 video technology
Aspect ratio
Aspect ratio is the view you get when you look at a screen
4:3 is classic view which doesn’t show much
16:9 is widescreen it shows you a lot more than 4:3 it will also give you a panorama view
In movies they sometimes use a technique called pan and scan which means that they go through the movie and cut the shot to 4:3 to broadcast on older televisions but when you do this you lose alot of the detail. One director said that when you pan and scan it is like taking the last supper and only seeing 6 instead of 12
Pillarboxing
Letterboxing
Aspect ratio
Tv pixels and your brain:
If you divide a still image into a collection of small coloured dots your brain will reassemble the dots into a meaningful image
Pixels- the more pixels you have the better the resolution
The tv screen
A video camera divides up an image into horizontal scan lines which make up every single frame, this is then transmitted to your television
Different countries use slightly different standards or systems with different numbers of lines per screen and different numbers of frames per second
The UK uses
525 lines and 25 fps
picture from kcts9
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