Digital Video Advanced

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Digital VideoAdvanced

• Created By Jenith Mishne/NMUSD
• Summer 2003

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Agenda

• Useful Tips
• Create a shooting plan
• Pre-production
• Video editing
• Titles
• Lighting
• Capturing Audio
• Special Effects
• Exporting in many ways
• Things I have learned

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Create a Shooting Plan

• Start with a simple list of planned scenes
• Establishing shot
• Medium shot
• Close-up
• Long shots/semi-long shots

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Pre-Production

• Imagine the end result
• Write the script
• Create Storyboards
• Storyboarding Activities
• Storyboard Tutorial
• Storyboard Template
• Prepare equipment

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Rule of Thumb for Video Editing

• Dont string together scenes in which the camera
  is moving. Pans, zooms, and other moving shots
  should always be separated by static shots.
• Shots that follow one another should be from
  different camera positions. It should vary by at
  least 45 degrees.

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Titles

• Titles should be informative, describe the
  contents of the movie and gain audience interest.
• Titles should be short, and in large, legible
  font.
• Title colors should be easy read Good
  background/text combinations are white/red,
  yellow/black, white/green.

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Titles (Continued)

• Titles should be on screen long enough to read
  through it twice.
• Allow about 3 seconds of onscreen time for a
  title with ten letters.
• Natural titles, such as street signs, or title
  pages of newspapers create interesting titles.

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Lighting

• Hard and Soft Light
• White balance
• Shooting outside

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Hard and Soft Light

• Hard Light-refers to the light produced by a
  direct source which creates shadows with clearly
  defined edges. Hard light is usually bright like
  the sun at midday.
• Soft Light-refers to light that isnt as direct,
  and produces shadows that are blurred at the
  edges or fade away. This light would be filtered
  light or natural means such as fog, clouds, shade.

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White Balance

• White light is a combination of all the colors of
  the spectrum, as youve seen in a rainbow.
• While videotaping, light is not always white due
  to the a lot of factors.
• Your camcorder automatically adjusts to
  compensate for this color temperature of the
  light by setting the white balance.

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Shooting Outdoors

• Avoid shooting in the middle of the day.
• Clouds are your friends, great diffuser of
  sunlight.
• Shade is also good, the shade of a tree or side
  of a building.
• Maximize natural light, shoot early or late in
  the day.

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Capturing Audio

• Headphones
• Camcorders microphone
• Microphones
• Lavalieres
• Directional
• Wireless

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Add-Ons

• Special Effects
• Hollywood FX Pro
• Hollywood FX Plus
• Menus/Backgrounds
• Soundtrack Music
• Sound Effects

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Exporting

• Moving back to tape
• QuickTime and the Web
• Exporting to DVD

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Things I wish I knew back when

• Always label tapes.
• Always check sound and lighting.
• Always bring back up tapes and batteries.
• Videotape ambience sound.
• Videotape extra footage before and after scenes.
• Teach students as much as possible, but take the
  time to learn from them as well.