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Capture Edit Live Digital Video for Educational
Bitmapped Graphics
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Know Your Film Terminology

• http//www.filmsite.org/filmterms12.html
• http//www.imdb.com/Glossary/

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5 Phases of Film Creation

• 2. Pre-production
• Storyboards
• Breakdown of Requirements
• Locations
• Materials
• People
• Schedule
• Budget
• Props, Costumes, Sets

• 3. Production
• Submit Call Sheets
• Equipment Checkout
• A Good Camera
• An external directional microphone
• Use Effective shooting techniques
• Submit Production Report

4. Post-Production Equipment High-end
Computer The right software Effective editing
skills to tell a story visually. Test
Screening Revisions

• 5. Distribution - delivery and exhibition of your
  final product to your audience in a proper and
  efficient format
• Video? DVD? Interactive CD-ROM? Web?

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Development Pre-Production

• Inspiration Concept Map (Brainstorming)
• Storyboards

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Filming Production Phase
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Phase 3 Production

• A good Camera is Half the Battle
• If you can, avoid the older analog video cameras
  Go Digital
• Avoid Automatic Settings Use Manual Instead
• Focus Ring
• Zoom Ring
• Aperture, Shutter Speed, Gain Adjust
• Color Balance (Very Important)
• Sound - Never trust the on-camera Microphone
• Always use an external boom mic, or
• Use a clip mic on your talent

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Phase 3 Production

• Digital Video Cameras (Camcorders)
• Camera takes care of the digital process not as
  much of a processing burden to the computer.
• Store images on Tape
• A few burn directly to DVD
• Requires Firewire connection so computer can
  download the video.
• Focus Camcorder Tips on pg. 319

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Camera Techniques Can Save Your Production

• Always use a tripod!
• Dont zoom while recording.
• Avoid jerky camera movements limit your use of
  pan and tilt.

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Production RulesShooting Techniques

• The rule of thirds
• Depth of Field
• Vertical Angle
• Birds Eye, Normal, Worms Eye
• Telling the story visually
• LS - Long Shot
• MS - Middle Shot
• CU - Close Up
• MS - Middle Shot
• LS - Long Shot

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The Rule of Thirds
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The Rule of Thirds Broken
Non-Example Subject is Dead in the Center
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Depth of Field

• Deep Depth of Field
• Use of a wide-Angle lens
• Smaller Aperture (larger fstop)
• Use in scenes where surroundings are important.

• Shallow Depth of Field
• Use of a telephoto (zoomed-in) lens
• Wider Aperture (smaller fstop)
• Use in scenes of confusion/isolation.

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Vertical Angle of View
Birds Eye View Depicts Inferiority
Eye-line View Normal
Worms Eye View Depicts Superiority
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Camera Distance
Long Shot (LS)
Medium Shot (MS)
Close-up (CU)
Extreme Close-up (ECU)
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Telling a Story Through Camera Distance
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Phase 4 Post-Production
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Phase 4 Post-Production

• High-end computer
• Mac G3, G4, or G5
• Pentium 4 or AMD Athlon XP
• Large amount of RAM - no less than 256 MB
• I recommend at least 512MB
• Large storage capacity - no less than 60 GB
• A way to get video into your computer
• Firewire ports
• A digitizing card or box
• iMovie editing software or equivalent

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The New Digital Setup
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For Older Analog Cameras/VCRs

• Video Digitizers
• To connect Analog Camcorders and VCRs to a
  computer
• Converts old analog signal to a digital signal
• As a card in your computer or
• As an external box

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Video Editing Demo iMovie
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Editing Techniques

• Always conduct editing in this order
• Arrange clips in a proper sequence
• Apply Visual Effects to desired clips
• Create your Titles - make sure they dont blend
  into the background
• Apply Transitions - dont get too fancy
• Insert sound effects and background music
• Make Chapter Markings for iDVD

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Editing Tips

• Remember
• Sometimes a cut is more effective than a
  transition
• Always keep Timing in mind
• Do the math between shots
• a 1-second transition between two 3-second clips
  creates a 5-second sequence.
• A cut between two 3-second clips creates a
  6-second sequence.
• One second can take an eternity
• Try to Match-Action between shots - Avoid
  Jump-cuts where action repeats itself
  unnaturally.
• If using still photos, apply the Ken Burns
  Effect
• dont zoom in too tight
• Make the motion slow

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The Quicktime Movie Format

• Why export to Quicktime?
• Place a Movie Clip on a PowerPoint slide
• Place a Movie Clip on a Web Page
• Quicktime is a Library of software CODECs
• For Video
• Sorenson 3, Motion JPEG, MPEG-4 are lossless
  (the best)
• DV should only be used for full-motion,
  full-sized video.
• For Sound - IMA 41 and AAC is Lossless
• For MIDI (computerized sheet music)
• Quicktime has built-in instrument voices
• WARNING - Not an actual sound file! DO NOT
  import into PowerPoint - IT WONT WORK!
• For VR - (QTVR was discussed in previous chapter
  lectures)

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Exporting to Quicktime from iMovie the Easy Way
Source http//ed.stanford.edu/ATS/iMovie_tmp/exp
ortQuicktime.html
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Exporting to Quicktime from iMovie the Better Way
Choose this instead, then see me for further
instructions or If you can see past the German,
follow the graphics on this web
site http//www.ac-nantes.fr/peda/disc/scphy/doch
tml/general/mecamac/macmeca.htm
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The Distribution PhaseFileShare

• E-Mail
• Homepage
• Videocamera
• VHS Tape
• iDVD
• QuickTime
• CD ROM
• Bluetooth

Course Assignments Saved as MPEG4
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The End