6. SCENE
ASSIGNMENTS
•Get out in the world
•Footage that reflects/fits with audio
•Change shots often
•Rotate: Wide, Medium, Close
•Anticipate action, Look for repetitive motion
•Camera Awareness
•Let your focus float
•Remember sound
7. ASSIGNMENTS
★Reading
★Kalow Ch 4 & 5: Ethics and Editing
★SPJ Ethics Code (Linked from Syllabus)
★NPPA Ethics Code
★This American Life: Mike Daisey Retraction
★Wednesday, October 30th at 2pm:
★Watch Finding Hillywood
8. FEEDBACK CARDS
• What have been your favorite/least favorite
aspects of class meetings so far?
• How are you feeling about your project? Which
aspect are you most nervous about? Which
aspect are you most confident about?
14. CODEC
THE ‘CONTAINER’
•H.264
•Apple ProRes 422 (LT)
•DVCPRO HD 720p
‘TRANSCODING’ = CHANGING THE
CODEC
15. FILE TYPE
.MOV = Apple, Quicktime, Final Cut
.AVI = PC, VLC, Adobe Premiere
.MP4 = Compressing
16. COMPRESSION
MAKING THE FILE SMALLER
FOR THE INTERNET
Video Codec: H.264
Audio Codec: AAC Audio
Frame Rate: Native (don’t change it)
Data Rate: 2000 kbits/sec for SD or 5000 kbits/sec for HD
Resolution: 640 x 480 for SD or 1280 x 720 for HD
Deinterlace: Yes
Audio: 320 kbps/44.1 kHz (or 48 kHz if that’s how you
recorded)
Format: MP4 (or MOV)
17. TECHNOLOGY & EDITING!
• What editing software are you going to
use?
• Where are you going to access it?
• Do you need help?
• Other technology concerns?
Editor's Notes
Yikes, Rough cut due 3 weeks from today, 5 best clips week before that. These next 2 weeks are intensive shooting time
Shot list brainstorm: We never formally did this. Good exercise before you go out is to brainstorm everything you’d like to shoot in a perfect world.
Worried: Need More Technical Shooting Advice?
This offered some great lessons as you start to form your story or are trying to find focus.
What stuck out for you?
Don’t worry about her disparaging of promotional video
6-6:30
Charlene Strong and Doc Ellis
What did you notice about how she told this story?
Not the dramatic event that makes this story compelling - it’s what she reveals about her character - relationship with her father, husband - hinted at but not hit over the head - chooses what she says so carefully.
Self Critical
The power of this story to change legislation.
What worked, What was the structure of Charlene’s story -- lay it out on the board:
Dive in to inciting action
Changes in her life it causes.
Glosses over unimp parts in favor of revealing anecdotes (Taboo Game)
Building into climactic event The Flood (W deets like Dog Swimming in the street)
Unexpected twist Reveals what its really about: She cant see her spouse in the hospital
Denumont (unraveling) the tapes.
6:30-7:30
5 mins telling a story
What did you like/dislike about that person’s story?
Keep track on the board of common characteristics
You can all put together a story. Now you just have to do it in video form
Break
7:45-8:45
Review 3 or 4
Multiple shots -- wide, medium, close
Don’t forget to get really close
Camera awareness
Lips moving on camera?
Think about what’s said in the interview and how you can match it.
How to mix in the ambient sound (if at all)
Sarahy, Sebastian, Scott
End with Scott’s
Done by 9
We’re going to dive into hands on, but before we do, a few minutes of lecture
There are literally millions of work flows. No single one is right. Depends on the camera you have, the software, where its going to be played.
There are a few main variables you should understand.
What your camera records onto
Determines Whether you just copy files or have to capture them in real time
Pluses and Minuses of each
Two sizes of HD, One size of SD (also widescreen SD)
Still photos
Everything is moving into 16:9 world. Best way to go.
For refugees project I had to crop my stills. You can put a black bar on the sides
Long story short, it doesn’t really matter, just keep it the same
This p means progressive
i means interlaced
Don’t worry about it!
Always shoot the same and match the way you shot when you import and edit.
There are literally hundreds of these but
H.264 is magic -- what lets the HDSLR’s work
ProRes is for using H.264 footage in FCP
So is DVCPRO HD 720p, so its smaller (remember -- what does 720p mean?)
MOV is what comes out of DSLR’s
These are the settings vimeo recommends
What editing software are you planning to use?
Do you have it?
What technology concerns do you have?
Who has questions or concerns about editing? Raise hands? Ask what a couple are.
I’m here for demoing any editing questions that I can, either as a group or individually
You can use any of these to compress
The settings will be the same
Set up the camera, let the action happen in front of it
Or if they’re your family or friends they get used to you.
How does Sarah feel here?
Kneeled Down
Think about depth -- more than one element in the photo
Think about framing
Look at professional photos, almost always many layers and stuff cut out of the frame.
Other secret tips
Approach your video just like a photo
the moving photograph (aka Rock shots) images where you cant tell if its a still or video -- makes you look harder.
Can you see the motion
Keep the camera still
Video Portrait -- like we took their snapshot, but over time.
What we really want is them thinking about what we were talking about
Sometimes this just happens naturally.
What’s he thinking?
We already talked about how we need to get room tone, and getting people to sum up, and getting a vid portrait -- so there’s a great way to do that all at once.
ROOM TONE/Brian Storm Secret.
What do you notice about focus in the picture?
Thats what depth of field means
You can control it with the F Stop. Size of the little hole light goes through.
Bigger, more light, less depth of field
Don’t need to know why, just know it will make you look pro.
Compare these two. Which has a shallower “depth of field”
You can control it with the F Stop. Size of the little hole light goes through.
Bigger hole, more light, less depth of field. Don’t need to know why, just know it will make you look pro.
You can adjust f-stop on most cameras. On HV30 if you go into manual mode.
Lower F stop number or use the flower icon.
Also allows for low light shooting
Again here, showing something our eyes can’t see.
