Review For Midterm

Record over entire "tape" Record timecord with film in camera

• Timecode: frames, seconds, minutes, hours 00:00:00:00 hours, minutes, seconds, frames (used for syncronizing and logging material in recording media). (After Effects required this)
• Blacking/ "Striping" a DT Tape
• White Balance: refers to a camera function that takes a white area of a shot to adjusts the color ....... (may be only available in automatic mode)
• Acronyms/ Names for Various Shots and camera angles: Shot size: Close-up (CU), Medium Shot (MS), Long Shot (LS), Extreme close-up (XCU), Focal Length: Wide-Angle, Normal, Telephoto, Camera-Angles: High, Normal, Low, Dolly
• Firewire: Apples device used for large data storage and transferring data
• Transitions: how one scene cuts to another (screen blacks out, screen fades)
• NTSC: broadcasting standard in america, uses 30 FPS
• DV: format for recording and playing back digital video
• Apr: Aspect Pixel Ratio (mathematic ratio describes how width of pixels in a digital image compares to height

Suggestions for shooting: Turn off dates, Use a tripod, Tape, use White Balance, less light=grainy

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Screenplay Format:

Scene Heading (int. =inside, ext.=outside "inside/outside, place, Day #, day or night)

Action: what character will do

Character: subject

Dialog: what is being spoken

Parenthetical: describes action taking place

Transition: how one scene will go to the next (fade, cut, dissolve)

Shot:

Text:

Cover Page:

Page #

Scene: where something is taking place

Rule of Thirds: on a screen divided into nine squares, having an image or text on the focal point (intersections or lines )makes it stand out more

Codec: Compression/ Depression

DV Filmmaking

• Pages 15 aspect, wide vs standard (x)
• page 17 frame rates,
• Dv firewire, depth of field (22)
• types of shots (draw)
• Transitions (30)
• sequence
• 180 degress (page 31)
• white balance
• shooting for coverage
• ch. 9 time code, non-linear editing
• ch. 11 126-127 images in photoshop *
• treatment vs script
• ken burns