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- plaintheweb
- The webblog covers the basic Internet competences and is supposed to serve as a manual for the people with disabilities and their assistants. The purpose of my webblog is to increase the accessibility of the Internet technologies for the people with learning disabilities and to implement the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 2.0. There are as well the materials of my participatory camera workshop, aimed at sharing the skills and ideas during the adventurous insight in the shooting techniques. This workshop is for all those who are interested in creating new videos. Fresh ideas are welcome.
Wednesday, 18 February 2015
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Thursday, 10 May 2012
The Juniper Tree Story app
Campaign for "The Juniper Tree Story", a graphic design for a mobile app prototype, is started at indiegogo.com. Join:
Tuesday, 14 February 2012
Basic Lighting 1
Monday, 13 February 2012
Basic Lighting 2
Tuesday, 7 February 2012
Cutting Rules
It is important to figure out separate cuts during the shooting.
5-cut rule of the scene:
- includes shot and counter shot;
- total - face;
- reaction shot;
- hand;
- characteristic setting to solve the scene.
Rule: each sequence has in cut 5 settings, 4 sec. each. It is important to neutralize the cuts.
In between cuts /cut-aways, cut-ins, near, detail.
The means to get the cut in the shot are:
1. Mise en scene – the characters move in the shot itself.
2. Panoramic shot (when the camera moves, fixed on the tripod) might be horizontal, vertical, diagonal, and round. Another classification is:
round-up panorama
observation panorama
monitoring panorama
3. Traveling of the camera.
The combinations are possible as well, such as
4. Panorama + traveling
5. Mise en scene + camera movement
The blending could be used for the transition from one cut to another, but this solution is tasteless. The montage could be either invisible, or become a medium itself, according to different montage theories.
Three-point lighting is also known as “triangle lighting” or “photographic lighting.” Three lights are used to create the lighting treatment: the key, fill, and back lights.
Perspective and Composition
- objective camera /expressing the actions from the point of view of the author;
- subjective camera /participating in the actions from the point of view of the actor;
- “frog” perspective;
- “bird” perspective.
The angle of vision could differ from profile and frontal to the from the side. It is important to care of the backgrounds (not to embarrass the idea, to bring additional information); to care of the color balance; to care of the contrast and to avoid back-light.
According to the focal length the shot might be made as:
wide angle with maximal sharpness:
telescopic lens/ zoom with minimal sharpness
normal
fish eye
Please, notice, that you could maximize sharpness for the control of the attention.
Now let's talk about composition. The Eyes/Face/Gestures/Posture of the character matters. And additional features, such as scoping; framing; positioning in the shot and dynamics might be used.
The camera motion is an important factor for the film technics. Such camera movement could take place in the shot, as:
- the movement to the spectator
- the movement from the spectator
- the movement over the spectator.
The body of the camera itself moves as well:
- standing position in panoramic shot
- swing
- drive/approach, off, back, parallel, lift, pursuit/zoom,
- subjective camera.
Saturday, 4 February 2012
Sound Control
As sound are considered the voice, the music and the atmo of the film.
When possible, t is better to use the external microphone and headphones to control the sound. There are several kinds of microphones:
- directed mic. vs. spherical mic.
- dymanic vs. condensator
- slipper vs. windscreen
Rules:
- The phonogram shall not contain parts without sound or without mic. pause.
- The main sound at the background of the other sounds shall be emphasized; the background shall be distinguishably quieter.
- Each quiet or laud sound has to be recorded at the average noise level.
- Each long quiet sound shall have the comfort loudness.
- The silence is represented by the very quiet sounds.
- Short sounds could be set into the general sound background.
- Continuous sounds could not be butt joined.
- The phonogram could be presented both from the objective, as from the subjective points of view.
- The sounds as expressed not only realistically but also considering our ideas of the sound of the particular object.
- There are close up, medium and general shot in the sound, which is parallel to the size of the object in the shot.
- It is better to have the image too dark and the sound too quiet, than too bright and too laud.
- If the sound is important, in site of the change of the images, it should be recorder further (min. 60 sec.)
- For each location to record atmo ca. 30 sec.