In any production situation, a few standard procedures will help you be an effective camera operator
News programs, game shows, talk shows, morning information programs,
situation comedies, and soap operas are a few of the program types that
are generally shot in a studio. Since the birth of the cinema, it has
been said that film is a visual medium. Supposedly, films must tell
their stories visually — editing, deep focus, lighting, camera movement,
and nifty special effects are what really count. A major problem with
analog video recordings is that they are highly susceptible to
deterioration. It is unethical to edit together shots that do not belong
together to create an inaccurate impression (such as following a
soundbite from a politician If your camera isn't steady, your shots will
be difficult to watch (unless you provide a healthy dose of seasick
pills). The rise of LED lighting - which is lighter and consumes less
power than traditional incandescent lighting - has been especially
beneficial to video field production.
Initial rehearsals for
video creation usually take longer when crew members are strangers,
because all of them are trying to find their specific roles. Which of
the camera operators should be given the complicated zooming shot?
Should the audio operator use his or her own initiative in deciding how
slowly to fade in the music or wait for specific instructions from the
director? How much background information should the stage manager give
the talent? Art directors deal with large amounts of money, at least on
paper, and parcel the funds out to many suppliers, all of whom need to
be kept happy. Sound picked up by microphones goes to an audio console,
where the volume can be adjusted and sounds can be mixed together. You
need to be sure that the wording and intonation of any questions asked
after an interview match those asked during the interview. If the
wording or intonation is changed, the guest's answer may take on an
entirely different meaning. A part of effective Video Production in the future could be the ability to judge how well a scene performs with a focus group.
After
more than a decade of 3-D animation, you might guess that someone
somewhere has already created nearly every object imaginable. You're
pretty much right. One day you might be asked to model a 1959 Chevrolet
Impala. You could certainly buy a plastic model at a hobby store and
start to work, or you could buy the object, already made, from a data
warehouse! Production meetings are a form of pre-studio rehearsal.
Whenever possible, the director should gather together all the
significant people involved in the studio and go over the entire show.
In this way, each person knows his or her role in relation to the
overall production. Lack of a dimmer board adds to the control problems
in the field. To increase or decrease the intensity of a light, the
stand must be moved in accordance with the inverse square law. Images
should always be your first choice, when appropriate, because video is
inherently a visual medium. Through slow or fast motion, split screen
shots and other formal devices, the medium can also display things in
ways that can't be seen in real life. For acquiring video, especially in
the field, portable hard drives and solid state digital media such as
memory cards are now the norm, while video servers are being used for
longer-term storage and editing. Most Video Production Company studio complexes have editing suites where all the magic happens.
In
one sense, the setting is much easier and less expensive to deal with
on location than in a studio because very little, if anything, needs to
be constructed. However, an improper setting can totally destroy the
concept and atmosphere of your program. Projects under-scheduled and
underbudgeted leave you with only two options once the show begins:
either the project goes over budget, or the quality goes into the
dumpster. Unless you come up with it yourself, you will have to pay
someone some amount for either an idea or an actual screenplay. Even for
thirty-second commercials, people get paid to write scripts. The shape
of a video display is called the aspect ratio. A type of show that a
sponsor might pay for is the infomercial. The art of Video Production London has always been a field that offers both excitement and opportunities for creativity.
Any
video production involves the work of a team of people. The director is
the team captain and must motivate people to do their best work.
Sometimes, this involves listening to problems that have nothing to do
with the production: the stage manager's woes with child care, the
camera operator's brother's illness, or the audio operator's love of
flying. The video switcher serves a number of different functions. First
and foremost, it is an editing device that facilitates the time-ordered
sequencing of inputs within a live or live-to-recording video
production. To do this, the switcher serves a channeling or routing
function as it selects a video source from all the available inputs,
such as cameras, video servers, remote feeds, and computer-generated
graphics. Most video-editing programs provide the same two basic tools
to help you assemble a movie: the Storyboard and the Timeline. The
storyboard and timeline are basically just two different ways of showing
the same thing. Editors join shots using a variety of optical
transitions. These serve narrative, dramatic, and emotionally expressive
functions. The most common transitions are the cut (which creates an
instantaneous change from one shot to the next), the fade (during which
one shot fades completely to black before the next shot fades in from
black), and the dissolve (which overlaps the outgoing and incoming
shots). A major stylistic development in recent films has been due to
the switch from linear to nonlinear editing systems. This changeover has
helped produce an increase in the cutting rate of contemporary film and
a bias in favor of close-ups. With digital technology, the Corporate Video Production options are nearly endless.
As
a practical matter, cutting during an ad-lib program usually involves a
delay of one second or so. To avoid a long delay, the director has to
be sensitive to the body language and facial expressions of all
participants (watching the camera monitors in the control room).
Continuity considerations are often violated for effect in film
production, especially in music videos and commercials, where smooth
flow is frequently abandoned for attention-grabbing, disjointed editing.
You may need to shoot a chart that appears on a wall or some similar
graphic to use as a cutaway in your video, but these are not likely to
be designed for television, so the camera operator must frame them as
well as possible under the circumstances. individuals into a workable
whole, taking advantage of the skills and personality traits each brings
to the production. A very fast pan - 15 frames or so of light, color
and motion flying across the screen - is almost as effective as a
dissolve. Some large corporations will retain a film and Video Production Agency to assist with their in house needs.
In
any production situation, a few standard procedures will help you be an
effective camera operator. Long-term personal likes and dislikes are
often the first things that are emulated or aspired to in creative work
before a clear and original 'voice' develops. These influences can be
conscious or unconscious. The audio operator must listen carefully to
the sound that is occurring and being recorded while a take is being
shot. The human brain subconsciously filters out unwanted sound. The
noise of an airplane flying overhead, for example, often goes unnoticed
by two people engaged in conversation; they effectively hear only each
other.