Teeside Media Work Shop.

12.10, we set off to Teeside Universtiy for a Media Work Shop. The aim of the trip was to learn and to get a new expierence to use the cameras which we need to use for our teaser film trailer. Also we looked at final cut pro to help us learn how to edit our video footage.


Using the Camera...
What i learnt. The tripod has three clips that holds the legs together at the bottom, unclick them and they extend out. When putting the camera firmly onto the top of the tripod, it will click as you slide it on. We learnt that there is a button on the camera that acts like a huma eye (the iris) you can adjust it and what you see on the camera screen is what your own eye should see in real life. There is also a button called the filter which should be on number two when you are shooting scenes outside as it produces natural light, it acts as sunglasses. If shooting inside you need to lower the filter to zero or one. When zooming into a object you need to focus on it by twisting the first wheel on the lense of the camera, if you change the shot of the object you have to zoom back into the object and re-focus the shot. The bubble has to be level so when you pan and tilt the camera doesnt jerk and as you pan it will pan smoothly and the image on the screen will be framed correctly. The camera has its own memory and if you dont do the white balance right then all the colours on the screen will get miked up. There is a wheel you click round until you get ACD on your screen and then point the camera to a white wall, or white tee/shirt, or a white piece of paper etc and hold the wheel in and it will then get all of the right colour ready for shooting.

Sound.
When recording sound as well as a video, using a gun mic will help a lot with the sound. You have to postion the gun mic to the object you want to hear. It doesnt look very perfessional if you see it in shot so make sure you keep it at a distance but a good distance so you hear the person talking. Also the gun mic is good for sound effect for e.g. a door shutting, phone ringing, footsteps. All you have to do it move the mic down to the object and either slam the door or walk to get the sound you want. The gun mic cuts our all of the wind so its really clear. There is also another mic so you can hear everything else going on for e.g. if someone is talking. On Final Cut Pro if you have used the gun mic for sound effects you can over lap it by using lots of different layers.



Editing.
(above) The thing i learnt best on final cut pro was layering. It interested me how you could add pictures, music, and a video all at the same time. If you are just watching one person talking for 20 mins, you are going to get very bored so adding images to the relevant topic they are talking about will interest the audience and also to add music or sound effects. You can change the volume of the sound, as the character or person is talking, make the music quiter but then louder as it goes off subject or onto a picture etc. If you are making a dramatic film trailer the filters you could use to make the audience get the feeling of gloomyness, you could make the shots black and white or just make the brightness darker.

When producing my trailer i will do test shots before i capture the right one. I will have to get my focus right before i shoot anything as it could be blury or disorentated.