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| Three stages of production |
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1. Pre-production
2. Production
3. Post-production |
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| Steps in a camera. Light comes in then... |
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1. Hits beam splitter
2. Split into red, green, blue
3. Sent to CCD's (one for each color)
4. CCDs transduct (change energy from light to electronic signal.) |
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| Light sensitive grid, storage grid and output grid. |
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| Scans all the lines sequentially |
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| Scans all odd # lines, back to top then scans all even # lines |
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| 5 parts of digital transition |
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1. Aspect ratio from 3x4 to 9x16
2. Switch to sampling for signal copying (vs. analog)
3. Digital uses binary code to store info
4. Frame rate changed
5. Lines of resolution increased (except for 480, that stayed below the normal 525.) |
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Short lens
1. also known as
2. What field of view
3. Zoomed in or out? |
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1. Short focal length
2. Wide field of view
3. Zoomed out |
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Long Lens
1. a.k.a.
2. What kind of field of view?
3. Zoomed in or out? |
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1. Long focal length
2. Narrow field of view
3. Zoomed in |
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F-stop
1. Refers to...
2. f/x. If x is smaller, how much light in? X is bigger, how much light in? |
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1. Aperture (how much light is let in)
2. Bigger x is, less light is let in. |
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| How much light is let in lens. |
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Depth of field
1. What is it?
2. Depends on? |
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1. The area of which all objects, located at different distances from the camera, appear in focus.
2. Depends on f-stop, focal length of lens, and distance from camera to the object. |
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| Allow for nose room and head room |
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| Electronic copy of signal |
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| Discontinuous signal by sampling |
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| How long it takes to scan a complete frame |
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| Samples are taken off the analog and Quantized into 0s and 1s. |
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| One half of a scanning cycle, or frame. |
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| Eliminates data off signal that doesn't need to be preserved. |
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| How much light can get through a lens. Fast lens is more light, slow lens less light. |
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| Iris controls how much light is transmitted. Aperture is the adjustable hole that controls the amount of light, and it can be "closed down" in well-lit scenes. |
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| Optical zoom vs. digital zoom |
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| Optical doesn't affect quality of image, digital gets fuzzy because the image is just being magnified. |
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| Four parts of camera chain |
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1. Camera
2. Power supply
3. Sync generator
4. CCU (camera control unit.) |
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| Elevate or lower camera on tripod |
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| Move toward or away from object |
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| Move the camera up or down on a crane or jib |
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| How to calibrate zoom lens |
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| Zoom in as far as possible, focus |
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| Higher shutter speed, higher amount of light needed |
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| Five camera shots (describes field of view) |
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1. Extreme long shot
2. Long shot
3. Medium shot
4. Close up
5. Extreme close up |
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| Camera shot that creates direction that the eye moves through the shot |
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1. Graphic vector: Stationary objects create direction
2. Index vector: Something unquestionably points in a direction.
3. Motion vector: Something moves in a direction on screen. |
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| Omnidirectional, cardioid and hypercardioid |
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| Hears well in one direction |
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| hears well in all directions |
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| 3 construction types of mics |
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| Dynamic, condensor and ribbon |
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| Rugged. Can work with loud sounds |
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| Higher quality sounds, more sensitive than dynamic |
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| High quality and very sensitive |
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| Post production elimination of unwanted sounds or adding wanted sounds. |
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| 5 purposes of audio boards |
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1. Inputs
2. Mixing
3. Quality control
4. Ways to monitor sound
5. Master output |
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1. Pick from a variety of sources
2. Mix video sources
3. Creating effects. |
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| Compression-decompression |
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| Portable camera for field production |
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