Camera Techniques

Note taking on Camera Techniques

INTERVIEWING:
• What seven items should you bring with you when you are shooting an interview?
(Clocks Tick Tock Making Heads Pound Loudly)
C-amera
T-ripod
T-ape/card
M-icrophone
H-eadphones
P-ower
L-ights

• Shooting into a light source =silhouette



• Where do you want your light source?
behind the camera!

• On what object should you focus the camera?
on the nose of the person

*White Balance

• No tripod=BAD!


• Date and Time=never..display is a no go.


• SP/EP-SP- standard play...EP- Extended play

• Camera shoots in ____High Quality____________.

• Pre-Roll- rolls 3 to 5 seconds before interview


• Post-Roll- rolls 3 to 5 seconds after the inerview


CAMERA SHOTS:

***BACKGROUND: Dynamic=has some depth, not plain. interviewee is at least 6-8 feet from wall...they are the shot not a poster

• 1 Shot= middle of the chest to above the head. microphones are to be heard not seen.

• 1 Shot with graphic=middle of the chest to above the head just to the side...over the shoulder graphic

• 2 Shot= 2 people still middle of the chest to above the head

• CU-close up

• MS-medium shot most of the person

• LS-long shot all the body

• ECU-extreme close up...ELS-extreme long shot
we want to create a series of shots.
• Rule of thirds-imaginary lines that divide images into thirds. place the important elements on the rule of thirds.horizontal lines.


CAMERA MOVEMENTS:
• Tilt-up and down


• Pan-side to side


• Zoom-closer or farther away


• Dolly-camera on wheels

LIGHTS
• Key-main bright light that comes from the front light that we have in our camera bags


• Fill-fills in the shadows opposite of the key light


• Back-opposite of the key light separates the person from the backgroud


MICROPHONES:
• Unidirectional-picks up from one direction, boom mic

• Omnidirectional-picks up from all directions, mic on top of cameras, natural sound

• Cardiod- one direction shaped like a heart

• Lav/Lapel Microphone-clip on mics

• Boom Microphone-mic on a pole, unidirectional.