March 20th

Happy Wednesday!

At the beginning of class today I will give a demonstration using iMovie HD. This is an older version of imovie but works well with our network and has some great features. When using iMovie HD please remember that you need to SAVE TO THE LOCAL HARDRIVE in the movies folder. This means that you MUST WORK ON THE SAME COMPUTER. After the presentation, please do the following:

1. Edit your matched action video. Each person must submit a video to me. You must edit your video to create the most effective sequence/matched action as possible. Try to add in some sound effects and a video effect-it's cheesey but fun!

2. Once you are finished this please do the following 2 tutorials on Sound and Lighting. The blog questions below for these will be due on Friday.

Here's the URL for the next lesson (click on SOUND):  http://video101course.com/

Questions to Answer

1. What does a TV company spend more time on - video or audio? Why?

2. Make a point form list of all the types of microphones discussed in the lesson and how they are used/different from one another.

3. What is automatic gain control and how it is a problem for audio recording?

4. What is equalization?

5.  List and describe the four sound technique rules described in this lesson.


Here's the URL for the lesson on LIGHTING (click on LIGHTING) http://video101course.com/



Questions to Answer
1) What is the difference between "hard" light and "soft" light? Provide one example of each.

2) What colour of light is produced by the sun? Fluorescent lights? Candles?

3) Describe the three light setup. What are the roles of the Key, Fill and Back lights? Fill in the chart below:

TYPE OF LIGHT        PURPOSE            POSITIONING
Key
Fill
Back

4) How do you fix these common lighting problems?
     1. A sunny day
     2. A large dim room
     3. Mixed lighting