Notetaking on Camera TechniquesINTERVIEWING:• What seven items should you bring with you when you are shooting an interview?C ameraT ripodC onnector

Notetaking on Camera Techniques

INTERVIEWING:
• What seven items should you bring with you when you are shooting an interview?

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• Shooting into a light source = you the button to adjust an make the light not as bright and shoot the light from the side like a different angle

Button to adjust = light fixture

• Where do you want your light source? On what even your main focus is.• On what object should you focus the camera? The main person and focus it at the eyes so their in the middle of the screen so theres not too much head room nor lead room or too little head and lead room.


• No tripod= no balanced camera. it will be tilting and move alot
• Date and Time= info in cmera shooting
• SP/EP
• Camera shoots in anything
• Pre-Roll- before practice
• Post-Roll- after/ main


CAMERA SHOTS:

***BACKGROUND:

• 1 Shot= includes one item primary importance
• 1 Shot with graphic= includes one item primary importance that has graphics and many features shown.
• 2 Shot= includes two items primary improtance
• CU- close up
• MS- medium shot
• LS- low shot
• ECU- extreme close up
• Rule of thirds- grid picture


CAMERA MOVEMENTS:
• Tilt- pointing only the front of the camera (lens) vertically up or down while the dolly and tripod remain stationary.
• Pan- moving only the camera to scan the set horizontally, while the dolly and tripod remain stationary.
• Zoom- to come closer or further away from your main focus.
• Dolly- physically moving the camera, its tripod, and dolly perpendicularly toward or away from the set.

LIGHTS
• Key- lights in direct front of main focus
• Fill- any dark places on camera will be filled with a light fill to make that spot as light as the other spots.
• Back- lights in the background that capturn light from behind.


MICROPHONES:
• Unidirectional- not focusly directed on one thing.
• Omnidirectional a mic with a pick up pattern that captures sound from nearly every direction wqually well.
• Cardiod a mic with a pick up pattern tthat captures sound from primarily one direction.
• Lav/Lapel Microphone a mic that can be hung from someones neck and a lapel is the smallest mic attached to someones clothing.
• Boom Microphone a pole that is held over the set with a micrphone attached to the end of the pole. Any type of mic may be attached to the end of the boom.