9/14,15

For reading time today: Steve Hartman/Les Rose Stories: http://www.cbsnews.com/sections/assignment_america/main500617.shtml

Notetaking 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)
Camera
Tripod
Tape
Microphone
Headphones
Power
Light

• 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 a person's nose

White balance adjusts the iris setting. Make sure you white balance the camera before taking a shot at a new location or with a different lightening.

• No tripod = bad

• Date and Time = never

• SP(Standard play)/EP(Extended play)

• Camera shoots in SP .

• Pre-Roll- record 3-5 seconds before the interview


• Post-Roll- record 3-5 seconds after the intrerview.



CAMERA SHOTS:

***BACKGROUND: Dynamic - has some depth, not plain. Interviewee is at least 6-8 feet away from the wall. Interviewee IS the shot, not a poster.

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

• 1 Shot with graphic=over the shoulder graphic (OTS graphic)

• 2 Shot=Still middle of the chest to above the head, but only during a show. only for anchors.

• CU-Close Up

• MS-Medium Shot

• LS-Long Shot

• ECU-Extreme Close Up

• Rule of thirds-place the important elements on the upper line.


CAMERA MOVEMENTS:
• Tilt-up and down


• Pan-left and right


• Zoom-closer and further away


• Dolly-camera on wheels

LIGHTS
• Key-Main bright light usually from the side.


• Fill-fills in the shadows


• Back-Opposite of the key light. Separates the interviewee from the background.


MICROPHONES:
• Unidirectional-picks up sound from the one direction.

• Omnidirectional-comes from all directions. Microphone on a camera in omnidirectional.

• Cardiod-shapes like a heart (unidirectional)

• Lav/Lapel Microphone-Ones we clip on interviewees' shirts. All we have.

• Boom Microphone-microphone on a pole.Usually unidirectional and picks up only from the area it heads.