Aurelija's TV production blog

On this workshop we got to play around with DSLR cameras, which are made mainly for photography and that's why it's a bit more tricky to get everything in focus and the sound is awful, although you could get amazing effects with the said camera.  It's way lighter than the panasonic or sony cameras we used before, so it's a bit more comefortable to film handheld.  After doing our interviews we played around with ISO, which is something like gain on other cameras. You can see in the video that when ISO is set higher - the video gets more grainy.

This was our first lighting workshop in which we learned the importance of good lighting because it helps to set the mood of the scene and makes the view less flat. Even though for most of the workshop I was being blinded by the lights, I did take a lot from it. For starters, don't forget to focus the camera no matter how excited you get about finally positioning the lights right (Michael bits). Also, we got to see what a gel can do to tungsten lights. The second lighting workshop wasn't easier as we had to choose and recreate one of noir looks. We chose to  only illuminate the eyes, to achieve that look we tried shaping light with barn doors on the tungsten lights, but it wasn't working as well as we thought it would, then we tried using foil to shape the light and that didn't work as well so in the end we ended up using a flag which gave as the look we were going for. After that we decided to just play with the lights and see what the each ligh...