Aurelija's TV production blog

Our first workshop with Del was a camera workshop where he explained what is expected from camera operators in the studio. He explained how working in the studio is different from working on our one camera shoots where we'd have time to focus and get the perfect shot and much more movement there is in the studio shows so there's almost no point in wasting time to lock and unlock the cameras or having lots of friction as it works against us when we try to follow people around especially when we had to reframe and keep focus on the subject. Even though we had time to practice our camera skills before the TX day, I still feel like I'd need way more practice to be a good camera OP on the 'live' studio production as I did lose focus a few times and "a good Camera Operator does not 'lose focus' " (2011, Manchester) . We also learned about camera lineup and how important it is to do it so that the images from different cameras would look the exact sa...

During our studio production rehearsals, I was behind the JVC camera. Everyone in our camera crew agreed that it was the best to stick by one camera and master working with it instead of bouncing from one to another. I've never worked with a JVC camera so it was tricky to figure out. The first day I picked it up felt like my first day in uni when I knew very little about cameras, it took me ages to find the on/off switch. To help me better to understand where I can find all of the settings and buttons I took the camera out. I wanted to go through the settings so I would be confident in knowing where I can find certain settings if needed. Before that, I couldn't find peaking on it which helps with keeping everything in focus especially when people move more. Found out that if you turn the peaking on you can only see things in black and white and the peaking colour, of which I wasn't a fan, but at the same time I found out that you can increase peaking on the...

BEN DAVIS DOP in numerous superhero films, such as Kick-ass, Guardians of the Galaxy, Avengers: Age of Ultron, Doctor Strange, and Captain Marvel. The films I want to focus more on is Kick-ass and Captain Marvel because the audience gets to see how the main characters become superheroes and that is more relevant to our project "The 7 Billionth Hero". In "Kick-ass" all of the superheroes are just people who don't have any special powers. The Protagonist decides to become a superhero and fight crime and starts a new superhero trend.  There's a lot of interesting POV shots  Mirror POV, when he's practicing what he's gonna say to the bad guys. Phone camera    I particularly like this film for lighting. Most of the fight scenes are filmed in low light and there's a contrast between his everyday life and his superhero life. It's bright, warm and slightly yellowish, but at the same time is very monotone to show the boredom a...

(2016, London) "The camera operators frame the shots and operate the camera, panning, tilting and zooming as instructed by the director vis talkback." p. 51 Camera operators get camera scripts or camera cards as to know what shot their camera needs to be on. p.58 If you see words ' as directed ' it means that the camera OP has to follow the conversation of a guest or contributor. 'on the fly' means that the camera OP will need to use their own initiative in framing shots and listen carefully to the director's instructions via talkback. p.58 Shot sizes: *WS= wide shot; *MS = medium shot; *MCU = medium close-up; *CU= close-up; *ECU = extreme close-up; *2S two shot etc. Camera moves: *Pedestal (ped) up/down = moving the height of the camera up or down; *Dolly in/out = moving with the camera forward or backward; *Truck left/right = moving with the camera to the left or right; *Pick ups = retakes of any additional sequences. On pre-recorded shows ...

Personally, I found it really difficult to come up with an interesting studio production idea. But because "one idea is not enough" (Brown and Duthie, 2010)  I came up with 3 initial ideas: 1) Guess the song type of game show, but instead of guessing pop songs, the contestants would have to guess classical music. I got this idea from a game my friends and I loved to play and the way my music teacher used to test my class.  2) Travel guide about how to make the most of your trip, places worth visiting and places that are overrated and not worth your time. I got this idea from my sister who travels a lot and from the way she does loads of research about each and every place she visits. 3) Debate/Game show where 2 groups of people debate about nerdy topics ( whats better Marvel or DC, which Doctor was the best etc.). The idea comes from noticing how much rivalry there is between comic book lovers and overall 'nerds'. I feel like this idea is the stronge...

Personally I am happy about the finished video, as it's been a while since I've done any editing, so I think I've done a pretty good job doing it. I've also learned more about it, for example - how to deal with colour correction. It might not be perfect, but it's way better than the original footage.  I've chose this commission because I wanted to get some practice operating the camera which I did and got some really nice close ups of people. I really enjoyed the production, even though we were a bit late (apparently leaving 2 hours early wasn't enough) and didn't get all the shots we planned to, ran out of memory and Michael wasn't feeling well. Aside from all of those hiccups I had fun filming the conference and was excited to get back to editing. Where I actually looked through the footage and saw some really nice pull focus shots. Some I wish I could have used the tripod for some of the shots, but it was difficult to move around the tight co...

Video Production disciplines and techniques Cameras Most important notes from the book: Understanding the camera Cameras are sensitive to three atributes of colour: Hue - refers to the colour tint itself. When light waves of all three primary colours are added together in a proportion that relates to the colour sensitivity of the human eye (59 % green, 30% red and 11% blue) the resulting effect is white. Saturation - the intensity or vividness of a colour. (colours range from highly saturated to pastels) Luminance - brightness of the colour. (by decreacing brightness eventually we get to black) Lenses: Focal Lenght - the longer the lens is the narrower its viewing angle will be, and the less you'll be able to fit into the picture. Long lens magnifies individuals and compresses distance. Short focal lens is the oposite. Optical zoom- a series of glass pieces inside of the lens that move to provide different magnifications of the field of view Digital zoom - e...