Media Studies 2009-2011

There are many effects on a video camera first is you can ZOOM. This helps you get a better picture rather than have to run or move places it will zoom up to the object for you by pressing a simple button. when zooming you will become more wobbly with the camera so for long zooms you should use a tripod.

There also is a focus. This means you can focus better on an object. It makes the picture become more sharp and clear. If you turn the ring clockwise for closer focus and anti-clockwise for more distant focus.

White Balance. To do this you point the camera at something matt (non-reflective) white in the same light (in our lesson we used a sheet of white paper.)  Set your focus and exposure, then press the “white balance” button (or throw the switch). This will make sure the colour of the picture is just right.

The shutter can make a picture sharper and help control exposure, but it is not usual used until you are more advanced.

Although cameras are very useful they are not always perfect if you don’t have the right lighting or bad conditions. Also your camera doesn’t know what you want so YOU are the controller!

Planning is a very important thing to do with anything not just media but with media you must plan before you video. This is important as planning helps you to remember and its all there in front of you so you don’t have to mess around trying to think off quick, messy ideas, you would also waste alot of valuable time. Also on planning you put down what types of props to use and what type of shoots you are going to use. This prepares you well before you shoot the video. It’s best to prepare for a video shoot is to look round the location you are going to be filming.

You also need to know the audience you are going to be filming for so need to put in dialoge to please the audience your aiming for.  

Storyboards are produced to plan out a film. They put the films into different sections, you draw out all the different sections you want then put about the camera shots, what props you will need to use e.g. what wall paper you should have on the wall or what flowers you should have in a flowerpot.  The sections show a series of events as they are to be seen through the camera lens. All directors have to create them this gives them a clear idea about what they are going to put in their film and all about it. Walt Disney used them to create the his animated films. They are very useful to anyone who is creating a film as a storyboard is what they use to put all your ideas on. So it is important to produce a storyboard so your ideas can be stored somewhere you can look back on.

Word Press will help me during the media studies corse because it can be used in alot of ways. You are responceable for your wall posts and wont loose them as they are here on the computer and stored on this program. You are the author of your own posts. It gets posted (if you choose to post) on the internet so many other people can read the information you post. Word press is set up so you can put anything online, pictures, videos and what ever else you need. Its an online blog. We are able too come online at any time and on any computer, so we can do our work at home as well as at college. This makes it alot easier to work on, so we dont have to make time for it and rush it at college. All you have to do to post a comment is click publish. Word press makes it easier for the teacher to follow our progress in the course. I think that word press is very easy to use too unlike other sites that can go that are very complicated this isnt!