About Video
What is it and how does it work?
What do you think?
• How accessible is video in today’s society? Where
can you watch videos, movies, and TV shows?
• How inexpensive /expensive is it to make a video?
• What looks (visually) better, film or video?
• On a bigger scale, what does it take to get a big
project movie/video made?
What is video?
According to Webster’s Dictionary
2: a recording of a motion picture or
television program for playing through a
television set b : a videotaped
performance of a song often featuring
an interpretation of the lyrics through
visual images
3 : a recording similar to a videotape but
stored in digital form (as on an optical
disk or a computer's hard drive)
Video vs. Film
• Video and Film are two totally
different mediums for shooting and
storing footage for a production.
• Video stores the image and sound on
a single cassette or memory card.
• Video is portable and cheap.
Video vs. Film
•Film has a rich and vibrant color
quality.
•Film is less tolerant of different light
levels.
•More cumbersome for editing.
Production Cycles
What do you Think….if at all?
•Take out a sheet of paper.
•List ten things you think you need to do to get a
movie made.
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Steps
Processes
Procedures
Materials
Pre-Production
•Scripting
•Storyboarding
•Scouting locations
•Set design
•Costume design
•Securing Talent
Scripting
• Writing the dialogue and direction for the
production.
Storyboarding
• A visual
representation
of a scene
drawn out in
panels like a
cartoons or
graphic novels.
Storyboards
• A visual map that helps you reach your
destination of a finished film/video
• Not an end-all-be-all layout.
Scouting Locations and Set
Design
• Finding places to shoot your movie/video
• Not always the location indicated in the movie
• Money plays a factor in location.
Costume Design
• Creating costumes that represent the time
period the movie/video takes place in.
• A person in the 1700’s would not wear jeans
and a white T-shirt.
Securing Talent
• Finding the best possible actor/s to play the
many roles that your production requires.
Production
• Shoot the production
• View Dailies
Post-Production
• Edit
• Sound/music
• Foley artist – create
sound effects for the
movie
• Special Effects
• Marketing
• Re-recording of audio
So…what have we learned?
• Film and video are different in many ways. Lets
name a few.
• There is a production cycle for making videos
and movies.
• Pre-production
• Production
• Post-production
Let me Quiz you
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Which format is easier to edit sound with?
Which format has better color quality?
Which format is more light sensitive?
Which format is more portable, easier to carry
and move?
5. Which format is more expensive?
Let me Quiz you?
• In which production phase do the following occur?
7. Editing
8. Set design
9. Music
10.Viewing dailies
11.Storyboarding
12.Adding f/x
13.Foley artists
Class assignment
Storyboard a 35-second commercial for one of the
following products. Can be either fake or real
1. Soda/Energy Drink
2. Shoe
3. Phone
4. Car