what are storyboards?

1. storyboards are arranged to represent the events of a story which will be filmed
2. a storyboard acts as a visual script for lighting, camera angles and most importantly the narrative development or in other words, how the story goes
3.if a storyboard isn't with a script then it's harder to picture how the film will flow and because it's in written form then you could misinterpret the descriptions and film it completely wrong
4.the main type of storyboard is the Production Storyboard
5.the painting storyboard is a sequence of images to show the visual style of what you're filming
6.TV storyboards are filmed and produced by advertising agencies for their clients
7.the narrative elements of the story in the film are the characters, settings, conflicts and the resolution.
8-10.to make a film more interesting the people making it break it into different parts and these parts are called moments. the moments are categorised as atmospheric, narrative and critical. this is an important storyboarding tool because not all events are critical but are needed to help with the narrative or atmosphere
11.an establishing shot is used to establish the setting or atmosphere of the scene, it's all in the name
12.a mid shot is used to focus on a person because it's from head to toe
13.a low angle shot is shot lower than eye level and makes the subject look bigger and more powerful while a high angle shot is shot higher than eye level and makes the subject look smaller
14.to start a storyboard you need to come up with a narrative
15. next you break up the plot into moments then scenes then shots
16. next you pencil in the scenes ans shots
17.when you analyse it you look for mise en scene, montage or camera angles that will help to enhance the scene
18.when you 'flesh out the scene' you add digital photos, clip art or drawings and add more detail to the shot description

broadband questions

1.broadband is and internet connection which is typically faster than dial up.

2.bandwidth and transfer speed are quoted in 2 different units: kilobits per second, abbreviated to kbps and kilobytes per second, abbreviated to KB/s.

3.most broadband is at least 4 times faster than dial up.

4.broadband services typically operate at a maximum speed of 1.5 megabits and dial up services typically at a maximum speed of 56 kbps.

5.broadband is better to download a video than dial up because it has higher bandwidth.

6.the wider the pipe the more water can get through to fill the pool but the speed the water travels doesn't change just the amount able to get through. therefore the higher the bandwidth the more data able to get through and the faster the download. ta da, my awesome explanation!

i know that i didn't do the statistics part of it but i'll do it in another blog later because i really want to post this so it's over and done with.

short video differences

Video Pocket For PC (218 kbps)
bit rate- 218KB
display size- 208x160 pixels
frames per second- 20
space required- 532 KB

High Quality Video (Small)
bit rate- variable
display size- 320x240 pixels
frames per second- 25
space required- will vary based on content


High Quality Video (Large)
bit rate- variable
display size- 640x480 pixels
frames per second- 25
space required- will vary based on content


dv-avi (pal)
bit rate- 30 mbps
display size- 720x576 pixels
frames per second- 25
space required- 71.25 Mb


Okay well... i saved the video as dial up and IDSN. they both are equally bad and i can't spot a real difference between them. theoretically IDSN should be better because it's saved as 131Kb and dial up is saved as 107Kb but that's not much of a difference either so we can't really tell the difference.

well i don't know if im supposed to write about the narrarated slide show but i will because i nothing better to do and it actually makes me look like im doing something. well it's basically the same as a normal slideshow but with one fundimental difference: it's narrarated. wow.... anyways, you plug in the microphone and go onto movie maker. you put your images together and click the image of the microphone then record what you want to say about the images. you drag it to the timeline and save it as a movie. here is my movie.

My Movie With Audio

Last night i was looking up at the stars thinking 'where the heck is my ceiling'. i got that off photo bucket, funny icons. you people should check it out. anyways here is my fantastic *cough* movie

i had to got to google images and save the pictures in my s drive but i was saving them on my USB because that's where i save everything. so i couldn't get my pictures to show while the movie was playing so with LAura's advice i saved it on my s drive. to get the pictures on movie maker you just go to import pictures and import them. you drag the pictures to the story board squares and there we go you have your images for your so called movie. you then have to impoirt your audio and then you drag it to the timeline. to adjust how long you want the pictures to show for you drag the side of the picture left or right depending on how long it'd supposed to show for. to adjust how much of the audio you want to play, you drag the side of the audio and it trims the parts you don't want. to do the adjusting i did it in the timeline form. it's all really straight forward because even i could use it and i've only ever used it once.

ringtone

well i imported the song breakeven by the script onto audacity and selected the part i wanted to use then i trimmed out the rest. i went into the equalization and did the funky thing with the line like the instructions said but it didn't sound any different which is what it's supposed to sound like so i guess i did it right. after that i did the compression thing by moving the bar across depending on what the instructions said. i exported it as an mp3 (i think) then i imported it onto movie maker and saved it as an wmv. i now have to upload it to my blog but last time it didn't work so im crossing my fingers. now here it is: hmmmm... it won't upload, stupid computer. ah, you see, well you need to have a picture with the audio so you can save it as a movie and upload it to blogger so excuse the picture but it was the first one i found and i was experimenting anyways when i uploaded the ringtone it sounded distorted like i was listening to it on a really bad radio signal, i don't know why and i can't fix it. stupid computer!

Intro To Video

1. well i think that we used to use the file format, analog before we switched to digital

2. analog recording has reading signals directly onto a medium (tape) with a magnetic encoding but with digital it encodes the signals into a numeric string of digits.

3. with digital video you can edit and stuff much more easily then with analog because with analog you would have to start from scratch to add something in.

4. in video the frame rate is the number of frames shown per second. in the movies they use a frame rate of 24 frames per second.

5. not all applications use the same frame rate, for example, if the video is going to be shown on the web, CD-Rom or on a normal analog tape then you will have 3 different frame rates and 3 different resolutions. this is because in digital video the faster the frame rate and the higher the resolution determines how much data needs to be transmitted and stored in order to view your video.

6. resolution is the number of pixels (dots on the screen), it's measured as the number of horizontal pixels times the number of vertical pixels (eg. 680x 750)

7. The RGB colour system stands for red, green, blue. our monitors show us RGB colour and each pixel is the product of light coming from a red, green and a blue thingy which are placed really close together and because they're placed so close together our eyes blend the primary colours together and we see them as a single coloured dot. if you put your eye really close to the screen then you might see the following illustration

8. there are 3 different TV standards around the world and the standard you receive depends on the country you're living in. the USA, Canada, Japan, Korea and Mexico use the format NTSC and the frame rate is 29.97 frames/sec. Australia, China, most of Europe and South America use the format PAL and the frame rate is 25 frames/sec. France, the Middle East and most of Africa use the format SECAM and the frame rate is 25 frames/sec. sooo basically the main difference is the quality of the resolution and the frame rate.

9. us Aussies use the format PAL which may i remind you is a frame rate of 25 frames/sec.

10. if you're recording with an analog camcorder then you will need a video capture card to digitalize it.

11. we won't need a video capture card for the video we are making at school because it will already be digital to begin with.

12. an IEEE 1394 is the connection between your digital camcorder and your computer when you feed the video onto the computer after shooting it.

13. digital video cameras use video compression because when it's uncompressed it's an enormous amount of data and when viewing/editing it, it would slow down your computer a lot.

14. a codec handles the compression and decompression of video. they can be found in hardware like capture cards or in software.

15. generation loss is when the quality gets worse and worse as you copy or transfer. sir explained it this way : if you photocopy something it's not quite as good quality as the original and if you photocopy that photocopy then the quality will be even worse and if you keep photocopying every photocopy then you will probably end up with a big blob that doesn't really look like anything. the way i explained it, it probably doesn't make sense but anyways.....