how to shoot

How to Shoot

• Start with an establishing shot, wide shots, go to medium shots, tight shots

• Use a tripod• Critical focus on your subject • Zoom in on eyes, set focus, pull out set up

shot• Cutaways from action

Establishing Shot

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Tips

• What it looks like when heads are dirty• Use a fill light• How to white balance • Balance to 3200K (Kelvin) Tungsten or 5600K

Daylight

Example

CLAS Production Unit – Angela Looney 2011

Use Natural Sound

• Always be thinking of how to tell your story with sound

• Check your audio settings on camera• Internal (INT) for nats• External for Interviews/Stand-ups

Use Natural Sound

Always be thinking of how to tell your story with sound.

KVUE-TV Austin, Texas

Example of Shooting Rally• Shoot appropriate cutaways• Think of ways to tell your story using sound• Always shoot a stand-up

Example of Shooting Rally

• Shoot appropriate cutaways• Record natural sound• Shoot a stand-up

KGAN-TV Cedar Rapids, Iowa

Hide Identity

• First identify the person you need to hide.• Shoot with other objects has main focus.• Use blur effect.• Use mosaic effect.• Alter audio if needed.• Shoot silhouette.

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Shooting Stand-ups

• Ask for help• Select external microphone on side of camera• Use a light if necessary• Use wireless microphone• Use a tripod• Motivated reason for not using tripod

Think creative storytelling

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Lighting & Audio

• Avoid backlight• Keep subject in light• Use proper audio selection on camera• Notice the difference between onboard camera

microphone and external microphone selection• Shoot Audio w/Channel 1 (INT) Channel 2 Ext• In Post – Unlink Audio and discard nats from

interview and stand-up clips. Discard external microphone clips from nats clips.

Lighting & Audio Examples

Daily Iowan TV 2011

IRIS• The amount of light the IRIS stops from getting into the lens

the f/stop admits as much light is capable.• Each f-stop cuts in half the amount admitted by the previous

f-stop• F-stop numbers based off two base numbers f/1.0 and f/1.4 • Each f/stop number is seen by doubling the previous

number. 1.0/2.0/4.0/8.0/16 and 1.4/2.8/5.6/11/22• Useful linkA Tedious Explanation of the f/stop by Matthew Colehttp://www.uscoles.com/fstop.htm

The DVX100 Book How to get the most from the revolutionary DVX100, DVX100A, and DVX100B cameras BY Barry W Green

Depth of Field

• Depth of field is the area 1/3 in front of the subject and 2/3 area behind the subject

• To maximize depth of field use wide angle lens-stop down iris as much as you can, back away from the subject use small aperture f/16

• Minimize depth of field zoom in as far as you can get close to subject, open iris f/2.8 (shallow)

The DVX100 Book How to get the most from the revolutionary DVX100, DVX100A, and DVX100B cameras BY Barry W Green

Shallow Depth of Field

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Sequence

• Shoot your story thinking sequencing• Establishing, Wide, medium, tight, super tight,

reversal, cutaway from action• Edit using natural sound

Sequencing

TV News Workshop 019:134:001University of Iowa 2011