Audio Visual Production

Video production is the process of converting an idea into a video. It involves the following video. stages: stages: Pre Production Production Post Production

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Pre Production
PrePre-production is the planning stage of your shoot, and occurs before the camera starts rolling. By creating storyboards, rolling. scouting locations, and figuring out the budget ahead of time, your production will be free of unnecessary worry. worry.
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Audio and Video Equipment

Researching your software and hardware needs during prepreproduction will allow you to plan your budget accordingly, and will provide you with enough time to acquire any additional equipment you may need before starting production. production. Hardware Software

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Video On Location
By visiting the shooting location during pre-production you will be able to predetermine any issues that may arise during your shoot with ample time to find a solution. Foreseeing potential location problems will save you time and solution. money. money. Location Reports. Location scouting is an important part of any video Reports. production. production. There are often so many locations to visit that it can be difficult to remember each site's details. A location report will allow you details. to keep track of the places you visit, which will save you from overlooking a preventable flaw. flaw. Media. Media. Our memories often fail us. For this reason, it's a good idea to us. record video or take photos of the locations you are scouting. Not only scouting. will it provide you with a visual reminder of shooting locations, but will allow you to design your set from anywhere. anywhere.

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Logistics
Traveling with your equipment requires additional planning and care. Because care. of this, it can become quite stressful. The following articles will help you stressful. decide what to bring and what actions to take ahead of time to ensure your equipment survives the trip. trip. Scheduling. Scheduling. Scheduling casting calls, shooting locations, and events requires plenty of pre-planning. Sticking to your production schedule will pre-planning. not only help you finish the project in the allotted amount of time, but will help you avoid exceeding your production budget. budget. Transportation. Transportation. Whether you're taking your production overseas or just down the street, transporting your video equipment and crew requires planning. planning. Learning the best practices for traveling with your video equipment will ensure it safely arrives at your destination and back again. again.

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PrePre-Production Planning
Great videos require thorough planning. Production planning involves budgeting, recruiting the crew planning. and talent, and preparing your sets, props, and costumes. Careful planning will ensure your production costumes. runs smoothly. smoothly. Budgeting. Budgeting. Poor budgeting can put a swift end to a great project. Oftentimes, expenses for project. production crews, talent, video equipment, and location permits are overlooked, underestimated, or unexpected. Thorough budget planning can help keep your project afloat and your camera unexpected. rolling. rolling. Casting. Casting. Talent recruitment is just the tip of the iceberg when it comes to casting actors and actresses for your videos. Learning how to organize talent auditions, becoming familiar with talent videos. evaluation methods, and knowing how to put those who are auditioning at ease, can help maximize the success of your recruitment. recruitment. Crew. Crew. There are many roles to be filled during video production. From the director, gaffer, and production. audio mixer to grips, boom operators and production assistants, each role plays an important part to movie making. Learning more about these roles and others, as well as knowing how big of a making. budget. crew you will need, can help your video productions run smoothly and within your budget. Sets and Props. Great set design and useful props can help bring your story to life. Planning the Props. life. sets and set construction, props, makeup application, and wardrobe before production begins will help ensure all of the story elements required by your script are addressed adequately. adequately.
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Script/Outline
How To Storyboard
Creating your treatment, script and storyboard during pre-production ensures you have a solid plan-ofpreplan-ofaction before starting production. This will help you during production by allowing you to focus on the task at hand. Pre Viz. The goal of pre-visualization is to help you save time and money during production by Viz. preplanning your shoot in full detail. Because pre-viz requires careful planning, it allows you to spot detail. preproblem areas in your project before the camera captures a single frame of video. video. Script. Script. The script is your first step towards making a great video. It's taking your idea and turning video. it into dynamic characters, a twisting plot, and a memorable conclusion. Learning how to write a conclusion. script can help you get the most out of your storytelling abilities, while the use of scriptwriting software can help develop that story with ease. ease. Storyboard. Storyboard. Storyboards are a great tool for visualizing how each scene of your script will play out. out. The best part is, you don't have to be a storyboard artist to create one. Storyboard software one. allows you to build your visuals without having to lift a pencil. Learning how to storyboard with or pencil. smoothly. without software, will help ensure that your productions run smoothly. Treatment. Treatment. Treatments are a great way to summarize the scope of your project. They are project. especially helpful when pitching your idea to a potential client or financier. Knowing what to financier. include, and what to leave out, will increase your success in getting your projects approved and financed. financed.
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Production
Production is the filming stage of your shoot which includes cinematography, audio and lights, as well as directing, art and effects. effects.
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Art
Art design adds to the overall feel of your video by focusing on the set, costumes, props, make-up and hair. If executed correctly, makehair. the subject will look more flattering on camera, and you will be able to avoid problems caused by bright colors or loud patterns. patterns. Costumes. MakeMake-up Props Sets

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Audio
Having a firm grasp on sound design concepts, microphone types and proper audio practices can save you from unnecessary problems in post production. production. Microphones. Microphones. Microphones are a very important part of our everyday lives- not just as video livesproducers, but in everything we do. From cell phones to public address systems. A terrific little do. systems. audio accessory every videographer should have is a lavalier mic. They're good for many setups. mic. setups. Sound Design. Design. Automatic Dialog Replacement. Ever wonder about the Hollywood magic to making the dialog Replacement. ADR. you hear onscreen come out crystal clear? They use a little trick called ADR. Ambiance. Ambiance. Movies with true organic sounds, imagined futuristic electronic audio, and even the everyday noises around us, aren't complete without good sound effects. effects. Effects. Effects. These are the alternate sounds you can apply to your video productions Foley. Foley. Foley audio is the live recording of sound effects --effects that you create, capture and add --effects to video programs in post production. Foley audio is such a useful technique that you may want to production. kit. make it a part of your regular editing tool kit. Matching Picture Presence. Presence. Room Tone. Room acoustics affect the sound of your recordings--both good and bad. Tone. recordings--both bad.
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Digital Cinematography
Understanding and implementing concepts such as composition, camera angles, camera movement, and shot types will allow you to use your camera to its fullest potential, while greatly improving the overall production value. value. Camcorder Care. Common sense and TLC will keep your camcorder in tip-top shape at all times. Care. tiptimes. Camcorder Controls. Your camcorder has many manual settings - focus, white balance, aperture Controls. that can make better images. images. Camera Angles. A complete description of a camera angle includes the subject size, horizontal and Angles. lens. vertical positions, level and lens. By understanding these five components, you can manipulate them singly and collectively to frame precisely the image you want. want. Camera Movement. Learn to develop a variety of basic camera movement techniques to move Movement. your audience when the scene calls for a tilt, pan, zoom, pedestal ,dolly, or truck. truck. Composition. Composition. Good shot composition is at the heart of attractive video. video. Continuity. Continuity. When everything in the shot, scene and movie is consistent, then you've succeeded in maintaining continuity. continuity. 16: 39: Format. Format. The three most common ratios are 4:3, 16:9 and 2.39:1, although there are (and have been) several other ratios used in different countries and at different times. However, these three times. are the main ones. ones. Shot Types. Medium shots, wide shots, closeups, extreme closeups and more. Make that video Types. closeups, more. shots with a special zing. zing.

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Directing
Being a great director involves more than yelling, "action" and "cut!" It involves knowing how to get the best from your cast and crew. The following articles will help crew. you further understand, and better fill, the role of the director. director. Crew. Crew. Someday, you may have to hire, beg, borrow or coerce some people to join you on your video adventure. Keep it friendly, stick with a plan and you - and they adventure. - will enjoy the trek. trek. Interview Subjects. Interviews on TV are quite common, and not just during the Subjects. news. news. Interviews are so popular, entire shows are built around the idea of one person asking another questions. questions. Live Event Production. Camera placement and audio recording strategies, taping Production. multiple performances, and editing the results. results. Talent. Talent. Instructing talent where to sit, stand or move, (what they in the industry call "blocking"); teaching them how you want them to emote (energetically, "blocking"); seriously, pensive); and instructing them to when you want them to say pensive); something, or nothing. nothing.
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Effects and Stunts

Special effects including green screens, fake blood, fire and gun effects can look realistic with the proper tools and techniques. By learning these techniques you'll be able to mimic the special effects found in big budget Hollywood movies. Blood Effects. Effects. Green Screen. Virtual green screen sets are no longer just for the Screen. privileged Hollywood bigwigs. Horror. Horror. Shooting horror scenes to the unique dark silhouette lighting style. Pyrotechnics. Pyrotechnics. Natural lights sparkle, shimmer, flutter, flare, glimmer, gleam, revolve, reflect and radiate. Here's some to dazzle your viewers with lively fire, explosives and gun effects.
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Lighting

Lighting can be used to create a specific mood or feeling, or to simply light your subject and set. Learning how to properly light is an essential part in making set. professional looking videos. Learning different techniques can help add a personal flair videos. to your movie. movie.

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Post Production
Post production begins when your camera stops rolling. It is rolling. where all raw materials are integrated to come up with a good movie. movie. Authoring Graphics and Compositing Media Management Video Editing Sound Editing

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Authoring
Whether you're putting your video on a DVD, uploading to the internet or to a mobile device, there is a multitude of video formats and compression settings to consider. Having a strong knowledge in authoring will help you immensely consider. when it comes to distributing your video. video. Disc. Disc. Whether you're burning standard definition or have moved to BluBluray authoring, it's never been a better time to jump into the realm of DVD creation. creation. Mobile. Mobile. From YouTube on the Internet to iPods and cell phones, you can everywhere. tricky. find video everywhere. But getting it to these devices can be tricky. Online. Online. Online web applications have begun to sneak into the vernacular producer's dictionary. dictionary.

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Graphics and Compositing

You can mimic Hollywood movie effects by chroma keying, using green screens, creating your own titles, adding mattes and time remapping. By remapping. learning how to create graphics and composite video you will be able to take your
Green Screen / Chroma Keying. Without a doubt, you see chroma keys used Keying. countless times - probably every time you watch the news on TV - and perhaps you aren't even aware of it. it. Mattes. Mattes. Applying electronic filters in post-production can cure many of your postfootage's ailments. ailments. Time Remapping. Time remapping, or the not-as-sexy textbook name, variable Remapping. not-asspeed, was all the rage in music videos, commercials and edgy films in the past five years. years. Titles. Titles. Creating professional titles and graphics in your video production is no easy feat. As an editor, you can often be burdened for hours creating titles that feat. match the aesthetic of your video production. production.
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videos to the next level. level.

Media Management
Media management is the process of labeling, storing and backing up your media. Practicing good media management allows you to access your media with ease, while ensuring your archived projects withstand the test of time. Creating a System (Best Practices). If you make a video you're proud of, you will undoubtedly need it again someday in the future. Software. Software. Manages a searchable database of every clip that's ever been digitized into your system.

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Video Editing Tips and Techniques

Video editing allows you to assemble all of your shots into one cohesive story, along with the ability to color correct, add effects and titles. titles. Aesthetics. Aesthetics. They involve using a little bit of everything at your disposal to create a believable viewing experience. experience. Color Correction. A few simple steps that can save an improperlyCorrection. improperlyshot scene or improve one that is less than brilliant. brilliant. Concepts. Concepts. From rough cut to finished product, you want to deliver the goods as cleanly as possible. possible. Transitions. Transitions. A winning hand in the editing game means knowing the right transition for your edit. edit.
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Sound Editing
Sound editing is the process of cleaning up audio, adding effects and music, and performing any other sweetening that your audio may need. Editing your need. sound is a great way to get evenly mixed audio that sounds professional. professional. Scoring. Scoring. Finding the right soundtrack for your video production can be a challenge and confusing. With the right direction and a better confusing. understanding of the process, giving your video production a happy and musically appropriate ending is easier than you may think. think. production. Sound Effects. Sound effects have immense value in video production. Effects. The ability to re-create an "aural environment" after the shooting is done regives videomakers much more control over their work, both enhancing the final product and helping to simplify the capturing of visual footage. footage.

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Distribution

Whether you're submitting your video to a film festival, or sharing it with friends online, distribution is essential if you want people to see it. After it. reading the following articles you will have a better sense of what avenues of distribution best suit your needs. needs.

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