Video Production

Pre-production

Elements

Mood

The Call sheet

Themes

Character

Externalizing the internal state of a character

To communicate a deeper meaning of a picture.

Crew all the information

Back-up plan

Make the atmosphere that show you the feeling in the senes.

Costs for the surrounding in the scene

Storyboard

Visual outline of the film, drawn by hand or graphic illustration to tell the film story visually, including characters, composition, framing and actions in sequence

Production

Camera Movements

Composition Principle

Composition

Rule of Thirds

The basic principle that things look really good when you put points of interest on the thirds of your frame.

The pan

Fast-paced whip pan, quickly turn to see something. Slow pan is to give us time to take in the landscape.

The tilt

Often reveal something to us, suddenly redirecting our attention.

The zoom

A funny kind of punctuation because of its sudden nature.

The dolly

A smooth movement often on a track which moves the camera through a space, creating a different type of visual experience than the zoom or pan.

The Pedestal shot

Moves the camera up and down.

The Steadicam or Gimbals shot

Stabilized on the camera operator, it gracefully glides within a space.

What's your camera sees and by extension what your audience sees

Post-Production

Cut

Cut

Normally from one shot to another.

Cutting on action

Cutting from one shot to another while the character still have movement

cut away

cutting to an insert shot of something, and then back

cross out

jump cut

Cuts back and forth between locations

Cuts back and forth between locations

MATCH CUT

A match cut cuts from one shot to a similar shot, by either matching the action or the composition.

Transition

Fade in/ Fade out

It's just dissolving either to, or from, black.

DISSOLVE

It's when you blend one shot into another.

SMASH CUT

Smash cuts are abrupt transitions.

It used to be an in-camera effect back in the day, when you could manually open and close your iris to transition from black. Nowadays, it's used as a stylistic choice.

invisible cut

when the camera is pointed on the floor, and is hidden by a whip pan, a movement of the camera which is so fast that it blurs the picture into indistinct streaks.

WIPE

a wipe is a wipe

L cut

It is an audio-based transition. This is when the audio from the current shot carries over to the next shot.

J cut

It is when the audio from the next scene starts BEFORE you get to it.

Motion Blur

relates to film and video is a result of shutter angle or shutter speed.