10.12.08
The First Shooting Day in Rutland~!!
This is the first day is a group working day. We went to Diana's home and shot the life of two of them. It was really a long day but hopefully things ran well and we have done all of shooting plan of that day.
It's a lovely sunny day. Hollie and I met at bus station on 9:00 and others went with Stephanie's car. Hollie and I spent a long and nervous trip on the bus cuz we don't know where we should get off. Anyway, after passing the traffic jam we arrived Diana's home!
We shoot Eddie's working time in Barnsdale Lodge at first. It's a warm and comfortable place to shoot. Because there is not too much space in kitchen so Hollie and I went out and took some photos. There were some funny chicken and 'black face' sheep in the back yard! l0l
The next sequence was in Diana's home and we spent most of time at there as well. We have shot all things about the life of 'two of a kind'. I played the role of lighting and sound. Anne help me doing lots of recording stuff. Actually, I have made many notes before our shooting, but it was really difficult when I shooting in really location especially in the dark room. During the interview with Eddie in the afternoon, The room is dark so we set three basic light kit. Because they are always sooo 'hot' so I had to cooling them as soon as possible. During the interview, Anne and I had to hold the mic in front of Eddie all the time so we almost can not feel nothing after the interview. But, it's really comfortable when we listen the none-noise sound in earphone!
Because the camear drank battery so we only shoot about 15 mins in sports hall. However, I thought it really enough for our 4 mins documentary. I have edited some of my work so i knew Hitz would have sooo many work to do... It's about 2 hours footgage we've got...so... It was about 11pm when I arrived home. Hitz, really thank you for sending me back!!
It was really an exicting day and the image of Diana's home is fantastic~!! It was really busy day but it worth!! anyway, I enjoy it very well! lol
We took so many photos as the location and as the evidence as well. I put some of them by the Poladriod way!! I really enjoy the 'origianl' colours!! gorgeous, isn't it?!!
Book Reference
'Lighting for Digital Video & Television' ----- by John Jackman
I have read the book before shooting our film and I have made some note on my notebook so I transfer some of them on the blog, although there are some chart and pictures can not post.
---Human vision, the Camera, and Exposure
Relistic lighting is often not good enough for video and televisionNote: the average human eye is the equivalent of an 11,000*11,000 pixel CCD, with pixel only two microns in size.
f/1.4 is one most lenses is wide open
f/2.0 is one-half he area of f/1.4
f/2.8 is one-half the area of f/2.0
F Stop Ratio
1.4 1:1
2.0 2:1
2.8 4:1
4.0 8:1
5.6 16:1
8.0 32:1
11.0 64:1
---The Legal Video Signal
1. Black levels fall in a certain range
2. The eight-bit colour space used by computers displays 0,0,0 as black and 255,255,255 as full-value white
3. For either NTSC or PAL, pure black by RGB of 16,16,16. White is 235,235,235
4. Lower than 16,16,16 will be illegal black.
---Controlling Colour
Energy twice as far from the source is spread over four times the area and thus is 1/4 intensity
---Fluorescent Instruments
1. Soft, difffuse light that radiates in all direction
2. Lowel Rifa---Lite
3. The videssence Baselight B117339BX is a grid hung studio
4. The Gyoury Light System uses light wands that snap into holders
5. CRI: video and film
---Softlights
1. By hanging a sheet of diffusion material from a C-stand arm and positioning it a couple of feet in front of a fresnel
2. matte white reflceter/white umbrella
3. Mole softlight 750W
4. Light rays from a softbank radiate from a large area rather than from a single point
---Diffuse Light
Distance: apparent size of light source is cut to one-quarter the size from the original distance.
---Specialty Instruments
1. GAM makes a large 6000W chicken coop known as toplight
Range up to 15*30 feet in size, by enough for everything
2. Chinese lanterns can be used on mic fishpole as truly portable softlight soft fill and accents in many situation favorite of many DPs
3. Hand-held chinese lantern
4. The best current LEDs are only a bit more effiicient than incandescent lights, take about 1000, 5-mm LEDS to match the light out put of a standard 100W dulb
---Lighting controls and Uses
GELS: thin sheet of transparent colored plastic, dyed polyester.
For film and Video, gels break down into: colour conversion or correction gels and colour effect gels
1. Colour conversion: Change light colour temperature to another
Change yellow and blue range
2. Colour Correction: add or subtract a green component
eg: office and factory cool white fluorescents can't be turned off, need quartz key on the subject. Add green to quartz light to match.
---Colour Conversion and correction gels primarily break down into 4 types
1. Blue to convert tungsten to daylight---colour temperature blue/LTB
2. Orange to convert daylight to tungsten--- colour temperature orange/LTO
3. Green to correct fluorescent---plus green
4. Magenta to correct fluorescent---minus green
---Diffusion Materials
1. Soft and diffuse the light without changing its colour
Break down into three main categories
2. Grid cloth---a waterproof woven textile that can be sewn or grommeted for attachment to large frames
3. Tough spun---a nonwoven polyester fabric
4. Forest---a sheet polyester material that is frosted to various degrees
---Net and Silks
1. Net, scrims and silks act to slebtly reduce the light level to specific areas. Also some diffusion
2. Usually thin, translucent fabrics stretched over a frame
3. Net frame (very large) 'Butterflies' knock down and diffuse strong sunlight
4. The fabric: white(silk) Black(net)
Net abort light, whereas white fabrics provide diffusion
5. The lighting control are usually graded 1/4, 1/2 and 3/4 stop
---Light Pattern
1. Barn doors mounted to the front instrument avoid flares
2. Mount a flag or gobo on a seperate stand a little distance from ios to cast a sharper, more precisely defined shadow
3. Blackwrap is used on a light to provide precise, custom formed light control. (One of must-have stuff)
---Reflective Light
Extra light which need especially for close-ups
Don't need an extra light
I have read the book before shooting our film and I have made some note on my notebook so I transfer some of them on the blog, although there are some chart and pictures can not post.
---Human vision, the Camera, and Exposure
Relistic lighting is often not good enough for video and televisionNote: the average human eye is the equivalent of an 11,000*11,000 pixel CCD, with pixel only two microns in size.
f/1.4 is one most lenses is wide open
f/2.0 is one-half he area of f/1.4
f/2.8 is one-half the area of f/2.0
F Stop Ratio
1.4 1:1
2.0 2:1
2.8 4:1
4.0 8:1
5.6 16:1
8.0 32:1
11.0 64:1
---The Legal Video Signal
1. Black levels fall in a certain range
2. The eight-bit colour space used by computers displays 0,0,0 as black and 255,255,255 as full-value white
3. For either NTSC or PAL, pure black by RGB of 16,16,16. White is 235,235,235
4. Lower than 16,16,16 will be illegal black.
---Controlling Colour
Energy twice as far from the source is spread over four times the area and thus is 1/4 intensity
---Fluorescent Instruments
1. Soft, difffuse light that radiates in all direction
2. Lowel Rifa---Lite
3. The videssence Baselight B117339BX is a grid hung studio
4. The Gyoury Light System uses light wands that snap into holders
5. CRI: video and film
---Softlights
1. By hanging a sheet of diffusion material from a C-stand arm and positioning it a couple of feet in front of a fresnel
2. matte white reflceter/white umbrella
3. Mole softlight 750W
4. Light rays from a softbank radiate from a large area rather than from a single point
---Diffuse Light
Distance: apparent size of light source is cut to one-quarter the size from the original distance.
---Specialty Instruments
1. GAM makes a large 6000W chicken coop known as toplight
Range up to 15*30 feet in size, by enough for everything
2. Chinese lanterns can be used on mic fishpole as truly portable softlight soft fill and accents in many situation favorite of many DPs
3. Hand-held chinese lantern
4. The best current LEDs are only a bit more effiicient than incandescent lights, take about 1000, 5-mm LEDS to match the light out put of a standard 100W dulb
---Lighting controls and Uses
GELS: thin sheet of transparent colored plastic, dyed polyester.
For film and Video, gels break down into: colour conversion or correction gels and colour effect gels
1. Colour conversion: Change light colour temperature to another
Change yellow and blue range
2. Colour Correction: add or subtract a green component
eg: office and factory cool white fluorescents can't be turned off, need quartz key on the subject. Add green to quartz light to match.
---Colour Conversion and correction gels primarily break down into 4 types
1. Blue to convert tungsten to daylight---colour temperature blue/LTB
2. Orange to convert daylight to tungsten--- colour temperature orange/LTO
3. Green to correct fluorescent---plus green
4. Magenta to correct fluorescent---minus green
---Diffusion Materials
1. Soft and diffuse the light without changing its colour
Break down into three main categories
2. Grid cloth---a waterproof woven textile that can be sewn or grommeted for attachment to large frames
3. Tough spun---a nonwoven polyester fabric
4. Forest---a sheet polyester material that is frosted to various degrees
---Net and Silks
1. Net, scrims and silks act to slebtly reduce the light level to specific areas. Also some diffusion
2. Usually thin, translucent fabrics stretched over a frame
3. Net frame (very large) 'Butterflies' knock down and diffuse strong sunlight
4. The fabric: white(silk) Black(net)
Net abort light, whereas white fabrics provide diffusion
5. The lighting control are usually graded 1/4, 1/2 and 3/4 stop
---Light Pattern
1. Barn doors mounted to the front instrument avoid flares
2. Mount a flag or gobo on a seperate stand a little distance from ios to cast a sharper, more precisely defined shadow
3. Blackwrap is used on a light to provide precise, custom formed light control. (One of must-have stuff)
---Reflective Light
Extra light which need especially for close-ups
Don't need an extra light
8.12.08
Create our music~!!
We've got a group meeting on Fri and Hits shown our rough edit clips. Diana and Hits satisified with my music especailly the Guitar one. Soooo happy~~~
1. The 'Happy' one
I've made them by Garage Band on Mac. I have tried to fix some piano and drum rythem into the main guitar sound, and it ran well~!! They could feel the happy motion from the relax guitar! however, the first one always not perfect. Because it is little shorter for our film so I have made a new longer one to make it better.
2. The 'Sad' one
The 'sad' one is too depress to fix our film so i should make a new one. I have made a new one this weekend. I also use guitar as the main sound so it could make our film as a 'whole' one. I'm not sure if it ran well. Just have a try!! I can't upload it anyway...i'm not sure why... try again later...
3. The Piano one
I think it's a special one because I played it by myself! lol Although there was some noise in the sound piece, it runs well with our film. I recorded in my home so there is some noise can not avoid... I've tried to play it on my Garage Band by 'click'
4.12.08
Online Edit
I haven't update the journal for a long time because I was busy on updating my Chinese blog and the complicated visa stuff...
Our documentary work is prossessing to the online edit. I have made my own music clips for the film and also the piano one. I played the piano and record it but it wasn't run well because there was some noise anyway. I tried to play it by Gagrageband but it is too difficult to play it by "click" mouse because there are too many key to play---yep, the black and white.
I suppose to edit the film and now i think I could do it, just for fun~I always think there is few things i could do but now...i will have a busy week~~
I will update the journal before the presentation anyway. it's a mass work...
Our documentary work is prossessing to the online edit. I have made my own music clips for the film and also the piano one. I played the piano and record it but it wasn't run well because there was some noise anyway. I tried to play it by Gagrageband but it is too difficult to play it by "click" mouse because there are too many key to play---yep, the black and white.
I suppose to edit the film and now i think I could do it, just for fun~I always think there is few things i could do but now...i will have a busy week~~
I will update the journal before the presentation anyway. it's a mass work...
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