Today is the starting of our second part in this subject which is called "Animation". This part will be lecture by Assoc Prof Dr Jamaludin Harun.
For the introduction, Dr Jamal was told us to flash back how to make an animation using Adobe Flash software. He also remind us that he not going to teach from basic because all of us should be have some experience in this software during our Authoring System class.
For flash back our knowledge in Adobe Flash, Dr give us several terms which is used before.
Keyframes - allowed to insert an instance
Tweening - in between of key frames.
Onion Skinning - creating animated and editing movies to see several frames at once
Frame by frame - showing a series of frames
Frame rate - number of frames per second (fps). For computer animation just enough to use 12 - 15 frames per second.
Today i'm not very well to go to class. I got fever during my 32 weeks of pregnancy is very tough to handle it for me. Hope will get well soon as soon as possible.
Video editing class was held at editing studio in our faculty. Class session today was take over by our technician, Mr Aziz who is expert in video editing. We have introduced to new software in video editing named Avid Express. It's new experience to me in editing video in studio. Normally we just do an editing using Cyberlink Power Director. Mr Aziz show us how to do an editing. There is some term use during editing :
Today class start earlier than normally because we have video shooting for convocation rehearsal at Dewan Dewan Sultan Iskandar. So, our class today officially on air from control room at the back of stage.
We have introduced to the production crew and equipment use in video shooting. In this event use 3 cameras connected to control room. Each camera will appear control by mixer.
White balance basically means colour balance. It is a function which gives the
camera a reference to "true white" — it tells the camera what
the colour white looks like, so the camera will record it correctly. Since white light is
the sum of all other colours, the camera will then display all colours correctly.
Incorrect white balance shows up as
pictures with orange or blue tints, as demonstrated by the following examples:
Correct colour balance
Colour balance too blue
Colour balance too yellow
Most consumer-level camcorders have an "auto-white
balance" feature, and this is how most amateurs operate. The camera performs it's own
white balance without any input from the operator. In fact, very few home-video users are
aware of it's existence. Unfortunately, the auto-white balance is not particularly
reliable and it is usually preferable to perform this function manually.
You will need:
A camera with a manual white-balance function. There should be a "white balance" button or switch on your camera.
If your camera has a filter wheel (or if you use add-on filters), make sure you are using the correct filter for the lighting conditions.
Point your camera to a pure white subject, so that most of what
you're seeing in the viewfinder is white. Opinions vary on just how much
white needs to be in the frame - but we've found that about 50-80% of
the frame should be fine (Sony recommends 80% of frame width). The
subject should be fairly matte, that is, non-reflective.
Set your exposure and focus.
Activate the white balance by pressing the button or throwing the
switch. The camera may take a few seconds to complete the operation,
after which you should get a message (or icon) in the viewfinder.
Hopefully this will be telling you that the white balance has succeeded -
in this case, the camera will retain it's current colour balance until
another white balance is performed.
If the viewfinder message is that the white balance has failed, then you
need to find out why. A good camera will give you a clue such as
"colour temperature too high" (in which case change filters). Also try
opening or closing the iris a little.
Cut Away Shots
This technique called cutaway is a shot that's usually of something other than the
current action. It
could be a different subject (eg. this cat when the main subject is
its owner), a close up of a different part of the subject (eg.
the subject's hands), or just about anything else.
The cutaway is used as a
"buffer" between shots (to help the editing process), or to add
interest/information.
Here is the good example to show of how cutaway shots work.
Task for today
Before end of class, lecturer show us an example video movie made by our senior for this subject tittle "Revenge". Homework for today is, we have to discuss in our group of 3 or 4 to create short movie (about 5 to 10 minutes). For next week we need to prepare movie script. Hmmm what we want to do huh? Give us an ideas...Please! Hope we can do the best for this task.
Today me and my group members (Fadlee and Diyana) was borrow a camcoder from faculty. We have explained by our technician, Mr Rosli how to handle the camcoder. We'll do this task during weekend to practice in video shooting. Need to try many times to get the skills.
We've try to shoot a video as our lecture shown us in class. The video was save in memory stick. I got the problem to transfer it to computer due to the memory stick cannot slot in into laptop slot. Might be need some additional device to fix it.
If your camera has a filter wheel (or if you use add-on filters), make sure you are using the correct filter for the lighting conditions.