Audio Recording

Never record audio with a microphone that has a mini jack. Use Balanced XLR microphone, mini jacks have more chance of you recording electronic sound. Make the audio peak at about -12dB because if it peaks at 0 then it will clip.

CYA (Cover Your Arse)

Wear Headphones - The meter you are using will not be able to pick up on any Background noise like wind/ a distant airplane however if you are using headphones you will be able to hear it.

Tell your actors how the audio is being captured - You should tell your actors how the audio is being recorded because if you are using a boom then you will want them to project their voices towards the microphone. 

The best way to capture audio in film is in a close up because the boom operator has more room to get closer to the actor.

A shotgun microphone is directional so it will only pick up the audio that it is pointing at.

A lavalier microphone (clip on) is omnidirectional this means that it picks up audio from all around.

Colour Correction

Colour is measured in Degrees Kelvin. Colour correction is used in post production if the camera man forgot to white balance the camera, white balancing is when someone holds a piece of paper up to the camera and zooms in on it to tell the camera this is white in this light. 

Videos are made up of red green and blue pixels. (RGB).

To colour correct you should use the RGB parade in Adobe Premier pro. to get to it press the button circled in the picture.

Then click RGB Colour parade to be taken to the graph. The RGB parade will show you the exposure of the levels of the colour in each frame. if a video has to much of a certain colour it is "Over-Exposed"

Fast colour correction and RGB curves are two of the ways that you can colour correct. You can find these in the effects , drag them to the clip you want to edit.

Stages of Production

There are 4 stages of production . They are Development, Pre -Production, Production and Post - Production.

Development

This is the initial stage of making a feature film. This is where the ideas for the film come up. The screenplay and the script is developed during this process. The main people during this stage is the Producer, Director, Script Editor and the Writer. The script is 'locked' at the end of the development stage. Once the script is 'Locked' then it can no longer be changed or modified unless ABSOLUTELY necessary but if the script is modified it will cost them a lot of money.

Pre Production

Pre Production is the stage where everything gets set up. At this point the script writer, Director, Editor and many more important people work together. The producer at this point will start to see how he can make the film marketable and make profit. The line manager is also involved at this point. The budget is managed by the Line Producer, he will take details of everything needed and see hoe much that will cost, and try to get cheaper if he can.

Production

In production the film is shot. At this point more crew members will be required . For the production phase on live-action films, synchronizing schedules of key cast and crew members is very important, since for many scenes, several cast members and most of the crew must be present at the same place and time and some of the members may have to rush from one location to the other.

 Production

Here the film is assembled by the editor. The material is edited this includes music tracks, sound effects any computer-graphic effects are added after the film is deemed to be complete it is locked. 

Editing

Before editing your footage in Adobe Premier Pro you have to ingest it.This is done by creating footage in your film (in D;drive) , open adobe prelude then click ingest. The ingest menu will pop-up, Then what you will need to do is find your file with the footage, select it and press ingest (found in the bottom-right of the menu)

Short Cuts In Adobe Premier Pro CS6

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• In Adobe Premier Pro CS6 there are many short cuts that make editing a lot easier and faster. 

• The I key makes an In point, this is where the clip begins so when you drag it to the timeline it will start from this. 
• The O key makes an out point this does the same thing as the I key however instead of starting from this point it will end from this point.
• If you press the arrow keys it will move the clip 1 Frame forward making it more efficient when editing. 
• The J key moves the cursor backwards through the clip if you double click it , it will move backwards twice as fast.
• The K key stops the clip and of you click it again it will play it.
• The L Key moves the cursor forwards if you double click it twice it will move forwards twice as fast.
• The C key gives you the razor tool this is an editing tool if you click V whilst the razor is on it will take it off.
• The space bar pauses and plays the clip.

H.264 - H.264 is a type of MPEG4. H.264 is good for compressing and the distribution of video. However it is terrible for professional recording and editing. It is often used in phones because of how good it is at compressing files to make them smaller in size.

Pro res - Pro res is a lossy compression format. However it supports up to 5K because it is not that much of a lossy format.

Storyboards

Storyboards are one of the best ways to explain your vision to your colleges

In many instances a visual aid is one of the best ways to explain what is going on inside your head. Sometimes you just can't find the words to explain yourself however if you have an image or a reference then you can often explain yourself much better. In production it makes it easier as you don't have to explain fully what it will look like as your colleges can see the picture and map how you want it too look.

Storyboards save you time.

It may take you a while to draw the storyboard however in the long run it will save you a lot of time later in the project. A Storyboard will give you all the shots you will need in one place and the order in which they will be laid out. It also makes editing easier as the editor knows what shots that you want to use in a sequence.