Video Production. » Blog Archive » Refreshing Glossary of Common Video Terms. Here is a list of terms that are helpful to know when you’re making or editing videos.
Memorize them, there will be a quiz at the end of the list. After Affects is a software primarily used for creating motion graphics and visual effects. For more information, check out our lesson Getting Started with Adobe After Effects . Aperture is the size of the opening within your lens that allows light onto the image sensor. Aperture is measured by f-number or f-stops. Aspect Ratio is the relationship between the width and the height of your video dimensions expressed as a fraction. Boom microphones are long, highly directional microphones. Close up is a shot composition where the frame is filled almost entirely with the subject’s face.
Color Correction is when an editor digitally manipulates colors in post-production. Compression as it relates to video refers to reducing the amount of data in a video file. Depth of Field (DOF) refers to the part of your image that is in focus. Storyboard Template. Storyboard Tutorial - How to Create Storyboard for Film, Video, and Television.
First a Quick Note to Aspiring Producers and Film Makers This tutorial is aimed at people who want to storyboard professionally.
However it also useful for beginning television and film makers just wanting to know the basics. If this is you, then ignore all the parts about being able to draw. Crude stick figures will work just as good for hashing out your ideas pre-production. For you, the most important thing is just to storyboard the script. Download Materials for this Tutorial 16:9 Eight Up Storyboard Thumbnail Sheet 16:9 Two Up Storyboard Template 16:9 One Up Storyboard Template 4:3 Four Up Storyboard Template (not true 4:3 but I used this one for years) Animatic Layered Photoshop Storyboard Template Storyboards Are Like Comics…Mostly Just to get my street cred out-of-the-way, I’m a working professional storyboard artist.
However, this is not a tutorial on how to be hired as a storyboard artist or how to find a job at a studio. Understanding How Movies and Television Work Getting To Work. Labs: Storyboard Templates. . . Probably the most valuable couple of megabytes on this site, my storyboard templates have continuously been one of the top sources of traffic.
For me, storyboarding is simultaneously the most rewarding and frustrating part of the film making process. It is very rare that a scripted scene survives the storyboarding step unscathed. While you really don’t need anything special to produce a great sequence of storyboard panels (choices range from the lowly diner napkin to the highest end Wacom Cintiq), we live in a world where people offer up all shorts of wonderful options and tools free of charge, and you would be silly not to take a look at them.
I never found anything I really liked to draw my panels on so I put together some of my own a little while back. Recently I updated them just a bit and while I tend to do most of by story boarding on one of these beauties. . . IPUB100 > Storyboarding - Film Theory. Tools & Utilities for filmmakers. You've now entered the Dependent Films Download Center.
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