1. Audiovisual processes:
1) First process: Recording
2) Second process: Capture, Edition,
Post-production
3) Third process: Export and display
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2. 1) FIRST PROCESS: RECORDING
BASIC CONCEPTS OF AUDIOVISUAL PRODUCTION
Producing an audiovisual production means looking at and showing the world in a certain way to inform and/or express i
deas.Producing (or directing) means setting up a series of items in a pre-established script. To do this, you need to know
and control all the factors involved in this process, from technical to more artistic ones.
Angle: Bird's eye view, high angle (looking down on the action or person) or low angle (looking up at the action or
person).
Achieved by modifying the vertical axis of the tripod head.
Level: usually at eye level to ensure a similar point of view. However, you can change the angle to achieve a special
effect or through movement (with a steadycam).
Height: Typically the camera is placed at the eye level of the actors. This can be modified to vary the composition for
dramatic and stylistic effects. For example, how would you shoot a child sitting on the floor?
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3. Dynamic planning: frame and camera movement:
Panorama (descriptive and associative value): camera movement on its own axis (horizontal or vertical).
•Horizontal: to describe the environment, to follow the action, to connect separate items, to show cause and
effect, etc. Typically left to right.
•Vertical: to describe the environment, for physical descriptions, to show cause and effect, to accentuate height
and depth, etc.
Up: increasing interest and excitement, communicating anticipation and hope.
Down: decreasing the interest and excitement.
•Clean sweep: fast pan (to change focus; create contrast; to suggest a change in space or time; etc.)
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4. Zoom: IN (Telescopic lens - Narrow shot) and OUT (Wide angle lens - Open shot).
• Changing the focal length. Changing the size of the object/subject without changing the location of the camera.
• Problems with depth of field.
Travelling: forward, backwards and side to side.
• Physical movement of the camera on-air. Unlike with the zoom, camera movement changes the relative positions of
subjects within a shot, i.e. involves changing the perspective. Example: person hidden behind a tree.
• It is more expressive with short focal length lenses.
• Systems: camera on shoulder, dolly, guides and hydraulic systems.
• Travelling is used to create subjective effects, to explore areas, to call attention to objects or individuals not present in the
initial shot, etc.
Crane and steadycam: optical and camera movement is added.
• Steadycam: stability based on hydraulic systems, maximum ease of operation (wireless connection), multiplicity of
movement, etc.
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5. Types of shots
General Shot: to place and describe relationships between items in a space.
Long Shot: (for characters) used to connect characters to each other.
American or ¾ Shot: a little above the knees, a shot that was commonly used in Westerns.
Medium Shot: to the waist. For defining characters, one of the most widely used shots.
Medium Short Shot: To the chest.
Close-up: down to the collar.
Extreme Close-up Shot: down to the chin. Used to emphasise a dramatic character, to show their
responses, reactions and emotions.
Description Shot: to show and emphasise a single detail.
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6. Composition
• Composition is a strategy based on available items in the image so the viewer feels drawn towards
what is shown. A particular composition may lead, for example, to a sense of anticipation, anxiety and
excitement, or calm.
Basic methods of composition:
a) design (rare), when the producer has the freedom to design the set and the movement of the
characters.
b) disposition, when the director may vary the items that make up the scene and may limit the
movements of the characters.
c) selection, when the director can only determine the composition through the placement, framing
and movement of the cameras (including/excluding items, determining the extent of the shot, etc.)
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7. 2) SECOND PROCESS: CAPTURE, EDITION, POST-PRODUCTION
BASIC CONCEPTS OF AUDIOVISUAL EDITION
High Definition is an audiovisual technology based on capture and image processing in
digital format with a quality approaching that offered by the world of celluloid (film).
Internationally it is known as HD. In the television world it represents a quantum shift in
emission standards: television can be broadcast in 16:9 widescreen format with a quality
six times higher than previously.
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8. CAPTURE
Steps to edit a video with the JayCut program online:
-Open the online video editor: http://jaycut.com/
-Register with a username and password
-Choose the option: CREATE MOVIE
-Choose the language: ENGLISH
-Connect to the source that contains the files (ADD MEDIA)
-In this case your computer (MY COMPUTER)
-Find the desktop folder of your computer where you have saved your files (BROWSE)
-Choose all the files that we recorded the first day (ADD MORE FILES)
-Upload the files (UPLOAD)
- Once you have all the media inserted, drag the videos in the project window to the timeline.
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9. Basic editing options with JayCut video editing software:
- New (project) NEW
- Open (project) OPEN
- Import-add (files) ADD MEDIA
- Save (draft) SAVE
- Export (get compressed) DOWNLOAD MOVIE / PUBLISH
- Help (HELP)?
- Backwards / Forward (UNDO / REDO)
Parts of the video editor:
-PROJECT WINDOW (Files)
-TIMELINE (Edit files)
- VIEWER (View edition process)
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10. Media types available:
- Videos (video library)
- Images (Image Library)
- Audio (Sound library)
- Transitions (Transitions library)
- Text (Text examples)
- Settings (Configuration)
Tools available:
- Cursor: select
- Scissors: cut
- Zoom tool: increase (+) and decrease (-) the scale of the timeline
- Record audio (computer microphone)
- Record video (computer camera)
- Maximise (program size)
- Preview Mode (generate a real-time preview)
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11. FINAL STEP:
Export to:
- Mobile Device (iPhone, iPad, PC, etc.)
MPEG 4 (H.264) / MPEG 4 (H264) / AVI (XviD)
- Computer (audiovisual formats)
MPEG 4 (H264) / AVI (XviD) / Flash Video (H264)
- Web (online)
Facebook / Youtube / Blog
The program will send you an email with a link to download the video.
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