So this semester at College, we’ve had to produce a 10 minute documentary or other video as part of our assessment. In a group of three, we drafted a television show which is a take off of Australia’s “Today Tonight”, called “Today Tomorrow”. In the show we take a look at the safety (well - insecurities) of MySpace.
Last night we got around to shooting the studio shots with our presenter. We’ll be making use of the green screen to use a technique called chroma keying to replace the background with a shot of Sydney for the final product. The studio was constructed in a class room with the green screens, a three point lighting set up (a fourth was added to help remove shadows from the screen), the camera and laptop - to record/pass through audio.
A couple of photos from the night:
Comments
Michael (June 6th, 2006, 6:14 pm)
What kind of camera were you using there? (video production major at my university :P)
Bobby (June 6th, 2006, 9:14 pm)
Lol, can you preview it to us through YouTube, or something like that?
Musicalmidget (June 6th, 2006, 10:57 pm)
It would indeed be interesting to see this if possible. I’ve been taking a look at MySpace myself recently. I’ve got a draft entry on my own blog waiting to be published once I’ve finished writing everything I hate about it.
Chris Boulton (June 6th, 2006, 11:58 pm)
Michael,
I believe it is a Panasonic NV GS400, 3CCD Camera. By all means, not something of broadcast quality but still of a high quality.
When I worked in a studio environment for an Australian TV program, we used proper broadcast cameras (mainly Panasonic and Sony).
Bobby, I’ll probably through it up somewhere here once it is done. We’ve only got to shoot the vox pops (street questions) and then throw it all together.
Be warned though, the audio is terrible. We were only able to use the built in mic on the camera because the mics we took did not work correctly (and did not have the required gain/signal). For consistancy throughout the whole production we decided it would be better to keep it that way. It sucks, but it has to do.
Tikitiki (June 7th, 2006, 1:21 pm)
How about doing an overlay after you’re done filming? Yeh, its going to have to be pretty presise for 10 minutes of video, but its an idea. I’ll be interested to see this when its done
Matt D (August 2nd, 2006, 1:58 am)
OOhhh! How are ya Chris?
You’ve still got my lightstand! :O