Journal - Week 10

Monday April 25- No school (Easter Monday)

Tuesday April 26- Continued recording for the i-pod touch commercial

Wednesday April 27- Finished recording for the i-pod commercial and found a song for the commercial

Thursday April 28- Started editing the video for the i-pod touch commercial

Friday April 29- Absent (track and field)

Journal - Week 9

Monday April 18- Continued recording for the i-pod touch commercial

Tuesday April 19- Continued recording for the i-pod touch commercial

Wednesday April 20- Did activities on photo shop

Thursday April 21- Nothing

Friday April 22- No school (Good Friday)

Journal - Week 8

Monday April 11- Finished the storyboard for our commercial

Tuesday April 12- Used a new program to create videos called final cut. Started making a video on the 2011 stanley cup champion

Wednesday April 13- Took up the communications technology mid term test and continued working on the video in final cut

Thursday April 14- Finished the video in final cut and wrote a multiple choice test on basic knowledge of desktop publishing

Friday April 15- Started recording for the ipod commercial

The 3 Steps Of Video Production

Planning
This is the most important step, and perhaps the most difficult to master. It should be where most of your your energy is directed.

Shoot Plan
In this case, the word shoot refers to a shooting session. If you think of everything you record as being part of a shoot, and have a plan for every shoot, then you're well on the way to having better organized footage.

Shot Plan
Once you have a plan for your shooting session, you're ready to begin planning individual shots.

Media Production

Framing & Composition: The frame is the picture you see in the viewfinder (or on a monitor). Composition refers to the layout of everything within a picture frame — what the subject is, where it is in the frame, which way it's facing/looking, the background, the foreground, lighting, etc.

When you "frame" a shot, you adjust the camera position and zoom lens until your shot has the desired composition.

Here are few more important terms. They will be explained in greater detail later:

Pan	Side-to-side camera movement.
Tilt	Up-and-down camera movement.
Zoom	In-and-out camera movement (i.e. closer and more distant).
Iris (Exposure)	The opening which lets light into the camera. A wider iris means more light and a brighter picture.
White balance	Adjusting the colours until they look natural and consistent.
Shutter	Analogous to the shutter in a still camera.
Audio	Sound which is recorded to go with the pictures.

Communications Technology Mid Term Test

1 In composition our eyes tend to be drawn first to areas that are out of focus dark, dramatic areas of a scene bright, warm colors blue and green colors

2 The concept of unity in a production applies to the various physical elements in a scene the lighting in a scene sets and settings in a dramatic production All of the above are correct. None of the answers is correct.

3 Using a cutaway shot is a way to add important supplementary information show information not in the basic scene direct attention to a related element All of the above are correct. None of the answers is correct.

4 An atmosphere introduction shows information outside the basic scene always consists of one or more close-ups of the main characters in a drama tips us off to important things about characters by introducing us first to their environment or surroundings is intended to tell us about the weather conditions in a drama could be introduced during the closing credits of a production

5 "Content takes precedence over form." This means that the form a production takes is not important, only the content the message and emotional dimension of a production are of the most importance the technical quality of a production is the most important when you get down to it, the real message of a production ends up being production techniques, special effects, and technical embellishments

6 While doing a production where the talent is reading a camera prompter you see their eyes noticeably moving back and forth as they read. A solution would be to put less light on the talent so you no longer see them move the prompter closer to the talent and zoom out to compensate move the prompter farther away from the talent and zoom in to compensate put more light on the prompter

7 Dynamic composition is the same as static composition takes into consideration the effect of time and movement makes use of dynamic mics All of the above are correct. None of the answers is correct.

8 The statement "good production always good production, no matter how much time passes" is one of the few principles that you can fully rely on in TV production not totally true, because production values have changed significantly over time true, because good techniques have always remained exactly the same over time

9 Selective focus in a scene can reduce distractions from unimportant subject matter in a scene force viewers to look at a particular object or person isolate subject matter you want to emphasize All of the above are correct. None of the answers is correct.

10 According to the majority of the research cited in the reading violence in film and on TV has no effect on audiences violence has a negative effect on viewers violence has a positive effect on viewers

11 As an aid to composition what elements would help you in achieving a selective focus effect? a low shutter speed having a brightly lit scene a high f-stop number All of the above are correct. None of the answers is correct.

12 By following the rule of thirds you should place the center of interest near one of the four cross points place the center of interest outside of the safe title area make sure your center of interest is in the center of the frame keep all important subject matter within any one-third section of the picture

13 Ideally, dominant horizontal or vertical lines in a picture should be broken or interrupted at some point by one or more objects should lead the eye to the center of interest should not run through the middle of the frame All of the above are correct. None of the answers is correct.

14 Sophisticated audiences prefer that productions stick to one level of meaning be as "on the nose" as possible be as totally abstract as possible All of the above are correct. None of the answers is correct.

15 A scene showing the side of a car with the back wheels cut off on the right side of the frame would be an example of a dimensional merger border merger tonal merger All of the above are correct. None of the answers is correct.

16 The number of prime objects that would typically provide the strongest composition is six four two three one

17 The strongest direction of movement in dynamic composition would generally be right-to-left downward stationary upward, diagonally, in a left-to-right direction None of the answers is correct. All of the above are correct.

Skills Canada Poster

For my poster, I used "The Future Of Technology" as my slogan. The internet logo and the globe are to show that technology is all around us, everywhere in the world. For the background i used a blueprint of a car.