Basic Audio Lighting and Editing Spring 2009

Article found by Ngoc Ho. Good stuff.

Follow the saga of Sunnyvale Mobiel Home dwellers as they fight for their homes, then relocate after developers take over the property. Shot and edited by one of the top documentary journalists in the field, Dai Sugano of San Jose Mercury News.

Here are some camera movements that expand on basic motions, like pan, tilt, zoom, and focus, to make some neat effects. I like combining these motions for a really cool look and feel to certain shots.

Leah Nobel's blog.

Good page with a variety of lighting examples.

ASC defines cinematography as a creative and interpretive process that culminates in the authorship of an original work of art rather than the simple recording of a physical event. Cinematography is not a subcategory of photography. Rather, photography is but one craft that the cinematographer uses in addition to other physical, organizational, managerial, interpretive and image-manipulating techniques to effect one coherent process.

The Holophone is a special microphone that records in surround sound. It's a small orb-shaped unit that has 5-7 XLR outputs for true surround sound recording with one microphone.

Dai Sugano is one of the best documentary journalists working in the industry.

Nominees for video journalism

Documentary Journalist Travis Fox traveled across the country in order to capture a portrait of Americans facing hard economic times.

Straczynski (writer of Changeling) argues that downloading for free is theft.

Check this article out.

If you want more detailed audio editing than is provided in Final Cut, check out Audacity. It's free, and provides a lot of essential audio editing tools.