Video Communication

Video Communication

1. About Video Communication

   • A Different Universe
     • Understanding that Video doesn't have to be grounded by reality and you can use manipulation techniques to seem like you can change time or space
   • Video Construction
     • A Video is complex, it's planned and created carefully.
   • Video Truth
     • Video's aren't the real world they are artificial constructions, and do not always communicate the truth.

2. The Video World

   • Video Space
     • The Power of the Frame
       • The frame shapes the world you want to create with your video
         • Frame (include) everything you want to exist
         • Frame off (exclude) everything you do not want to exist
     • The illusion of size and distance
       • Depth
         • It is giving the audience a fleshed out, non-flat experience by placing things and scaling them different in your shots
       • Scale
         • The illusion of an object being large or small by changing the depth of it in a frame
   • Video Time
     • Speed
       • Changing of the Speed of time
     • Flow
       • How time movies throughout a video
     • Direction
       • The movement of time itself in a video
     • Coherence
       • The independent movement of both video and audio
   • Sequences
     • A progression of event through a certain number of shots

3. Video Construction: The Role of Composition

   • Directing the Eye
     • Pull the viewers eye toward something using different camera techniques
   • Managing Depth
     • Creating depth requires perspective
       • Wide Angle
         • Increases apparent depth, rendering distant subjects smaller than "normal." Making the background seem distant
       • Telephoto
         • Enlarges distance subjects, making the background seem closer.

4. Video Construction: The Power of Sound

   • Implication
     • Sound can indicate the present of something outside the frame
   • Reinforcement
     • Can help reinforce an environment or atmosphere you are creating
   • Blending
     • Pulling together visuals and audio at different times, helping make your video flow

5. Video Organization and Video Language

   • Recording
     • Framing the Subject
       • Framing the subject puts whatever in frame in the world you are creating with your video.
     • Timing the Recording
       • Time is an important factor to get the shot you want as your enviroment can always change, with lighting and weather.
     • Selecting
       • Choosing Shots
         • Choosing what shot you want in your video and how you want it to look
       • Trimming Shots
         • Cleaning up video in post-production
     • Modifying
       • Altering Shots
         • Moving from shot to shot, sequencing
       • Computer Graphics (CG)
         • Adding graphics to help the flow of the video
       • Sequencing
         • Condensing
           • Different angles are cut together to delete unnecessary space and time.
         • Repositioning
           • Ordering and movement to shots
         • Relating
           • Making the shots "Work off each other"
       • Reinforcing with Audio
         • Sound Effects
           • Narration
             • Explaining or talking over a shot
           • Background Tracks
             • Background tracks are audio tracks of continuous noise
           • Quick bits of audio to synchronize with the video

6. Video and "Truth"

   • Types of Programs
     • Story Programs
       • Feature Movies, TV series, Music Videos
       • Sports
         • Sports productions and affiliates such as ESPN and live games by NBA, NFL, ect.
         • News
           • Live airing of current events, can be local, national, or global.
           • Documentaries
             • An incredible story-driven narrative of real unstaged footage of ideas or topics
             • Commercials
               • Advertisments filling in dead space and segmenting other programs airing
               • Infotainment
                 • Cable channels filled with "factual" videos that present information by openly shooting to a script and editing footage