Television Production review

Day 1

1. CCD's change light and colour into electrical signals.

2. A tripod is a three-legged device used to hold a camera during shooting

3. ENG stands for Electronic News Gathering

4. The viewfinder is a really tiny video monitor.

5. Both monitors and television receivers display images by shooting electrons from the back of the video tube.

6. A TV changes electrical signals back into picture.

7.  The electron gun is inside a video monitor

8. Which three colours are used to create video? Red, Green, Blue

9. The microphone picks up the sound and turns it into electrical signals.

Day 2

1. Which of the following is the correct production sequence? Treatment, Script, Storyboard, Shoot, Edit.

2. The actual shooting of the video takes place during the production phase.

3. The script is written early in the pre-production

4. Who is NOT on the production crew? Advertising Sponsor

5. Who is most involved in post-production? video editor

6. Editing happens during the phase called post-production.

7. Music and sound effects are added during the post-production phase of a video.

8. The design brief and the treatment are prepared during the pre-production.

9. The people who will watch the program are the audience.

10. The director takes care of the budget for a video production.

11. To edit video, the director and editor demodulate the selected scenes.

12. A storyboard is a picture outline created during pre-production of the video.

13. A storyboard describes everything that will be seen or heard on the video.

14. The first person to work on the video is the director.

Photoshop Q&A

What are the five key decisions involved in creating a new image?
Image Name, Image Width and Height, Image Resolution , Image Mode , and Image Contents

Why edit images in 24-bit color depth if ultimately they will be 8-bit images on the Internet?
If you work in a bit-depth of 8, many of Photoshop ’s advanced features, such as using Filters , resizing images, and re-coloring images are either not available or do not operate effectively.

Why would you use the Magnification /Navigation controls?
They allow you to edit the small details in an image and zoom in on your image content.

What does double-clicking the zoom tool do? 
Double-clicking the Zoom tool automatically sets your image to 100% magnification.

What happens when you hold down the space bar in Photoshop while the pointer is over an image window?
holding down the space bar makes the hand tool available no matter which tool you are currently using.


What is a Snapshot  in the History Palette ?
The Snapshot  is a record of the image complete with all the modifications you have performed on it.

What are states in the History panel?
A record of all changes made to the image or snapshot.

Does the image window display the physical demensions of an image?
If you hold down the Alt (option) key while clicking on the document information section, a pop-up window will display it.

How is opening a vector file in Photoshop different from opening a bitmap file?
The Rasterize Generic EPS Format dialog will be displayed and you must set the width, height, resolution and colour mode you want to work in. Once you set these options and click OK, Photoshop will convert the vector image to pixels.

 

Television Production

A TV program produced in one country can't automatically be viewed in many other countries without converting it to a different technical standard. These technical differences relate to both incompatibilities in equipment and in the approach to broadcasting the audio and video signals.

Some 14 different SDTV  (standard definition) broadcast TV standards have been used at different times throughout the world. They can be reduced to three primary groups:

• NTSC (National Television System Committee)
• SECAM (Sequential Color and Memory)
• PAL (Phase Alternating Line)

Within these there are two major differences:

• the total number of horizontal lines in the picture (525 or 625 for standard definition or SDTV) and 1,125 and 1,250 for high-definition TV (HDTV)
   
• whether the transmission rate is 25 or 30 frames (complete pictures) per-second
  
  

  Aspect Ratios 

  Although the number of scanning lines may have varied, until recently all television systems had a 4:3 aspect ratio. The aspect ratio is the width-height proportion of the picture.
  The 4:3 ratio (note red box in the photo on the right) was consistent with motion pictures that predated the wide screen aspect ratios used in CinemaScope, VistaVision, and Panavision. When the HDTV standard was introduced it also made use of this wider (generally, 16:9) aspect ratio.
  In the picture here, the wider area (just inside the blue borders) represents the 16:9 ratio used in HDTV. Compared to the 4:3 ratio, this aspect ratio conforms to the wider perspective of normal human vision.

Xbox photo ads

These are xbox pictures I have made for my ad about xbox 360. It is a photoshop project I made about a product I chose. I made these pictures by taking pictures with a camera and editing them in Photoshop and I gave them quotes to help illustrate my ideas and why I made these pictures.

Journal week 13

Monday: Today I continued editing my pictures by giving them quotes to match my product

Tuesday: Today we watched a movie about the world trade center

Wednesday: Today we started our culminating to make our own website about a product of our choice

Thursday: Today I decided on my product and started making a splash page and opening website page.

Friday: Today I was not in class because I was in period one all day as it was the last day before Christmas break.

Journal week 12

Monday: Today I started the editing and construction of my product photos

Tuesday: Today I continued to edit my photos

Wednesday: Today I continued to edit and put together my photo project

Thursday: Today I finished some photos

Friday: Today I finished most of my photos

Entrepreneurial Characteristics

Chapter 10: Characteristics and Skills of an Entrepreneur

Characteristics      Not everyone wants to be an entrepreneur and run their own business. Being an entrepreneur requires specific characteristics and skills that are often achieved through education, hard working, and planning

Risk Taker.

Perceptive.

Curious.

Imaginative.

Persistent.

Goal-setting.

Hardworking.

Self-confident

Flexible

Independent

Research Skills

Gathering Information

• books
• periodicals
• indexes and databases
• the internet
• consultants
• professionals
• schools

Using Information

Management Skills

Planning

Organizing

Directing

Controlling

Profitability

Marketability
      Entrepreneurs need to ask themselves the following questions about their product, service, or charity:

• Does your target market want this product? Prove it.
• What is your competition? How much of the market do they own already? How will you take it away from them.
• Are you competitively priced?
• Is this a short-term venture? How long will it last? 
• What do you offer that no other product, service, or charity offers? 
• Why would a customer pay money for what you provide?