TA PREP, NOTES LAB #3
VIDEO SHOOT
1. Hand-out with shooting assignment will be distributed by Kelly and Marty on Monday, February 9, (or loaded on the wikki)with a cover sheet that illustrates some key visual concepts related to the assignment and a production checklist. You might want to project this document for the students while you lecture on camera assignment.
2. Demonstrate and show selection of cables and connections (BNC, RCA, firewire, XLR, mini. These will be locked in the closet in the classroom.
3. When going over video camera, demonstrate the differences and reasons for shooting with the viewfinder and shooting with the LCD monitor - good to shoot through viewfinder in bright situations, for example.
Turn off digital zoom effect.
4. Students should shoot in teams of two, unless you have enough cameras for each student to have their own. Emphasize that they shoot be editing in-camera, and that each shot should be only ten seconds in length.
5. Students will upload video as mpg4 in quicktime, trim clips, and select the best three to screen to the class.
6. Students should be sure cameras are clean and plugged in for the next class. Stress professionalism when dealing with keeping things clean and orderly.
Administrative business:
Make sure you have both FILMP and MEDP rosters. If you don't, please contact Kelly.
The Museum of the Moving Image trip is happening on Thursday February 26 and Friday, February 27; poll your students and fill in names to time slots (see schedule on wikki) so that we know which students are coming and when. TA's will collect money for the whole group at the start of the tour and pay cashier all at once. Perhaps you will want to write the museum's address on the board.
The next TA meeting is Tuesday, February 24, at 7PM.