Technical Tutorials

Publicity Photos- We used a school camera in order to take photo's that would help us to get an image of our genre. We used a variety of different locations however we were not allowed to go outside of school, so by using different angles and the use of the natural light, we were able to create images from different genres. Facial expression plays a massive part in a photo also, as a friendly more attractive look will be more appropriate for the pop genre rather than a grime or rock genre. We used a high quality camera to do this and then I put them al together in a video, with the appropriate genre music laid over the top of it.
Here is the final product of putting all of our images we took together in a video.

Here is a picture of the green screen that we used in class to practice a small lip sync task. The green screen can be very effective as it is a lot budget way to make things look interesting; however it can sometimes make it look unprofessional if not done properly.

The downsides to the green screen are that people are unable to wear green as it will become affected by the effects. When setting up the green screen we also set up three lights that were carefully positioned and focused on the performer. We also set up three camera’s which were also focused on all the performers.

Chroma key

Chroma key compositing is a technique for compositing (layering) two images together.

A colour range in the top layer is made transparent, revealing another image behind.

The Chroma keying technique is commonly used in video production and post-production.

This technique is also referred to as color keying, color-separation, green screen, and blue screen.

It is commonly used for weather forecast broadcasts, wherein the news presenter appears to be standing in front of a large map during live television newscasts, but in a television studio it is actually a large blue or green background.