English: Dissecting the camera, Sound productions and The Director

 In English we were asked to watch three videos of the follow topics and then write a little but about what we learnt. 

Dissecting the camera: 

Lily Gladstone once said: "A Camera is a collection of parts that can help you tell a visual story. It takes light through a lens and captures images that create illusion of reality we keep talking about"

Fixed focal point is where the point in which a camera can focus is very small being around 35mm length and is known as a prime lens.  Whereas variable focal length is longer being 35-200mm and is known as a zoom lens.

To control the amount of light that comes into a lens/shot you can changes the different speeds of the camera shutter. The camera shutter is kinda like a lens door on a camera that opens fast and slow depending on what you set the speed to.  But the only problem with that is it makes a noise so some directors and film producers wont use this as often. 

Aperture: is a hole withing the camera lens that works like a pupil that can become wider or narrower. Aperture is used to allow more or less light to come through the lens making a shot bright or dark depending on how narrow and wide it is.  The aperture is measured in f-stops, for focal length. it is basically the ratio of the focal point compared to the diameter of the aperture. 

The higher the ISO number the more sensitive light is to a scene. But when turned up all the way in a dark scene to lighten it, it makes the scene look grainy and not clear. So if a scene is too dark just add some more light and keep the ISO number normal to have a clear crisp looking scene. 

Sound production:

There are different microphone cover patterns for different ways of letting sound in. Those microphone patterns being... Omnidirectional  collect any sound that is made all around. Bidirectional collects sound directly infront and behind rejecting all sound coming from the side. Cardioid collects sound that it is directly pointing to plus some from behind. Supercardioid collects sounds/coverstaions between a few people while there in a group so basically is points out two or more voices and picks up on them then the whole group or others talking around them. Hyper-cadioid collects sound just like super-cadioid but mostly collects sound from the person speaking meaning sound is picked up from behind which can be annoying is the crew behind cameras are talking because it might get picked up. Lobar collects sounds from far away for that couple be a police siren etc. 

The Director:

The directors purpose is to give/bring their visual to life in a film. Lilly Gladstone one said an actors job is to bring a character to life. And we need actors to think real thoughts and feel real feelings to make the film relatable and what the directors is visioning.  The director also picks where the actors must stand and how the shot must be places to enable the effect they are wanting to bring to a scene/movie.