How to get good audio from auditoriums,
gyms and other sound-hostile environments.
As anyone who has tried to record audio in an auditorium can tell you, large
enclosed spaces with smooth, reflective surfaces can be a videographer's
worst nightmare. Sounds careen off the hard walls, floor and ceiling of
a gym, theatre or music...
"Nurse Raster?"
"Yes, Dr. Monty?"
"I've got a full schedule today. Please prep the patients to go through the usual routine before sending them in."
Since his success with his star patient Vince Codac, Dr. Monty, cyber-video-psychotherapist has built a thriving practice serving desktop video producers. Today, four very different patients will...
The resilient videotape format persists
beyond expectations.
Japanese product planners estimate that a consumer electronic product will
last eight years. VHS tape, however, has mocked these modern marketing projections.
It was developed in Japan by JVC in 1976 and has been the predominant consumer
videotape format for over 20 years. Currently, over 80% of...
Keep your record clean by avoiding these common
audio crimes.
If you just can't seem to push your videos to the next level of quality,
you may be looking too hard and not listening enough. That's right--one
of the keys to making better video is making better audio.
If your goal is to make...
What? Another festival rejection? Is scorn heaped upon you because your epic masterpiece is shot on video and not on film? You probably deserve to have your work seen by an audience larger than just the pre-screeners at festivals.
As a broadcast production professor at Cameron University in southwest Oklahoma,...
User Groups
Existing Groups
The Quinte Videography Club
561 Victoria Ave.
Belleville, ON K8N 2G6
Canada
Contact: W. McCormick
Phone: 613-966-4517
E-mail: bill.mccormick@sympatico.ca
Meetings: First Wednesday, 7 p.m., Room P-24, Loyalist College
Cecil Amiga Users Group
P.O. Box 39
Rising Sun, MD 21911-0039
Contact: Jerimy L. Campbell
Phone: 410-658-4739
E-mail: JC@dol.net
Meetings: First Tuesdays, 7 p.m., Goodies Inc.
Group Creativity
65 Broadway
East Hampton, NY 11937
Contact: David Shepard
Phone:...
The television revolution changed the way Americans view the world. Now the camcorder is making that view much more personal. From reality-based shows like Real TV and America's Funniest Home Videos, to powerful personal moments captured for programs like MTV's Unfiltered, Americans are more involved than ever in creating...
There is a hush that falls over a crowd when a classically shot movie appears on-screen. It's that same hushed anticipation that hovers around the campfire when someone says "Once upon a time ..." as we give our full attention over to being entertained. The movie-maker's storytelling magic is...
Writing Docudrama
Alan Rosenthal (1995,Focal Press,
313 Washington, Newton MA 02158, 271 pp., $24.95)
Fact-based fiction is enjoying a surge
in popularity in film and on TV, proving the old adage that real life can
be as entertaining as fiction. Writing Docudrama: Dramatizing Reality
for Film and TV explains the ins and outs of writing...
No doubt about it--1997 was a good year for both professional and amateur videographers. A number of new camcorders with never-before-seen features and functions hit the marketplace; one even boasted the use of a hard drive instead of tape as a recording medium. Editing equipment also became available in...
