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Camera White Balance

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Official terminology : On professional-level cameras, it can mean the white balance operation as described below (which is actually quite manual). This is because in professional situations, a "manual white balance" can mean altering colours using specialised vision processing equipment. If your camera has a filter wheel (or if you use add-on filters), make sure you are using the correct filter for the  lighting conditions. Point your camera to a pure white subject, so that most of what you're seeing in the viewfinder is white. The subject should be fairly matte therefore non-reflective. Set your exposure and focus. Activate the white balance by pressing the button or throwing the switch. The camera may take a few seconds to complete the operation, after which you should get a message (or icon) in the viewfinder. Hopefully this will be telling you that the white balance has succeeded - in this case, the camera will retain it's current colour balance until an...

Audience Research

Audiences: -What is an audience: An individual or group of people who consume any media text. -Why are audiences important: Audiences are important as media organisations produce media texts to make profit, therefore no audience means no profit for the organisation. -What is the impact of new technology on audiences?: -What are the different types of Audiences: -What are the two main systems for categorising audiences:

Future Technology

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Light L6 Camera :   This pocket-sized point-and-shoot has 16 different lenses (five 35mm, five 70mm and six 150mm lenses) each with 13 megapixels and multiple sensors, all working together to create exposures at different focal lengths, with the end result being high resolution DSLR-quality photographs.  There’s an algorithm somewhere in there that blends those individual images together and it shoots 4K video as well. With a combined 52 megapixels, you can even edit your photos right after you take them using the 5-inch touchscreen.  How I would use this for future work within my course:

Scene soundtrack analysis

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Don't Be a Menace South Central While Drinking Your Juice - 1996 'Do We Have a Problem' scene: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F1Bhl3yjzsQ   Music: At 20 seconds dramatic non diegetic music is played to build tension leaving the audience questioning what might happen next as Ashtray is confronted. The tempo slightly increases, adding to this effect before it stops at 45 seconds where it is obvious they are no longer in danger. Also the music has a sound bridge as the it continues across transitions before it ends. Incidental/Ambient: From the beginning of the scene until the music is heard there are ambient sounds in the background of the city and transport to create a normal/everyday tone. However after, the ambient background noises are overpowered by dialogue and sound effects until 1 minute in, where they continue. This is so when they are not heard, something important is happening that they want the audience to focus on. Dialogue: ...

Week 5 - Fourth Evaluation of Carousel

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Fast shutter speed Slow shutter speed Large aperture Small aperture In the fifth Carousel session we were doing  photography.  Before we began taking photos we learnt things such ass shutter speed and aperture. The shutter speed affected how detailed the image was if the thing being photographed was moving and the aperture affected the centre of focus and if anything appeared out of focus or not. - A fast shutter speed is required to freeze motion motion creating a sharp high quality image. E.g 1/1000 - A slow shutter speed can blur motion creating an interesting, almost distorted effect. E.g 1/13 - Large apertures work for detailed images such as words on a page and focus on everything in the image. - Small apertures work for photos such as the sky and only focus the centre of attention. - Large apertures give a shallow depth of field.  (Small numbers e.g 2.8 or 4.5) - Small apertures give a wide depth of field. (Lar...

Week 4 - Third Evaluation of Carousel

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Water Gif

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Camera room homework

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FISHEYE LENS: The fisheye lens can sometimes appear like a normal lens, however the majority of the time it appears to poke outwards slightly. The fisheye provides an almost stretched angle allowing you to see more in the cameras peripheral vision, almost like when you look through a peep whole in a door which means images can appear bent on stretched in the corners of the image or video. From owning one myself I know they are delicate and slightly expensive, especially when it comes to fisheye lenses such as the one shown up to a high standard. I chose the fisheye lens as I have past experience with them through skateboarding as it is the most popular lens used to film the sport as it captures more of the action, whilst allowing the filmier to record from a close range.