Review
Review questions
1 | Why is getting the closing shot so important? |
2 | If you're shooting a formal sit-down interview and the camera is positioned over the left shoulder of the interviewer, where should you place the camera for reverse cutaways? |
3 | Why should you stripe your tapes? |
4 | When you open the Capture panel, you don't see an image in the video monitor and you can't control your DV camcorder. What could be going on? |
5 | During the capture process, how do you add extra frames to ensure you have enough footage to do transitions? |
6 | You want to capture a clip for its video plus a portion of that clip for a snippet of natural sound. How do you do that? |
Review answers
1 | Your closing shot is what viewers take away from your video. You want to do what you can to make it memorable. |
2 | Place the camera behind the interview subject and shoot over his right shoulder. |
3 | Striping your tapes ensures a distinct and uninterrupted timecode. |
4 | This could be one of several things: Your camcorder is not turned on (or if you're using a battery, it might be in sleep mode); you have it in Camera mode instead of VCR/VTR; or you haven't inserted your tape. |
5 | Put a number of frames in the Handles option in the Capture section of the Capture panel. |
6 | Simply log that entire clip and then go back and log the audio portion. |