C200 Eval

1/31/24

C200 Assembly

Shorter Screw = top handle

Longer screw = monitor bracket

Top handle: slanted part faces the same side as the lens

Kit 3 monitor bracket connect to top handle with little fully metal screw

BPA60 battery lasts 2.5-3 hours

BPA30 battery lasts 90 minutes

Exposure

Controlling exposure: aperture = how large the opening of the lens is

Control on left side of camera

50-60 IRE

Focus - First ring on lens

Zoom 2nd ring

Color Temperature

In deg. K

Color temp daylight 5600 K and up

Fluorescent Light 4000 K

House lamp candle 3200K

Are you lighting subject according to color temp or do you have dueling color temperatures? Work with whatever is there

Try to eliminate one dueling temp.

Shooting daylight

Tungsten color temp (3200) turns image blue because daylight has higher color temp (5600+)

Shooting Fluorescent (4000)

Daylight color temp (5600+) turns image yellow because fluorescent has lower color temp

Waveforms green top right of monitor

Native ISO of 800 for C200s - best image quality at 800 ISO (4 F Stops)

Filming outside - ND filters

Depth of Field - range of what’s in focus

Larger opening = less DOF, smaller opening = greater DOF

2/5/24

Pina Film

  • Showing POV with close ups, camera angle, actor’s performance and interactions with the camera, etc.

  • Starting just as a performance gives context and makes shift to POV more impactful

Lens Choices

  • More depth of field = shallow lens, more compressed look = longer lens

  • Wide angle lens makes movement toward camera feel more intense

CFast Card vs. SD Card

  • CFast - limited in storage, but can shoot uncompressed (highest quality) footage.

    • Cannon Log 3 Format

      • desaturated gamma

      • Greatest dynamic range

      • Can do much more for color grading in post.

SD Card

System Frequency - 59.94 Hz in the U.S., 50.0Hz for Europe, 24Hz for more cinematic look

Frame Rate

  • 59.94P - movement looks more fluid

  • 23.98P (more cinematic)

Shutter Speed - should be 1/twice the Frame Rate in order for movement to appear normal

  • Boosting shutter speed means image will get darker, movement will look choppier

  • Reducing shutter speed means image will get brighter, movement will look blurry.

“Initialize Media”

  • Select Card you are using

  • This clears the SD Card so you have more space

Reducing Resolution lets you record more on the Card you are using

Relay Record - Automatically moves from Slot A to Slot B . Will turn off when you turn off the camera.

C200 Eval

CFast (uncompressed draw) SD recording media

Cannon Log 3 gamma that gives images expanded dynamic range

Top Handle - Kits 1 and 2 - Shorter screw

Remove the lens by clicking the button, turn it, then remove. To put it back on, align the lens with the red dot and turn clockwise

Side rolling button thing = exposure

Initializing media = clearing card

Depth of Field = What’s in focus between foreground and background

Controlling Exposure: ISO, Aperture, Shutter Speed

Unit Cable align pins with the arrows

Documentary Style Conventions

  • Eyeline - as close to camera without looking directly into the camera. Could look on the side towards the light for more contrast.

  • Key Light about 45 deg. From participant, on the side of the primary light . More contrast.

  • Depth of Field - if nothing in the background, you can keep it shallow

Syncing Sound

Sound Capture Zoom Recorder

  • Menu -> Mode -> Stereo

  • Volume at -12dB

  • Normalize audio - click, Audio gain, normalize all peaks to -6dB

  • Text transcript edits in real time

  • Key frames top arrow bottom arrow for starter of image and change position and scale etc

2/12/2024

Types of Camera Shots

  • When to use each shot?

    • Wide shot = context, grounding in space

    • Close up = show emotion

    • Medium shot = giving the audience a sense of who someone might be, but not quite ready for the emotional connection of the closeup, body language, relationship of character to others or to their environment/space

    • Shots correlate to some private or public space - proxemics - how close you are to someone has to do with

    • Is where we place the audience’s attention and emotion - is that a transition that keeps the audience with the character or is there distance? Do you feel the emotion or do you notice the emotion? Are you manipulating the audience/does it feel manipulative and like you’re being bullied into it or is there a genuine connection?

  • VIEWFINDER APP for location scouting

  • Placing camera behind subjects for personal conversations - illusion of privacy

  • Shots suggest the emotional and psychological POV of the character. If you place an obstacle between the audience and what they’re seeing, the moment can be more effective and have a greater emotional impact

Rule of 6 Walter Murch

  • Emotion - 51%

  • Story - 23%

    • All the shots give us new information

  • Rhythm - 10%

    • Pacing

  • Eye-trace - 7%

    • Where the audience’s eyes are

    • Disrupting eye trace for moments of disorientation

    • Keeping point of interest in the same spot to make cuts seamless (affinity - seamless match cutting)

  • Two-dimensional plane of screen - 5%

  • Three-dimensional space of action - 4%

Zodiac Scene

180 deg. Rule: Keeping camera on one side of the 360 deg. plane, so that characters keep moving in the same direction and the audience is not disoriented

  • Jumping to the other side of the line for a purpose. Without throwing audience off:

    • After establishing where we are, giving audience enough context

    • Gives the audience a feel of the radical shift. If this coincides with the story, the audience will feel the shift.

  • Try to avoid recording who is speaking. Record who is impacted by the moment.

2/14/23

Blocking - physical movements of the performers

Long takes

  • Movement of the camera remains invisible when moving with the characters. Choreographing camera with the blocking.

Creating a new 180 by moving camera from over one character’s shoulder to their other shoulder

Camera Quiz Review

  • C200 shoots on CFast and SD card

  • Uncompressed raw only on CFast

  • Connecting mic to C200 and need to power the mic - using phantom power meaning camera powers the mic use XLR cable to connect (set mic setting to Mic+48V, analog setting)

  • Cannon Log 3 - Gamma that increases dynamic range (looks desaturated until you add a lut in post). Camera setting

  • LUT = look up table

  • Control Dial that controls aperture = dial on left nearest to the lens

  • Initialize media = clears all data on SD or CFast card

  • Depth of field = what’s in focus between foreground and background

  • Controlling exposure = ISO, shutter speed, aperture, ND Filters (Neutral density filters)