“Eye Of The Duck”
Production Log
Introduction
For the Eye Of The Duck we were given a written script of what the characters have to say in the short film. Before we began to come up with ideas and screen plays we first had to; learn how to use the new HDV camera’s, then come up with our own idea and present it to the class and then after being put into groups we then had to start our pre production.
To understand how to use HDV camera I first had know understand the concept of; White Balance and Light Exposure. HDV camera’s is a high definition video recording device format which uses of MPEG2 compression to fit a High Definition onto the same DV. White balancing is a process that removes unrealistic colour casts so when objects been recorded appears white in person and are rendered white in your photo. Having the right camera white balance has to take into the colour temperature from a light source which can be referred to relative warmth or a coolness of white lights. The human eye can be very good at judging what is white under a different light sources, but digital cameras are have even more difficulty with auto white balance as well so it’s important to make sure what your filming is what you want with the light source. A light exposure or black light exposure is set to get the best quality image by using only natural light or artificial light.
