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Tuesday, May 19, 2009
Broadcast Yourself Live On The Web: Best Tools To Create Your Own Live Web TV - A Mini-Guide
Web video continues to enjoy enormous success and is increasingly becoming a standard feature of websites and blogs. As we move towards the era of Internet TV, it gets easier and easier for everyday people to broadcast their own video shows to the world.
A new batch of tools is evolving to satisfy this need, allowing you to create your own custom TV channels, broadcast your own live video feed or even operate a mini-recording-studio right out of your web browser.
Check out more in
http://www.masternewmedia.org/video_internet_television/live-video-streaming/broadcast-yourself-live-with-video-streaming-20070424.htm
A new batch of tools is evolving to satisfy this need, allowing you to create your own custom TV channels, broadcast your own live video feed or even operate a mini-recording-studio right out of your web browser.
Check out more in
http://www.masternewmedia.org/video_internet_television/live-video-streaming/broadcast-yourself-live-with-video-streaming-20070424.htm
Saturday, May 9, 2009
ROBOCON 2009
Antara kejayaan pasukan lain (UTP). Antara IPT yang dapat menggegarkan stadium dengan paluan gendang mereka ialah UTP, UTM, UPM dan MMU.
ROBOSAS'09 2nd DAY 08/05/09
ROBOSAS masih belum dapat membawa robot traveller (ROBOSAS EP). Perlawanan hari kedua masih belum memihak kpd ROBOSAS. Keputusan perlawanan ROBOSAS vs ROBOPTECH 2 (ADTECH SA) ialah -2:5.
Friday, May 8, 2009
ROBOSAS'09 1st DAY 07/05/09
ROBOSAS VS UTHM B. keputusan perlawanasn -2:-2 dengan kemenangan memihak kpd UTHM B.
Thursday, May 7, 2009
ROBOSAS'09 1st DAY 07/05/09
Penyokong ROBOSAS 09 yang tak sabar menunggu saat pertandingan. ROBOSAS vs UTHM B
Wednesday, May 6, 2009
ROBOSAS'09 INTRO
ROBOSAS TEAM now at ROBOCON 09. PRAY 4 our success and give supports anywhere u r.
Date : 06/05/2009
vanue : Stadium Melawati, Shah Alam
Saturday, March 14, 2009
Friday, March 13, 2009
Basic Training: Seeing the Rule of Thirds
Some photographers and videographers have a Natural Eye that composes shots and scenes all around them, even when they aren't holding a camera.
You know you have The Eye when you start composing scenes everywhere you go. Eventually you'll compose using the Rule of Thirds the same way people that have immersed themselves in learning a new language start to dream in that language while they sleep.
You may think that you can practice videography only when you have a camera in your hands, but that's not true. Real filmmakers or video producers are working all the time - whatever they're doing. The craft becomes part of their daily lives - an innate part - because making film or video isn't about capturing an image - it's about seeing things. The greatest skill a director of photography possesses is an understanding of how to frame the world so that it looks its best on a television screen.
Just as athletes train in their sport, good filmmakers practice, learn and constantly evolve. This means not just developing an understanding of the technical aspects - such as the effect of different types of lights, color temperatures, the looks of different focal lengths and f-stop combinations - but also an artistic understanding of how to position objects in the frame in a way that is most visually compelling. Luckily, much of this skill depends on rules and conventions that you can study, learn and reason.
If you've been reading this column for any length of time, you've heard us talk about the Rule of Thirds. This is probably the most important rule of composition - so important that you'll want to start seeing your world by it.
Good visual artists - camera people, designers, photographers and painters - have minds that are constantly thinking of composition; it goes on in the background of their thoughts. Walking into a room with or without a camera, they will notice back lighting, they'll notice cluttered backgrounds and where best to stand to avoid them and they'll also know where to place the camera to best compose according to the Rule of Thirds. They'll know this without thinking about it, in the same way that you avoid stepping on an overturned trash can on the sidewalk.
Observe
Be aware of uses of the Rule of Thirds around you. Every time you watch TV or a movie or look at a photograph in a magazine, imagine a grid across it and see where the lines intersect. What's at that intersection? How is the director of photography using the Rule of Thirds to draw our interest to one particular portion of the frame?
Assimilate
Now that you know what to look for, incorporate it into your daily life. When you're walking down the street or shaving or watching a baseball game, visualize the viewfinder in front of you, and ask yourself where you'd put the camera if you were shooting this. What is the key element of interest in the scene? Where should you place it in the frame? What other elements in the scene do you also want in the composition? Where does the camera need to be to accomplish that? Can you use interesting foreground or background elements? What zoom do you need, and how will a zoom change the composition? Move the camera up or down? Don't be trapped on a single axis. Shoot on an angle?
Keep the grid in your mind while you envision your shot. Where do those lines intersect, and what do you want at that intersection? Keep in mind also that the area of visual interest is something that you get to choose; it may not actually be the most important thing. You may choose to fill the screen with a shot of someone reacting to an event. You might focus on a ball up close on one side of the screen while children play out of focus in the background. Drawing and directing the audience's attention is your job - you're their tour guide, so be creative and entertaining. Compose and recompose in your head until it becomes routine. Also, dissect everything that comes to you - every television commercial, every flier, every billboard, every movie. Ask yourself, how they are using the Rule of Thirds? What objects are they choosing to put in these key areas of the frame? How do they frame people as opposed to buildings? Where are the horizons in landscapes? How does it make the shot more useful or beautiful? As with all rules, you can break this one, sometimes with great effect, but you need to be aware of it first. If the director has not followed the Rule of Thirds, ask yourself why. How does it make the shot potentially more useful or beautiful?
Learning to see like a filmmaker is one of the key steps to becoming a great one.
Source : Kyle Cassidy(2009).videomaker
You know you have The Eye when you start composing scenes everywhere you go. Eventually you'll compose using the Rule of Thirds the same way people that have immersed themselves in learning a new language start to dream in that language while they sleep.
You may think that you can practice videography only when you have a camera in your hands, but that's not true. Real filmmakers or video producers are working all the time - whatever they're doing. The craft becomes part of their daily lives - an innate part - because making film or video isn't about capturing an image - it's about seeing things. The greatest skill a director of photography possesses is an understanding of how to frame the world so that it looks its best on a television screen.
Just as athletes train in their sport, good filmmakers practice, learn and constantly evolve. This means not just developing an understanding of the technical aspects - such as the effect of different types of lights, color temperatures, the looks of different focal lengths and f-stop combinations - but also an artistic understanding of how to position objects in the frame in a way that is most visually compelling. Luckily, much of this skill depends on rules and conventions that you can study, learn and reason.
If you've been reading this column for any length of time, you've heard us talk about the Rule of Thirds. This is probably the most important rule of composition - so important that you'll want to start seeing your world by it.
Good visual artists - camera people, designers, photographers and painters - have minds that are constantly thinking of composition; it goes on in the background of their thoughts. Walking into a room with or without a camera, they will notice back lighting, they'll notice cluttered backgrounds and where best to stand to avoid them and they'll also know where to place the camera to best compose according to the Rule of Thirds. They'll know this without thinking about it, in the same way that you avoid stepping on an overturned trash can on the sidewalk.
Observe
Be aware of uses of the Rule of Thirds around you. Every time you watch TV or a movie or look at a photograph in a magazine, imagine a grid across it and see where the lines intersect. What's at that intersection? How is the director of photography using the Rule of Thirds to draw our interest to one particular portion of the frame?
Assimilate
Now that you know what to look for, incorporate it into your daily life. When you're walking down the street or shaving or watching a baseball game, visualize the viewfinder in front of you, and ask yourself where you'd put the camera if you were shooting this. What is the key element of interest in the scene? Where should you place it in the frame? What other elements in the scene do you also want in the composition? Where does the camera need to be to accomplish that? Can you use interesting foreground or background elements? What zoom do you need, and how will a zoom change the composition? Move the camera up or down? Don't be trapped on a single axis. Shoot on an angle?
Keep the grid in your mind while you envision your shot. Where do those lines intersect, and what do you want at that intersection? Keep in mind also that the area of visual interest is something that you get to choose; it may not actually be the most important thing. You may choose to fill the screen with a shot of someone reacting to an event. You might focus on a ball up close on one side of the screen while children play out of focus in the background. Drawing and directing the audience's attention is your job - you're their tour guide, so be creative and entertaining. Compose and recompose in your head until it becomes routine. Also, dissect everything that comes to you - every television commercial, every flier, every billboard, every movie. Ask yourself, how they are using the Rule of Thirds? What objects are they choosing to put in these key areas of the frame? How do they frame people as opposed to buildings? Where are the horizons in landscapes? How does it make the shot more useful or beautiful? As with all rules, you can break this one, sometimes with great effect, but you need to be aware of it first. If the director has not followed the Rule of Thirds, ask yourself why. How does it make the shot potentially more useful or beautiful?
Learning to see like a filmmaker is one of the key steps to becoming a great one.
Source : Kyle Cassidy(2009).videomaker
Getting Started : Video Composition Part 2
Space to Walk and Talk
Your subject will not always talk directly to the lens of the camcorder. Sometimes your subject will speak to someone who is off-camera, out of the shot. In these cases, you should position your subject to one side of the frame, rather than right in the middle. Why? Because you need to give your subject space to talk.
When your subject talks to someone off camera, your viewer's eyes will naturally wander in the your on-camera subject faces. If you put your subject in the middle of the frame, or on the same side of the frame as the off-camera person being addressed, the viewer will feel as if there isn't enough conversation space between your subject and the unseen off-camera person (see Figure 3). That's why the space in the frame between your subject and the opposite side of the frame--the "talk space"--is so important to the viewer. It helps them to believe that there is really someone being talked to, and that this individual is an appropriate distance from your subject.
When you shoot a moving subject, you'll need to pay attention to walking space, or "lead room," as well. If your subject turns to her left (your right) and begins walking, you will have to pan the camera to the right to keep up with her. Otherwise, she'll walk off camera. If you don't move the camera fast enough, though, it will appear as if your subject is walking into the left edge of the frame (see Figure 4). To compose a moving shot properly, you must provide adequate lead room so your subject can move without getting too close to the edge of the shot.
That Wasn't So Hard, Was It?
In theory, composition is an easy thing to master. Simply be aware of how you position things in the frame and follow the rule of thirds. In practice, however, composition is more of an art than a science. In time, and with practice, you'll develop an eye for framing and all your shots will look attractive and well composed.
Source : Arthur Aiello (2000).videomaker
Getting Started : Video Composition Part 1
By virtue of its very nature, video is a medium that is judged largely on the way it looks. As such, qualifying video as "good looking" or "bad looking" can be very subjective. After all, different people have different opinions about what looks good.
Fortunately, you can hedge your bets and err on the side of "good looking" by paying careful attention to video composition. Composition is at the heart of making attractive video, because it focuses not on things like story line and plot development, or even the more technical issues of color balance, lighting and audio levels. Rather, composition is all about the placement of your subject(s) in the frame so that the effect is as pleasing to the eye as possible.
While many people are content simply to point the camcorder at something and start rolling tape, students of composition know there is a rhyme and reason to shot selection. Good shooters position their subjects carefully in the frame. There are several guidelines you can apply to help you compose more attractive shots.
The Rule of Thirds
Fortunately, you can hedge your bets and err on the side of "good looking" by paying careful attention to video composition. Composition is at the heart of making attractive video, because it focuses not on things like story line and plot development, or even the more technical issues of color balance, lighting and audio levels. Rather, composition is all about the placement of your subject(s) in the frame so that the effect is as pleasing to the eye as possible.
While many people are content simply to point the camcorder at something and start rolling tape, students of composition know there is a rhyme and reason to shot selection. Good shooters position their subjects carefully in the frame. There are several guidelines you can apply to help you compose more attractive shots.
The Rule of Thirds
It has been widely held among classical artists throughout history that painting objects on a rectangular canvas at certain predictable points causes the eye to flow more easily across the canvas, resulting in greater harmony among the painting's visual elements. As a result, artists devised mathematical ways of segmenting the canvas so that they would know exactly where to place their images for greatest effect. The result was called "The Golden Mean."
It isn't necessary to go into the tedious mathematical history behind the Golden Mean.
Videographers and filmmakers have adopted a modified version called "the rule of thirds."
Essentially, the rule states that if you mentally divide your frame into thirds, both horizontally and vertically, and then place the important elements in your shot along these horizontal and vertical lines, you create visual images that please the eye of the viewer (see Figure 1).
To illustrate, you can move your camcorder so that your subject is on one side of the frame, resting at an intersection of the horizontal and vertical lines. With larger elements, such as people or buildings, which are vertically oriented, you can also position them on one of the verticals so that they occupy the space where one vertical intersects both horizontal lines.
The horizon, if you have it visible in your shot, can also be manipulated by the rule of thirds. You'll want to place it on one of the two horizontal lines. Typically the horizon will look best if placed along the lower line.
When the elements of a shot are composed in this way, they tend to form geometric patterns that guide the viewer's eye. Some elements might form a virtual circle, for example, causing the eye to move in a circular motion around the frame. You can form other geometric patterns with your visual elements, as well--perhaps a "Z" shape, or a simple diagonal line.
The rule of thirds, however, generally dictates that simply centering your subject in the shot will create an "unbalanced" image--one that will not lead your eye naturally to any of the other elements of the shot.
Talking Heads and Rules of Thumb
While the rule of thirds can be applied to any subject, whether animal, vegetable or mineral, the reality is that you will spend a lot of time shooting people. You can apply the rule of thirds to shots of people to make sure they are well balanced, but you can also apply some other people-shooting guidelines, as well.
Let's begin by evaluating the talking head. This is the term for a close up (head and shoulders) shot of someone talking, usually to the camera. How do you frame this shot? You will probably have no choice but to position your subject more or less in the center of the frame. This may appear to run counter to the rule of thirds, but it isn't necessarily so. You can still apply the rule of thirds in this case and at the same time deal with another people-shooting issue--headroom.
Headroom is the space between the top of your subject's head and the top of the frame. Apply too much headroom and your subject appears to be sinking. Too little headroom appears to chop your subject's head off just above the eyes.
To get headroom just right, tilt up or down until your subject's eyes fall along that topmost horizontal line. Because your subject's eyes are one of the most important features on his face, the rule of thirds says that it makes sense to align the eyes with that top third line, rather than putting the eyes smack in the center of the frame (see Figure 2). Keeping your subject's eyes on that top horizontal line will insure proper headroom in close, medium and wide shots.
Composition - The most amazing bloopers are here
source : Arthur Aiello(2000).videomaker
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