Thursday, 10 February 2011
Wednesday, 9 February 2011
Have Online Videos Lowered The Standards of Television Production ??
A lot of the new technology these days such as a mobile phone come with a built in camera which also allows you to record things as well. Also you can now download an app on an iPhone which allows you to edit the footage on your phone. You can also upload the footage straight from your phone onto youtube and you can also create a TV series through uploading to youtube. You can get some mobile phone cameras that are HD, so with this kind of technology at such easy access then soon there will be a lot of people creating their own TV programmes and uploading them to the internet then there will be no need for all the big expensive professional cameras that are used in the media industry.
Pretty much all of the videos on YouTube are of a bad quality as they are all shot through very small cameras, whereas the programmes on TV are all of a very high resolution. Also a lot of the videos are of recordings of programmes that are already on TV and that havnt been released yet which then gives you the copyright issues. Because you can now edit the footage you have shot on you mobile the quality of the editing and final product wouldn't be as good as when you shoot, and edit with professional, high tech equiptment. You can now buy hand held video cameras for more amateur filming, you can get them in HD which enables you to record whenever and wherever you want in good quality as they are small enough to be able to fit into a back pack, and to take it with you. You can again upload these to the innternet but you will have to plug it into the computer and edit it through the computer on there. With the new iPhone 4 you can buy the editing software that people use on the Apple Macs for a lot cheaper. However which this you still cant get the same quality or the same smoothness when you edit this way. You can also buy hand held photography cameras which can be very small, small enough to fit into a persons handbag with these cameras you can still get some good quality pictures, good zoom and at a good price. You can also buy some more high tech/ more professional cameras which will let you get very good photos and a better zoom. With cameras you still have to connect them to the computer and edit them on Photoshop.
I think that all of these different ways to edit now are ruining the quality of the final product as they are not done on a computer with the correct software, instead they are done quickly and therefore the final product doesnt run as smoothly and doesnt look as professional and overall doesnt look very good.
Pretty much all of the videos on YouTube are of a bad quality as they are all shot through very small cameras, whereas the programmes on TV are all of a very high resolution. Also a lot of the videos are of recordings of programmes that are already on TV and that havnt been released yet which then gives you the copyright issues. Because you can now edit the footage you have shot on you mobile the quality of the editing and final product wouldn't be as good as when you shoot, and edit with professional, high tech equiptment. You can now buy hand held video cameras for more amateur filming, you can get them in HD which enables you to record whenever and wherever you want in good quality as they are small enough to be able to fit into a back pack, and to take it with you. You can again upload these to the innternet but you will have to plug it into the computer and edit it through the computer on there. With the new iPhone 4 you can buy the editing software that people use on the Apple Macs for a lot cheaper. However which this you still cant get the same quality or the same smoothness when you edit this way. You can also buy hand held photography cameras which can be very small, small enough to fit into a persons handbag with these cameras you can still get some good quality pictures, good zoom and at a good price. You can also buy some more high tech/ more professional cameras which will let you get very good photos and a better zoom. With cameras you still have to connect them to the computer and edit them on Photoshop.
I think that all of these different ways to edit now are ruining the quality of the final product as they are not done on a computer with the correct software, instead they are done quickly and therefore the final product doesnt run as smoothly and doesnt look as professional and overall doesnt look very good.
Tuesday, 8 February 2011
How Has The Digital World Changed The Way We Consume and Create TV ??
Since the first TV set was made there have been a lot of different ways that we view Television, such as we now have Vboxes and Sky plus boxes. so therefore you can now watch a programme that you missed another time, within a week.
With these boxes we are able to pause and rewind live television, also you can record more than one programme at a time without having to put a video in, so therefore you can just go back to your TV and watch what you want at a time that you want. You can now watch TV on the internet on BBC iPlayer and you can also whatch a whole TV Series online, which is only shown on the internet. Also with all the new technology we are able to create anninmation in film and TV.
Technology has come a long way in the way that we film a television programme or a film such as they used to use tapes in the cameras which you can only use once, and then you have to throw them away as the footage cant be deleted, in order for you the overwrite it. Nowadays you can get a card that goes in the camera, which has a very big memory and will allow you to keep filming for longer and also you can re-use the card as you can connect it to the computer and then delete what footage you dont want and therefore use up less memory on the card, also the advantage of using up the card is that it makes it a lot easier to put the images onto the computer and to edit them.
Editing has improved the digital world in the fact that it makes a film run a lot smoother and keeps the action flowing whilst also keepin the continuity of travel correct. Editing also enables you to get different shot sizes and angles and for it all to flow nicely, and as a result give you a more interesting look on a film/TV programme.
With these boxes we are able to pause and rewind live television, also you can record more than one programme at a time without having to put a video in, so therefore you can just go back to your TV and watch what you want at a time that you want. You can now watch TV on the internet on BBC iPlayer and you can also whatch a whole TV Series online, which is only shown on the internet. Also with all the new technology we are able to create anninmation in film and TV.
Technology has come a long way in the way that we film a television programme or a film such as they used to use tapes in the cameras which you can only use once, and then you have to throw them away as the footage cant be deleted, in order for you the overwrite it. Nowadays you can get a card that goes in the camera, which has a very big memory and will allow you to keep filming for longer and also you can re-use the card as you can connect it to the computer and then delete what footage you dont want and therefore use up less memory on the card, also the advantage of using up the card is that it makes it a lot easier to put the images onto the computer and to edit them.
Editing has improved the digital world in the fact that it makes a film run a lot smoother and keeps the action flowing whilst also keepin the continuity of travel correct. Editing also enables you to get different shot sizes and angles and for it all to flow nicely, and as a result give you a more interesting look on a film/TV programme.
Monday, 7 February 2011
Brief History of TV in the UK and Abroad
The first TV was created in 1884 by a student in germany called Paul Gottlieb Nipkow, he created the first ever mechanical Televison. He did this by sending images through wires using a rotating metal disc, this technology was called the 'electric telescope' in 1894 Charles Jenkins started work on developing a method to electically transmit images and pictures. In 1920 Jenkins invented what was basically a radio that had visual capabilitiesand projected pictures.In 1925 John Logie Baird created the first televised image of the human face. Philo Farnsworth is the inventor of the dissector tube which is still found in electronic televisions of today. In 1926 John Logie Baird successfully transmitted the first television picture from one room to another.Later in 1927 Baird managed to successfully transmit a moving image from London to Glasgow. On May 2nd 1941, 10 stations had a commercial television license, given to them by the FCC (federal communications commision), then the first television broadcasted by a station was on July 1st 1941.
The NTSC (National Television System Commitee)is the analog TV system which is used in most of America, and uses a different software to PAL and SECAM. NTSC uses a TV signal with 60Hz vertical frequency and pixels of 767-575. PAL (Phase Alternative Line) is the analog system used in broadcast television systems used in large parts of the world using 25 frames per second. SECAM (Sequential Colour with Memory) is an analog colour television system, and just like PAL uses 25 frames per second.
Television has advanced a lot since the first broadcast back in 1941. to start with television sets were just over $100 which was a lot of money for people back then so therefore not many people could aford to have one, however nowadays every household seems to have at least one TV, in most cases more than one. The first televisions were extremly small and were in black and white, they were big boxes, with small screens and you had to have an antena on the top of the TV set itself as well as an antena on top of the house. Also it used to be that you caould only get the basic 5 channels. Over time they have included a romote control, which used infared which then allowed you to be able to change the channel whilst not havnig to get up and press the buttons on the TV set. Also television sets these days include inputs for devices such as: headphones, gaming devices, DVD players and cable.Some TVs now include USB ports that allow you to connect to the internet. You can now watch TV in colour and in HD (high definition) LCD (liquid crystal display), plasma, LED (light emmiting diode), DLP (digital light processing). OLED (organic light emmiting diode), all of these give you a very clear image which makes the viewing experience much better. The television set has become a lot more advanced in the fact that the screen has gotten a lot wider and it has gotten a lot thiner (flat screen TVs), there are different models such as, wall mounted, pedestal stands, wide screen, flat screen and projection screen. Also you can now get Cable and Satellite TV which gives you a whole range of new TV channels.
Bibliography
http://www.thehistoryoftelevision.com/inventors.html
http://thelongestlistofthelongeststuffatthelongestdomainnameatlonglast.com/first344.html
http://www.articlesbase.com/electronics-articles/technological-advances-in-television-sets-971072.html
The NTSC (National Television System Commitee)is the analog TV system which is used in most of America, and uses a different software to PAL and SECAM. NTSC uses a TV signal with 60Hz vertical frequency and pixels of 767-575. PAL (Phase Alternative Line) is the analog system used in broadcast television systems used in large parts of the world using 25 frames per second. SECAM (Sequential Colour with Memory) is an analog colour television system, and just like PAL uses 25 frames per second.
Television has advanced a lot since the first broadcast back in 1941. to start with television sets were just over $100 which was a lot of money for people back then so therefore not many people could aford to have one, however nowadays every household seems to have at least one TV, in most cases more than one. The first televisions were extremly small and were in black and white, they were big boxes, with small screens and you had to have an antena on the top of the TV set itself as well as an antena on top of the house. Also it used to be that you caould only get the basic 5 channels. Over time they have included a romote control, which used infared which then allowed you to be able to change the channel whilst not havnig to get up and press the buttons on the TV set. Also television sets these days include inputs for devices such as: headphones, gaming devices, DVD players and cable.Some TVs now include USB ports that allow you to connect to the internet. You can now watch TV in colour and in HD (high definition) LCD (liquid crystal display), plasma, LED (light emmiting diode), DLP (digital light processing). OLED (organic light emmiting diode), all of these give you a very clear image which makes the viewing experience much better. The television set has become a lot more advanced in the fact that the screen has gotten a lot wider and it has gotten a lot thiner (flat screen TVs), there are different models such as, wall mounted, pedestal stands, wide screen, flat screen and projection screen. Also you can now get Cable and Satellite TV which gives you a whole range of new TV channels.
Bibliography
http://www.thehistoryoftelevision.com/inventors.html
http://thelongestlistofthelongeststuffatthelongestdomainnameatlonglast.com/first344.html
http://www.articlesbase.com/electronics-articles/technological-advances-in-television-sets-971072.html
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