Have online videos lowered the standards of television production?

Online videos have begun to lower the standards of television production in many different ways.

One factor that plays a huge part in this is being able to create videos simply from the comfort of your own home. Because there are so many ways to film things these days, a much vaster level of quality is being accepted. Now, not only can video cameras capture film, so can phones with low resolution and even webcams. The lower the resolution, the more pixilated the image becomes. But it is not uncommon now to see videos all over such things as the internet that have been filmed on such a low quality device. And this is making it easier for TV companies to access these videos and the use them. Things like new shows have begun showing phone clips or even soaps that show examples of people filming things on their camera phones.

As film cameras are becoming much cheaper, more and more people are beginning to make their own videos. Because of all the editing software available these days, this makes it more appealing to make a video as the idea of video editing is that it makes whatever has been filmed more quality. But it is also giving the opportunity for young wannabe film makers to have a go and get into the industry early with more experience. This could be an advantage in generations to come as people learn the jobs from a younger age so can develop those skills over their lives.

One disadvantage that some people see is that films are being filmed on a lower budget these days. Some films can be shot for a very little amount of money on almost domestic standard equipment. But with so much technology available, it is still possible for these to become big money making successes. Also, a lot more films and TV shows are relying on editing and CGI. As the years go on, more and more films are beginning to come out in 3D or even simply be animated. This almost means that as long as a good editor is at hand, it doesn’t matter so much about the film because the CGI can blow people away.

How has the digital world changed the way we consume and create TV?

The digital world has changed vastly over the years from 1928 when it was first invented. Almost 100 years on, and massive advances are still being made today, although some people wouldn’t count these as good.

Now days, TV doesn’t just have to be watched on a television set. It can also be accessed over such things as on demand players which let you watch programs that have been recently broadcast, again. This is a good service for people who may have missed things. It can be accessed either online or by certain television boxes such as virgin and sky. Another way of accessing TV is via the internet as some do live TV feeds. Also such things as phones are available. But as the internet is becoming more and more popular to be used for accessing TV, this means that more and more channels are making this an option for their viewings.

More and more people are beginning to get their hands on digital cameras, meaning it is becoming easier to make videos. Websites like YouTube provide a service that means anyone across the world can post a video, as long as they have the right software to make one. Also, as computers come with things these days like windows movie maker, it is becoming easier to edit things together, even if they don’t have video footage. For example, slide shows. Or even clips from other films which could infringe on rights. This means that almost anyone can make videos, but the quality is becoming worse. Although access to such things as film festivals can become much easier as even with a bad camera, editing software can be used to make it much better. And this can help recognise potential talent. But it is also a downfall for companies as such things as the apple Mac editing software can now be downloaded for free on an apple I phone. Although the quality isn’t as good, it means the market is going downhill for such things as profit.

Brief History of TV in the TK and abroad.

Television started in the 1876 when a man named Nipkow invented a rotating disk. This rotating disk could be used to capture and project moving images with the use of electricity. But unfortunately he never developed a system that could work the disks. However, come 1925 and John Logie Baird had invented an operational telly that could use this device. It could also transmit pictures via am electronic signal. He was so forth considered the first person to invent the TV as we know today.

In 1928, America saw the first broadcasting of TV across the world.  This begun on the 2^nd of July. But by 1929 both Britain and Germany were starting to see broadcasting facilities as well. However, the amount of viewers was of course limited as the television was so new. The next country to be broadcast to was France in 1931, and from there more and more countries began to get televisions.

In 1922, the BBC was formed by John Reith and began with radio broadcast. This continued up to 1936 when the world’s first TV service was launched. Two systems were used on an alternate week basis against each other to see which worked best. These were the Marconi-EMI’s 405 line system and the Bairds 240-line system. They each had their own broadcasting studio, but in the end the 405-line system was picked in 1937 as the best broadcasting machine.

The UK broadcasting standards used is PAL. This stands for Phase Altering Line and is an analogue television encoding system. Subcarriers are used to carry the information for broadcasting. This forms a signal for a baseband. For Pal, the frequency of the subcarrier is 4.43361875 MHz.  However, NTSC contains 29.97 interlaced frames of video per second and SECAM has a chrominance signal of 4.4 MHz.

Pinhole Cameras

Our first project for media has been to make a pinhole camera. With these pinhole cameras we have taken photos and developed them in the dark room. We done Pinhole cameras as our first project as this showed us the basic workings of a camera.

Making the camera.

To begin with, we made our pinhole cameras. I took in a Roses chocolates tin from home. I thought this would be a good container to use as the lid conceals light well. First, I drilled a hole through the side of the tin. this met I would be able to stand the tin up normally and get an "ants eye view" of my chosen image. After this, I painted the inside of my tin and lid black;this means that the light would not be able to reflect off the side and ruin the image. At this stage though, I put too much paint on the tin meaning this took a long time to dry. Next, I cut out a piece of tin foil big enough to cover the previous hole. I stuck this over the hole with duct so that no light could possibly get in through the gaps. After this, I cut out a flap of cardboard that would cover the hole when the camera was not in use;this would mean that no light would get in through the hole and ruin the photographic paper. Although this flap could also be opened when the camera was in use. Next I worked out the F-Stop of my camera. The equation for this was Distance from pinhole to paper (mm). Diameter of pinhole (mm). My equation was this:

230mm                                       Rough estimated inside exposure=20 minutes
-------- = F-Stop = F-250         Rough estimated outside exposure=5 minutes

0.8mm

 I then stuck the photographic paper inside my tin opposite the pinhole making sure it was shiny side up. This was done in the dark room so that the photographic paper was not exposed to the light.

Taking the photos.

First I walked to my chosen location and set down my pinhole camera at the angle I anted the picture to be taken in. I then used my phone to set a timer of a 5 minute exposure for the outdoors and opened the flap. I left my camera open and made sure not to move it. When the time was up, I quickly closed the shutter and went back indoors to develop my photos

In the dark room.

Once I was in the dark room, I took off the lid of my tin and pulled the photo out. Unfortunately I wasn't careful enough as to not get my finger prints on the photos meaning these marks have shown up on the images. I then placed the image in the developing chemical making sure the image was facing the light. After leaving it in this chemical for 30 seconds, I picked the image up with the tongs, rinsed it in water and then left it to soak in fix for 5 minutes. I then rinsed the picture again in water before taking it out to the dryer. I finally had my negative image. On my first go, my photo was under exposed so I set the time longer. On my second go, my image came up faintly on a playground but this was still slightly under exposed. My third attempted was left too long and became over exposed. but my forth photo being left outside for 4 minutes came out well. It was a guess of trial and era.

Scanning the photo.

I logged onto the photocopier with my student card before entering my email address and scanning my photos to my computer. Once this was done, I opened my emails and copied the images onto photo shop. I then inverted the shade of black and white on the photo from negative to positive. The other way to import images would have been to log onto photoshop, press file, import, scan. I would then save this image onto a usb stick before saving this on to my computer.    Here are my final images:

                                              Alexandra play park. I chose this spot because it has many central points to look at and is from an interesting angle. Top=Positive
                                                                               Bottom=Negative

College entrance. Top=Positive

                                   Bottom=Negative

My research.

For my research I used the websites:

 http://www.flickr.com/groups/pinholes/

http://www.pinholeformat.com/gallery.html

http://users.rcn.com/stewoody/index.htm

http://www.pinhole.nl/

How pinhole cameras turned to digital photography?

 Digital photography has become very important in the modern world. For example, they are used in buisnesses every day. The first permenent photo was an image produced in 1826. 1840 and the calotype process was invented.