Mark Henry Making Video Easy

In class Thursday, Mark Henry spoke to us about video and audio.  He discussed the best way to use these tools when we will need them for student teaching.  Henry gave an easy way to remember the four rules of videoing by SCAR: space, camera, audio, and record.  When you are first setting up the camera, you want to make sure that you have the entire field of view and that there are no windows in your picture.  There are five things to remember about the camera: (1) tri-pod, (2) full battery, (3) empty memory, (4) format, and (5) audio on full.  There are different types of audio to choose from.  All cameras have a microphone built in.  However, the camera will be far away so the sound will not be that good.  Henry recommended using a secondary audio such as a lapel microphone that went to a recorder.  This way the microphone is right next to you and will pick up everything you say clearly. The most important step is record.  Since he suggested using a microphone separate from the camera, you will have to synchronize the video and audio.  Henry recommends starting the recording to the video and audio and clapping so the sound will be picked up on both.  This will give a point that will be easy to synchronize so that the audio matches the rest of your video.  Henry broke it down to help up remember the essentials.  He wanted us to find a compromise between simple and good.