Domestic- Profesional

Comparing domestic with professional

Comparing domestic with professional productions there is a lot of difference. To create domestic production people normally use digital cameras or webcams which are very low quality compare to the professional standard productions, the colours look very doll and you can’t see their faces clearly, the light quality is normally to light or to dark because they don’t do the white balance, they normally don’t use any microphones they just use the sound that the camera has picked up which is usually to quiet or to loud. However the professional standard productions look more interesting and different because of the number of cameras and shots that are used, the lightning also makes a lot of difference because it makes the faces look more realistic and gives them more of a natural shades, the audio level is usually controlled in the audio room which makes it all sound clear. The professional production is normally edited in Final Cut Pro to make it look as professional as they can, they add titles and funky graphics.   

To create video production you need a lot of different equipment like; cameras, tripods, microphones, lights…, you normally need a TV studio depends what type of production it is. You also need special software like Final Cut Pro to edit the final project.      

Digital world changes.

Different ways of watching TV.

Ten years ago the only way we could watch live TV was only by watching your television at home, now you can watch TV wherever you want. There is a lot of different ways of watching TV in the digital world the first most popular way is to watch TV through internet on your computer or laptop you can either watch live shows, films or other programmes that you enjoy watching. You can also watch online TV on your mobile phone and IPod Touch.   

Advantages of digital camera over vide/film camera.

Digital cameras are more useful because you can take as many images as you want, you can also see and delete the image after you took, in the film cameras you have to wait till your images is developed and dry to see what it looks like. Digital cameras are easier to use, they are also smaller so it’s easier to move them around. Digital cameras take better quality images, the colours are brighter and the shapes and shadows look more visible and sharper. The process of developing the images from the film camera takes long time and can come out over or under exposed, where the digital camera you just have to connect to the computer and you can see if the picture is good or not.     

How has editing improved in the digital world.

One of the main improvements in editing was the programme that was created by Apple Mac, Final Cut Pro which is used by everyone in the media industry, is used to create music videos, adverts…, it is one of the most cleaver computer programmes ever made it allows you to change everything you want in your project, cutting, adding music, sound effects, difference titles, graphics, control audio level, changing speed...

History of TV in the UK and abroad.

John Logie Baird was a Scottish engineer who was famous for being the first person to demonstrate a working television in the UK.  His first apparatus was made of odds and ends, in 1926 he transmitted flickering images across few feet. Two years after in 1926 he gave the world’s the first demonstration of true television. In 1927 his television was demonstrated over 438 miles of telephone line between London and Glasgow, his company was called Baird Television Development Company (BTDC).

The BBC (British Broadcasting Corporation) was first found in 1920, it was the first ever broadcast centre in the UK placed in central London Westminster.  It is the largest broadcast company in the whole world.

Difference between PAL and NTSC  

PAL (Phase Alternating Line) is a television standards invented by Walter Bruch in Germany 1960. It’s used by Europe, Africa, most of Asia, and Australia.  In PAL, 25 frames are transmitted each second, and each frame is made up of 625 individual scan lines.

NTSC (National Television System Committee) is television standards used in North America, South America, some of pacific islands, South Korea, Japan, Taiwan, and Burma. The first NTSC was developed in 1941. In NTSC, 30 frames are transmitted each second and each frame is made up of 525 individual scan lines.

SECAM (Sequential Color with Memory) is a colour standard television which was invented in 1960 in France. This television broadcast can be found in France, Eastern Europe, some parts of Russia, Greece and Africa. SECAM transmits 25 frames each second and each frame is made up of 625 scan lines.  

The differences between those broadcast televisions are that they are use by different countries, PAL uses less frames per second than NTSC but is using more scan lines however NTSC uses more frames per second but uses less scan lines, SCAM uses the same amount as PAL. If you watch one of the channels of those televisions you can really tell the difference between the colour and sound quality.