For our Foundation Portfolio, we made a two minute opening
to a new feature film with titles. We
used a standard definition (SD) camera but were disappointed with some of the
footage which was grainy and lacked sharpness.
So, for our Advanced Portfolio film trailer, we decided to use a high
definition (HD) camera. This gave us the
desired sharpness and clarity to our video but we were shocked how much space
HD video took on an SD memory card. Our
card was 512Mb and it was filled up in no time!
We bought a much bigger card, 16Gb, and this provided all the storage we
needed, even for HD.
The small SD cards are definitely an improvement on the past
in terms of portability. Our teacher
showed us a camcorder that used VHS storage and it was huge!
However, we did encounter one problem because of the miniature size of
digital storage; we lost our SD card and could not find it for three
weeks. This put us behind schedule and
we were worried we would have to reshoot.
Eventually, we found it but I resolved to always return the SD card to
the slot in the camcorder after using it in my laptop so that it would not get
lost again.
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