1. RTFM

Seorang nelayan yang baik mengetahui dengan benar bagaimana cara menggunakan jalanya untuk menangkap ikan, dan seorang kameramen yang baik mengetahui dengan baik kameranya agar bisa menggunakannya dengan sebaik-baiknya. Maka anda bisa pelajari bagian kecepatan shutter atau shutter speed, kemudian coba untuk mengambil gambar didalam ruangan dan diluar ruangan, coba pelajari menu-menu yang ada dalam kamera anda. Sebagai langkah awal anda bisa membaca buku manualnya sebanyak 2 kali agar anda lebih mudah untuk memahaminya.

2. Persiapan

Ketika suatu saat anda akan bepergian dengan membawa serta kamera video anda, maka yang perlu anda persiapkan adalah sebagai berikut :

• setidaknya 1 baterai cadangan yang terisi penuh
• sekurang-kurangnya 2 kaset video untuk merekam
• pembersih lensa
• Sebuah tripod, walaupun mungkin nanti anda tidak membutuhkannya
• charger baterai
• kabel power
• Pelindung kabel, bisa lakban atau sejenisnya untuk melindungi kabel anda dari injakan manusia atau barang
• Lampu oncam, filter lensa, mikrofon, dan asesoris lain yang anda miliki

3. Gunakan Tripod

Pada kebanyakan video buatan sendiri akan terlihat goyang gambarnya, dan itu sangat tidak enak untuk dilihat. Dan untuk mengatasi itu, maka anda membutuhkan sebuah tripod yang akan menyangga kamera anda tetap tidak bergoyang. Dan dengan itu pula anda dapat melakukan panning maupun zoom dengan lebih halus.

Dan jika anda tidak memiliki tripod, maka usahakan agar anda berada pada dinding. Sehingga anda dapat menyandarkan bagian punggung anda pada dinding untuk mengurangi goncangan kamera.

4. Tingkatkan Pencahayaan

Untuk mendapatkan gambar yang baik, seorang kameramen yang baik akan selalu mengutamakan cahaya, cahaya, dan cahaya. Karena kebanyakan kamera video didesain dengan pencahayaan yang masih kurang. Sehingga kita perlu untuk memiliki sistem pencahayaan sendiri untuk membantu kamera yang sudah kita punya. Seperti Oncam dan lainnya. Jika kondisi pencahayaan kurang, hindari penggunaan autofocus. Untuk menghasilkan video yang baik usahakan pengambilan gambar pada pagi hari atau sore hari.

5. Audio yang baik

Kalau pencahayaan adalah unsur terpenting dalam video shooting, maka audio adalah selanjutnya. Dan penting untuk diketahui bahwa suatu hal yang sulit untuk menghasilkan audio yang baik dalam proses shooting video. Mikrofon yang sudah dibandel dengan kamera merupakan mikrofon dengan kualitas paling dasar, sehingga tidak akan dapat menghasilkan kualitas suara yang baik. Sehingga anda mungkin perlu untuk menggunakan perangkat audio tambahan yang lebih baik.

6. Posisikan Pengambilan gambar anda dengan baik

Seorang fotografer yang baik, maka dia akan mengambil gambar dalam beberapa posisi yang berbeda. Demikian pun anda sebagai seorang kameramen juga harus melakukan hal yang sama dengan mengambil gambar dari beberapa sudut yang berbeda untuk menghasilkan gambar yang lebih bervariasi. Dan jangan pernah gunakan efek-efek video yang ada pada kamera anda sewaktu mengambil gambar. Gunakan efek pada saat proses editing video.

7. jangan Pernah Gunakan Digital ZOOM

Sejauh apapun jarak anda dengan obyek yang akan anda ambil gambarnya, jangan pernah untuk menggunakan digital ZOOM. Karena hasilnya pasti video anda akan pecah, bahkan sebelum diedit. Penggunaan digital ZOOM adalah kesalahan yang sangat besar dalam dunia video shooting.

8. B-Roll Shoot

B-Roll shoot adalah anda mengambil gambar seolah-olah anda memiliki pedoman alur seperti dalam story board. Sehingga gambar yang anda hasilkan akan lebih bervariatif dan terstruktur sesuai dengan urutan yang benar. Sehingga hasil mixing akhir dari video anda akan terlihat seperti sebuah cerita, bukan sekedar gambar bergerak saja.

Sumber: http://www.kalasanmultimedia.com

What this announcement also means is that it will allow the search of Flash-based web content on Flash. This will help the pages inside Flash-based sites to be displayed higher in the search results. So the Google and Yahoo! search engine spiders will now be able to index SWF content. This also includes Flash “gadget” options, such as menus or buttons.

What does this mean for users?

For a user, this means that search results would cover better and more relevant details.
Adobe will provide Google and Yahoo! a particular software code and a special Flash player version to expose its earlier-hidden Flash content. With this technical hurdle out of the way, new business opportunities are bound to emerge.

This improvement in technology will also enable sites, such as Google and Yahoo!, to identify a vast range of text embedded within the Flash-based content. As we already know, most of the Flash sites are splattered with advertisements or sell products or promote movies. With the improved Adobe technology, these sites will be displayed more effectively when consumers click their search queries.

Remember, the main aspect is that Flash sites will be shown higher in Google search results. So, consumers can have better choices when they determine what they want to click on.

What does this mean for web designers and website developers?

For web designers and developers, Adobe’s latest move means that they can save considerable amounts of time and effort to minimize the tricks they typically use for Flash enabled sites. These tricks had until now helped them to get around the problem with search engines. Now, the searches for Flash content will no longer pose a problem.

The good news doesn’t stop here. Adobe is also planning to explore better ways to make this technology available to other search vendors.

As more content gets indexed and search engine result rankings show up with more relevant content from Flash powered sites, search engine optimizers would be ready to leverage better ranking methods on these Flash-based web sites, just as they do on HTML-based sites.

Having got in front of the prospective customer, do we make the most of what we have to sell? In a recent survey of sales managers and sales directors we confirmed our suspicions that 80% of IT salespeople turn up, plug in their laptop and start paging through their PowerPoint presentation, desperately trying to get through the material without letting the prospective customer fall asleep!

We’ve got so much to say about ourselves that we use far too many text-based, bullet point slides and wonder why after an hour our audience has glazed over and are asking for a copy of the slides so they can count off how many more they have to sit through.

At the end of the presentation have we differentiated our message, left a lasting impression and given ourselves a better than average chance of winning some business? Or have we just done the same thing as the company that pitched in front of us did or the competitor sitting in reception, waiting for their turn is going to do?

It is vital that we ensure that we deliver our messages with clarity, high impact and in such a way as to differentiate our proposition. The prospect of using anything more complex than bullets on PowerPoint was until quite recently too prohibitive in cost to be considered. However, good audio visual multimedia presentation technology is now available and easy to use.

A picture is worth a thousand words. What price for several thousand pictures in an animated sequence combined with sound? The audience reaction is immediate; they sit forward and pay attention. Mix in a bit of humour or make it topical and one has created a lasting impression in the mind of your prospective customer. Now, pity the competitor sitting in reception. You’ve just raised the qualifying height of the bar!

I would not propose using multimedia and sound to the exclusion of the traditional bullet-point slide approach, but used together, you and your proposal immediately stand out. Explaining a complex solution using flat and often uninspiring material is tough to do. Use 3D animation and watch how much more quickly people grasp the concept and your message. And incredibly, if this is done well, people will want to watch it again and show it to their friends and colleagues.

Consider that for a moment. Your prospective customer asks you to replay the message! I can’t recall in 20 years of selling ever having had a prospective customer ask me to replay the last 20 slides. And finally, when we have finished presenting, we are able to leave an interactive, multimedia CD covering the points we just discussed, which can then be circulated internally by our prospective customer or viewed across their internal network. I’m not sure that you will remember that happening very often to your traditional static PowerPoint material.

Another unsurprising fact is that not all salespeople are good presenters. They are typically and exception rather than the norm. Consider the help that using the multimedia approach bestows on the presenter. There is an opportunity to help all those people (representing the majority) who struggle to inspire an audience. How much business has been lost because the presenter failed to connect and engage with an audience – never happened in your company? How many times has your company ended up simply competing on price because the prospective customer didn’t see the differentiation in the proposition? Have you ever felt that the audience really didn’t grasp what your product or service could really deliver in terms of commercial benefit?

Imagine for one moment what it takes to describe unscrewing the lid of a jar using bullet-point text only. Compare this with a five-second animation. Which one would comprehend faster and which would you remember?

Using 3D animation, sound and video is not for the faint hearted. You’re going to be outside of your comfort zone, you’re going to have to stop talking and start watching and listening to your prospective customer! That sounds potentially interesting too! And you are going to have to risk getting an immediate reaction from the audience! Are they going to love it, or hate it, or be amused? Our experience says all three but the key thing is they want to talk about it and tell you about it. Not next week, but right there and then! Feedback from the prospect! Hallelujah!

If your reaction so far is positive but cost is causing you concern, let us consider return on investment (ROI). Firstly you need to appreciate that there is significant expense associated with managing a prospect through a sales process. For example in the IT industry, dependent upon the product or service, to identify, qualify, sell to and hopefully close a new account will certainly cost 1000′s of pounds and potentially, for larger systems, tens of thousands of pounds. Faced with these facts doesn’t it make sense to invest some money in trying to ensure that you improve the closing ratio?

Typically securing one new customer is going to easily cover the cost of having created a set of 3D animations, designed to support the process, particularly if you create the material using highly talented offshore resources at very competitive rates.

In practice, you can build a library of material that you can re-use; not only for external presentations but also for training, exhibitions and to incorporate into your online marketing material. Furthermore, you can create material with a long shelf-life by explaining the concept rather than just illustrating the product. The ROI therefore will be very positive. You will have differentiated your messages and greatly improved your chances of winning business. Creating versatile, re-usable material to ensure that you always deliver your message consistently.

Competition is fierce. Differentiation is vital and creating maximum impact can only provide a more competitive edge. If getting each appointment is expensive and increasingly difficult, doesn’t it make sense to consider something that makes your messages more memorable and potentially animates your audience?

Source: http://www.presentationmagazine.com/presentation_multimedia.htm

With the development of e-learning and its ability to provide rich animated content rapidly to a wide audience, new methods for teaching medical imaging have evolved. E-learning tools allow building of learner-focused structured courses. Standards such as shareable content object reference model (SCORM) or Aviation Industry Computer-based Training Committee (AICC) guidelines and recommendations provide the framework required to combine text, images, videos, animations, and quizzes for learning assessment, even if each of these elements is created with different software.

The main features to consider when choosing a learning management system are content management, assessment and reporting tools, customization options, course delivery, administration, and security. The tools for building a Web-based course with pages containing text, images, videos, and Flash animations are now accessible to any radiologist. Open-source learning management systems and content authoring software are available at no cost. The authors developed e-MRI.com, a free Web-based e-learning course with interactive animations and simulations, self-tests, and clinical cases to demonstrate the potential of the latest advances in e-learning and pedagogy applied to magnetic resonance imaging physics.

Movies available atradiographics.rsnajnls.org/cgi/content/full/e25/DC1

• AICC = Aviation Industry Computer-based Training Committee
• HTML = hypertext markup language
• LMS = learning management system
• PACS = picture archiving communication systems
• SCORM = shareable content object reference model

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The process of creating an interactive e-learning course will be described in a six-step approach: choosing an LMS, designing a learning path, writing a basic HTML document with text and images, creating a Flash animation, building tests, and publishing the whole structured course.

Framework: The LMS

Many free open-source or commercial LMSs are available. A number of important features should be taken into consideration when choosing an LMS (Table).

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Main Features an LMS Should Provide

We chose a Web-based course management application called Dokeos (Dokeos, Brussels, Belgium) (14). This LMS is open source and free and has been translated into 31 languages. It allows creation of pedagogic content based on rich HTML documents that can mix texts, interactive diagrams, feedback areas, video sequences, animations, simulations, and interactive image series (Fig 1).

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Figure 1. Screen capture of a Flash animation with 3D Web graphics: Spinning protons are like dreidles spinning about their axes.

Activities are structured in learning paths. This LMS integrates many ways to interact with students and includes a reporting system to follow their progress. It is compliant with Web standards (W3C) and e-learning standards (SCORM). All the resources of this course were designed to provide an effective and user-friendly framework.

Course Conception and Learning Path

A Learning path is a sequence of learning steps included in modules. It can be content-based (like a table of contents) or activity-based (like an agenda of what you need to do to acquire knowledge or understand and practice know-how. In addition to being structured, a learning path can be sequenced. This means that some steps will be prerequisites for others (“You cannot go to step 2 before completing step 1″). A sequence can be suggestive (steps are shown in order) or imperative (prerequisites are added to force users to follow the sequence) (14).

To build a valuable learning path, the pedagogic objectives must be defined and the goals of the learning process adapted to the needs of the audience in terms of competences. To contextualize the material, pedagogic content should be designed to create learning situations that are as close as possible to real life situations. It can be useful to create a storyboard that details the different steps in every lesson (lesson objectives, content, synthesis, and assessment) (Fig 2). The user can then start building a Web-based course with HTML pages that mix texts, images and Flash animations.

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Figure 2. A learning path. The e-MRI learning path is composed of several independent modules divided into steps. Each module includes HTML pages with Flash animations, a summary of key concepts, and a quiz.

Creating a Web-based Course

In this section, we demonstrate how to create a course on a Dokeos platform and how to modify the main page (Movie 1). Content is managed with the Documents tool. This tool allows the user to create, import, edit, and export sophisticated multimedia Web pages. The embedded multimedia editor enables the user to create HTML pages that integrate images, audio, video, Flash animation, and mathematics. The user can also upload files of any type (HTML pages, word processor files, slide shows, Flash, Quicktime movies, etc) (Fig 3, Movie 2).

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Figure 3. The embedded multimedia editor in Dokeos. This editor allows what-you-see-is-what-you-get (WYSIWYG) editing of rich Web pages without requiring any HTML knowledge.

Interactive and Multimedia Content: Creating a Flash Animation that Allows Cine Function with a Full Image Series

Our interactive multimedia content is authored with Macromedia Flash software. All major browsers are now including Flash player as part of their default installation. Macromedia Flash provides optimal support for animation, scripting, video, and audio. Moreover, it produces small files that download quickly. For example, with such Flash animations the student is able to view image series with cine function or change MR imaging parameters (repetition time, echo time, inversion time, flip angle, etc) with automatic feedback on the MR image, thanks to scripting abilities provided by the Actionscript language included in Flash. (see STIR sequence from www.e-mri.com, for example). We used Macromedia Flash to create an animation that shows a full MR image series with cine function (Fig 4; Movies 3, 4).

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Figure 4. Flash animation. The tutorial in Movies 3 and 4 demonstrates how to create a Flash animation with the ability to display a full image series in cine mode.

Learning Assessment

Practice and evaluation are key factors for successful learning. Self-tests with automated feedback are created with quiz-generating software. The test tool embedded in Dokeos allows many test interaction types: drag-and-drop, fill-in-the-blank, true/false, multiple choice, and identification. For instance, we can include the Flash animation we created previously into a clinical case quiz (Fig 5, Movie 5).

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Figure 5. Learning assessment. Screen capture of an e-MRI clinical case with a multiple-choice question and a Flash animation displaying a full MR image series.

Structuring Learning Objects in a Learning Path and Delivering the Course

E-learning courses can be delivered online (Web-based LMS) or offline (CD-ROM). Web-based courses can be easily updated, are available world wide, and allow more interactivity with students (media streaming, videoconferencing, forums, etc) and recording of results. Knowledge content is structured in a learning path (Movie 6).

Source :http://radiographics.rsna.org/content/26/6/e25.full