We use Optical Character Recognition (OCR) during our scanning and processing workflow to make the content of each page searchable. You can view the automatically generated text below as well as copy and paste individual pieces of text to quote in your own work.
Text recognition is never 100% accurate. Many parts of the scanned page may not be reflected in the OCR text output, including: images, page layout, certain fonts or handwriting.
204 FUNDAMENTALS ment would be de-emphasized by the decreased speed during pro- jection at the standard twenty-four frames. An alternative is to do the lettering on the sides of a large barrel and rotate this slowly while shooting it. All the methods mentioned above are not true film methods since they can be, and are, just as easily duplicated by the live television cameras. For one-shot shows they are obviously un- economical on film, but if the show is to be played many times the use of film for titles will release another live camera for studio use as well as cut down labor costs by saving the cost of a man to handle the cards. It also reduces the risk of errors in production by having all the titles in the right place. At this point, discussion of the types of film used, how used, and equipment would seem advisable. If normal reversal or nega- tive-positive film is used then the titles appear in the same color relationships as they were in the original. For instance, a dark gray lettering on light gray background would appear the same. For plain movie work, titles are usually preferred to have white letters on a black ground. Sometimes for variety or other special purposes television titles follow suit. It is much simpler to make a black title on white than it is to make a white title on black. In the latter case, the black background, being darker than the let- tering, is liable to show through and make the letters look muddy. But, if positive film is used in the camera for shooting the titles, developed, and then spliced into the film all the color values will be reversed and the black letters will be white and vice versa. At once the question is bound to be raised: If positive film is used why doesn't a positive with proper color values result? This is an important point and one which all persons engaged in this pro- fession should understand. There is no difference between positive and negative film as far as the image is concerned. They both produce a reversed image, with blacks for whites and vice versa, from an original. In the case of original pictures, the negative is opposite to the live colors. In the case of positive film printed from a negative, the positive print is black where the negative is clear, etc.