Camera lesson...

This lesson we worked on film cameras with Matt. He was showing how to use them when it finally comes to our filming day. We used Sony Cameras and tripods and we had to first of all learn how to set up the tripod and then put them camera on top of the tripod.

We got taught all about which buttons do what on the camera,
the first step was how we focus the camera on an object, by zooming in
as close as we could we could then focus on an object, zoom out
again and that would be focused for the whole shot just in case we
needed to zoom in, it would be ready. We also looked at the white balance and
exposure and how we can control that. This was all important
for our preliminary task, as they were the main things we had to look
out for and think about before we started filming.

Then we had to set it all up on the tripod, there were a few things that we had to think about when the camera was on the tripod, bubbling was the main one, if we didn't bubble the camera all of our shots would be talted. We also had to make sure that all the legs of the tripod were on the same level as each other which was also keeping it steady and at the right hight for our shot.