Introduction To Video Camera.

There are several diffrent functions of the camera that we learnt to use and these are:

the time code.-this has the minutes second and frames per second being used in the current film.

white-Balancing.-this is used so that the colours are the correct shade/tone
this is done by holding a peice of white paper or some other plain white object up to the camera and useing either the A B or Defult settings so that the paper is the closest shade to plain whit that you can get it.

Aputure.- this is the amount of light let throught the lens (the size of the hole) and this makes the shot lighter or darker. this is indicated by Zebra pattens on objects with to much or not enough light.

focussing.- this is used to focus the image and is located on the neck of the camera next to the zoom and can be used to manually zoom to bring objects at diffrent distances from the camera.

Bubbling.- this is used to level the tripod so that when you shoot the camera is not off at an angle and so the shot looks smooth and straight.

setting up the tipod.-the tripod is set up by the sets of ajusting Knobs
which allow you to extend and callopse the legs of the tipod to ajust what height the camera will be at when it is put on to the tipod. The way in which this is done is you side the camera onto the tripod shoe on top of the tripod you then and ajust it so that you can have the camera steady.



Basic camera shots:

we where told how to use and set up a series of basic shots. these shot are:

The Extreme Wide Shot- this is where the shot is very far away from th subject. often used as an establishing shot.

Very Wide Shot- the subject is visable but places it in its environment.

Wide Shot-where the subject takes up the entire frame.

Mid shot- shows waist to head of the subject.

Medim close up- show the head and shoulders of the subject.

Extreme Close up- Shows the detail Very Clearly.

POV - point of veiw shot

Over the Shoulder shot- a shot from over the shoulder of one person facing another.

Mistakes I made: the main mistake that I made was that my shots were not
composed correctly and this can be rectified by applying the rule of thirds
to help to set up the shot so that there is the correct amount of head space
and room around each subject on screen.

Terminology:

Stand By: this readys everyone and tells them that the shoot is about to
begin.

Turing Over: This is when the director tells the Camera To start rolling and Enables a lead in so that the shot can be successfully edited. The
Camera man will then reply rolling to say that he is now filming.

Action: Cue for tha actors to perform the take, and for the actors to
start acting and for the crew to start to do their role. The film is often
kept running after the action stops so editing can be done this is known as
a lead out.

Cut: this is used to tell the camera to stop filming and the scene is over.

I found the transpher between the still to video quite a large step as focus
white balance and apature all come into it as factors which we did not have
to take into account when we were doing stills.