Video camera session

Today the whole class was in the editing studio with Matt and he taught us a lot about the cameras we are going to use this year when we are filming the movie. He first taught us some obvious things such as how to see how much battery you have left. He also showed us how to understand the time code so we know how much the camera has been filming.

Later he showed us how to use the zoom and the focus, Matt also sad that it was important to always zoom until you reached maximum capacity and focus and then zoom out a bit but it’s always important to use the focus and the zoom to actually see what you are filming.

Then Matt showed how to use different effects and explained everything further. He told us about that it’s actually 25 pictures per second that makes the elution of movement. He also showed us how to use the “exposer” which is a number on the display in the left corner. It could be like F2.2 and that number stands for what kind of light showed in the shoot. If the number is high it becomes darker and if it’s a low number it becomes brighter and you do this to find the right light and brightness in the shot.

Later he learned us all about shutter speed and how to set the color temperature.  By using the shutter speed you are either speeding up or slowing down the camera movement. So by racing up the number above 50 you can make movements more clear and not so blur when you’re shooting a scene. This is mostly used when you are doing a shoot with action, sports and cars. Then about how to set the color temperature, you use a button called “wht bal” and first you zoom in on something white, a paper, a wall or whatever in the area/scene you are going to film. By pushing the button you going to get the right color temperature whether you’re inside or outside.

Last but not least he told us to be professional about our film language, so before we start shooting a scene we should use specific words such as standby - rolling – action – cut, these words should be used by the person handling the camera and the actors should then repeat what the other person is saying.

All for now
29/9 -2010