Filming lesson

Filming Lesson 
On Tuesday we learnt how to operate the cameras we will use for filming. First we learnt how to set up and use the tripod and how to slide the camera securely onto it. When the camera was on we bubbled the tripod, making sure the air bubble was in the middle of the yellow circle, this makes sure that the camera is not wonky and your shot will be straight. 
We learned how to operate the camera and about white balance which is a key step in filming. We will always need something white at the beginning of filming to hold up to the camera so it can adjust to the light. 
Then we learned about how to adjust the exposure which effected the lighting of the shot. We also looked at framing and how to frame a shot well by filling up space and not having anything unneeded in the shot.
We looked at the different shutter speeds and how they made a difference, when filming normally it should be on 50 which looks like real life but if filming for action you need a low shutter speed to make the shots more crisp, you need a high shutter speed for things like slow motion. 
We played around with the zoom and focus too, making sure that every shot we zoomed in on the key point making sure it was in focus. 
We also learned about the rule of thirds and 180 degree rule which is where for example two people talking opposite each other and the camera travels 180 degrees from one persons shoulder to the others. This makes sense to us when we watch it cut together as it is from their point of view. If the camera suddenly swapped to the persons other shoulder it would not look right. 
We then had a go at filming our own quick sequences, consisting of a wide shot, medium close up and a close up. I found this fairly easy but had to make sure that every time we zoomed in or adjusted the tripod we had to make sure it was still in focus and bubbled correctly. We also had to make sure the sequence would go together when edited so that all three different shots looked like they happened at the same time.