Cameras & health and Safety Tutorial

At the start of our lesson we received a cameras and health and safety tutorial to ensure that we know how to use all equipment correctly to prevent damage in any way. The equipment that we were taught about how to use were:
- Tripod
- Memory Card
- Battery
- Video Camera
- Video Drive

We learnt how to set up the Tripod correctly, making sure all legs on the tripod were the same length to make it sturdy so would not tip and damage the camera. We also learnt that its a very good way to use panning from different angles smoothly.

I also learnt how to use the video cameras that we would be operating when filming our Thriller opening. We learnt several things including where and how to place the two memory cards which will save all our footage and be what is used when transferring the footage onto the Macs, how to insert the battery, how to switch it on and off, record, play recorded clips and also things like changing the camera mode incase of a lot of sunlight and how to change from manual to automatic.

Each group has a video drive in which is used to save and access all of our filming, sounds or titles and work that we have done such as final cut pro, editing, soundtrack and livetype.

During the tutorial we were also taught that there are three basic rules to abide by the health and safty rules to make sure no damage occurs while using the equipment:
- If raining use an umbrella to protect the video camera by keeping it dry
- Do not touch the video camera lense as marks would be left which could effect quality of footage.
- When finished filming the lens should be closed.