Intro To Cameras & Health amd Safety Tutorial

Before we were allowed to start filming, we had to have a tutorial on how to use the equipment such as:

- Tripod
- Video Camera
- Memory Card
- Hard Drive

The Tripod is used to keep the camera still and is perfect to use it for panning. Also to use it for different angles as i can extend or shorten the legs.

The video camera is used to film our scenes. I learnt how to put the battery in and out. We also learnt how to switch it on, record by pressing the red button and looking back at the footage that we filmer by pressing the button on the side of the small screen. Moreover I learnt how to focus on an object in the shot to make the shot look sharp.

The 2 memory cards is inputted onto the side of the video camera and the recorded footage would be saved in there. But before recording we had to make sure that both memory cards are unlocked. When putting the footages in for editting, we insert the memory card on the memory card reader and input it to the mac computer.

The video drive is used to save and access all of our footages and work that we have done like final cut pro, soundtrack and livetype.

THE HEALTH AND SAFETY!:
* If its raining then we should use an umbrella to keep the video camera dry
* we should not touch the video camera screen as it would leave finger marks on it.
* after finishing filming then the lens should be closed.