Preparation: Practice with the Cameras

Yesterday we finally got a memory card and we decided it was time to have a test run with the camera.

We used Oliver as our model and had a play with the manual brightness and focus. We've had a good look at the different features and we used this poster to guide us:

We tried to get a little bit of footage (which will be on the next post) to see if we were naturally skilled with the camera. We found our feet eventually and the following footage wasn't too bad.

 

 

There was a slight problem with light because the classrooms were rather bright but as we will be filming in the dark and looking for light, we aren't too worried about it.

 

Now we have become more accquanited with the camera we will be using, we are more confident that production will run smoothly as we now know how to use the camera and are aware of its basic properties.