RESEARCH - Health and Safety tutorial

In today's lesson we were given a chance to work with the specialist media equipment. It was an exciting experience because we were able to start applying the skills we have learned in to our own work.

However, before we could get stuck in to working with the cameras we had to go over the theory... didn't want to risk damaging anything!

We were given a professional video camera (which cost over £2000) and a full-size tripod. when it was all set up it looked similar to this...

We have learned:

• how to fit the camera in place properly on to the tripod so that it doesn't fall off when we are filming
• how to use all of the buttons properly (well most of them)
• how to zoom in and out
• how to focus the lens
• what shooting modes are best for different settings and lighting

So, although it was tricky to get the hang of at first, we are now all feeling confident about using the video camera to our best ability thanks to the tutorial.