How Well The Group Managed Equipment

How Well The Group Managed Equipment

Within our group, Sophie Fielder and myself have been operating the camera to collect footage for our film franchise documentary. When filming on the college grounds, specifically the media studio, I operated the camera by setting it up on a tripod. I had to steady the tripod and make sure that it was based central to the person being interviewed. I also had to make sure that the camera was on the correct function. Another job that  I had to do whilst filming at college was to make sure that the lighting was consistent throughout each interview. To achieve the same lighting, I set up the big lights in the studio and kept them on the same setting for each college interview. This kept the interviews looking as professional as they could do.

When Sophie Fielder operated the camera at a residents home in Farnham, she used the camera to get close up shots of each interviewee. She steadied the camera whilst it was being operated because she was trying to match the steadiness of my shots. She had a bit of difficulty steading her shots because she forget to use a tripod to help steady the camera. The shots are clear enough to use for our documentary, but if we could re-do them then we would make sure that a tripod was used to make the shots more professional looking.