On the 18th September, we had a lesson, of which the sole purpose was to educate us on how to set up, use and put away a Sony NX 5. We began by taking out the tripod and setting it up in order to give us the correct height for us to film with. Secondly, we were instructed on how to place the camera onto the tripod, this enabled us to prevent the weight of the camera from dragging the lens down and smashing it against the tripods front. We were also taught, at the same time how to tighten the camera onto the tripod, how to bubble it and how to open the lens cap. Next, came all of those confusing buttons and knobs that littered the camera. We became familiar with the knobs to turn and the buttons to press for brightness, focus, white balance and zoom. The next useful step was to learn how to tilt the camera up and down to view shots at an awkward angle for the rigid camera and tripod.
These seemingly simple skills were obtained of the course of 60 minutes and they gave us the ability to find a shot and to get the lighting, white balance and focus just right in order to film to a required standard. The shot that we used was of my friends Bertie and Tyler standing in the distance. Bertie was holding a reflector and Tyler...well to be blunt, Tyler was just being weird. The positioning of the two boys was sublime as they were outside the double doors of the green room which gave as a lovely balance of natural light to work with.
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