Now
starting I was a bit unsure on what to do, the rest of the week had been a bit
slow due to other work issues and I have only been able to work on my three
minute assignment a little bit. Deciding what we are going to base our product
on, given we do know what we want and have started to talk about how to achieve
it but I would feel more comfortable if it was all written down properly. Due
to this I was unsure if I wanted to get involved with the advance camera
session that was optional to use, at first I thought it would have been only
beneficial to the members of the course that wasn’t on BTEC previously and
would have been a waste of time for me but Jamie assured us that it would cover
aspects that we didn’t cover on BTEC so I decided to do it. I decided to do this
only in the afternoon as it would allow me to have a brief production meeting
with Lewis and catch up with some work.
As it
turned out, the advance camera session was more beneficial to me than I had
anticipated. I was one of the pupils that attended Graham’s interview for the
college so I already knew how good of a teacher he was and finally being able
to work besides him was good considering his previous work & experience. He
started off by explaining that he was going to cover all everything that could
in the time he had, which included even the very basics of stuff with camera
work.
What I
found most valuable was how he explained on gaining the best quality shot and
picture of any shoot. How we should always check three things that are
considered most important; Focus, Zebra & White Balance. Graham showed us the benefit of manually
focusing and manually checking the white balance, also how you can somewhat
store visual settings on the white balance into “A & B” which is can be
very useful. For example if I was recording a presenter and they were moving
in and out of a house, beforehand I would adjust the white balance in the
house, set that as “A”, go outside adjust the white balance so that the screen
isn’t blue then save that in “B”. I could now follow the presenter constantly without
causing them to stop and wait for me to set up again. “Zebra” was something I
wasn’t sure what it was but realise it is a necessity to take notice of, the
Zebra is a tool that shows the exposure on the image you’re recording. Graham
went on to explain what percentage he uses and why and how to adjust the
exposure ourselves.
Unfortunately
Graham had to leave sooner than expected due to a meeting but I think he taught
us a lot and it would have been best to stop there considering it was the end
of the day and everyone appeared a bit tired. Graham finished off by explaining
lighting in a bit of depth, how important positioning is and what sources of
lights we have. I really enjoyed the session I genuinely think it had great
benefit to me; I hope there will be another session like this so I can learn
more on camera techniques. for example
on a previous assignment I attempted to do a “pull focus” and failed, I know
how and why I failed but I would like to see if he could show me this and similar
techniques.
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