Health & Safety tutorial

In Thursday's lesson, we were introduced to our Health & Safety tutorial in which we learnt about the equiptment we will be using to create short films/clips for this course.

 

 Here is the example of the professional recording camera my group will be using, by using this type of equiptment, we hope to achieve a professional clear quality for our short clips and thriller opening. For our filming, we will be using a JVC G4-HM100E Camcorder.

 

While handling the cameras, we were issued to do several things in order to make sure we are safe and careful with using the camcorders. These tasks include;

• Inserting the SD card as well as removing it.
• Turning the camcorder on and off/zoom in and out.
• Hold the camcorder with firm grip whilst on the tripod to prevent it from falling.
• Placing the camera on the tripod correctly and then removing it safely from the tripod.
•  How to set the camcorder in manual or automatic mode.

Other information about handling the camcorder included:

• remembering to not touch the lens in case of finger marks and risk of damage to the camera lens.
• Keep the camcorder away from spillages, drinks or any liquids to prevent it also from becoming damaged as equiptment is very expensive. 

  

We were also introduced to a SD Card to insert into the camcorder for storage space.

In the camcorder, we were shown that there are two slots for memory cards and how to insert it safely. 

We use the SD Card in order to save our work/projects and to transfer it to a computer for editing and the ability to upload multimedia onto the blog for the purpose of this course.

As well as learning about the SD Card, we were also introduced to the camcorder battery and were shown how to insert it carefully. 

 

 

 The last piece of equiptment we were introduced to was the tripod. The tripod is used to accompany the camcorder to serve several jobs, these include:

•  tilting and panning shots without the ability of shaking held in a person's hands.
• Keep the camera held in a still position and to make the clip appear more professional.
• Saves time and effort to hold the camcorder in the right position and stay there.

The legs of the tripod can be extended in order to set it up, ensuring the legs are extended properly prevents the tripod as well as the camcorder from risk of falling over. A green bubble is displayed to indicate whether the tripod is set up properly. The handle bar can be used to tilt the camera upwards/downwards to create a tilted angle and moving the handle bar sidewards creates a panning shot.