Health and Safety

                            Health and Safety

In the lesson about help and safety we learnt many new things about the equipment we use to do our practical coursework.

Tripod. With the tripod we learnt how to insert the camera in to the slot correctly. We then got taught how to put on the secure lock so the camera doesn't slip off.  With the tripod we also  got told a common mistakes which occurs when filming. We got told to always extend the same clip from the tripod so that the tripod is not bent.

CameraWith the camera we got taught a lot of things for our film. We got taught techniques which will be very useful during the filming. 
One thing we learnt is that the camera can be put in 'AF' (auto focus) or 'MF' (Manual focus).
Between the two there's a large difference as an auto focus will not allow you to get the depth field required, weather it's shallow depth of field or deep depth of field.
One more thing we learnt was the zooming, we got taught how to zoom incase we need to focus on something at a greater distance. 
The last thing we got taught is how to use the playback setting so we could view what we just recorded, to check if it is the filming we require. 

Memory card

One thing we learnt about the SD memory card is that the card size allows us up to 2 hours filming time at top quality image. This is vital for us as we need to know what we have to film so we do not go over.
The second most important thing we learnt is that the little switch on the right needs to be up so we can record and have no issues after playing back and possibly deleting  the material we don't intend to use.




Battery
With the battery we learnt that we can use the battery for up to 2 hours. We also got taught how to insert the battery into the camera properly. And the versa, we learnt how to remove the battery also.