- Work in my group to prepare for next week’s presentations. We met up several times and discussed on our group chat how we were going to present and what we were going to talk about. This helped us come together as a group so we all understood everyone's different ideas and opinions on how to put together a good presentation.
2 - Reading: Rabiger, M. (2004) Directing the Documentary, London: Focal Press. Ch.20: Camera Equipment and Shooting Procedure
- Camcorder features and controls. Because documentary is often is shot handheld, the ideal documentary camera has a viewfinder at the side and a body balanced to sit on the operators shoulder.
- Lens characteristics. A wide-angle zoom lens simplifies handheld camerawork because the lens accepts a larger amount of the scene and enables moving camera shots that look steadier. The range of a zoom lens is expressed in millimetres from shortest to longest focal length. You need to examine your camcorders lens and controls to verify that the lens aperture can be manually controlled. A manual control allows the user a degree of control vital to many kinds of lighting situations.
- White balancing and colour temperature. White balance is an electronic adjustment of colour rendition, so white is reproduced as white under particular light sources. Different light sources have different colour temperatures which means they come out with mix of colours.
- Batteries and power supplies. Overestimate the amount of batteries you need on location.
- Camera support systems. Budget tripods and tilt heads aren't good equipment unless you want static shots which can be wobbly. Shooting with a wide lens however, greatly improves any camera movement.
- Fundamentals of location sound recording equipment.
- Monitoring picture and sound. Shooting logs.
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