Introduction to cameras

The first time that our teacher showed us the cameras I was terrified! It seemed like there were so many buttons and functions and my first impression was that I would break it. But after being shown how to use the camera I got really excited and felt much more confident and comfortable about filming.

We were told to film some sort of journey, exploring different shot types and camera movements. Our journey took us down the stairs, round a corner, through a door and into the canteen to steal a bottle of drink. This gave us the opportunity to use lots of interesting camera angles, such as a low angle shot of him coming down the stairs and a worm's eye view of him coming through a door.

Because it was not an assessed activity we didn't need to storyboard our work. However, it was at times difficult to stay focussed and organised which meant we had to re-film a couple of sections to make it more fluent as a piece. I now understand why it is so important to plan out our work before getting on with using the cameras, otherwise we may make silly mistakes.

It was good experience to put the techniques we have learnt about into practical use. I enjoyed this project and I am now looking forward to our Prelim task.