Camera Lesson 1 - How to use a camera

On the 17th of January, our class went into the schools studio to listen to Matt talk us through how to set up a camera and tripod. We started off by pulling out the tripod and setting it up.

With the tripod, we took it out of the bag and pulled out the legs to make it stand up straight and tall and then we had to bubble it to make sure all the legs were even so the camera will be level and not unbalanced.

Then we attached the camera, which was a 'Black Magic Mini Ursa', by using the button on the side to slide the camera into the centre and then using a fastener screw to keep it in place. We then added
    the battery pack to the camera by sliding the 'V formation' into  
    the corresponding slot.

Once we had the camera assembled, we then had a go at focusing the camera in a setting. So we had to zoom in on a background object or someones eye if we were shooting a person, make the camera go into focus and then zoom back out so the image was clearer. We then followed this by learning how to white balance. As black magic cameras are touch screen this was quite easy to do. We would touch the screen and then press the logo for it and select the corresponding surrounding setting to make sure the lighting was right on the camera, so we had to choose wether we had studio lights or natural lighting.