Saturday, March 16, 2019

What Sources Did I Consult?

For anyone who knows me, I am not a technology junkie. So, when the time came that I had to understand how to use my Canon camera (which I had LITERALLY never used before this project), it was rather intimidating considering how many buttons and options there were! When I met up with Pierce before our first day of production, he too had a Canon camera which was being loaned to him by Mr. Engle. They were almost exactly alike, and we both had a lot to learn before shooting. So what did we do? We consulted YouTube!!


The above video is one that we had watched in order to understand aperture, shutter speed, etc. It was very useful because originally I had no idea what any buttons did, so afterwards I was more familiar with the cameras functions.


The above video was recommended to me by Pierce. It was extremely useful as it showed us how to use movie mode on the camera (which, is the mode in which you record videos on.) After watching these videos, Pierce and I had experimented with the cameras, taking random videos of anything in site in order to understand the process of filming on them. Eventually, we had it down pat, and even figured out how to do a rack focus all on our own!

One thing that we did do, however, is mainly record on my iPhone X. It is simply much lighter to hold, easier to keep steady, much more convenient for recording abnormal shots, and the quality was much sharper in low lighting. However, we did find it useful to understand how to work the Canon, considering it's the only camera that can do rack focuses between our iPhones and Canons. All in all it was a very good learning experience, and I now know how to use a Canon Rebel T3i

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