Half-Term research

Over half term I have been thinking a lot about what kind of film I want to do. Ive found out that biking videos are probably the best for my topic of research, equipment testing. It is good for me because 1. I have already had practise filming biking videos. I have already filmed 2, 1 is fully edited and on my blog, the second need editing when I get back to college which I will put on my blog as soon as possible.

I have been watching ad rewatching a lot of videos about how to use lots of the equipment that I’m using.

I learnt a lot f new things from this video that I can interoperate into my use of the glidecam. The first one was resting the grip of the glide cam in the palm of my hand. What he said in the video about your forearm getting tired quickly and about your arm shaking is very true and I can relate to it a lot. The other tip I need to incorporate is tapping the technique. He says that if you hold it your body movement will translate into the stabilizer, and I’ve been doing this quite a lot which has made my camera movement not as good.

What I’ve learned from this video is that you need to try and keep the speed of the slider consistent by keeping two hands on the slider. Also you can engage the tensioner which makes the shots even smoother. I will use this advice as in the past I’ve been keeping one hand on the handle of the tripod head and using that to push mainly using my other hand as a little bit of extra force on the camera.

This was one of my favourite shots from the shoot. When I crop it in Premiere Pro when I’m editing it will look a lot better. The one major thing that is wrong with this video is that it is very dark. Next time I will have to make sure all of the camera settings are perfect for each shot.