Today was my first time using the Sony EX cameras and it was great learning about the many ways you can use the camera to shoot a film. This was my first workshop with Fergus and he showed us through the many options available on the camera as well as the basics of adjusting the focus and zoom on the camera. The main point of this workshop was to operate the camera as well as selecting the right frames.
In this workshop we were issued with two tasks, the first being setting up a focus, also known as a rack focus which is when the focus switches between two people/subjects in the same frame. This meant setting up the camera, having the two subjects, in this case Matt and Alex, framing the shot and then using the focus ring to switch between the two subjects. To make this task easier, I had Matt and Alex stand a few feet from one another so that I could focus between them a lot easier. Fergus then stepped up the challenge and had us focus between two people while they were on the move. To do this I had to use both the zoom control as well as the focus ring to keep both subjects in shot as well as focus between them. As I lack any real experience with a camera I found this task increasingly difficult as both subjects were out of focus as well as slightly out of shot. Despite this I feel that I have learnt a lot from this experience and feel that I could definitely improve the next time around.
For the next task we practiced framing. We did this by pulling off a number of different camera shots and angles to film a scene involving a bag. We were given a number of different shot types and were told to use at least 5 of them. It was decided that I would be on the camera as I lack the most experience and I felt that I needed to gain some more experience for the future. Though some of the shots were a little off and one of the scenes was a lot darker than the others, I felt I did okay and was happy to gain a bit more experience on the camera.
Once done we edited the footage to create a short video. Colour correction was used so that the discolouration was not noticeable and music was added to add drama to the scenario. This was the end result:
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