Matt's Camera Workshop

Last week Friday we had a camera workshop with Matt, however this workshop mainly focused on new lenses and different types of lenses that we could use to shoot our music videos. The new lenses that we were shown were Prime lenses and a combination between a normal zoom lens and a prime lens. Matt wanted us to have another quick run through of how the regular zoom lenses worked so he showed us the WB(white balance) again and how to focus the camera properly. Then we moved onto the Prime Lenses.

Prime Lenses:

Prime Lenses have set distances which make them much clearer and focused rather than normal zoom lenses, this allows for better quality camera shots and more stabilized. These lenses are mainly used for when you want to get shots of the band as a whole or specific close ups of each band member most likely the lead singer.

 

White Balance: 

White Balance is a feature on the cameras that we were refreshed on how to use in this workshop as it is an important tool to use when filming on our shoot day. Using White balance ensures that when shooting the colours throughout filming look more natural and are less effected by artificial/natural light when filming in different locations with varying degrees of light.

Focusing the lenses:

To focus the lenses properly Matt showed us the best way to focus is to already have the camera zoomed in all the way on the subject you are currently filming this means that when you focus on the subject once you are able to zoom out it will stay in focus until you want to change the subject of our filming.