Filming with Camera's

In todays media lesson our teacher taught about the key words that should always be used when filming any scene.

1. First you should make sure that everyone has called out standby. So that the camera holder is certain that everyone on set is prepared to start recording.
2. Then you will hear whoever is operating the camera say “roll camera” then shortly after that they’ll call out “rolling”. Meaning that the camera is currently recording
3. As soon as everything is ready the director or assistant director will then say “action” in which the actors will start acting.
4. Finally once the directors are pleased with what they have shot they will call out cut in order to move on to another shot or retake. 

Once we had been told how to effectively communicate along with one another to achieve an efficient shot. We then moved on to taking having a go ourselves. We started off by coming up with a really simple idea. The group that I was allocated to decided to shoot a character walking up the a set of stairs. 

We started off by filming a wide shot of one of us walking up a set of stair whilst holding the beginning of the railing. 

The next shot was a close up of him grabbing the handle and walking up the stairs. 

Then the final shot was a close up of his feet as he walking up the stairs.

Whilst filming all of these shots we used the methods that our teacher taught us to make sure that we were all ready and that we were all happy to proceed to film.