Tripod: Videography Terms

Video Transcript

"Now currently we’re on segment ten and what I’m going to be talking to you today about is tripods, now as you can see and as you’re watching it’s very stable there’s no shaky camera cause our cameraman’s not holding the camera he actually has it on a tripod. Now the tripod consist generally of two elements it has the actual head which is on the top part of the camera attaches to and then it has legs as we like to call them sticks. Now this is actual the bottom part most of the time they’re two separate pieces, now the head you can have some of the better ones they have what’s called a fluid head when you move from left to right and up and down it doesn’t skip and stutter it moves very smoothly and the sticks or the bottom legs they have switches on the side to raise them from up and down and they also have something called a spreader what kinds of keeps them locked in. Once again my name is Antar you can find me on the web at bluephoenixmedia.com, thanks for watching."