Production Assistant: Camera Movements

Video Transcript

"Now in this segment we are going to show you all the movements of the cameras. To begin with we have got one of our wheels turned incorrectly on our tripod so the easiest way to control that is to turn your control wheel until it locks back in place with the other two and moves with them. Now on this particular tripod there is a control to where you can move all three wheels at once or just one wheel at a time making the other two stationary. Now you usually don't use that unless you are having to make a smooth semi circle with the camera. Now with this particular camera the control wheel is located right underneath the camera. With this you can control where it is going. It is kind of like the steering wheel of a car. It will let you pull it left to right, forward and back, whichever way you steer it, just like a car like I was saying. Now just above the control wheel we have if you can see in here, we have our pan friction and lack. This lever here is a lock pulling it to the left, locks it so you can't get it to move. You never want to have it locked during a show. The friction here is basically the friction like this and it has a lot of play in it so it is way too easy to move. You are going to want to tighten up that friction so you have a little bit of force against it just like that. You don't want to have too much otherwise it looks jerky when you are moving the camera. Now on the other side here we have our tilt lock which if you turn it as you are looking at it to the left hand side and lock it so it won't tilt. You always want to have it to the right hand side during a show or any operation that you are doing. Now on the other side of the camera is your tilt friction which is just like the pan friction all it is basically is now you turn it in or out depending on how loose you want it. This is way too loose see how it is moving on its own. You want to have it just tight enough so that way when you move it you feel a little friction against you."