Red Camera Training

Week Beginning: Monday 31st May

The Red Camera training started with a overview of; what each part of the kit was, what it did and where it belonged. (I was a 2ND camera assistant on the 4Th year graduation film shoot of "Room 9", where I was in the shadows of the Red camera, there seemed to be many different parts. I found the camera slightly intimidating because of the time took to set it up and generally the expense of each part. I doubted myself thinking that I would need a fair amount of training before I could set it up hence I wanted to use the 570 for or end of term films.) After some training on where parts attached, assembling the Red Camera was easier than I thought. The intimidation of the Red left me. The next level of the Red was to configure the settings which you require. This is where it became a little complex for me. After been given printed sheets of how to customise the settings, it is was simpler. What I need to do is to continually use the Red for me to store information in my brain. Later in the week marking lenses was the next stage. We had to learn the system of how to attach and detach the lenses safely, I had the experience of this on Room 9. Marking the lenses were straight forward but was a little time consuming. I need to learn more behind the theory of when, where and why use them.