Production: Figuring out camera settings

    Hello and happy first week of production! Thankfully I my teacher is allowing me to use one of the school cameras for this project. As I have mentioned I did not want to use my iPhone camera, with the Canon Rebel T7 I believe I could get more of a professional feel to my film opening. In todays blog post I will be learning how to use the Canon Rebel T7. As I was signing out this camera to use, my teacher taught me some basic features like how to access the photo library, where to charge the battery, and the different settings. 

Tommorrow I have a saturday practice from 9 am to 6 pm, where I hope I can get major filming done. Especially because we have an hour lunch break where I can use that time to film the scene I need done at practice. Unfortunately I couldn't see my cousin to get her part done so that will get done in the following week on my Kodak PIXPRO FZ45.

Currently i'm not sure if I want to change the settings on the camera to adjust it for videos instead of photography. Or, I could also adjust my video in Adobe lightroom and Premiere Pro. These two platforms can help me better convey features of a Bildungsroman genre. However, knowing I have this option I will still be looking at youtube tutorials for some ideas.

After playing around with the settings, these two photos show how I would access the filming setting. At first, I was confused on how to film because whenever I would click the photo button a message would pop up "Still photo shoooting is not possible in move mode". After this I figured the red dot would be the button to film and it was!

In this short clip I was testing out the film setting:

As I was looking at camera settings on youtube I came across a short film, that was filmed on the Canon Rebel T7. I thought it was nice to see how someone used this camera to create a short; this inspired me.

Lastly, here are links to youtube tutorials I will be considering to use for certain settings while filming:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6SPgPOH21S8

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D6tPpctsYNI