Become a Volunteer! What are you waiting for? Go out there; shoot some movies with borrowed cameras from Pembroke Community Media Center.... It is FREE!Here are some ideas:
1. How about a Time Lapse Video –
These are very easy to make videos – you borrow a camera from Pembroke Community Media, along with the camera stand. We show you how to use the camera and stand. You then set up your camera and mount it on the stand, in one place (at the skate board park or in a bird sanctuary) and start recording. After a certain amount of time, stop recording.
When you position the camera at eye-level, you capture images from the same perspective as we see them in real life, the lens of the camera becomes an extension of the person watching. It’s as if they were there watching whatever you are recording.
Bring the camera and the stand back to Pembroke Community Media and you can go into the editing room and edit the footage yourself, or have a volunteer from Pembroke Community Media do it for you. You can add your own music, and taa daa you have a video. You can get DVDs or your work when it is done.
2. Your Could Do an Interview with Someone Else or with a Bunch of People.
Prepare 10 questions to interview someone. You can make the questions such that the respondent can answer with just a “Yes” or “No”. Or ask a question to many people, for example, ‘If you could get ANY band to play at Pembroke High School, which one would you choose?’ – ask people the question, and then record their answers.
Never underestimate the power of images to support your storytelling process. Film a good range of different images and activities within the place that you are asking the questions that will best light up the area you are shooting and who your participants may be.
Capture as as you can, including series of shots that will serve to portray through strong images the feeling of the interview, and will also help smooth the editing process by allowing breaks in action or in answers to be ‘covered’ by other relevant shots that do not feel out-of-place.
Bring the recording back to Pembroke Community Media and you can edit the footage yourself, or have a volunteer from Pembroke Community Media do it for you.
3. Record your, brother, sister, son, daughter, or friend’s sporting event.
Pembroke Community Media will show you how to zoom, focus, set the background, and span for a sporting event. Borrow the camera, and go to the event. Record the entire event or just parts of it. Remember that the closer you are, the more audio and visual information you will be able to capture on camera. It is good to have both wide shots at a distance from the event, as well as shots from within it. A close shot, has more emotional strength, as the audience will be confronted more powerfully with the expressions of the participants. Capture the audiences’ reactions too.
A wide shot, gives more of a relative sense of the event – how many people are attending the event, where is the event taking place, and so on.
Bring the camera back to the Media Center, you can go in the editing room with our software and learn how to edit the entire piece, or someone can do it for you. You can add music to it, or just leave the sound as is. Then get a DVD, to show everyone, of your recording.
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