Look At The Camera... Say Cheese!

This is is my first official blog post for the Center for Innovative Education and Communication Technologies Department (CIECT). I already own a personal blog of my own and I have never really taken any thought into blogging for the Digital Media Studios Unit as part of my weekly task. Well, as one would expect from the DMS, we play around with camera equipment (and I do not mean play around in the literal sense). Just in the past 2 weeks of being employed here I have learnt that being behind the camera is not always about saying: "Say Cheeese!!". It is more than that, it is the camera man trying to portray an event with utmost professionalism and courtesy.

You probably asking yourself, so what? They drilled that into you from day one, but what did you really learn while being there for 2 weeks? Well... The first task assigned to us was software download and experimenting and acquainting ourselves with all of this software. I played around with the numerous software assigned to us for exploration purposes, and I stumbled upon a screen capturing software named:"Cam Studio".

CamStudio - Free Streaming Video Software

Cam Studio basically records or captures what is being written or in essence being played on the screen. This would be a really good tool for most if not all recorded lectures the DMS actually records. Instead of just recording the words by the lecture, the presentation itself can be played in between cuts to show the viewer what the lecturer is speaking about and which slide he/she is referring to :). Click on here to check out my YouTube video to see CamStudio in action or watch below.

You might have realized the video has a lot typing errors, I could have just edited them out of the video but my experience and opinion with regard to video editing will be part of another post.

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