Posted by: Lois Lindemann on: October 20th, 2008 
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My Weekend Mission: create some video clips showing students how to use measuring equipment (rulers, protractors, that kind of thing) and then upload them to TeacherTube.
How hard could it be? I was so confident that this would be the easy peasey bit of my big measuring project that I left the videos until last.
The fact that I didn’t have a video camera was admittedly something of a hurdle, but I borrowed a camera from school and all seemed well.
Except it wasn’t. My TeacherTube channel remains empty because all I have managed to create is a selection of completely unusable videos: all much too gloomy too see what’s going on – although my hands are alarmingly bright. In fact my luminous hands would put brilliant white paint in the shade.
Eventually I concluded that I need some brighter lighting – or a sunny day. 100W lightbulbs are on the shopping list for the first time ever.
My career as a film director sems to be getting off to a rather shaky start.
What you describe sounds a bit suspicious. Most modern video cameras on ‘Auto’ will work okay in indoor daylight or with modest lightbulb coverage.
I’m wondering if you have somehow set the camera to ‘manual’?
At the risk of sounding like I’m blaming the kit (which obviously I am)…
It wasn’t a proper video camera, just a very, very cheap and slightly naff digital camera. Now that my own camera has come back – it was faulty (Grr), but is now perfect 🙂 – I’ve tried again. Hey presto! The results aren’t bad at all. It’s still not really a video camera, just a point and shoot that does video clips, but I think it’ll be OK for what I need.
Attempt two this weekend, I think.
(And yes, you’re right. I probably hadn’t set the other one correctly)