After last years struggle with camera movement, although funny to look back on, I was hyped to be able to work with an actual gimbal and not have to worry about stabilizing in post.
Jim taught me how to balance the camera and pair the gimbal up with a bluetooth app for testing. I became familiar with the pre-set modes in the app as well. One that follows pans and tilts, one that only follows panning, and one that works "chickenhead" style. I took mental note of which functions would be best for certain shots, For example, I knew the chickenhead option would be best for my tracking shot where Alex walks past Nik.
After practicing my ninja walk a bit, we moved on to the tripod.
The tripod was not a foreign beast to be, although this one was much larger than I was used to. To be honest, the "tripod" I use right now with my phone is just the combination of a chuck e cheese selfie stick from ages ago screwed on to the base of a telescope from a kid's science kit, also from ages ago. I did, however, pick up the habit of testing that everything is locked in place before adding the camera or letting it go.
The last piece of equipment I loaned out was lighting. I chose not to take out rgb lights because I knew none of my shots required any artistic or colorful lighting. I also chose to take out some batteries rather than rely on plugging the lights in because I knew I wouldn't always have a wall accessible to me while shooting. The way these worked was that one dial on the back adjusted the temperature of the light according to the Kelvin scale, while another dial adjusted the intensity.
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