{"id":1226,"date":"2013-09-17T09:00:43","date_gmt":"2013-09-17T13:00:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/comblog\/?p=1226"},"modified":"2013-09-16T10:04:47","modified_gmt":"2013-09-16T14:04:47","slug":"jon-3-tips-for-checking-out-film-equipment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/comblog\/2013\/09\/17\/jon-3-tips-for-checking-out-film-equipment\/","title":{"rendered":"Jon: 3 Tips for Checking out Film Equipment"},"content":{"rendered":"

<\/a>One thing every film and \u00a0journalism student needs to know how to do is check out equipment from Field Production Services. For those who don\u2019t know, Field Production Services (FPS) is the department in COM that manages all of the film and audio production equipment. If you need a camera, lights, an audio recorder, a dolly \u2013 the list goes on \u2013 you go to FPS.<\/p>\n

While FPS has provided a lovely guide over on their website on how to reserve equipment http:\/\/www.bu.edu\/com\/current-students\/film-tv\/production-services\/<\/a>, there\u2019s a lot of information to take in. So, I thought I\u2019d share a few tips on how to best to handle checking out equipment from FPS.<\/p>\n

1)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Make your reservation early: <\/b>You can make reservations up to 14 days in advance, and with a number of production classes using the same equipment, it\u2019s important not to wait for the last minute. If you make a project schedule ahead of time, then you\u2019ll know exactly how early you\u2019ll need to reserve your equipment for your shoot dates.<\/p>\n

2)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Reserve enough equipment:<\/b> It may seem like you\u2019re just taking some still photos for your first project and you don\u2019t need that heavy tripod. Or maybe you\u2019re using a digital camera and you figure that you can use the LCD monitor to find your aperture settings, so is a light meter really necessary? Yes, yes you do. Don\u2019t cut corners \u2013 the equipment\u2019s there, you might as well use it.<\/p>\n

3)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Check your equipment before you leave FPS: <\/b>The people at FPS are great, but sometimes it gets busy in there: to prevent mix ups, go through ALL of your equipment before you leave and double check that it is all there and all working. The equipment ranges from kind of expensive to REALLY REALLY expensive, and you don\u2019t want to get saddled with a price tag for a piece of gear you didn\u2019t lose.<\/p>\n

Handling gear can be kind of a hassle a times, but it\u2019s worth it for the thrill of working on your own productions. Just make sure to reserve early, reserve enough gear, and check everything when you pick it up and you should be good!<\/p>\n

Until next time,<\/p>\n

ACTION!<\/p>\n

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One thing every film and \u00a0journalism student needs to know how to do is check out equipment from Field Production Services. For those who don\u2019t know, Field Production Services (FPS) is the department in COM that manages all of the film and audio production equipment. If you need a camera, lights, an audio recorder, a … Continue reading Jon: 3 Tips for Checking out Film Equipment<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2018,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3892,257,1613,7274,7270],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/comblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1226"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/comblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/comblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/comblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2018"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/comblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1226"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/comblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1226\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1227,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/comblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1226\/revisions\/1227"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/comblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1226"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/comblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1226"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/comblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1226"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}