![Image](https://www.northspirit.org/camcorder-on-ladder.jpg)
For this scene, I needed a camera mounted high up on a wall opposite the stairs to a couple of attic rooms, to create the illusion of a coffee house with a balcony. Using a piece of flat mild-steel strip bent into an 'L' shape, with a hole drilled in it and a 'G' clamp, I attached my camcorder to the top of a ladder! ...All small and medium size cameras have 1/4" Whitworth / UNC mounting threads, so such a bolt was used. Both up and down and sideways angle adjustment was possible, and being a camcorder there was plenty of zoom available.
So while I was up the ladder, I switched the camcorder on and also my separate sound recorder in my pocket, did a hand clap for synchronising them in editing later, then down the ladder, up the stairs, through the door, sit at the table - whence the scene could start! ...Below is a 'freeze frame' from that scene recorded as shown.
![Image](https://www.northspirit.org/scn20-freeze-frame.png)
Another Scene... "Two Sides of the Same Coin"
![Image](https://www.northspirit.org/spinning-coin.jpg)
This scene required a spinning £1 coin superimposed in front of a background image. I chose to use blue as the chroma-key colour. The focus was a problem, and I ended up using manual focus set to the closest the camera was capable of, then sliding the block of wood in and out until I had a nice clear picture. This camera can magnify the image on it's screen 6X to help with manual focus. Notice the cotton thread, which is wrapped around the fan spindle, as I gently pulled this thread I got a super video recording of a spinning coin close up.
A NOTE ON INSERTING PHOTOS IN THIS FORUM
For those not familiar with how to do it; images are enabled on this forum, but the current free IAC website hosting does not have enough digital space to allow uploading to the site directly. So it cannot work simply like uploading to Facebook.
However, this Forum has many advantages over Facebook being multi-threaded and postings are more permanent. Images can be posted, but it currently has to be done manually and via an external location on the internet. This could easily be improved, but a little money would need to be spent by the IAC.
1. The first point to say is that the file name you use must have no spaces, in the above example I cannot use:
"camcorder on ladder.jpg"
rather it must be either: 'camcorder-on-ladder.jpg'
or just: 'camcorderonladder.jpg'
Numbers can be used as well, but no spaces.
2. Next, upload your picture to either a personal website or a club website. Uploading to Facebook would only work if the page is publicly viewable -- because if we have to sign-in to see it, then it is of no use for this purpose.
3. Now we need to know the exact web-address of the picture, this is called a 'Uniform Resource Locator' (URL), it consists of four parts...
The protocol//the domain name/the folder path/the file name.
In the above example, it is...
https://www.northspirit.org/camcorder-on-ladder.jpg
My website is only small and everything is in one folder, so there is no path as such. Other websites may be much more complicated.
To find the full web-address or URL... on a computer, right click the image on your chosen website picture, choose "Copy image location" or on an Android device, long tap the photo then do the same. (Sorry I do not know how it is done with iPhones or iPads).
4. Finally, copy and paste this URL in your text of a new forum posting wherever you want the picture to appear, then highlight it in exactly the same way as you would highlight text to make it bold or italic... A little further along that same bold/italic tool bar, you will see the image icon with a tiny picture of mountain on it. Clicking this to your highlighted URL, will add the [img] opening and closing tags.
Click 'Preview' to check it works, and congratulate yourself!
Then 'Submit' your new posting to the forum with an image in it.
...one down side though, if your image is deleted or moved on your external website, then your picture is lost on this forum!