A tripod allows you to films shots very steadily and to achieve much smoother shots, like panning shots, than when just holding the camera. Without a tripod, the shots you film can be very unsteady and inappropriate for the scene and situation your attempting to film. However, in certain situations, such as a point of view shot in a chase scene, holding the camera would probably work much better.
Shooting multi-camera involves two or more cameras and allows you to save time and is particularly effective when shooting shots such as 'shot/reverse shots' as if an actor says their line particularly well then you have that same line from different angles and don't have to re-shoot from another angle with the likely hood being that the actor will not say the line in the same way. Therefore, shooting multi-camera can improve the continuity of your film, for example, if when shooting with a single camera a female actress tucks her hair behind one ear between takes you will have a continuity error that would be avoided when shooting multi-camera. Shooting multi-camera is particularly effective when filming conversations.
In our preliminary task, part of the task is to film two characters sitting across from each other whilst exchanging a couple of lines of dialogue. This would be the perfect situation to shoot multi-camera which is what we plan to do. We also plan to use tripods whilst filming to keep are shots steady and so that any panning is smooth.
