Video Auxiliary Equipment

Track and Dolly
A Track and Dolly is a piece of equipment that is used mainly for tracking shots within a production. A Track and Dolly is different from a standard Dolly as it's boosted up onto a railtrack to allow for a smooth and steady motion of camera movement. Additionally, most professional film studio dollies have a hydraulic jib arm that raises or lowers the camera on the vertical axis.
The advantages of a Track and Dolly are that the camera movement is steady and smooth with no bumps in movement.
The disadvantages are that you're poised to one location. The camera can only move within a specific radius as the camera is attached to a rail system.


Steadi-Cam
A Steadi-cam is a piece of equipment that is attached to a camera operator to keep the filming camera stable when filming handheld whilst moving. This allows for steady and smooth filming.

Tripod
A Tripod is a simple piece of equipment used during filming a production. It's a three-legged stand for supporting a camera.
The advantages of this is that when filming, the camera is steady and will not move. Further it allows camera operators to frame a scene perfectly to how they want.
The disadvantages are that the Tripod cannot be moved whilst filming a scene.



H1N Recorder
A H1N recorder is used to record audio to the highest possible standard. A series of procedures need to take place to make sure that the recording equipment is ready for use. TIP: Wear headphones and use a separate microphone, not the built-in one,  when recording audio.
Advantages include a high quality, quick recording device that is portable.
Disadvantages include the possible volume of of speech going into the recorder. If above or below a certain audio level, the sound will become distorted and the quality will drop drastically.
Shotgun Microphone
This microphone is a special type of microphone that is used to capture audio from afar or in a specific direction within a scene. The narrow microphone will not pickup a lot of the surrounding audio, it will only capture the specific audio that you want to capture.