When filming my making the bed exercise the other night, I discovered something I must admit is quite unfortunate in the facet that, regardless of how good or bad DSLR’s are for filming video, I don’t really even know how to use it properly or to use the video function to the best of its ability. I realised this due to the work we’ve been doing in class trying to work out how to use the Sony cameras, and how we’re being shown all the different layers that we what the camera’s shot to look like before we even think about filming the shot. 

But tonight, I kind of had to take the L (“the loss”), and just go forth with it, and I felt the result was more or less pretty cool. Without a tripod for a DSLR, there are pretty limited positions any one person can fix onto their room to film their bed, but I felt the view’s I was able to manufacture were quite good, though at the time I was listening to music on my laptop, so the sound in the clip is completely different to the sound that is in the original source material. I recently purchased a Zoom H4n to bootleg more concerts I attend, but also knowing it would be a great device to have for filmmaking I used it to record myself, once again making my bed this morning. That in itself I guess is pretty neat, because it means in the video it is a capture of two times I’ve made the bed, once via video and once via audio. It was a nice touch as well for the sound to clip, as I’d landed on the bed in the video, I felt at least.

I also hope it is okay with Paul to be using a DSLR; I really don’t know but don’t think it fully would be.