Any epiphany that I’ve really been tackling since the realisation that it was taking place is just how much my film making practice if we’re going to call it that, lacks in any proper technical facets so far. So it has been quite eye opening to confront this at this point in this studio, and realise just how far I have to improve in this respect. 

I guess the lack of professionalism stems from an amount of having not really needed to film things professionally but if I was to be honest to myself in this circumstance, I think it’s undeniable that I should apply a level of professionalism more in general to all of these scenarios, and this was even mentioned in class. That is, when it was mentioned that our phone usage while shooting at university, it really made me realise there’s some facets of our filming even just in these exercises in class that could be tweaked only so slightly to be wholly more considered and professional.

That said, another level of a lack of professionalism, and a major layer of lessons to be learned occurred in the last week, in our class exercise for Lenny, when we as a group, after having filmed, mistakenly did not export the proper amount of files from the card of the camera, meaning that what we had filmed was in the end lost. This of course is extremely unfortunate, as I would’ve liked to edit my own Lenny footage that I was a part of filming but it is certainly part of the process of all the things I need to be considering more when it comes to filming projects from now on. In lieu of this, I edited the footage that we had been editing in a previous class, the pre-filmed Lenny footage, and found it quite enthralling to use the hot-keys that had been provided as well as being afforded the luxurious thought of doing the “harder cut” after drafting the edit together.