Reflect upon your experience in class.  Did anything come as a revelation to you?  

So I attended class pretty late for both days of class, and one of those days we were told to film a script we had in mind and collaborate with others. Since I came late for a class after an important event, I brought a friend along with me who was suppose to be an actor. At that time, I knew that I would have to take up all the roles and worked as a one man filmmaker, which isn’t something I’m familiar with.

It became clear to me that having a team is important in filmmaking because it was physically impossible and very time consuming to handle everything, even just to shoot an extremely short scene. But with that in mind, I knew the work and had to be done and I had to get creative. Since Henry (my actor) had some experience in filmmaking as well, I told him to help me set up the gears and I’ll frame the shot and we decided to go for a one take in order to save time, only problem was there was nobody to control the audio, or hold the boom.

Again encountering the problem, I had to work with what I had and mounted the boom mic on the camera. It wasn’t the ideal situation from filming, but it was good enough to pick up the actor’s voices. We took the one shot on the camera which was mounted on the tripod and I was surprise how good the video came out. I believe with a bigger crew I could’ve pulled it off better, but that’s the beauty of filmmaking. There’s always something new to learn and problems to solved.

Overall, this assignment taught the importance of a hard working crew and it is not impossible to work solo, you just need the patience and creativity to pull it off.