While editing and even just looking through the footage, there were a lot of things I would have changed about the way I filmed certain shots and or did differently.

Obviously the lighting and location that I chose was more convenience’s sake. But I’m glad I at least moved from different spots within the location so that the subject were filmed with different backgrounds.

For Nenad’s shots they were definitely too shaky, and then for Vivian’s shots they weren’t shaky because I used a tripod  but there was a lot of fiddling with the zooming and panning. I think it may be because I filmed these interviews both on the same day. Compared to Nenad’s shots with a lot of movement, I probably thought there wasn’t enough movement in comparison so I decided to fiddle with the panning and zooming. Also the shot size and positioning were pretty much all the same mid-close up, and they were sitting for pretty much the majority of the time. If I had shot more transition shots, I guess I wouldn’t have had to use their sit-down talking shots.

I think the next time I should use the tripod for most of the filming and keep hand-held to a minimum otherwise it will be too disorienting to watch. Especially since there were a lot of ECUs and CUs in succession, it just became a bit too much especially in Nenad’s one, more so than Vivian’s. Vivian’s one was definitely more comfortable to watch just because I actually had some locked off shots of her.

Also with the zooming that I did in both, I think I’d zoom in once or twice as a maximum. And I’d definitely rather track in than use the manual zoom on the camera, although if I were to do just a slight, slow zoom it might not be as dramatic. I think it’s the same with my pull focus shots as well, I think I shouldn’t do as many as I did just because it can be a little uncomfortable to watch.

For Nenad’s last shot, I did a something like a dutch tilt. Actually I can’t remember how I did it because his face is almost parallel to the borders of the frame, but it was surprising not as wonky as I thought it would look. So I quite liked that shot. Also with Vivian’s shot where she looks straight into the camera, I liked it as well. The background is plain, and she is just positioned in the middle of the frame with the camera looked off but I think it was a nice simple shot among all the other random shots I had of her.

During the edit, I decided to edit the montages differently. For Nenad, I chose to section our talk and use on-screen text to make the sections more apparent. On the other hand, for Vivian I didn’t use any on-screen text and just sectioned off each segment with a cut. I think because of this, Vivian’s montage ended up looking more ‘raw’ and documentary-like whereas Nenad’s one looked more like an interview.

All in all, I think it was good experiment. To be honest, I kind of chucked everything away when I was filming which may or may not have been a good thing. But because of that I was able to really just do whatever I wanted with the framing, exposure, cam movement, focus, and even zooming (which I didn’t really like the aesthetic of but at least now I know).