Yesterday I had my most comfortable workshop because I got to meet several new friends through the video camera exercise. Seth first briefly talked about the evaluation of PB2 and mainly went over PB3 and the vid-cam exercise.
For PB3, I listened to some ideas proposed by other students, they all agreed to focus on one specific point of the character. I suppose it was a piece of advice to take. I shall have a theme for my video portrait, or else it would be too “messy”, lacking a sense of unity. I am thinking to do a video for one of my friends who studies architecture design in RMIT. He is a quite passionate guy who has a special interest in many things like films, sciences, languages, music, and all forms of art. I’m going to try to ask him a few questions and draw up a few final interview questions for PB3 this week; and hopefully I can do some of the filming this weekend.
Then, the exercise requires us to film an interview, which helps us to develop basic skills for our PB3 video. Sony MC50 video camera was the equipment we used, which was a quite small, hand-held camera, and we also had a lavaliere mic for clipping to our clothes. I think that the operation was quite simple; it was the settings of recording mode that I lacked knowledge of. During the exercise, I got in a group of four; four of us just went down the corridor and started the recording immediately. It was a happy experience, reminding me of my high school when my friends and I went to Media Arts class and made short videos together. I was glad that we finally had group exercise like this, for which we could start to cooperate—the very best part that I love about media production.
To the very best of times: my high school media class
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