#2 – 2/3/2016

Today’s class was a bit of a mental challenge. The room that we were scheduled in was blistering hot which always puts a bit of a dampener on one’s ability to focus and concentrate. The arrival of camera and tripods in the class allowed me to feel motivated to really get into the groove and get the creative juices flowing.

The thing that really put this course into perspective from this class was how important collaboration is to the film industry. We were put into groups of 4/5 and told to create scenes from scripts with limits on how many shots we were able to use whilst only being able to tilt and pan our camera. Our group meshed really well and made really good creative decisions to formulate an effective scene. The final product looked cohesive and it was evident that we really put our all into it. The film industry is essentially, for the most part, one big collaboration so it really became obvious to me how great films rely on a team that not only gets along, but shares the same creative vision.

In terms of the technicality behind the camera… I was surprised to discover how relatively easy it is to shoot and playback videos, yet also unpleasantly surprised to find out how difficult it was to navigate the camera menu functions, especially deleting clips. Such a tedious process that really infuriated me/my group. If anything positive came out of this annoyance, it’s that it motivates me to attempt to get everything perfect ‘in camera’ as opposed to relying too much on post-production/scrolling through clips and deleting them.