Reflection 1: Making my bed

For this exercise, we were requested to make a video illustrating how we go by our daily routine of making our beds after waking up in the morning. The video I made is quite simple and right to the point which is like most things I make. While shooting I had to go through the difficulty of having to deal with a very small room where it would have been difficult to get wider shots of the action of making the bed so, I decided to use many close-ups being limited also by the big mirror on the wall in my bedroom which would have reflected the image of the camera reflecting on it.

 

Another challenge I had to face was being able to get a nice frame without having a tripod at my disposal and to overcome this, I used a chair where I stacked up a bunch of other objects on to hold the camera at a higher position and record the scene.

Even for a small project such as this one, I went through a preproduction phase where I decided and experimented with various camera positions but many of the ideas I had did not end up appearing in the final product. For instance, what would have happened if I decided to incorporate music or give the video a more comedic mood?

I decided to start off with a cut in action because I wanted to experiment with that technique and see what could have been done with while paying attention to the sound of the sheets moving from one point to the other. Perhaps if I get more time and with the right equipment, it would have been easier to deliver something that would have made even a simple action such as the one portrayed in the video, more interesting and enjoyable to watch as some of the videos produced by my peers.