What key learning did you do in this week’s workshop?

For our second week, we mostly revisited the lessons we learnt from week 1. In our workshop, we continued experimenting with the Sony FX3 cameras. This time around, I focused more on handheld moving shots, filming either a moving subject or just the space in general.

Reflect and describe the main conceptual elements of this studio that you learnt.

The main conceptual elements I learned from this experience was the importance of planning out shots, as without any concrete goal or vision of the way these shots should look like, a lot of them lacked a consistency in quality throughout the shot.

Reflect and describe the main media making elements you experienced and completed.

This week I finished up on pre-production and moved into filming. For this assignment, I am planning to film everything on my phone with myself as the subject due to personal time constraints, and because of this a few problems arose. Firstly, filming in low light conditions present a huge issue as there was a lot of grain, and filming myself as the subject is especially difficult as I cannot adjust the camera with the subject in frame and must estimate how it will look. In the future, I plan to refilm my low light shots with a variable ISO rather than the default camera on my phone, and in the future, I would like to work with a proper camera with actors other than myself.

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