In this secondary project, we all have to create a film, which is focused around the subject of protest. In terms of ideas, the same team I worked with before constantly were coming up with many ways on how this documentary film can work out to our advantage. One of my personal ideas at some point, used to think of a strange idea to use hand puppets for the film, while that would have been a unique idea, I really needed to think it through, and later on I felt a little skeptical about it and in the end had to make a decision to back from fiction for a while and move forward to reality for some time.
The only research I can explain is that I went to YouTube and watched just a few videos on how to make a good interview, and after we went to filming, the tasks I looked up in the videos took huge effect in the team as we accomplished in flying colours.
As we all were trying to think of the right story for this film, we struggled a bit picking up on many ideas that could work, but in the end, we found our way through. We all agreed on one of our teams member’s ideas, which will be about Women’s rights and how women are represented nowadays. My duty was to be a cameraman, I did my best to pull off couple of basic camera skills, especially with the tripod on the bottom. I really did a superb job with the filming, even though every film footage was of one shot per video and the students who became interviewees delivered to such excellent degrees, staying truthful to what questions they need to answer, it was wonderfully executed. It came to quite the surprise to me that the people we chose to interview were so articulate that it almost felt that they knew exactly what they were talking about.
The entire development of the film and the explanation of how it went, it is out of the way now and I wish talk about what didn’t go so well in the project. Honestly, the project overall was really good and everything in it was great, so the project itself is not the problem for surprisingly, I felt I didn’t do as well for myself as I thought I should have. The main issue I had that I am now improving on is communication. Yes, I do know that everybody else can have communication problems, but the truth is I can’t speak for other people, so I need to explain about “my” issues with the communication I lacked. I do not know what was wrong with me at the time, but it is rather I was feeling that I lost my touch or but I main reason is that is an issue I naturally have but yet I’m supposed to improving within days, not weeks and that is communicating with students I only knew for two years. I can find it kind of difficult to become a lot expressive when I know I can, but my constant shyness and hesitations get in the way, for filming that is officially not the case. That time was quite a shame because I really grew with this team, I like them and respect greatly of them, I just do not know what was inside me that said not to say what needed to be said, especially when I knew it to begin with. An example of this is while we were developing the storyboard and questions for the interview, there was one little mistake that one of the members made, nothing big but I was there and I knew what to do, but for some reason I did not say anything, it was unbelievable. Now that I can not do anything for the past, but can update for the future because on the bright side ever since the half term, I had a lot of thinking and improving more and more until now today, I am now making that recover for myself tip this day. It is really important because in the future by the time I become a Film director and Video game developer, I will need to really set up my game and “Communicate“.
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