After learning about sequencing and actuality in class, we was given a small project where we had to get into our project groups and produce a short video showing a typical day in the life of one of the people in the group.
Due to me and Charlie being ill over the week the mini project was briefed out, we ended up producing a video without our other group member Sophie.
When me and Charlie was feeling better, we decided that we would film 'a typical day in the life of' Charlie as he lived near by.
We ended up taking out a Canon camera instead of a Sony (which is recommended for us to film with), due to there being a workshop, so the Canons were the only cameras available.
Canons are great cameras, but because I haven't used one before, I didn't know how long it would take me to get all the settings set up. The only problem with Canon cameras is that you have to use separate sound, as Canons don't pick up sound well. For separate sound we was told to use a fostex. By the time we took all the equipment out, we found out that the fostex was very low on battery and because it was coming to the end of the day we didn't have much time to charge it. We decided to leave the sound and just use the Canon.
Here is our finished video on sequencing and actuality.
As me and Charlie only had a small amount of time to produce this video, there were a couple of things we could have done better. The lighting was bad, due to the room having lack of light, but also because I didn't know how to use the camera. The other thing is sound, if we had come into uni earlier, we could have had enough time to charge up the fostex.
Overall due to having little time to film this, I think me and Charlie did ok. We was able to get a variety of different angles, and it definitely gave us some ideas on what type of shots we could include within our documentary.
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