Doing video is the most interesting, yet the hardest assignment by far.
When doing video, there are just so many things to consider: light, sound, background, angle, storytelling... Those factors make doing video much more challenging than just taking photos or audios. When filming an interview, I think the most difficult part is to find a quiet place to conduct the interview. When I was doing my video assignment A in a gallery, I interviewed an artist in her studio. Even though there was no customer coming into her studio during the interview, there were people will walk by outside, and we can hear their voices as the studio is an open space, and I couldn't ask her to shut the door. So those background noises are kind of hard to get rid of.
When taking B rolls, I think the hard thing is to capture the right moment when shooting people's movements. For the assignment B, I when to a dog breeder's place, where has many new born puppies. I followed the five sequences when filming the owner nursing puppies. However, because the position of video camera has to be adjusted when taking different shots, so I sometimes would miss some good actions between those shots. For example, a puppy opened its eyes when the owner was feeding it. It's a moment that can not be duplicated, and once I missed it, I couldn't ask the puppy to do it again, or people to repeat what they did (or it will be making a film?). I guess it's not only a hard thing about doing video, but also about filming animals. But I think with time, as I get more familiar with the video camera and its settings, it will take less time to get the camera ready, and hope one day, I can use it just like using a part of my body.
When doing video, there are just so many things to consider: light, sound, background, angle, storytelling... Those factors make doing video much more challenging than just taking photos or audios. When filming an interview, I think the most difficult part is to find a quiet place to conduct the interview. When I was doing my video assignment A in a gallery, I interviewed an artist in her studio. Even though there was no customer coming into her studio during the interview, there were people will walk by outside, and we can hear their voices as the studio is an open space, and I couldn't ask her to shut the door. So those background noises are kind of hard to get rid of.
When taking B rolls, I think the hard thing is to capture the right moment when shooting people's movements. For the assignment B, I when to a dog breeder's place, where has many new born puppies. I followed the five sequences when filming the owner nursing puppies. However, because the position of video camera has to be adjusted when taking different shots, so I sometimes would miss some good actions between those shots. For example, a puppy opened its eyes when the owner was feeding it. It's a moment that can not be duplicated, and once I missed it, I couldn't ask the puppy to do it again, or people to repeat what they did (or it will be making a film?). I guess it's not only a hard thing about doing video, but also about filming animals. But I think with time, as I get more familiar with the video camera and its settings, it will take less time to get the camera ready, and hope one day, I can use it just like using a part of my body.
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