Christmas has been and gone and we are now into the second semester of the course. There are things which I have done so far which I am proud of and I hope to keep going in the new year, but, particularly in light of the Fan Man, there are a lot of things which I have to improve on and which I am going to set myself targets to get better at.
Now that my camera test and Task 2 and 3 deadline for Practice Enrichment is looming one thing that has become obvious is that I haven't taken enough time to practice with the equipment. During the footage of Fan Man I concentrated on my character and considering the decisions that I would make in the edit. I think I was somewhat scared of using the camera due to my inexperience with it. Now that I actually own a 600D and have taken to practice my confidence is already growing. I have been referring to notes made during class and have found them to be really helpful. I now have an understanding of the proper steps you should take when you first turn it, from setting the custom white balance using a sheet of paper, to turning on manual focus, and setting the sound levels. I still have a way to go with using the camera so I am going to aim to get as much practice in as I can. I am going to set aside and hour each day in which to practice with the equipment, and am going to refer to the list of books in the module guide and find something helpful. I am confident that both this and the practice of actually doing the Tasks 2 and 3 will allow me to vastly improve my vocational skills.
I also need to set aside time to get in the edit suite and work on my tasks for Digital Skills. I received good feedback for both of my tasks but we highlighted things which that I can improve on. My music video has a strong start but the ending goes downhill. I use quite long clips which makes it look like I am just using over peoples edits. The reason for this is that when I got close to the ending I was running out of time and just trying to shove in as many clips as I could. I need to go back and take my time and make the ending as good as the beginning. In terms of my second task which is a short scene between two people, it is pretty much done apart from a few changes to make just to make it overall flow better. A couple of the shots run too long, and I need to add some cutaways just to make the scene look more intresting. This shouldn't be too hard of a job and I am confident I will be able to keep up to date with my editing tasks and keep on devoloping my Digital Skills.
In terms of our new Intro to Factual Unit I need to think about the lessons learned in Fiction and began to consider what could be an interesting subject to make a documentary on. Obviously our finished Into To Fiction piece wasn't as good as we had hoped, and to prevent something like this from happening again I definitely need to contribute more to whatever group I am placed in and speak out more when I recognise that something is wrong or isn't working. I am going to start watching more factual programmes and films and take a look at the content on the BBC Three Fresh website in order to gather inspiration that will start me thinking about what I might like to pitch.
Contextual Studies is the part of the course I have the most confidence in, and I think I am a reversal of many of the other people on the course in that written work is my strong point and vocational stuff is what I struggle with. I enjoy writing essays and I have always been extremely pleased with the marks and feedback I have received from them. What I now need to do is look into what it is I want to write about for my big essay that Contextual Studies has been leading up to.
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