''The creative treatment of ACTUALITY is one of the greatest gifts a filmmaker can have.''
This whole assignment went so quickly in my eyes. We have done so many creative work within one day, one week and almost one month. I really enjoyed the mini-documentaries we completed as it gave an extreme time-limit on most of the productions and I really enjoyed working to strict daily deadlines.
1) Evaluate how you have grown and developed as a practitioner, during this assignment?
There are many ways I have developed during this whole assignment. Working on my own with pretty much nobody to help me was a real eye opener to how much I like working on my own. It gives a real element of my own understanding of filming, planning and editing during both short and long assignments and I feel I am ready to do even bigger productions in the future.
2) What two things were you most proud of?
I am most proud of the Pandora Advertisement that myself and my colleague, Naomi Doddridge completed about half-way through this assignment. We had about two weeks to complete it, including research, planning, filming and editing, and I feel as if we did an amazing job with it all. We're best friends, so working as a team was pretty easy and we were both into the topic of the advert, which made it extremely easy to look into and research around.
The second achievement I am most proud of is how my editing skills on Adobe Premier Pro have grown. Since purchasing a MacBook Pro and Adobe Creative Cloud, I have been able to complete a number of my own videos and productions at home in my own environment. This gives me again, the freedom of my own creativity in a way that I can't find in college. Being in my own space really helps me concentrate more on both blogs and editing.
3) What two things do you think you could improve in the future?
I have said this for every assignment, but I would improve how I manage my blog work. As our deadline was 2 months 'long' so to speak, I assumed we had loads of time to complete blogs, so I focused on the production side of things more. Research in blogs takes time and I need to realise that before I decide to leave things until the last minute.
The second thing I am going to improve is the level of my critiquing in blogs. I tend to do more of my own opinion without backing it up with evidence, and I feel like I am ready to take the leap and go into research next time I do a critique, as my writing skills are fine, but research need more work.
4) Write down some future targets you would like to achieve...
There is only one main target I would like to achieve, and that is being comfortable when being interviewed on camera. I feel really self conscious and anxious, and I prefer to operate the camera as opposed to being on it. Over the Easter holidays my friend is going to do some camera exercises to complete to try and make me more comfortable, so hopefully in the next assignment, it won't take me an hour to record a 5 minute interview.
Roll on the next assignment!
Cheerio. :o)
- Olivia.
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