Documentary Post Reflection

One thing that I learned from the documentary assignment is to properly schedule things with your client. Luckily, we had a client who was very willing to work with our schedule so it made things very easy. Another thing that I learned is how to properly light an interview. I learned more about key lights, fill lights, and hair lights, making the subject look good on camera. One last thing that I learned is, when shooting B-Roll, to be as invisible as possible. Even though you're waving a camera around in someone else's area, you need to be respectful of the work that they're doing and their environment. I think that this project was a good last project because it combined everything that we learned throughout the school year into one big package that shows our skills. This assignment has taught me that, even on a very tight dead line, scheduling will save the whole production if its done correctly. I think the biggest mistake that we made was not getting enough of the B-roll that we wanted to get. At the end, we wanted to record more shots of the general classroom and the teacher, but instead we filmed more animals than students. Without this project at the end of the school year, I wouldn't have been able to put everything together into one big package.