Media Reflection #2
Through the Camera Lens: Reflections on My Development as a Movie Maker To a great extent, my previous knowledge or skill level as a video editor was based on intuition and inferred knowledge. For example, I had used a camera in the past, mostly in an informal, intuitive capacity, like filming a quick video on my phone or learning basic functions on a DSLR in a trial-and-error kind of way, not really knowing what any button actually did in technical terms. Compositionally, everything was drawn from what basically “looked” right at the time, without necessarily making aesthetic decisions about placement or using said placement in a meaningful, strategic, or deliberate visual narrative. Establishing the setting before the lesson was also relatively brief. I didn’t focus much on lighting, staging, or the actors’ position in the environment. If the location was accessible, then I simply worked with the setting. ...