In today's lesson, for the first half, we all got into our groups for our "School Policy" Video.
My group had discussed the week before of changing the basis of ours, mainly after last weeks speaker and everything we learnt from him.
We thought we could engage our audience in a way differently than planned.
Because one of our group members, Leif, had missed out a bit in the previous lesson, the rest of the group (Brooke, Daniel) and I took about 5 minutes to fill him in and ask his opinion on everything.
Once everything was sorted, Rob stopped the class to inform us that we will be filming a music video for a song of our choice in the same groups we were already in.
Our group chose "Bohemian Rhapsody" by Queen, after I had suggested it.
Next, we all went out and started filming parts of our video. We mainly did testing on certain angles and lighting (not to mention we had difficulty with our camera, considering every battery we grabbed seemed to be out of charge).
In the second half of our lesson, we had a guest speaker come in.
It was Gary from the Beaumaris campus.
He spoke to us about his past in film and television and the different jobs you can aquire in the industry, which all had different aspects and requirements to them.
We all started to catch on that you can learn alot of the techniques on the actual job, if you persued hard enough and payed attention.
He also spoke to us about different techniques within a production entirely. Such as how to roll a cable properly, and how to deal with sets being in abnormal places.
A main thing I picked up from Gary's talk was workmanship within the workplace. To work well on a set with a cast and crew, you usually learn to turn your cheek on some things that a boss or co-worker may to (to and extent), for everything to work smoothly and properly.
I really enjoyed Gary's talk and took a lot from it.
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