REPORT
OUR FIRST TIME
This is not the best video I could show you in terms of quality, but it shows something that I learned in the first practice class: do your best. In the long term, efforts and results are best friends. But this implies hard work.
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And why am I starting this report appealing to the effort? Because the result was not the want we desire.
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Following the teacher's instructions, we create our own story. We wanted to talk about an act that we do everyday: go to the toilette. But not only this, we wanted to talk about the period, and what is more, about the difficulties all women have every month.
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First of all, we planned the shooting. We wanted to use all the shot sizes. That is why we create a list with the shots we wanted to use: extreme long shot, long shot, medium shot, close up and extreme close up. Then, working as a team, we decided which shot fit better with every part of the story we wanted to show.
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We went further and even we decided on the angle of the camera. Most of them had an eye-level angle, but we also add low camera angle and high camera angle. Moreover, we use a low view point when we filmed the shoes of the people using the bathrooms.
Not happy end
After recording every single shot (some of them on multiple occasions for getting better results), we returned to the class.
We edited the video and the result was quite different from the initial idea. A proof that from the first draft to the last result you experience an adaptation.
But the thing we could not imagine is that when we show it in front of all the class, the video ended before we expected. There was a reason: when we saved the project, we selected only one part (instead of all the video). When we came back to fix it, we realize that our project was completely spoilt.
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Despite all these problems, we learned an important lesson: save it twice. This is a lesson that the teacher told us during the first class. But honestly, when you experience in first person such a moving event, it keeps in your mind forever.