Originality and Creativity

The clips shown above are the B-roll footage I took, I have shown my skills in pan and tilt. I used these skills for the B-roll because it is more interesting than just a boring 5 second long video that is not moving at all but pan and tilt give it that effect of something new or interesting. In this case, audio besides music or narration won't be necessary because the object that is being filmed doesn't produce sound at all. I also used a tripod for stability because nobody wants to see unstable, unprofessional shots.

I didn't find a lot of changes during the shooting as me and my group have all the supplies and equipment need for the shoot but the only issue was that the room that the videos that were recorded in was very small so sometimes shoes were accidentally captured while recording. This can be improved by recording some place else.

During the shooting, I have shown my skills in filming when I used the following skills: Medium shot, pan and tilt. I have shown these following skills in my A-roll and B-roll footage. For my A-roll, I only just the medium shot because it is such a useful shot when it comes to interviews as it shows enough of the target we are filming(basically the person we interviewed)to engage the audience and also it doesn't the target too big or too small and this is proved by the A-roll footage that can be found above. For my B-roll, I have used the pan and tilt shot because even though they are very basic, they seem very interesting to most audience and it also captures the attention of the audience. The pan and tilt also are quite interesting to edit since it is a very basic skill and I think it is possible and not that challenging to coat it with special editing and special effects.

Overall, if  I had the chance to change anything during the filming I would maybe think of more ways to film. For example, a wide shot makes great B-roll as you capture so much background and this is even better if the device used to captured these types of footage captures it in high equality. Also the blur effect is pretty interesting as it immediately captures the audience's attention as they follow the blur effect to another object. A-roll wouldn't be needed to change as there aren't a lot of ways to make an interview very eye catching so maybe staying with the medium shot is the best. In the end, I would improve by using different methods of filming and maybe try to use light to my advantage like room lighting and a tool called a reflector.

Reflection Task

Reflection

Identify the strengths and weaknesses of your own performance as a team member and offer targets to improve your performance?

My group’s action is to cut the usage of plastic cutlery in Island School and so far it's been proven that it is some what a positive change because we are using less plastic and therefore less plastic is going to waste but, this is a big challenge because this can only work unless chartwells agrees and us students don’t have a place to tell them what to do for us. Even though it might be possible with enough persuasion and further talk, this will take a lot of time and there will be many things that we have to do to achieve this.

What methods could your team use to improve the way that you have gone about planning to carry out your outcome/action?

In my opinion, we would have to meet up more often will each other to keep in contact so everyone is up to date with the plans and maybe set up a group chat on social media as we can communicate out of school. Even though my group does the group chat idea, it isn’t used as much so it is was commonly used, planning might be improved.

Highlight the challenges that you have faced with obtaining a broad cross-cultural perspective on your topic area and identify three ways in which your team could advance forward in this area of research?

In the beginning, we had trouble linking our topic area(food, water, agriculture) to our main topic plastic waste. Because of the fact that the topic area is very vague, it was hard to link up plastic waste so we ended up with talking about plastic cutlery waste which links with food, water and agriculture in some ways. We also have trouble contacting organisations as some won’t reply back so we couldn’t get all the information that we expected to get. To improve this, we could just choose a different topic area which might make life more simpler, we could ask other groups about we they asked in the past so we might know which organizations are willing to work with students and most importantly, not doing work at the last minute can make deadlines not issue and also it makes life easier for other group members

Examine what have been the benefits and challenges of working as a team?

Obviously, working together is much more easier than working independently because while working in a group, work is accomplished faster and ideas, plans are thought of more quickly as well. Even though the stereotypical problem of constant arguing and conflict might come upon the group sometimes, problems like this are easily solved and through my time at school, I found that working in groups is usually better than working by yourself

Identify the strengths and weaknesses of your own performance as a team member and offer targets to improve your performance?

I think I been doing alright as a team member so far in the year, I have done most of my work on time as well as helping out around the group if necessary. Honestly in the beginning I thought I would not accomplish anything because controlling the camera isn’t one of my strong points but I found that this role is quite fun and I have learned a lot of skills and ways to use a camera. I think I can still improve because I am still trying to keep up with my blogs and blaming on the fact that upcoming tests is not an excuse so I have to keep working hard to fix this problem

Technical competencies - Pratical

The videos shown above are the B-roll footage taken during the special role lesson. During the lesson, we were taught how to use some of the basic equipment and also when to use some of the exposure methods of photography. Basically the lesson was trying to make us prove that we understand these methods so groups were sent out around the campus to capture A-roll and B-roll footage, this isn't the hardest challenge because us students have used the camera many times in the past and most of us know the basics of how to function a camera.

During this task, I have encountered many challenges like unable to record audio with the microphones supplied and also unable to record audio in general. Because of this, me and the group I was working with couldn't do anything and this is also why there are only two clips shown above since that was the only videos that was recorded successfully. 

As a whole, my group never finished the main task because of the amount for errors we encounter which lead to the fact we failed to record A-roll footage since we had trouble recording audio. Lucky enough after the lesson we found out how to record audio with and without microphones, which resulted me having the ability to record my official A-roll and B-roll footage for the documentary.