What unique contribution have you brought to your group or to the project to date? If this contribution is something new you discovered about yourself or is something that is familiar to you that you feel secure about, how can you develop it further?
On Tuesday, we filmed at the San Marcos High School student store starting at around 1130am. Fortunately, all of our team made it to the first shoot session and we all contributed in various ways. In my case, I brought my personal camera, lighting, lenses, and rented out microphones and a boom stick to bring for the shoot. It turned out that the HMC40 (or maybe it was 150?) that we rented out had two low batteries, so we utilized my camera and Alli's T2i to film b-roll of the students working the student store at SMHS. Personally, I felt fairly secure holding a camera and going about gathering and framing shots as best I could. We all brought strengths to the group as we collaborated in garnering great b-roll and audio (once the HMC was up and running).
One thing I feel we all need to work on with our students is communication, as they often times kept looking and smiling at the camera, whereas we wanted the "truest" depiction of their work to come through. We might need to coach them a bit to just be used to the camera and to film more with them so that they are accustomed to us running around with seemingly "intense" gear. Furthermore, I kept waiting for action to happen so that I could capture it, I feel as though i also need more comfort in asking the subjects to "dramatize" or create/repeat actions I missed out on.
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