Blog Post 4: Documentary Storytelling Reflection

This was not my first time doing an assignment like this, I did a portrait of a place of the shopping center next to university mall. This time I filmed my assignment at my apartment East Edge. Instead of filming just the building, I decided to make it a "day in the life" narrative. I filmed a person doing what he/she would do at East Edge for a day. In this case that person was my roommate. It was more difficult than I thought it would be because I had to figure out how to set up my shots, where to put the camera and what I wanted my subject to be doing. In some of the locations, such as the office with the coffee and the mail room were difficult to film in because of the size or what was in it. The mirror in the office made it difficult to film without getting the camera getting in the shot. The mail room was narrow which made it difficult to set up the tripod. In addition, one of the tripod legs was broken and it kept sliding down slowly so the shot was not lined up perfectly. The rest was pretty easy and I got a better feel for using the camera.