At the beginning of the semester, my class participated in Katy Perry's "Roar" music video contest. We worked for three hard weeks to plan, shoot, and edit a 2 minute video with 650 students and faculty in full costume and makeup. A few other students and I had been working on a short film that we had to put on hold because of the "Roar" video. We all worked so hard that by the end of it, we couldn't trace all the ideas and special moments back to any one person's idea.
With my short film, I've had to take the leadership role as the writer and director and producer. In this experience, I've learned that I really need to cooperate and lean on other people to take up some of the slack.
Some things I didn't learn is how to use the glide cam (which I actually taught myself how to do over Winter Break). I don't know if there's any pin-point thing I didn't learn, I tend to learn as I do projects. This past semester, I don't feel like I did very many projects. It was filled with the "Roar" video and the planning of my short film. I was looking at my Junior year film real and I couldn't help feeling disappointed that I wasn't making good things this year. I've found myself incredibly busy and lacking of inspiration, but by the end, I'm disappointed that I didn't try harder.
Next semester, I want to film, film, film. I want to expand my knowledge of cinematography, especially moving shots. Overall, I really just want to get more experience.
