The final workshops were available to help us determine the main topics of discussion when planning and writing our assessment for this unit - a presentation/video detailing our progress in a certain area throughout the unit. Very quickly after both the last jib and handheld camera workshop, I decided on focusing on my work with handheld camera with the Sony FS5 as I saw it as an area that I had improved in but there was definitely still a lot of work that can be done.
In terms of the workshops with the jibs, this gave us a much deeper insight into how many professional productions function from multiple perspectives - the types of equipment available to them and how much work can go in to just getting one shot for a production. From my viewpoint, these helped me understand the types of scenes this style of equipment will most commonly be used for - ranging from tracking a conversation between two people or just tracking someone walking through a room. The footage we obtained yielded some interesting results mostly relating to how we chose to change the lighting of the room:
Sony FS5 Jib Workshop Footage (Shot in 4K, Exported at 1080p for YouTube)
Alongside this workshop, our final handheld camera workshop was our first chance to test out the shoulder rigs for the cameras and personally, I currently still prefer using these with the shoulder rigs over the cameras we used in second year - the Panasonic 371 - as these cameras were very effective when used on a tripod. These were challenges when it came to using the camera in handheld due to the weight of the camera which restricted us for executing more complex movements. Having the shoulder rig available this year definitely helped more and opened more avenues as to the types of shots we could get.
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