I was in the same group as my Documentary project which is Gavin, George and Trine, we were given the location of a Navy ship, the HMS Cavalier which was a world war two C-Class Destroyer.
The majority of the risks would be low hanging ceilings, trip hazards, fire exits limited members of the public would be walking through and obviously we were surrounded by water.
We got an interview with someone who had been working on the ship for over a decade, he told us a bit about its history and what the museum did in the upkeep of the ship.
Going from what the interviewee told us we got Gv's of the ship, making sure to get shots of certiain places or objects which were mentioned in the interview. We had limited time and space so we didn't set up the tripod for every shot. Unfortuently because of this a lot of the footage is wobbly which is not great, Helen has repeatedly said to always use tripods because shaky footage looks unprofessional and we should have kept that in mind.
We also didn't set the white balance correctly resulting in a yellow tinge to our footage.
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Today Helen went through all of the groups clips from Monday and discussed them with the class, Helen gave some very good advice about what to look out for whilst filming and some things to keep in mind.
Such as when panning a shot, typically keep it to around 45˚ and have the pan motivated such as following a man walking past the camera or revealing something important to the audience.
Something that I found out which I had been doing for years is using the zoom ring to fine tune my focus and then zooming out, this is what I was taught to do from the beginning however the way the optics of the lens works by doing this I would make the focus move again making the image out of focus, the best way to do it is to use the cameras in built zoom and focus from that.
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