So Summer is here and I got my children so I figured why not make a very short film starring my amazing children Kai and Anaiah, my children love to be filmed. I tend to film them when I'm testing out new equipment or lenses. I also thought it would be good to see what its like directing children and getting an understanding of the problems I could have. First of the bat, concentration. I figured one way to tackle this was not to have them in too many shoot together. This way they wouldn't distract each other too much. I also have there favourite TV channel on so during set up time they could be relaxed and kept in a good mood or I let them play on my PS3. For the most part this worked I wanted to shoot it all in one day but I had sound problems and didn't think it was fair to have my children doing what I want for the whole day.
I always say if you've not learnt something from each project you work on then you better at least get paid. This project has allowed me to experiment with different editing and shooting styles which I haven't used properly before. Its made me think even more about my shots. I didn't want to do simple shots. I tried to make each shot look interesting or very pretty, having beautiful children helps too.
I have a few important projects to do but as soon as I finish I'll be sure to show you guys the final film.
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