Christina Cavanaugh - The Coppee Hall Rebel

 

In the first video, I filmed constantly. This turned out to be pretty shaky and the lighting was really bad at points. Since she was moving around and I was just trying to follow her, when the light went directly behind her, she was completely in the shadows. When I was able to stop filming and reposition myself, I didn't have this problem. The issue I had with the starting and stopping was how choppy the video looked. I have to keep in mind that when I change my position, the background looks entirely different when the new clip starts so it makes the video look jumpy.

I do think that in this case, the jumpiness is better than the bad lighting and sometimes-too-close-shots of the constant stream. All of the intermediate details of what Christina was doing are not necessarily so exciting. However, with starting and stopping it is easier to miss things. Ideally, I think a video would turn out best if I take a constant film but then went on to edit it, taking out the awkward moments with weird lighting or when my hands were shaking.