Documentaries: Actuality workshop---Making Ropes

Documentary: Actuality Workshop

Edited by Jack Nix

Filmed by Zak Wilkins

Sound by Danny Lewis and Victoria Simmonds

We were tasked with filming actuality shots for the rope making process across three different locations.

This was a really informative learning experience for me in that we learnt; how to cope with sound (radios and people talking as well as machinery), to have confidence when asking people if we can film them doing things and how to film around things such as teaching groups and the general public.

Feedback:

• Hold a shot for a least 10 seconds
• Don't impose camera movement on a static object
• A maximum turn for a pan is a 45 degree angle otherwise it's way too long
• Use a tripod
• Hold the shot when the subject leaves the frame
• When sequencing; tight shot on hand, tight shot on face, general overall shot