The preliminary exercise has taught me how to use the camera and to work comfortably in a group with people I have never worked with before. As someone who has very little experience in using the camera I have learnt how to set up the camera, how to set up the tripod, different shots we can use and techniques. I found the preliminary exercise hard because I was put in a group with people who had not done media before therefore we were all naive of what to do and how to do it. I also found that we learnt form one another as well as experimenting with the camera.
During the process i was asked to set up the tripod which i something that i had never done before and it looked quite complicated i was also anxious about breaking the equipment, when i got taught how to use it, i was shocked by how simple it was to use and put away, this made me more confident in my work because i felt that i could be responsible with the equipment without damaging it and being able to put it away properly.
The next lesson we got taught how to use 'I movie' which is a program that edits your films, this was an extremely useful lesson as I am not very used to using macs. The lesson helped me get comfortable with using Macs and helped me with editing the film.
We didn't finish editing our film because only two members of the group had turned up.
