Personal shoot 2 - work diary

Within this shoot, I decided to focus on a teddy bear. I thought about doing this shoot and having a video as an outcome. At the time of this shoot, I did not know what I wanted the video to be about but I had the ideas of angles and camera movements/positions that I wanted. I decided to complete this shoot using my own camera and tripod because I was comfortable with using them well. This shoot was interesting to complete and encouraged me to be creative when it came to the video. I planned to do this shoot within the college because I didn't want to capture people in the background as they would be a distraction. I therefore thought that the town would not of worked - so I finally decided on the college. Doing it in a surrounding where there are little amounts of people walking round because of the time enabled me to do my shoot and have no distractions within the shots.

Link to 'help a teddy bear' video: Click here

 Within this photograph, we can see a teddy bear which has been placed on the ground with it's back up against a brick wall. I think that this photograph is good due to the fact that the shot hasn't been taken straight on, but instead is a high angled shot of the teddy bear. The fact that it looks like the teddy is looking at you also makes you feel sorry for him. I think that this photograph is effective in making the audience feel sympathy towards him. I like the fact that the teddy bear's composition isn't 100% centred and therefore looks more appealing. In terms of editing this photograph, I decided to purely focus on adjusting the levels and curves as I did not want to overpower the shot. By adjusting the levels and curves, it made it easier to get the correct lighting that matched at the time of the shot. It also allowed me to attempt to to darken the shot in order to make the teddy bear stand out well within the shot.

Within this photograph, we can see a shot of a teddy bear who is sitting on a long brick wall. This was supposed to be a photograph that created an animation when put with other photographs but this particular shot was blurred which meant that I couldn't use it. Due to the blurriness, this was one of my least favourite/best photographs because it wasn't in focus and therefore the overall appearance of this shot wasn't good. If I were to re-take this photograph, I would ensure that the teddy bear was focused prior to taking the shot in order to make it look more professional and in focus. In terms of editing for this specific shot, I decided not to bother editing it due to the fact that this shot was blurry and I thought that it would not be worth trying to edit it. I decided to focus on the video and the shots that were a lot better rather than this one.

Overall, I think that I achieved most of what I aimed to do. I think that I didn't achieve everything purely because for this specific shoot I concentrated on the surroundings of the bear rather than the reactions of the public. I do think that I achieved a lot though because I used both still images and video to demonstrate the journey of the bear as it went round college. The fact that I was able to make a 'help' video just based on what I took was something I aimed to do - in which I completed.