I got a taste of my own medicine yesterday when I did some work with a proper film crew for a new online learning channel. I found it totally intimidating, was a nervous wreck (both before and afterwards!) and was exhausted by the whole affair.
I'd imagined working with one man and a digital video camera but not a bit of it - a full film crew of five, together with all the equipment that goes with it. Even a camera on a track!! It put our small scale work into perspective as I experienced the time and patience which goes into producing the shortest of films. I was there six hours for six three-minute slots, working more or less all the time, with no break. But you know, I think our short films taken with our Sony are just as effective, equally fascinating and rather more approachable for not being anywhere near "perfect".
Not that mine will be anything near perfect either, believe me - unless they can make a silk purse out of a sow's ear!
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