Documentary and Commission - Workshop learning Post

In this post I'm going to explore what I learned from the workshops I attended, what I learned during production that I should have learned in workshops, and my opinions upon my role in the second year major production


The only complete workshop I attended was the practical shooting workshop focusing upon interviews and interview lighting, this workshop allowed me to become further acquainted with the standard EX camera equipment that we use at Uni, It also gave me a refresher on three point lighting, something I had learned, along with interview format and the method behind shooting interviews previously at college, the refresher in lighting was extremely useful and it allowed me to become familiar with the redheads that we have available to us upon our course. in all I would say that the few workshops I attended didn't actually teach me as much as our lecture time. this is due to my lack of attendance at some of the more advanced workshops.

what would I have learned had I attended?
there are two workshops witch I missed for various reasons that I would have liked to have attended. the first was actuality, the second editing.

I learned some hard truths about actuality shooting from an OP's perspective during this project, had I attended the actuality workshop I would have learned them before my shoot, increasing the quality of the work.
I believe that the editing workshop would have helped massively during the late stages of this unit, probably expedited and made easy the edit witch I and the team have been wrestling.

in review I would say that I should have liked and would have benefited extremely from attendance at more workshops, I believe that our project would have gone smoother as well. unfortunately I missed what I missed. and theres nothing I can do about it.