Overall I am pleased with my efforts within the summative assessment. I am glad that I was successfully able to put up all of the equipment and get my two shots filmed in time. I think that this assessment was very useful to me, as I have never actually had the opportunity to set up all of the equipment all in one shoot. Normally we are working in groups of five or six people and so when we set up the kit we are normally only responsible for one aspect such as setting up a light or the tripod. Completing this assessment has given me more confidence within my ability as I now know that I have the capability to fulfill all of the assessment objectives and there isn’t any large aspect of the technical skills we have learnt so far that I am not capable of doing.
However there are defiantly some things that I think I could improve on. One of these things being my time management. During the assessment I felt as though I was rushing to get everything done as we only had one hour to set up the equipment, film and then de-rig. Although I tried to move as quickly as possible doing each task, it still felt as though I was not moving quickly enough and as a result of this, I did go over the allocated time slightly as it took longer than I expected to de-rig and pack away all of the kit. I think that if I practice more with the kit and spend more hands on time with all of the equipment I will become more confident setting everything up, and in turn I will be able to rig and de-rig at a faster pace.
I think that not having enough time to set everything up affected the rest of my performance on the assessment. Although I was able to correctly position the Key, Fill and Back light, I felt as though I was rushing to get everything finished and was not able to perfectly light the subject and achieve the effect that I wanted. I know that if I had more time I would have been able to create a more polished and professional look for the shot.
When setting up the equipment I had no problem setting up the tripod and camera as I have now done this many times and I feel as though it is becoming much easier to do. I am also quite comfortable setting up the monitor and adjusting the chroma, brightness and contrast. However on the day I did have a small issue with adjusting the brightness and contrast on the viewfinder. However I think that it was just a small slip up and I just need to learn to identify exactly what the viewfinder should look like when set up correctly.
Two of the things that I was previously concerned about were the backfocus and setting the timecode. However after the tutorial the day before the assessment I felt a lot more at ease when completing these tasks within the assessment. I realized that the timecode is actually really easy to set and I don’t think I have any major issues with the backfocus.
Overall I am pleased with my efforts, as before the assessments I was concerned that I might not get all the kit set up in time, or I might have trouble completing one of the tasks set. However I think that everything went okay, apart from my struggle with the lack of time. Hopefully this will improve with practice and the next time I am asked to set up all of the equipment I will be able to manage my time better and will not get flustered when trying to tidy up the cables whilst de-rigging which is something that slowed me down this time.
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