Chatham Dockyard Workshop

For this we had to film and edit footage from Historical Chatham Dockyard. As someone who likes operating the camera I was the first one in line to do so. During this I learned how hard it's to film handheld (it was very uncomfortable to use a tripod inside the ship so we decided not to do so thus a lot of shots are very shaky) and how hard it is to do a nice pan, I didn't think of holding the shot for longer, which I should have done. There are some establishing shots that were done handheld because we were running late to the ropery, but we could have picked it up after we got back.

This was really hard to film as I didn't know what will happen and just tried to film something. In the beginning I was totally lost but then the people from my group started showing me what I could film so I tried to do my best and get as much footage as I could so I kept on rolling the camera for the whole action.

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