Doing this project was definitely a challenge for me, but at the same time it taught me a lot. When I received the cinematography equipment, I was very excited because I felt like a real cinematographer. When I got home that day, I practiced a lot with the tripod and the other things too. The first few days were just about thoroughly analyzing the scene from the movie we chose (I'm the king of the world, Titanic). While analyzing the scene, I realized that my knowledge of composition, camera movement, settings, lighting, and balance was very basic, to the point that I didn't even know how to define the end and beginning of a scene. After that I started watching a lot of videos related to my role, and soon after that knowledge helped me to analyze the scene, record it and publish the blogs. I also realized that using real cinematography equipment completely changed the way I understand filmmaking. For example before this project, I had only analyzed scenes as a viewer (and before Media Studies, I didn’t analyze scenes at all, I just watched them) but actually adjusting the tripod, testing angles, and experimenting with framing helped me finally see how much work goes into creating something that looks simple on screen. At first, I also made too many mistakes when stabilizing the shots because my hands shook a lot every time I held the camera, and this was a problem that affected my equipment. The solution was to practice the shots more with the camera before recording the official ones and to use the tripod to stabilize the shots. Recreating the "I'm the king of the world" scene made me appreciate the original scene even more. Although I've seen Titanic many times as a regular viewer, I never fully grasped the depth and meaning of each cinematic decision. The balance of the characters, the camera movements, and the lighting all combined to create the feeling of freedom that the scene intended to convey. Working with my team also taught me how important communication is in filmmaking. As the cinematographer, I had to guide the framing and help my team understand the visual mood we were trying to achieve (this helped me build confidence and take my role more seriously) My team is very good and hardworking, especially the director and the editor. We all worked incredibly hard to finish the project on time and to a high standard. That's why we met repeatedly to film, organize, and create the sets and all the elements of the scene. It wasn't easy work at all; since we were filming in miniature, we had to make everything very small. Also I can’t not include the blogs, creating the production blogs helped me stay organized and reflect on what I was learning step by step, it also made me notice my own improvement, because every take showed a new challenge I overcame.
Overall, this project challenged me in a way that made me grow both technically and in a creatively way. Even though it was difficult at times, it made me realize that cinematography is something I really like, now im a begginer but I'll work very hard to get better at it.
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