This was a very interesting assignment to work on, and I believe it’s because of my lack of resources. Since I don’t have a DSLR and my point-and-shoot is from the 2000s, I decided to shoot the entire project from my phone using horizontal mode. My phone’s quality is good enough where i think the quality is better than how it would’ve been if i were to have used the point-and-shoot video and audio wise.

I shot most of the video in one night and had to work without a traditional tripod since I left mine at school and haven’t been able to grab it. I had to work with one of those really flexible small tripods that has a joint from top to bottom. This also limited me in terms of finding a good stabilized position where the legs of the tripod won’t give out due to my phone’s weight. However, after I was finally able to grab the rest of my stuff from my dorm, I was able to grab my tripod and knew I wanted to re shoot some shots using a proper tripod and it ended up working really well.

I wanted to compose my shots as best as I could and some of it would get cutoff when i put the footage into Premiere Pro. You can tell in some of the shots of me sitting on the couch or closing my computer my head got cut off when I put the footage onto the editing timeline on the software.

When it comes to the story itself, my resources were also limited since I really didn’t have many options on where to shoot. This is why I decided to tell such a simple story that the audience can relate too since we’ve pretty much all been in the same boat for awhile now.